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Starfield

C64 · Assembly

Single-screen space shooter with hardware sprites

17 units

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Starfield gameplay — the ship below a descending wave of green invaders over a parallax starfield, with the score and lives readouts
Starfield · C64

Single-screen space shooter. You move a ship, shoot descending enemies, and try to survive. It starts with one sprite on a black screen and grows — unit by unit — into a complete game with sound, scoring, a title screen, and a starfield scrolling behind everything.

This is your first C64 game. Every unit produces working, runnable code. By the end you’ll have built a commercial-quality shooter and learnt the VIC-II sprite system, SID sound chip, CIA input handling, raster interrupts, and the 6510 instruction set that ties it all together.