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Posted by vdub_bobby, 08 May 2012 · 252 views

STARTED USING Git, and have uploaded the source code to Github.com: https://github.com/vdub-bobby/tankmaze

I'll continue to post updates here, though they might lag what's on Github. For example! The version on github is slightly newer; the enemy tanks have (crappy) AI now!

I'm in...

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The Bad Guys

Posted by vdub_bobby, 23 February 2012 · 397 views

NOW WITH ENEMIES that move!

Not too exciting, really - they just change direction randomly when they hit an intersection. But it's something!

Also, your tank...

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Destroy Walls

Posted by vdub_bobby, 12 February 2012 · 459 views

NOW YOU CAN blow up the walls! Plus I fixed the maze generator so that it (should?) cycle through the 255 possible different mazes.

I forgot to mention this last time (until a late edit), but press RESET to cycle through the...

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Now With Mazes

Posted by vdub_bobby, 06 February 2012 · 508 views

BEEN PRETTY BUSY WITH RL over the last week, but found a few hours here and there to work out the code to generate mazes programmatically:

To my surprise, I was able to get...

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Ready, Fire, Aim!

Posted by vdub_bobby, 31 January 2012 · 440 views

NOW WITH shooting! Also a proper (though lame) maze, sort-of finalized kernel (and sort-of finalized tank graphics), and a glowing base to defend.

In answer to what I think was Thomas' question, right now the maze is hard-coded. If I can come up with a good...

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Tanks!

Posted by vdub_bobby, 23 January 2012 · 595 views

SO IT'S BEEN A WHILE since I've been very active on AA; but in the last few weeks I have again started some fairly intensive 2600 development. I'm sorry to say, Nathan, that it isn't RPS - which is still on my slow-moving to-do list - but rather a project that I toyed with years ago: a semi-faithful port of...

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R.I.P. Kotaku

Posted by vdub_bobby, 08 February 2011 · 537 views

Off-Topic Ramblings

NOW THAT KOTAKU.COM has ~~ruined~~ redesigned their website, I'm looking for a different video game news/reviews/opinion site. Something reasonably intelligent, platform agnostic, and comprehensive. Where do you all go for video game news?

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Credits

Posted by vdub_bobby, 14 January 2011 · 337 views

WHILE I'M HOME SICK FROM WORK I might as well take the chance and try to make some progress on RPS:
Not a lot of changes, but since the previous version was so rough, I thought I'd put this out there.

Cleaned up all scanline counts - now at 270 on all screens and transitions appear to be rock solid. Also got new credits...

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R.P.S The 8K

Posted by vdub_bobby, 13 January 2011 · 396 views

PROGRESS CONTINUES...

Dug up old PMs from Nathan and saw that he had made a title screen graphic for it already, so I added that in:

This required expanding the ROM to 8K, so that's the other thing I did - which was a giant pain, as it always is. :roll: