Released: pulse

pixel · Post by **pixel** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 4:34 am

The optimistic release date passed, but for a couple of very good reasons: http://hugbox.org/pixel/blog/2014/7/3/

Vic20-Ian · Post by **Vic20-Ian** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 4:59 am

my socks ready to be knocked off (again)

commodorefree · Post by **commodorefree** » Fri Jul 04, 2014 1:21 am

Please put me down for a copy !
Very Cool
Regards Nigel
http://www.commodorefree.com

pixel · Post by **pixel** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 2:14 am

Because things get so stretched, here's a version with a couple of screens added.

Link to exactly this new version: https://github.com/SvenMichaelKlose/pul ... g?raw=true

The laser shooting upwards is gone so the other two directions fail you less. I wonder if you like it. If not, fetch http://hugbox.org/pixel/pulse-ul.prg to get it back. Please let me know which version you prefer.

The level data is now stored as a list of reusable blocks with varying offsets. It works much like a one-channel music player that can transpose the blocks.

Peter · Post by **Peter** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 8:23 am

Losing the upward laser is a good thing in my opinion. The added screens don’t make much of a difference, love to see a 16kb version! The new version seems to glitch more than the previous one (VICE 2.4). This weekend I'll try it on my real Vic.

pixel · Post by **pixel** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:19 am

Finally found the bug that made the sprites pop out on the left. m)

Link to newest: https://github.com/SvenMichaelKlose/pul ... /pulse.prg

freshlamb · Post by **freshlamb** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 1:11 pm

Finally made some time to play a few more of the newer games. I love this, but I'm not good enough to get very far...

pixel · Post by **pixel** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 2:37 pm

freshlamb wrote:Finally made some time to play a few more of the newer games. I love this, but not good enough to get very far...

Can't do anything about that. Life got in the way.

Vic20-Ian · Post by **Vic20-Ian** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 5:07 pm

I think Freshlamb means he is not good enough to get very far in the game. No criticism...

pixel · Post by **pixel** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 12:37 am

Vic20-Ian wrote:I think Freshlamb means he is not good enough to get very far in the game. No criticism...

LOL! Oh, sorry.

pixel · Post by **pixel** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 2:38 pm

WARNING: The following information may cause your frontal lobes to shut down like mine just did.

Despite it being impossible Pulse now has >206, yessir, two hundred and six, free bytes left!

This means Pulse 1 will get something extra (just don't know what exactly but it's a good way to get back into it) and it's finally a great code base for Pulse 2.

SPOILER: Pulse 2 already has some digisound mixer (not in-game) and a background tape loader (yeah, in-game).

Vic20-Ian · Post by **Vic20-Ian** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 3:31 pm

Multiple, Ripple laser?

pixel · Post by **pixel** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 3:57 pm

Vic20-Ian wrote:Multiple, Ripple laser?

What would it do?

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 5:18 am

Some sort of Easter egg? A new big boss at the end? Moving big teeth like in Konami's Salamander?

pixel · Post by **pixel** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 6:06 am

Nice ideas. I got the following list of which some items may sink in:

* new extra: laser that shoots through the enemies
* new extra: kill all enemies on screen
* extra boxes get different colours, depending on the extra they contain (I'd love to see more colours anyway)
* some big boss... there the challenge is…
* sprite animations
* varying terrain graphics
* wider level

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