GroovyBee Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 (edited) Its 25 years ago today (May 21st 1984) that the Atari 7800 was first announced to the public. To commemorate its birthday I thought that a little homebrew was in order. Some screen shots attached :- No binary is available at the moment. Many thanks to espire8, gambler172 and Bakasama for helping to get it this far. Its not going to be a clone of a certain well known other game involving rocks and diamonds. There are no enemies in this game apart from gravity! I'm hoping to get the AtariAge community involved with some level design. All contributors will get their names in the game's credits. I'll have more details to follow about that later. The game is still a work in progress, and far from finished. It doesn't even have a name! Comments and suggestions welcome! EDIT: Changed thread title to reflect the game's new name. Edited July 10, 2009 by GroovyBee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Hi Mark Looks great. greetings Walter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Wow... looking good. Same mechanics though I assume? Got a lot of promise already... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted May 21, 2009 Author Share Posted May 21, 2009 Wow... looking good. Same mechanics though I assume? Got a lot of promise already... Thanks for the compliment. Its only a two week old rushed project . The physics will be easy to learn . It was "working" on real hardware until I added the physics . Its not flip screen and scrolls in 4 directions. Its got some glitches . As soon as its working on real hardware again and I've ironed out more bugs I'll post a binary. Its also written in pure 6502 and not with the "c" graphics library I've developed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Cool, can't wait to try it out. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwan-iwanowitsch-goratschin Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Wow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+HatNJ Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Cool!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.golden.ax Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 It reminds me of Dark Chambers, Bill & Teds, Gauntlet... what kind of game did you have in mind? How about Harvest Moon Link Edition 7800? AX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonner242 Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Nice & colorful! Looking GOOD! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted May 21, 2009 Author Share Posted May 21, 2009 It reminds me of Dark Chambers, Bill & Teds, Gauntlet... what kind of game did you have in mind? They are top down games, this is more drop down . How about Harvest Moon Link Edition 7800? The game's scrolling engine can support large "worlds". If you had a 16K RAM cart you could get 10x10 screens worth of playfield area. I'm up for any sort of game development if somebody wants to draw the graphics . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted May 21, 2009 Author Share Posted May 21, 2009 Nice & colorful! Thanks for the compliment. Its using the 7800's 13 colour mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Loguidice Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Nice use of color! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted May 21, 2009 Author Share Posted May 21, 2009 Nice use of color! The graphics in the screen shots are all from the hands of espire8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DracIsBack Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Nice & colorful! Thanks for the compliment. Its using the 7800's 13 colour mode. Awesome. Does the game scroll or is it screen to screen? Can't wait to see a binary! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted May 21, 2009 Author Share Posted May 21, 2009 Awesome. Does the game scroll or is it screen to screen? It scrolls! Can't wait to see a binary! A binary will be available when I've got a playable level together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DracIsBack Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 A binary will be available when I've got a playable level together. Cool! Can't wait to see. Looking at this, I'm wondering if the 7800 could do a decent "Golden Axe Warrior"? It doesn't really scroll (except to quickly slide from screen to screen) but does make good use of color. The 7800 needs a good RPG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted May 21, 2009 Author Share Posted May 21, 2009 Looking at this, I'm wondering if the 7800 could do a decent "Golden Axe Warrior"? It doesn't really scroll (except to quickly slide from screen to screen) but does make good use of color. Just checked out the vid. Something like that would be achievable with this game's engine. The big killer for projects like that are always the graphics . A custom 7800 cart with 4K bankswitching and 8K/16K RAM would be nice too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kojote Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 looks interesting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 This looks nice. Looking forward to more... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poopopyo Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 IMO the game looks a little like Bible Buffet for NES. Maybe a combination between Bible Buffet and Exodus for NES. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted May 23, 2009 Author Share Posted May 23, 2009 IMO the game looks a little like Bible Buffet for NES. Maybe a combination between Bible Buffet and Exodus for NES. Hmmmm.... Looks like Bible Buffet, but it plays nothing like it . If anybody can recommend a good (well free) *.AVI to *.GIF converter I'll post an animation of it running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DracIsBack Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 IMO the game looks a little like Bible Buffet for NES. Maybe a combination between Bible Buffet and Exodus for NES. Hmmmm.... Looks like Bible Buffet, but it plays nothing like it . If anybody can recommend a good (well free) *.AVI to *.GIF converter I'll post an animation of it running. Why not just put on YouTube and then link? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted May 23, 2009 Author Share Posted May 23, 2009 Why not just put on YouTube and then link? Lets just say that I don't like their policies and leave it at that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impaler_26 Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 Great idea and the screenshots look good! Looking forward to a playable demo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DracIsBack Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 My, that would be fun to play on a real 7800 ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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