Just a quickie article so this isn’t lost to the sands of Twitter.
disassemblies・digital archaeology・data preservation
A cute falling blocks style puzzle game with a spellcasting twist and a surprisingly detailed CPU Player debugging tool.
Witches on their brooms shooting magic missiles is the name of the game, literally: gunhōki translates to “gun broom.” There’s a stage select buried in the code, which is accessible on actual hardware without any code hacks. Neat!
What happens when you cross Breakout with puzzle game versus mode mechanics? You get an adorable hot mess called Blocken!
Today we look at Magical Speed, a simple but surprisingly fun Allumer game based on the card game Speed. Turns out there’s a hidden debug menu in the code that’s super simple to re-enable, and lots (LOTS) of unused graphics.