+Vorticon Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 Also, the "Billy Ball" series by R. Truman is probably one of the best platform games I've seen in Extended BASIC. He manages to make the gameplay really challenging and keep things moving pretty smooth! They were released on the "Best of the U.K" disks from Texcomp years ago. I sent all of them to Walid to put up on the TI Game Shelf but I don't think they're up yet... If you need some listings let me know! You did? I have no recollection of that... Could you please resend them to me? I am updating the Gameshelf on Saturday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+adamantyr Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 Yeah, I'll send you the original disk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted December 11, 2015 Author Share Posted December 11, 2015 Yeah, Downland is HARD... Cave Walker actually offers a "practice" mode that lets you play the game in an invulnerable state just to practice each level. Absolute precision and timing is needed, and a lot of it comes from trial and error. The worst thing? That the TRS-80 Coco didn't have a really good joystick. You had to buy their deluxe one that would let you lock the stick into a spring-back position. Otherwise most games were nearly impossible to play effectively. Yeah, take what you've done and make an original game! Maybe the same theme (cave spelunking). I'd say focus on player movement, jumping, climbing, and all of that and then see what are cheap easy obstacles you can implement in the confines of XB. You could do something similar that I did with Aperture; have a missile or something fire off at intervals, and while it's on the screen all action freezes. I have the Deluxe controller but still wish I could use my 2600 joystick luckily on TI I can I got an idea for original game but I'll be working on player movement first and then figuring out what I can do that makes sense with the story in my head Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davvel Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Hi, I am trying to find some documentation on how to use xb2.7 I did find some limited doc file but there is no mention of the basic stuff. Example how do you EDIT LineNumber (Example EDIT 20) in XB? I thought it would be like in TI Basic with XB 2.7 adding more commands. My cartridge is still on it's way but I am using an emulator to try out the commands for now (Classic 99). Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Example how do you EDIT LineNumber (Example EDIT 20) in XB? I thought it would be like in TI Basic with XB 2.7 adding more commands. 20 FCTN (UP ARROW) or FCTN "E". For the most part the XB2.7S booklet only covers additional stuff not found in the TI- Extended BASIC manual. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Hi, I am trying to find some documentation on how to use xb2.7 I did find some limited doc file but there is no mention of the basic stuff. Example how do you EDIT LineNumber (Example EDIT 20) in XB? I thought it would be like in TI Basic with XB 2.7 adding more commands. My cartridge is still on it's way but I am using an emulator to try out the commands for now (Classic 99). Thanks. You need an Extended Basic Manual. V 2.7 enhances XB, not TIB. Here it is on WHTech: TI Extended Basic-Linked.pdf ...lee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davvel Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 20 FCTN (UP ARROW) or FCTN "E". For the most part the XB2.7S booklet only covers additional stuff not found in the TI- Extended BASIC manual. Thanks for your prompt help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davvel Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 You need an Extended Basic Manual. V 2.7 enhances XB, not TIB. Here it is on WHTech: TI Extended Basic-Linked.pdf ...lee Thanks for the link. Appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unhuman Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 I am always amazed with how much is accomplished with so little in XB. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted December 31, 2015 Author Share Posted December 31, 2015 Stupid life haven't had much time for this lately but finally got the new title page done Hopefully I can finish this before August when my first baby arrives Anyways I decided to take the hermit from one of my Xmas demos and make a game about him before he was a hermit Basically the world ended after a nuclear winter. Survivors live deep underground and the player is sick of people always being around so he goes on a quest to become a hermit. But he has to make it through old unused caverns filled with malfunctioning defenses. So here's the title screen 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted January 1, 2016 Author Share Posted January 1, 2016 Got a little more done today still nothing playable yet but hope to start level 1 tomorrow Hermit40.dsk Hermit80.dsk Hermit.hfe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Nice game premise Looking forward to the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted January 2, 2016 Author Share Posted January 2, 2016 Got level 1 layed out. Still need to figure out how to make the player look like he's walking/climbing/jumping, make it so items can be collected, make scoring and lives work, and make it so you can't fly around but its looking good Attached is the program text, 40&80 track disks and HFE file Wanna B Hermit.txt Hermit140.dsk Hermit180.dsk Hermit1.hfe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 Look up CALL PATTERN. It will be useful if you have spare characters in your character sets. I would definitely reserve enough chars for your animations, then build your universe with whatever's left. You can always redefine characters between levels so that you can re-use your playfield graphic character codes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted January 2, 2016 Author Share Posted January 2, 2016 Got left walking animation done. Having to move some characters around to clear sets for the sprites but should get the rest of them done today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 Good man!! Looking forward to seeing more from ya! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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