Subject: Re: [stella] variations on a theme From: Piero Cavina <p.cavina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 21:39:20 +0100 |
At 10:12 -0500 12-01-1998, Erik Mooney wrote: >> - (you'll like this): if you miss the invaders and the saucer, the whole >> formation goes down one row :-) > >Too difficult, I think... especially when there's only one invader left >and you miss it three or four times befoire hitting it. I've already done that, I think it's great.. (if you don't get angry too soon... :-) >I have the feeling that this happened accidentally while testing some >other stuff and you liked the effect :) more or less... :-) >> - floating shields, like in Atari Space Invaders. > >That'd require changing the destroy-shields routine a little more than I'd >like... you can do it if you want, but it'd probably more effort than it's >worth. You could have a game variation with no shields easily, though. Another thing to consider, is that currently the Invaders cannot destroy the shields. This should be fixed, but it doesn't look so easy... >> - challenging stages: each n-th stage is a challenging stage. Here, the >I think this is doable, if you make >the score routines handle more than 4 digits (this extends the game >significantly) Yeck! :-/ Score is the worst part of any 2600 game... :( >> BTW, don't ask for invisible invaders... I'd have too many things to change. > >The mere concept of even trying to make the kernel do that had me laughing >for about five minutes :) Don't you here a voice saying "nothing is impossible"...? :-) Ciao, P. -- 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!! | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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