In article <64sk19$au7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Glenn Saunders
<krishna@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The mortal Clay Cowgill wrote:
> : Sure. At this point I'm doubting I'll ever finish Moon Lander "properly",
>
> Say it ain't so!
>
> Let me just say that it may not take a long time to get a game going, but
> it takes a long time to finish a game. I run stellalist and the game
> "Oystron" has been in the final stages of development. The author has
> already burnt out on it and wanted to let it go, but we pushed him to
> change this or that. Because of his perseverance, the game really has a
> polished and professional feel to it.
>
> Please don't give up on Moon Lander.
Well, here's the trade off... I'm neck-deep in hardware projects at the
moment (still finishing off Star Wars/ESB kits, and my new Sega Multigame
hardware and menu system is ready) so if I wait to work on Moon Lander
more it could take months and months for me to get to it and finish it.
The current state of the code is:
Completely finished except for...
Opening animation (not *really* required, but it'd be nice. It's a
countdown that goes with the "4,3,2,1 We have ignition!" samples).
Level design (Need about 10 more?)
Sound (yes, I ripped all the sound code out. Again.)
Soooo, I dunno. I suppose if anyone was *really* interested I could give
out the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that is used to design levels (yeah, a
little weird, I know-- there's lots of table-driven math) and people could
send them to me. That'd save some time.
Sound. Programming Vectrex sound just annoys me. (So I keep putting it
off) It really pisses me off that I can't use the BIOS music routines
with "normal" sound effects without severe pain and suffering... ;-)
I'm open to suggestions...
-Clay
Clayton N. Cowgill Engineering Manager
_____________________________________________________________________
/\ Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. clay@xxxxxxxxx
\/ Communications Division http://www.supra.com/
--
Stella list is Administered by krishna@xxxxxxxxxxxx <Glenn Saunders>
Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/
Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/stella.html
+-shameless plugs-------------------------------------------------------+
| Stella documentary at http://www.primenet.com/~krishna |
| Nick's VCS links via http://www.primenet.com/~nickb/atariprg.htm |
| Write the best game, win framed autographs of famous Atari alumni!! |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
