atari2600land's Blog - The Upmonster

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I wanted a new project to work on for the Intellivision since the Waffles game is almost done. Also, I wanted to try to make a Doodle-Jump-like game for anything except the Odyssey 2 one which I failed miserably at. So I put those things together and decided to work on a Doodle-Jump game for the Intellivision. It took a few hours to finally see how and what would work about the platforms scrolling works, or at least what makes it work in this game.

I am going to name the game "Upmonster," since there aren't that many Intellivision titles that begin with the letter U. I designed a first attempt at making the title character. i will probably change it a little. Among the things I want to put in the game are:
+ sound effects. What game doesn't have them?
+ fancy title screen.
+ 2-player version.

In the 2 player version of Upmonster, there are two upmonsters, player 1 controls the green one and player 2 will control the blue one. The object of this game is to last longer than your opponent on the screen. But that is a ways away from beginning to be programmed.

Right now the game is super easy. I want this to be hard, so I guess I'll start adding some stuff, like enemies to avoid. A bird going across the screen would be a good thing to have, since they're up. I saw a hawk flying around my backyard a few days ago. It is apparently looking for little birds and mice to eat. Poor birds. They come and use the bird bath. We have a daily hummingbird visitor as well. But enough about birds.

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