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Insomnia ensues III! Coding Atari 2600 games 'till dawn!

Posted by theloon, 23 April 2013 · 198 views

Had a nap. Had a full meal. Getting stoked on Mt. Dew. Have http://coffitivity.com/ playing in the background. Time to code for extended and unreasonable durations!10:00pm 'till now:Getting bogged down trying to figure out the smartest way to block the player from leaving the 5x5 screen overworld. Hopefully by the end of the next hour I can s...

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Dreams in game design.

Posted by theloon, 27 March 2013 · 195 views

I just had a dream about a game.See, in order to impress a love interest our hero has to guide a stray cat to a food bowl. The hero must traverse an obstacle and puzzle filled isometric level. The cat must be allowed to follow the player. If the player steps on a pressure plate the kitties AI knows enough to move to the appropriate panel or activate a...

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Insomnia Ensues II! Late weekend coding frenzy!

Posted by theloon, 10 February 2013 · 215 views

7:11pmHaven't been focused all weekend. Couldn't get into the coding groove. I'm hoping blogging my decent into maddness will get me in the mood.Working on the rewrite of MMSBC II http://www.atariage....msbc-2-wip/Plan is an update every hour until I can't take it anymore. I'm truly scrizooed if it isn't ne...

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Insomnia ensues! Coding at 2am on a workday..

Posted by theloon, 31 January 2013 · 144 views

Let's see how far I get. I'm working on MMSBC 2 on a hard deadline of Mid February. I'd hoped to have this in the bag before the end of January but obviously that didn't happen.I'll try to post once every hour until I either give up or it's time for work.I've got my instant coffee at supersaturation levels in a re-used 42oz...

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How to lose customers by rebuking feedback

Posted by theloon, 19 December 2012 · 229 views

I recently got into an Early Adopter program for an MMO creation and management company. Basically, they give you most of the tools and the server AND the credit card transaction processing for a big chunk of your revenue. Fair enough.Trouble is, the only way to import assets is through extremely expensive 3d software that one must be specifically train...

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Augscii #3

Posted by theloon, 26 September 2012 · 204 views

Okay, finally getting down to drawing the font. Got preliminaries for the numbers and letters. Seems to be a bold font. I seem to be trying to make the letter and numbers more symmetric in case I need to use them for graphics. Haven't fully thought out what symbols to gut in the ASCII table. The addition of Googly eyes are a must!

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Augscii Bitmap Font #2

Posted by theloon, 25 September 2012 · 254 views

I'm using a Game Maker 5 project as a kind of "portfolio" for the Augscii font. Basically, storing the font as a sprite with multiple (256) images. I also attached other famous bitmap fonts for reference including the Aquarius MZ-700 and C64. Put in a sample of my "Perfect Palette" too.

The perfect palette was my attempt to make...

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Homework assignment: Augscii Bitmap Font

Posted by theloon, 24 September 2012 · 171 views

Seems to be some demand for new Genesis homebrew. Currently I've got on small shooter and a bigger project on my plate in that area.

I'm thinking it's time to bring back Character based graphics like the MZ-700 and Aquarius. The IntellivisionLives people haven't responded to emails since 2011 about using the Aquarius character set. In...

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My 2600 RPG Topics

Posted by theloon, 07 September 2012 · 236 views

Just to keep myself organized I'd like to make a short list of 2600 RPG topics

This topic relates to using the 6 digit score as an RPG battle menu
http://www.atariage....nt-battle-menu/

Here is some work on what a 2600 password system would look...

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Nano Progress Log #1

Posted by theloon, 19 June 2012 · 398 views

Monday June 18

Found my eSnips (file host) was broke. They switched over to a adware toolbar download system similar to what CNET or Download.com is doing. But, instead of fooling people into submission by doing it to some downloads eSnips requires ALL downloads to be through there adware downloader. Plus, I cannot delete my account, my folders or files...

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