Planet Bob

It would probably flicker much less if you would interleave the colors (e.g. like in my flicker experiment).

Wouldn't that result in 3 flickering colors, instead of 2?

 

BTW: I'm not entirely sure, wether interleaving is still to be called flicker, that's why I used "stress" in my comment about Andrews demos

Yes, but the flicker would be less obvious.

It is possible to interleave with or without flicker. There can be pros and cons to both approaches.

 

Another approach which may be useful is to use the playfield for lower-resolution color selection. I use this approach in Ruby Runner to yield four colors plus black, none of which flicker badly (there are also four more colors, but they have half the vertical resolution and they flicker worse).

Hm... the more I'm thinking about it, the more I'm thinking that I should try something completely different here, as none of these techniques matches the style of the rest of the game...

So, when Nathan and I started working on the Colony 7 title screen this weekend, he wanted to try things with more than 1 color himself

 

He also requested a melt update so he's able to adjust the brightness of each color individually.

 

As a result of this, I just added a new melt testing demo, with a real 3 color Colony 7 title screen from Nathan! Also in this demo, SELECT and RESET will tweak both brightnesses individually.

 

Still interested in feedback...

At least in Stella, that C7 logo looks fantastic! Flickery, but still fabulous.

Agreed. I'll check it out on the real thing once my iMac's back and I can use my Krok Cart.

So did you check out the binary here, or the one in the Homebrew forum? If you just saw that one here, you're still in for a surprise

 

Nathan is a pixel god!

Saw them both and...forgive me, but what's the surprise? The glowing pixels? The two logos don't look that different to me.

The 3D effect

 

I think it looks a lot better, don't you?

I'll check it out tonight.

Thanks a lot! It'll be very interesting to have some feedback how it looks on a real NTSC TV!

Looks cool in Stella. I'm unable to test on a real TV until I get my iMac back.