Denial

Just noticed this release...

https://reset64-magazine.itch.io/get-more-diamonds

https://youtu.be/GTRJkI5oWnI

After loading the game, do:

POKE13112,234:POKE13113,234

before RUN for infinite lives.

Its nice to see new games for the VIC20

Wow, the difficulty is just insane. Even with the trainer-POKEs this is annoying. I had to resort to VICE-save-states. No idea how to do this with just 3 lives. Technically the game is brilliant: colorful graphics, software-sprites, catchy tunes, nice level-design, making use of the full 35K. I just wish the gameplay was more rewarding. This is truly hardcore early 80s difficulty

Actually the first game "Get the Diamonds" is a little more reward-friendly, it does not look like it has been posted on Denial yet:

https://reset64-magazine.itch.io/get-the-diamonds-vic20

tokra wrote:Even with the trainer-POKEs this is annoying.

I did a condensed write-up in the Programming section how I arrived at these POKEs. This was actually a 15 minute job on original hardware when I played GMD together with a friend of mine and he asked me if it was possible to use MINIMON for this ...

nice work @Mike

Wow. Technically Cheese and Onion is a little more impressive, but this is more colorful. From the video I've seen, it looks like a more woodsy, more complex, less annoying Manic Miner.