Newbie wants to share his creation

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sat Aug 27, 2011 11:55 am

PhilRanger wrote:Jokes apart, I'm flattered you think it's good enough to share outside this forum, I was expecting more negative reviews!

Vic20 game written, game gets added to GB20 regardless heh. But this is quite challenging at least...

GreyGhost · Post by **GreyGhost** » Sat Aug 27, 2011 7:31 pm

I got a chance today to play this for a while, but never made it past level 5. The title screen looks very nice. Hope to see more works from you in the future.

Post by **joshuadenmark** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 11:06 am

Really nice game, and fast too.

Thanks for sharing

PhilRanger · Post by **PhilRanger** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 11:52 am

Thanks!

PhilRanger · Post by **PhilRanger** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:36 am

I just downloaded cbmPrgStudio and started learning it. The goal is to complexify the game and porting the section critical for speed to assembler so it stays speedy enough. Some changes I want to implement:

1- High resolution for the game
2- Smoother movement than full blocks (but probably not full sprites as I don't know how to do them)
3- Different things to eat, such as
- Cherrys : like actual hearts
- Apples : leave their core behind, which eventually grow into trees
- Bananas: leave skin behind on which you can slip
- Some pathways in the border (left-right and up-down)
Which will gradually appear as you progress through the levels
4- More than 1 life
5- Better sound (music?)
6- Some slow moving enemys
7- Bonus levels
8- Additional lives after some levels
9- Score is variable depending on the time taken between "bites"

Any additional ideas anyone?

Post by **joshuadenmark** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:59 am

Hi Phil.
Very ambitious project.

Glad to see more objects and enemies in the game.
Just keep your good work.

I personally about to learn me cbmPrgStudio and working at a small breakout game.
It's incredibly relaxing to work with 8 bit basic programming even though my family think I'm nuts.

PhilRanger · Post by **PhilRanger** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:00 pm

My wife thinks I'm crazy. The kids think that daddy making a video game is cool, even if the game is prehistoric looking!

If only it was as easy to do video games for Windows!

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 2:05 am

Video games for windows are much less charming

.

Post by **joshuadenmark** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 2:07 am

Hi Phil

Do you know Dark Basic (for windows), not as simple as Vic20 basic but fair:
http://www.thegamecreators.com/?m=view_product&id=2030

I have played with this years ago, and did manage to produce a small unfinished submarine scrolling game.

PhilRanger · Post by **PhilRanger** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:27 am

Thanks. I didn't know this one.
I played with "gamemaker" which is nice and I've done a lot of C++ without graphics, but the frustration to me is that it seems like you're always looking for routines/functions that other developped for anything (sprites, joysticks, windows calls, library functions, DirectX, etc) instead of trying to be creative. Not as fun. Maybe I need to follow a course with a real teacher!

Back to the Vic 20 for now

Best regards

DanSolo · Post by **DanSolo** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:19 pm

Gameplay very like the old "Lightbikes" or "Snake" I guess. I used to hate playing those on a joystick TBH!
I like it.

matsondawson · Post by **matsondawson** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:14 am

Here's an online play link for No Trees...
http://www.mdawson.net/vic20chrome/vic2 ... otrees.prg

PhilRanger · Post by **PhilRanger** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:05 pm

I like this, thanks!

Do you have any type of counters to know how many time it has been played?

Mayhem: same thing, do you have any counter?

Best regards!

highinfidelity · Post by **highinfidelity** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 12:47 am

I have tried the online game, but found it extremely slow (it took several seconds only to display the title screen, don't know if it's the emulation, the browser, the internet connection or all) so I obviously will not comment on it.

As a PERSONAL opinion, even back in those days I have always thought that control schemes like WASZ or IJKM were a very poor solution that required prestidigitizers' abilities, and wondered why they were so extensively used instead of more convenient control schemes like AZ for vertical movent plus KL for horizontal movement, plus eventually the always-handy horizontal bar for fire (or ZX-MK-hor.bar if preferred). Just a humble suggestion.

matsondawson · Post by **matsondawson** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 3:41 am

highinfidelity wrote:I have tried the online game, but found it extremely slow (it took several seconds only to display the title screen, don't know if it's the emulation, the browser, the internet connection or all) so I obviously will not comment on it.

What computer and browser are you on?