Subject: Re: [stella] AOTM AFOS New Version From: "Andrew Davie" <atari2600@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 22:31:52 +1000 |
Greetings Shrek. Nice effort! I had a bit of a play and noticed one bug. The saucer was near the bottom of the screen, quite small, when I shot it. As it was shot and disappeared I saw a saucer-width line the whole screen in depth. Only saw it once. Keep up the good work :) Cheers A ----- Original Message ----- From: Shrek To: stella@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:48 PM Subject: [stella] AOTM AFOS New Version Here (attached) is the skeleton of the new version. It's almost completely playable, you earn points, lose and earn lives. I didn't change sound, but I did improve the playing routines. I'm very proud, that it does everything like the last version, using just 1 line kernel, and not needing to borrow lines from the visible frame for the calculations. This is mostly because I improved the score calculations routine, and displaying sprites (that is, I read Andrew Davie's tutorial more carefully;). Also, I made it 2K, 'cause it's just a bit over 1K. There are a few problems, though. 1) Ufo changes colours from time to time. I can tell why is it done when it goes to the right edge of the screen, but why is it going brighter sometimes? Mystery to me. 2) When I added couple of instructions to the overscan, the ufo was behaving weirdly. It changed X pos. by a few pixels from time to time. Why? Does it mean that overscan is full of code? I thinked of adding some variations to the game, like faster missiles, missiles that keep Xpos with ufo, or missiles that chase player. If the overscan is full, where will I insert all these?... poor me. 3) The sound routine is called by jsr. When I tried to insert it right in the place in which it was called (deleting jsr Sound_Routine), the score lines were messed up until player earned first point. What the....?!? Also, here is what I plan to do with it: 1) Some variety, as I've written above. 2) Title screen, as before, probably the same music. I like that tune, however, I've meant to compose something different, than what I got made ;) 3) More fancy death kernel, with ship explosion. And it WILL apperar when the last life is lost, I promise:) 4)....any suggestions? Anyway, I'd really like to thank you all for finding some time to look at these little "somethings" that I produce, and call "my games"... Maciej Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://stella.biglist.com You are subscribed as: atari2600@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Unsubscribe here or send email to this address.
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