I currently teach year 8 coding. When I gave the class the option of doing some sort of "choose-you-own-adventure" game in Python or creating a 2d platformer in Godot, more than half the class chose Godot. Problem was, I had never used it! When students started asking for help completing an online tutorial, I realised that I needed to do a tutorial myself. I started one, but quickly abandoned it when I came up with the central idea for this game...

You wake up when you fall out of your bed and find yourself walking on what was once the ceiling! Something is definitely wrong: your spaceship is spinning, and there's no one else in sight! Can you escape from your spaceship which is rolling in the deep?

I originally programmed these games for PRS-Plus, an open-source firmware enhancement for Sony Readers that I was involved with a while back (source available here). But I thought it would be worth the effort to convert them into standalone html pages (still utilising a lot of the same Javascript code). And now, hopefully, they will live on for a little while longer...

I originally programmed Mortlake Manor in Pascal. At some point, I converted it to Visual Basic. At that point, I then programmed Castle Adventure, also in Visual Basic. Then, the final conversion took place when I moved both into Inform 7. Now they can be played online!