Diamond Hunt

Rob Murphy · Post by **Rob Murphy** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:33 pm

Here's a new program for those of you intrested. It's written in basic and compiled with Astro-Compiler(game source included). The game still has a few monor bugs. Maybe someone can help me keep the monsters from overlapping. Diamond Hunt requires 16k memory because of the compiler. So, let me know what you think.

http://web.ncf.ca/ex809/diamondhunt.zip

Thanks again Chris for the webspace.

Rob

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:11 am

Hi, Robert,

I gave Diamond Hunt a try.

Nice game! Some suggestions:

1. Sound! A little tune in the title screen, blips for each step the monsters are moving, a 'wwwuuuiiip' when you are caught by a monster. You can make the sounds dependent of TI, so they run the same speed regardless whether the program is compiled, or not.

2. Regards overlapping monsters:
This might need restructuring your code. Some ideas: As you move up to 6 Monsters, you could do as follows. Pseudo-Code:

Code: Select all

Main loop
{
  Move player (counting diamonds. allowing tunnel exit, if all work done.)
  Determine new place for monster(i)
  if(new place not obstructed or containing player shape) move monster(i) to new place
  if(player caught) exit loop
  i=i+1:if i>6 then i=1: make blip sound
}

so what about levels with less than 6 monsters? Simple: you lock them away,

***
*M* <- Monsters inside trees, overlapping,
***

and you could use a position outside the screen for this. Positive effect: again, the speed doesn't depend on the number of (visible) monsters.

Greetings,

Michael

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 8:58 am

i only played the game for less than a minute, as i am super busy, but yet again you make me envious of your skill!

chris

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 4:26 am

Nice!

It runs on 8k, but I saw on your new site that you noticed that yourself...

The game is similar to one of mine (but yours is a lot better). You can download my game here:
http://user.tninet.se/~pug510w/datormuseum/vicspel.html

It's the game called "Boray". I actually invented the name for this game.

/Anders

Rob Murphy · Post by **Rob Murphy** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 10:26 pm

Thanks guys, for checking my program out. It's still a work in progress. I changed the leveling a little. Mike I tried some of what you said and restructured the code a bit to keep those monsters from overlapping. I see what you mean though about running all six monsters at the same time even though they won't be on the screen. That will keep the timing the same no matter what. I'll try to get that working soon.

Anyway, here's the newest version:

http://robmurphysc.tripod.com/Games/DiamondHunt1.13.zip

later,

Rob Murphy · Post by **Rob Murphy** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 6:55 pm

OK, here it is. Another great update to Diamond Hunt. I have added some sounds and music to it for a real kick(just so you know, I AM NOT A COMPOSER).

http://robmurphysc.tripod.com/Games/DiamondHunt1.18.zip

NOTE: I use VICE for all my programming and testing. For some reason you can't get the program to start from the title screen by pressing the fire button. Hit run/stop and restore and run the program again. I'm not sure what's happening with it, but it usually works after the second run. I'll be looking into the problem in the future.

later,

Rob Murphy · Post by **Rob Murphy** » Fri May 06, 2005 4:55 pm

Here's a new version with sound effects and music. All above mentioned problems have been corrected.

http://robmurphysc.tripod.com/Games/DiamondHunt1.24.zip

hope you like it.

Post by **Jeff-20** » Sat May 07, 2005 6:27 pm

it is interesting to watch the evolution of a program. we should all share our programs this way from time to time.

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Sun May 08, 2005 4:33 am

When I try to open it, there is no files in the zip archive. I use the zip integrated into windows me.

/Anders

Rob Murphy · Post by **Rob Murphy** » Sun May 08, 2005 7:23 am

Must be a Windows ME thing. It opens fine with WinZip.

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Sun May 08, 2005 7:29 am

It has never happened before... But I will try to unzip it in the amiga emulator then...

/Anders

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Mon May 09, 2005 11:10 am

The reason there was no files in the zip file was that it wasn't a zip file. It was a html file: http://robmurphysc.tripod.com/adm/inter ... emote.html

/Anders

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Mon May 09, 2005 1:54 pm

Rob, you'd better give this link and then instruct people to click on the download link:

http://robmurphysc.tripod.com/id1.html

(or move from Tripod to some other provider - maybe commercial web hotel - that allows deep linking to files)

Rob Murphy · Post by **Rob Murphy** » Tue May 10, 2005 3:08 pm

OK, so chick on the link above and go to my games page.

Should I go up and delete all the previous download links as well?

I'm guessing this is some rule Tripod has. I didn't really read the fine print very well.

Rob Murphy · Post by **Rob Murphy** » Mon May 16, 2005 7:43 pm

Here is my final version of Diamond Hunt. I believe I have done everything I want to for this game. Just go to the web site listed and goto my Games page. Hope you enjoy it.

http://robmurphysc.tripod.com/