Subject: RE: [stella] Space Instigators - Final/Final From: "Albert Yarusso - AtariAge" <albert@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 03:25:21 -0500 |
Looks good!! The only thing weird that I noticed is that when you first fire up the game your ship is in the "exploding" state. Is this intentional? I tried it out in StellaX. ..Al > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-stella@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-stella@xxxxxxxxxxx]On > Behalf Of Christopher Tumber > Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 1:18 AM > To: stella@xxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [stella] Space Instigators - Final/Final > > > So, I did get an occaisional roll near the end of a level just as > the Saucer comes out (and if you fire at the right time?). So I > messed around with moving some more code out of the Vertical > Blank. However, then I realised that the Saucer shouldn't be > coming out anyway when there are so few Instigators left. So I > made the Saucer stop coming out once there are only a few left > and that should have taken care of it. (knock! knock! knock!) > > All changes to this version: > > - Waits for player to press fire to begin a new level. > - Fixed phantom death when Instigators were low (Shots were > supposed to be turned off but I wasn't really clearing the shot). > - Fixed screen roll during Reset. > - Moved some code from Vert Sync to Overscan. > - Added an "explosion" when you're killed. > - Adjusted starting scanline and number of scanlines Instigators > drop down each level. > - Adjusted rate at which Instigators speed up. > - Instigators will start shooting again (after they've stopped) > if you kill off the bottom row(s). > - Saucer no longer appears once a minimum of Instigators is reached. > > > I'm happier with the difficulty now but it still doesn't get > challenging until a couple levels in. But it never really gets > "impossibly hard". Maybe I'll have "fast shots" turn on > permanently after a few levels... (Yeh, that sounds right... Done!) > > Chris... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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