Hi Paul!
> And in Erik's demo the playfield is reflected which
> means no scrolling world, although an asymmetric
> playfield version may be possible.
I see, that is a major point I overlooked. At least
you'd probably be limited to vertical scrolling.
(Hey, Andrew Braybrook did that in the Amiga version of
Paradroid, so it can't be all wrong ;))
> To me, 10x10 is pretty decent -- especially with
> scrolling. Have you tried David's 9x9 scrolling
> playfield RPG demo?
Yup, certainly :-)
> I think it feels nice, and mine's pretty much the same
> with 10x10 and more detailed graphics. Aside from the
> smaller on-screen area, mine looks about as good as
> the early Ultimas.
That is true. Will the gameplay be comparable to Ultima
too?
> Initially I thought the main drawback to my method
> would be flicker, but I really can barely even tell
> that it's flickering on a real TV
Ah, I still don't have the means to verify that...
So I'll just believe ;-)
> It does rely on careful tile design though. I designed
> a brick pattern that flickered horribly. You have to
> avoid lots of 1 pixel thin horizontal lines.
Have you tried Envision? Maybe it works for you too:
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~schmelze/atari/envision/index.ht
ml
Seems to be a great tile editor.
Another very cool thing are all those tile editors for
the NES. You can probably easily rip a zillion of nice
tiles out of existing NES games.
BTW: Totally Off, but Al just posted news about a
DiStella 3.0 ...
> No, I appreciate your comments. That's why I posted
> it now before I get into the game design.
Fine. I think this'll gonna be one of the coolest VCS
games ever!
Greetings,
Manuel
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