bluswimmer Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 (edited) For the past couple of days I've been working on a 2600 version of the DSiWare game "Bird and Beans." If you haven't heard of it, essentially you play as a bird with a really long tongue, and you use said tongue to eat beans before they hit the ground. If they do hit the ground, it creates a hole that the bird can't cross. I tried to recreate the game on the 2600 as best as I could, and gameplay wise it works just like the original. More points are scored for eating higher beans, and there's two special beans (a white one that restores a block of the ground, and a blue one that gets rid of all the beans on screen and restores the entire ground). Here it is in action. Overall, this took me about four days of work. Hope you enjoy it! birdandbeans.bin birdandbeansV2.bin birdandbeansV2.1.bin birdandbeansV2.2.bin Edited February 27, 2019 by bluswimmer 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neotokeo2001 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Looks really good! Shared with the Atari Homebrew Games Group on FaceBook. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Atari2600homebrew 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 This does look good! Thanks for providing the ROM. Can't wait to try it out later this weekend. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 BTW, welcome to AtariAge! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluswimmer Posted June 2, 2018 Author Share Posted June 2, 2018 This does look good! Thanks for providing the ROM. Can't wait to try it out later this weekend. Thanks for downloading! Let me know what you think when you try it out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianC Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 (edited) Neat! I know it by Pyoro, the name of the version in Wario Ware GBA. Edited June 2, 2018 by BrianC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Very nice. Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 How did you get all those beans on the screen all at once? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dionoid Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 (edited) I really like this game! Simple and addictive :-) Question: what tools did you use to build your game? --Dion Edited June 2, 2018 by Dionoid 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluswimmer Posted June 2, 2018 Author Share Posted June 2, 2018 How did you get all those beans on the screen all at once? The beans are all drawn using the Player1 Sprite. There's about four scanlines in between each bean, and during those four scanlines I change Player1's color and position. I really like this game! Simple and addictive :-) Question: what tools did you use to build your game? --Dion Code wise the game is built 100% using 6502 Assembly. Thanks to everyone who's tried the game so far! I'm working on an updated version, so stay tuned! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Nice! Clever use of black to simplify the code. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluswimmer Posted June 5, 2018 Author Share Posted June 5, 2018 Hi everyone, Version 2 is out! Here's a few of the changes.... In addition to spawning more beans, reaching higher score values now speeds up the beans' descent Added five difficulty levels that can be selected with the Select button Added the secondary gamemode, which can be accessed by setting the left difficulty switch to Advanced. This mode has the bird spitting seeds at the beans. Shooting more beans at once yields more points. Added a blue background to the score Fixed a bug where platforms would sometimes repair in the wrong position Fixed a bug where eating the blue bean scored more points than it should have Here's the update in action. Enjoy! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 Cool! Thank you! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluswimmer Posted June 6, 2018 Author Share Posted June 6, 2018 Just added a minor update. This one just adds a few graphical changes, and adjusts the pacing of the second gamemode. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluswimmer Posted February 3, 2019 Author Share Posted February 3, 2019 So I believe this game's gotten some renewed interest due to it's nomination for best Atari 2600 homebrew of 2018. As a part of the occasion, I've recorded a new commentary for the game. While I still think that it's a decent effort for one of my first games, be warned that I am rather critical of it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 Title screen or no title screen, I really like this game. Thank you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 Yes. I loved that little game. I need to see if I still have it on my New3DS. AFAIK, the DSiWare shop is shut down now... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluswimmer Posted February 4, 2019 Author Share Posted February 4, 2019 Yes. I loved that little game. I need to see if I still have it on my New3DS. AFAIK, the DSiWare shop is shut down now... I want to say that the eShop still has all of the DSiWare games, though it's been a while since I've checked... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 So I believe this game's gotten some renewed interest due to it's nomination for best Atari 2600 homebrew of 2018. As a part of the occasion, I've recorded a new commentary for the game. While I still think that it's a decent effort for one of my first games, be warned that I am rather critical of it. (In the video) When you talk and the game sounds, the game sound cuts off what you are saying. Especially when you're talking about the Retron 77. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluswimmer Posted February 4, 2019 Author Share Posted February 4, 2019 (In the video) When you talk and the game sounds, the game sound cuts off what you are saying. Especially when you're talking about the Retron 77. Admittedly I kinda rushed the video out. Next time I'll try to lower the volume of the game so you can hear the commentary more clearly. As for the Retron 77, essentially they approached me asking to add the game to the system, asked me to change the graphics/name to avoid copyright, which resulted in Pepper Penguin, which is the same game aside from graphical changes. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 Sounds like some form of audio ducking is active in the settings, what that does is automatically lower the speech when the game is making sounds. Usually it's used in the opposite way so that the game is at a decent level until someone talks so that you never miss anything that is said. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducking (In the video) When you talk and the game sounds, the game sound cuts off what you are saying. Especially when you're talking about the Retron 77. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluswimmer Posted February 27, 2019 Author Share Posted February 27, 2019 Hi all, In light of the recent nomination, I have updated the game to utilize the correct amount of scanlines. Consider this the "not quite game of the year" edition 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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