Hi there!
Rasty wrote:
>About the game, do you think it could be possible to
avoid the flickering of
>your shots (by using missile graphics)?
I've been discussing this with Thomas quite some time
now. While Thomas is certain it can be done with
Missiles (I'm not! :-)), the major problem with these
would be their color.
I cannot control their color, it'd be the color of
whatever sprite is on the same vertical position.
So I think using the missiles will look very crappy.
Now I had the idea of using Playfield instead. I just
finished a design-study of how a laser PF animation
could look like:
http://home.arcor.de/cybergoth/xype/sfshot.gif
(Sorry, I was too lazy to program it. I wanted to see
the result first :-))
Now, the two choices are:
- Try the playfield solution as shown in the GIF
- Keep it as it is.
If the feedback here would be towards the first
solution, I'd give it a try (with Thomas help hopefully)
otherwise I'd continue with the current Sprite-Lasers.
Rob wrote:
> Very playable! I eventually converted all the enemy
> ships into little red dots and then I noticed a funny
> artifact (this is in stella.sdl under Linux): on the
> right edge of the screen appears one of your shots,
> constantly moving from top to bottom as if it's an
> enemy ship just out of your range.
Right now this is most likely due to a timing bug in
Stella, but I'll rework that part of the code anyway, so
the next version should display well on all emulators
again. Thanks for the note.
> One big problem though-- the way ships just "pop" on
> and off the screen. Any way to fix this?
It probably was solvable, but all the solutions I can
think of would either require 8 times the ROM I use
right now for graphics, tons of RAM or precious kernel
cycles or all of it.
That is for the horizontal "popping". I probably might
find easy solutions for the vertical "poppings", though.
I'll think about the problem.
Greetings,
Manuel
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