KirkIsrael@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
[...] the game is tentatively called
"Bell the Cat"....if you aren't familiar with the fable, look up
"Aesop"
and "bell the cat" on Google. =)
Heh...we used to own "Miss Belle". Who was a cat.
(It was short for "MISSing invisiBELL"....she disappeared for a few
days when we first got her.)
Ha! Well, I thought I might use "Belling the Cat" to avoid confusion
with Bill the Cat. If Bell can be a name, too, I should definitely do
it. Either that or dedicate it to your cat (and I think my cats would be
jealous...)
I don't know if you'll find it too primitive to meet your needs,
but I got some work done with my Javascript based tool "PlayerPal":
http://alienbill.com/2600/playerpal.html
There's also a Playfield version:
http://alienbill.com/2600/playfieldpal.html
Yes! I saw these. They (along with your and Andrew Davie's tutorials)
were helpful in seeing how other people wrote sprite and playfield code.
I particularly liked your lode runner editor, by the way. The best thing
about all of your tools is that they're so accessible. Anybody with a
Javascript-enabled browser can try them out and even save their results
for later. I bet they encourage people just by providing an easy way to
start on an idea.
Weird. I can feel my blood getting heated to restoke up some 2600
programming efforts...there's so many other things
in my life I should look into doing first though...
In the leaflet inside the case for his first album, Mike Golay wrote:
Hello.
I wanted to make a record.
So I did.
I hope you like it.
Be good.
So I say, in the game instructions in my mind, "I wanted to make a VCS
Cartridge..."
Jacob
