RE: [stella] Warring Worms on real VCS

[Glenn Saunders <cybpunks2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:28 PM 10/14/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> Trying to figure out how to handle that now...

If the head registers a collision, stop the missile.  It's as easy as that.

Another idea for the head is you could have missiles randomly bounce off 
the head.  The ping-pong effect is always a good one in 2600 games.

As for inhibiting yourself from backing up on your own trail, for whatever 
direction you are going, there will be a blocked direction.  It should be 
pretty easy to figure out which direction you are going, see if the player 
is trying to go in a blocked direction, and skip over the right direction 
change lines.  This kind of game is really a "3 direction" game because at 
any time you can only move in 3 directions.  You are constantly leaving a 
trail so you can't ever back up.




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