Farmer Sam’s Dog Day, my 2D platformer for the ZX Spectrum Next has just been released as digital download on itch.io!
Even if you don’t own a Spectrum Next, you can play it on your Windows, Linux or Mac computer by means of emulators.
A free demo version is also available for download, so what are you waiting for? Go grab it!
11 thoughts on “Farmer sam’s Dog Day is out!”
Bought the game and it’s great. Probably the most addictive and most pure gameplay polished game for Next ATM and IMO. What i miss: 1) saving of hiscores, 2) joystick support (i have zx pad pros that would be great to use), 3) (if no joystick then) redefine keys (i prefer SPACE jump over M on Next keyboard), 4) checkpoints or progress save (at least every, say, 5th screen, 5) the music gets annoying after a while, some original (and longer) theme would be great. Again, an awesome game and the best spent $5 so far.
Thank you very much for purchasing and for your precious feedback and suggestions! And most of all I am happy that you enjoy Farmer Sam’s Dog Day.
You can already enable hi-scores save to SD and redefine keys through the options screen, by pressing “o” key in the title screen.
You can play with joystick by pressing “j” in the title screen (at the moment Joystick must be configured as Kempston or MD in order to work).
About music, at the moment you can disable it in the aforementioned options screen (“in-game music” option).
Sorry for a late reply i just checked this now. I completely missed the txt file and never looked into it. (Maybe the title screen should say “O for options” — people don’t read LOL).
OK i waited on the title screen and it actually says in the bottom line O for options etc. I just never even looked — the game is so addictive i never wait there 🙂
The only thing i would like to have is some kind of progress save. It is too brutal right now but maybe that’s the way some people like it.
Then I am happy to inform you that your requests have been taken into account for the next update, so stay tuned here and on retrobits.itch.io ! 🙂
I also hope you don’t mind if I quote some of the kind comments you posted here in a video I am making about Farmer Sam’s Dog Day. Hope to hear from you soon!
Awesome, looking forward to it! And, sure, you can quote anything i wrote here anywhere you want 🙂
The first big update is available with new exciting features! Details here.
Awesome! Can’t wait to check it out a bit later today!
I finished the game! Was a bit disappointed with the ending but the game was fantastic. I wish there were more screens now with the checkpoints. I guess I will try to get some high scores now…
Congratulations and thank you for your feedback, as always! I will take it into account.
Did you also try Level Painter app? An idea could be also including the best user designed levels and bundle them with the game 🙂
I just published a new maintenance/bug-fix release, that will pave the way to the next major update. This release includes a fix on the ending screen, that was closed immediately after being shown (when playing with joystick) and the CPU running at 28 MHz.
As usual, you can grab it from https://retrobits.itch.io/dogday