TIER 2: LIVING WORLDS & SPRITES

Phase 0 - BASIC Gateway

Build interactive multi-room worlds and learn VIC-II sprite programming. These 16 lessons teach advanced text interfaces, data-driven design, and hardware sprites for character animation, collision detection, and game logic.

16
Lessons
15–20
Minutes Each
2
Complete Games
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What You'll Learn This Tier

Tier 2 bridges text-based games and sprite-based action games. You'll learn:

  • Advanced text interfaces - HUD formatting, menus, scrolling dialogue
  • Multi-room systems - Data-driven maps, room rules, navigation
  • VIC-II sprites - Definition, positioning, animation, collision
  • Game HUDs - Score displays, timers, status indicators
  • AI patterns - Position-based enemies, chase logic
  • Random events - Spawning pickups and hazards dynamically
Tier 2 Goals: Build "Terminal Tangle" (multi-room text adventure) and "Circuit Run" (sprite-based chase game with HUD and AI). Master both text-based and sprite-based game development.

Prerequisites: Complete Tier 1 (lessons 1-16). You'll build on fundamentals, arrays, subroutines, and state machines.

Lessons

17

The Art of Movement

Animate single- and multi-tile shapes with smooth loops

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18

Logic & Motion II

Blend velocity, collisions, and hazards inside live mazes

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19

Text Tricks II

Format HUDs and normalise input for richer interfaces

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20

Memory Games II

Load multi-room data (maps, rules, dialogue) from DATA

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21

Smarter Decisions II

Drive room-specific behaviour through rule tables

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22

Text Tricks III

Build highlighted menus and scrolling dialogue panels

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23

Memory Games III

Stream dialogue and music cues alongside map data

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24

Mini-Game: Terminal Tangle

Run a multi-room chase with UI, rules, and dialogue

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25

Sprite Primer

Define sprite shapes, colours, and pointers

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26

Sprite Motion

Move sprites with velocity and clamping

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27

Sprite Animation

Flip frames for walking cycles tied to movement

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28

Sprite Collision

Use hardware collision registers to detect hits

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29

Score & Timer

Zero-padded HUD with countdown pressure

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30

Random Events

Spawn pickups and hazards with RND

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31

Enemy AI

Position-based chasers with rule-driven speed

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32

Mini-Game: Circuit Run

Multi-room chase with HUD, AI, and randomness

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Ready to Continue?

You've mastered fundamentals. Now let's build living worlds with multi-room navigation and bring characters to life with VIC-II sprites!

Start Lesson 17: The Art of Movement