Zombie Calavera Prologue

[majikeyric]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNIVh-77lrk

PAL display + 32K required.

Download:
http://majikeyric.free.fr/my-itch/commo ... eVIC20.zip

Released on 31.10.2018 : viewtopic.php?f=15&t=8878&p=102416#p102416

[beamrider]

looks fantastic!

those sprites have a real turn of speed and the artwork is excellent.

[hasseapa]

Jumping, shooting, elevators, bats, the living dead (skeletons instead of mummies) - reminds me about Pharaoh's Curse!

Looks excellent.

The 'micro-scrolling' (I guess by necessity rather than by design) makes it even cooler.

[Ola H]

The quick jumping and shooting makes it look a little like a zoomed-in Pharaoh's Curse with more distinctive, up to date artwork. Looks like it plays really well too. Very excited about this!

[Ghislain]

Looks great! The VIC-20 is really having a renaissance these past few years.

[AndyH]

Amazing - like the look of this a lot.

[Kweepa]

WOw.
Please complete ASAP!
Also please fix the outline around the moon!

[tokra]

Also please fix the outline around the moon!

I agree this looks fantastic. I've thought about the outline around the moon as well. It looks like the game uses the inverse-mode, so the background color is black and every other color is a char-color. Two solutions to fix the outline come to mind:

- using raster-interrupts to change the background-color
- using multicolor-chars for the moon

However both methods would lead to corruption once a "sprite" goes through the moon-graphics. Not sure, if the moon could be placed in a safe-area on the screen that the sprites cannot go, but this would probably mean a big change to the level-design.

[Kweepa]

Ugh, stupid VIC-20.

Ah, I just noticed the 'mojon twins' credit - so it's based on an old Speccy game. Nice!

[orion70]

Ugh, stupid VIC-20.

Do not dare Kweepa!
Great job Majikeyric, can't wait to play this! Also, a cart commercial release with its wonderful box and instructions and everything would be just COOOOOL

[beamrider]

Also please fix the outline around the moon!

I agree this looks fantastic. I've thought about the outline around the moon as well. It looks like the game uses the inverse-mode, so the background color is black and every other color is a char-color. Two solutions to fix the outline come to mind:

- using raster-interrupts to change the background-color
- using multicolor-chars for the moon

However both methods would lead to corruption once a "sprite" goes through the moon-graphics. Not sure, if the moon could be placed in a safe-area on the screen that the sprites cannot go, but this would probably mean a big change to the level-design.

another alternative would be to draw those corners in every alternate frame and let the moon shimmer a bit

[joshuadenmark]

This game looks amazing, wooow

[hasseapa]

I guess the most simple solution to the moon borders would be a coarse black outline. It would require 8 additional chars though.

moonoutline64x64.png (3.08 KiB) Viewed 11436 times

Note that this is the Spectrum version moon + outline (i.e. square pixels and Spectrum colors).

The outline can be camouflaged further in many ways:

Half moon with craters

moonhalfcraters64x64.png (3.09 KiB) Viewed 11436 times

Wicked man-in-the-moon

mooncrescentmaninmoon128x64.png (3.36 KiB) Viewed 11436 times

Spookily clouded (needs even mored additional chars)

moonclouded128x128.png (3.8 KiB) Viewed 11436 times

[majikeyric]

It is released! Happy halloween everyone!

http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... 16#p102416

sorry hasseapa there are none char left in the game charset.

[hasseapa]

sorry hasseapa there are none char left in the game charset.

Yeah, I almost expected that after having seen the full map of the Spectrum game.

Thanks a LOT for the game! I hope to have a first go later tonight.