At 17.05.2002, 22:16, Paul Slocum wrote:
> Aside from the score and status display, my Marble Craze kernal is
> working! My previous releases were nice, but I cheated a bit by using the
> Stellar Track text code. But now I'm finally a true 2600 programmer. :o)
> It's going to be a side by side split-screen two player game where you roll
> a marble along a path across multiple screens to a finish line. It's an
> overhead view, and I also wanted the path to have ramps up and down so I
> added the ability to make the path lighter or darker in places. There are
> also power ups which I just used a missile graphic for. And it's a paddle
> game where each player uses two paddles, so I had to add code to read all
> four paddles. The paddle reading is low-res compared to other games (only
> reads 25 unique positions at 30Hz) but I think it will be fine for this
> game. The playfield garbage under the score is showing the paddle positions.
Looks very promising so far. :-)
One question: How will the scrolling look like?
I'd suggest "delayed scrolling" like I did in Thrust. Else I think, the
horizontal scrolling would look crappy (like in Vanguard) and it might
be a problem to scroll both screens vertical independently.
Have fun!
Thomas
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