At 04:52 PM 9/4/99 -0500, you wrote:
Your idea could be fun to do. Has anyone on the list ever tried doing the
poly graphics similar to river raid? I know we had a thread, probably a
year ago, on wether or not river raid's levels were stored, or generated,
but do people know how to actually draw that?
Those who watch Stella at 20: Volume 2 will know that Carol Shaw tried to
explain how it was done, but in very generic terms. I do not suggest
copying River Raid as much as using the idea of poly counters representing
a world.
You might be able to, for instance, have it represent notes and have a very
long nonrepeating song of random notes. Or you could have it represent
sprite shapes and colors therefore have a zillion nonrepeating randomized
brick bad guy shapes. There are ways to apply this data that are novel.
--Glenn
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