// WHAT'S NEW //
What's new.
The curriculum and the emulator get built in the open. This is the short version — new complete games, fixes worth knowing about, the odd milestone. The field notes have the longer stories; the Patreon and newsletter carry them further.
Dash — a finishable NES game
The NES track's on-ramp: steer a runner, time a jump over the sweep, collect three coins to turn the level. Seventeen units from a blank screen to a cartridge, all driven off the NMI loop.
Read →All four launch machines have a game you can finish
Spectrum, C64, Amiga and NES each now open with a complete game, built one technique at a time — a title screen, a win and a loss, the lot. Not a demo: a small game you can play to the end.
Read →The shipped games learned to be lost
A pass over every finished game to make sure each has real stakes — a win you earn and a loss you can genuinely hit. Flock now shows both its endings, and a couple of latent bugs that quietly made games un-losable are closed.
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