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Beam me up!

Entry posted by atari2600land October 19, 2019

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While trying to make a song for level 5, I did, but I figured it would be better for the spaceship level. So I made another song for level 5. I had a terrible time trying to draw a spaceship for Pea-Man to get beamed up into. Eventually settled on this:

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I'm quitting for the night. It's a little after 7:30pm and I want to focus on other things. Last night I didn't get to sleep until 6 a.m. I only got 6.5 hours of sleep. And you know what? I feel better. Perhaps I should stay up until 6 a.m. every day. I spent the night working on this game, trying to make the carrot chase Pea-Man better, but I gave up.

I had to make the beam in the picture with sprites, because if I made them with characters, they would overlap and cover Pea-Man. Next on the to-do list is design level 6. I am thinking the maze should be made up of gray robot carrots. I have an interesting idea about a sort-of-dead-end thing that I hope I remember. At least I got my Channel F carts in the mail in fine working order today. In case you don't look at the Channel F thread, I bought Video Whizball and Casino Poker for <$20 each.