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Come on people! Only 10 people voted!! The effort by Dave with that table describing all the games deserve at least 30 more votes

These were my stand out releases of that year:

The Infeasible game
The Order of mazes
Knightmare 2 ZX
Pixel Quest
Aquanoids
Lirus
Complica DX
Stormfinch
Dead Flesh Boy
Baldy ZX
Super 48K Box
Flype
Vade Retro (Retroworks)
Pentacorn Quest
Rescue Lander
The Tales of Grupp
Castlevania: Spectral Interlude
Uroboros
Ice Slider Z

Balancing quality and the amount of time they made me want to play I voted for these. Bit cheeky but one of them is mine...

1 - Knightmare 2 ZX
2 - The Tales of Grupp
3 - Stormfinch

It didn't get my vote but Uroboros* is a landmark title as a snake game that doesn't look like a BASIC type in.

*argh! another TAP not in the archive yet. We'll get around to it Ralf!

Joefish wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2017 8:51 am Good point. I did a search on this site, but it didn't give me a link I could share!

That threw me too. Turns out if you click anywhere inside the search result it takes you to a linkable page:

Ah, I didn't understand joe's original question, I think I do now.

- when you do a search it bring up a list, even if it's just one entry, you then click on that link and it takes you to a full page - screenshots, gamedownloads*, instructions, manuals, support material.

Every piece of software has its own page, based on the ZXDB ID number. Is that a surprise to most? Perhaps we need to make that clearer somehow.

The original list is a bit like screenshot browsing.

* (a growing list of)

R-Tape wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2017 7:20 pm Is that a surprise to most?

I think it's only because the search result summary is so detailed it almost looks like it could be the full info!

Maybe just having a "more..." or "details..." link that also takes you to the linked entity would be enough to finesse it (so for title results it would take you to the title's page, etc).

No, I meant the search results page just has a generic URL. You can't cut and paste the URL into the forums to link people to the same search results.

Ah I see what you mean, if you search 'Year 2015' it would be nice to be able to copy the link to display the same listing.

I played mostly Castlevania, Dead Flesh Boy, Rescue Lander, Bubble Monkey Bros, Chrimblast, Rabbit in Wonderland, Pnoid, Ice Slider Z, Uroboros, Christmas Gift Hunt, Hop N Frog, Super 48K Box, The Return of Traxtor.
Shame on me! There are quite a few good ones that I have barely played.

I"ve gone with Stormfinch. Castlevania seems the obvious star game, but I really enjoyed Stormfinch. I think I'm a sucker for shoot-'em- ups and rainbow graphics. It still feels like it's breaking the laws of physics to have more than two colours per square.

Joefish wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2017 11:03 am No, I meant the search results page just has a generic URL. You can't cut and paste the URL into the forums to link people to the same search results.

Doh! Soz

Yes, a search URL that takes search terms in the query string would be awesome.

Stormfinch is great. The random attack waves keep the game fresh and add a lot of replay value. The enemy-direction-radar allows for more dynamic attack waves without being unfair to the player. The autofire spares your wrist and let you focus on the charge shot. Great bosses. Just a lot of polish. Then there's the graphics; great looking and inspired all in glorious multicolour. One of the best of 2015 for sure.

Strange Kitchen shouldn't really be on this list, it was released in 2016. I did release a "Beta" version in 2015 to show what I'd done with Charade though, but it wasn't responsive enough to play properly and I didn't "officially" release it as such.
And what's wrong with Word Blaster eh?! That's a game I did release in 2015. OK, it's not a classic, & not really a contender for best homebrew game but I enjoyed making it !

textvoyage wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2017 10:09 pm Strange Kitchen shouldn't really be on this list, it was released in 2016. I did release a "Beta" version in 2015 to show what I'd done with Charade though, but it wasn't responsive enough to play properly and I didn't "officially" release it as such.
And what's wrong with Word Blaster eh?! That's a game I did release in 2015. OK, it's not a classic, & not really a contender for best homebrew game but I enjoyed making it !

Ah I can relax now. It wouldn't be a game of the year poll without one or two things left out

R-Tape wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2017 3:20 pm Ah I can relax now. It wouldn't be a game of the year poll without one or two things left out

I think Castlevania is the only thing that doesn't apply to here!

I've realised my top vote isn't the game I thought it was, I had Knightmare 1 in mind. Oops.
#2 was impressive but didn't float my boat in the same way.

So these would be my top 3 now:

1 - The Tales of Grupp
2 - Stormfinch
3 - Rescue Lander

Rescue Lander is impossible to beat!