A couple of years ago, Jeroen Vermeulen ported Cherry Bomb to RISC OS, a shoot ’em up – aka a ‘shmup’ according to its original developer, Krystian Majewski – in which you control a ship at the bottom of the screen, and shoot down the incoming waves of alien attackers.
The original game was developed as part of a tutorial series on a YouTube channel called Lazy Devs Academy, operated by Krystian, and Jeroen’s aim was to learn from those tutorials.
He initially brought Cherry Bomb to RISC OS using Python/Pygame, and he has made some small updates to that version – but he has also now released a version ported to BBC BASIC, using the AMCOG Development Kit, with both being available from !Store.
Jeroen explains that he’s no longer sure why he created a BBC BASIC version – which presumably means he did it some time ago. At the time of his original announcement of the game, he mentioned that he had been using BBC BASIC for some of the Lazy Devs Academy projects, so perhaps that’s how it came about – but it’s worth noting that whatever the reason, it is handy to have a BBC BASIC version for instances where Python and other software don’t play well together.
Krystian’s original version is also available for use on other platforms, and he has a Ko-Fi page if you’d like to support his game development efforts.
