Rabbits and Robots and Zombies and Death

Nerding out, family time, and elderly metal, or as we call it here at HQ, "Easter week"

If they can Minions the shit out of tiny Sta-Puft Marshmallow Men for the new Ghostbusters, I can surely come up with some merch for my rectangular-headed 8x8 pixel rabbits, right?

Here’s a little seasonally-appropriate proof of life on one of my “new” games, Rabbits and Robots, a project that should have been start-to-finish in a weekend but has lingered for a while now on the ol’ hard drive.  I got back into it yesterday, with all the expected metaphorical leg cramps of a retired sprinter going for a jog around the block, and after a brief speed bump where I started working on an old build of the code and almost rewrote a bunch of shit I’d already done, I made some serious progress.

My original plan was to come up with a simple, timeless kind of board game, like Knight’s Tour or Giant and Dwarves*, two BASIC staples with limited playfields and moves.  You control the Robots, who are trying to clear and maintain a path across the board, while the Rabbits mill around munching green space, leaving dirt in their path, and destroying conduits whenever they encounter one (that’s some bunny).