> Wow, that's like one night of work? It looks *great*...I think some of its
> an excellent choice of colors (heh, I was trying to remember what
> the color
> scheme reminded me of, and realized it was "half life", the
> orange and grey)
> and also the ball is nice and big.
Thanks! I'm very right-brained, so aesthetics are a big deal for me... even
in the early stages.
> Actually, I ammend that: I just supercharged it...works great, but the
> background is maroon, the other colors seem ok (well, not sure about
> the ball color) On the other emulators the colors for playfield,
> border, and bricks all seem fine. I don't know if you're prone to
> the same rookie mistakes I was, but make sure you're using "#" before
> your constant val references....(and don't be shy about sharing source!)
Hooray! It worked on a real machine! :) Thanks for trying it.
> What are you using to "randomly generate" the brick layout?
The second routine here:
http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/199610/msg00032.html
(And how I wish I'd been on this list when Jim Nitchals was a part of it.)
> It can be pretty simple, and adds *a lot* of flexibility in playing
> with the physics.
All the ball math is 16-bits now.
> Incidentally, I think I'm likely to multiply by negative one by
> subtracting the current value from 0...sometimes that just seems
> simpler than doing the 2's complement magic.
It's simpler and faster. I guess the EOR+1 method just mentally felt more
like how the 6502 was supposed to do it. :) I'll try to transition to the
faster/shorter way.
> Huh, just brainstorming here...if it turns out that "get the last
> few bricks" becomes very annoying, with the board just going on and
> on....maybe you could make it so every, say, 10 succesful hits, the
> paddles start flashing and then the player can catch the ball by
> holding the firebutton, ala Warlords. It would be interesting to
> see the ball "hugged" by the paddle and whipped around to the other
> side of the playing area, then released...some possible math
> trickiness there, come to think of it. Anyway, that would probably
> best be served by a "traditional" pong rule where the angle the ball
> leaves the paddle at depends on how far from center it is, as if the bat
> had a convex surface.
I'm always interested in ideas for gameplay features. I definitely want
there to be neat little triggered events. The ball catching is a good
one... maybe the paddle would change colors when it becomes sticky. Hold
button to catch, release button to...er release.
> Hope some of this is useful. I'm trying to be a better stella
> citizen, in my own no-6502-genius-way; back when I was working
> on JoustPong, I didn't want to be distracted, and when JoustPong
> was on hiatus, I didn't want the reminder that I wasn't working
> on JoustPong :-)
I'm running hot at this point and fear burnout, but I just can't stop coding
every spare moment I get. I don't want to speculate on when the game will
be finished. Setting any kind of deadline only serves to make it seem more
like work instead of fun. :)
> Or, "Reflects"/"Reflex"/"Refleks" or something like that?
This is scary. I changed my root filename to "reflex" this morning for the
same reasons you listed. Great minds!
I was going to post a binary and source, but want to fix a kernal bug I
found. I'm burning one too many cycles in the left half, causing the center
two columns to always be the same. (Reset the previous binary a few times
to see what I mean.)
Thanks for your detailed feedback.
-Lee
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