Re: [stella] P2C+Cartesian to Polar = Night Pilot

[Glenn Saunders <cybpunks2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:14 AM 11/4/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> I'm thinking of a flyover game, more like the Jets in Combat than
> the tank.  Constant motion enhances the illusion.  You can't put
> a lot of stuff on the screen this way but I think I can put enough
> stuff on the screen to create the illusion of a fixed landscape.

You should call it Night Pilot (ala Night Driver).  That way the points 
indicate lights from cities.

> Rotating the other player is actually trivial.

I'm not talking about the coding.  It's not trivial because 8 bits of 
graphics are just insufficient for resolving many degrees of 
rotation.  Your shapes are going to look like garbage unless you stick to 
very primitive shapes (like the triangles in Asteroids).

What I learned with Death Derby is that shapes that look sufficiently 
detailed at 90' angles completely fall apart in the other angles.

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