>>three times.) Thanks to all who helped with that concept. Do the middle
>>two rows of invaders look silly? If so, how should I change them?
>
>They look fine, though perhaps a round or C-shape would be better.
I tried that and they looked more like targets in Carnival or something
than aliens intent on taking over the earth... I'll play with it some more.
>anyway, shields might be able to become larger if they somehow used
>alternating frames as well. Or if that's not your fancy and you're
>feeling ambitious, a Polo-type thing could also work. But I won't throw
>a hissy-fit if the shields stay as-is. We're still getting more
>coverage than 2600 SI with its three shields.
I'd rather not alternate frames on the shields, cause that'll really cause
problems with the collision detection. I might be able to double them
vertically like 2600 SI does.. I'll try that too.
>I suppose you've already thought of it alternating between alternately
>aiming at the first and second players. Would anyone notice if it were
>done like that, or do you want to randomize that too?
I was planning to randomize it between aiming at each player, I just hadn't
put in the code yet.
>>algorithm (well, actually new lookup table) for invader speed based on
>>number remaining - it's closer to arcade now, though not perfect. Also
>>switched player colors so that first player is green (like arcade) and
>>second player is red.
>
>As for these lookup tables... could they be easily switched in mid-program
>to facilitate a PAL/NTSC switch?
>
>Further... could one say the same thing about the color tables?
I think so about both, though there's a lot of places where I just LDA
#color / STA COLUxx that I'd have to change to a table of some sort. Not
undoable, though.
>Works better to alpha-test the game that way too. Killing the player would
>probably also kill the buzz one gets from witnessing this awesome feat of
>programming.
Thanks.. does that mean you're impressed? =) Actually, sometimes I get the
feeling that if I just wrote 4096 random bytes to inv.bin and ran PCAE on
the file, I'd get a working game sooner than actually writing the game
myself =)
Seriously, does this game look like a viable addition to the 2600's library
(when finished, of course) ?
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