Fun game idea

Kweepa · Post by **Kweepa** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:28 pm

Here's another idea.
Inspirational sprites:

Post by **Jeff-20** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:53 pm

Kweepa wrote:Here's another idea.
Inspirational sprites:

AWESOME! I love those little things.

PaulQ · Post by **PaulQ** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:42 pm

I guess the gerbil has to be red and not brown?

Kweepa · Post by **Kweepa** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:42 pm

It was supposed to be a dog

I made some more:

Kweepa · Post by **Kweepa** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:47 pm

Last set:

I also made a set from vintage VIC games (with a couple of Speccy sprites thrown in):

It was surprisingly hard to find decent 8x8 sprites. These were all I really liked from the screenshots on Arma's tape archive and the cartridge games listed on mobygames. How many do you recognise?

(Scaled to 3x2.)

Post by **Jeff-20** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:28 am

amazing graphics! the state of texas is incredible as 8 x 8....

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:58 am

Those are cute! I recognize the Sword of Fargoal ones.

I love little 8x8 and 8x16 sprites or custom characters. That's one of the reasons I love colour Moria (CUMoria) for the Amiga so much.

I wonder if Moria, Rogue or Angband could ever run on a VIC. I realise there are already versions (of which Sword of Fargoal is one), but I mean a really complex version. I wonder how much RAM the original mainframes that ran Rogue had.

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:59 am

Don't forget Whack by Aleksi Eeben. A bit minimalistic perhaps, but closer to Rogue than SoF really is.

gklinger · Post by **gklinger** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:33 am

It's easy to overlook Whack given that it's only 1K.

Kweepa · Post by **Kweepa** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 11:01 pm

I've been working on a graphical update to Whack, based on the source code Aleksi released.

Before:

After:

I'm also:
Changing the keyboard controls away from the cursor keys which are awful on a real VIC (I think he used the cursors because they autorepeat without needing to POKE650,128).
Autodetecting PAL/NTSC.
Joystick support?
Preventing the player stepping on the stairs up from level 1 when you don't have the amulet.
Adding some sound.
Possibly adding some variety to the ground graphics.
You are dead/You have won messages.
Doing some other stuff? Suggestions? (Without changing gameplay.)

I may write another game in a similar vein using the same basic engine later, which would have gameplay "enhancements", a thematic change, etc.

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:53 am

Can't wait to see it done

nbla000 · Post by **nbla000** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:39 am

Kweepa wrote:I've been working on a graphical update to Whack, based on the source code Aleksi released.

Hey, the beginning of the year is a productive period for you !!!

Right ?

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:53 am

Kweepa wrote:I've been working on a graphical update to Whack, based on the source code Aleksi released.

yay! yaY! YAY!

I love this genre. Looks great.

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:32 am

oh cool!

Whack! is one of my fav. games... played it TONS of times

Pedro Lambrini · Post by **Pedro Lambrini** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:25 pm

I love ASCII Roguelikes. I play DooM RL the most on PC and Whack on my 8-bits - it's amazing and really captures both genres really well IMHO.

I'm surprised there aren't more on the VIC. It seems to me to be the perfect fit for a machine lacking (by todays standards!) in the graphice front. I wish I could port some of the smaller ones myself...

As for the Whack remake that sounds really cool! I would love to see joystick support and lots of SFX. Also, how about a parallel release: One with your new graphics and one with the original ASCII?

So, do you have any ideas that you'd share for your future 'enhanced' game?