The return of Stupidman.

Entry posted by atari2600land November 27, 2021

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Had to give up on Puppies. So I returned to NES programming and Stupidman. Last time we saw Stupidman, he had exited the museum after getting a tip. So in act 3, Stupidman goes in his Stupidmobile on his way to Mr. Germ's hideout.

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This is all I have so far of Act 3. You can press A to get rid of the message, but that's about it. Stupidman will be driving the Stupidmobile on a country road with lots of chickens crossing the road. Why are chickens crossing the road? To get to the other side, of course (and also to vex Stupidman.) The chickens (one is at the top of the horizon in the screenshot above) will have a simple two-frame animation. The game is now sort of like Spy Hunter. Even though the road looks really plain and Atari 2600-like, I had a very hard time drawing it. It took like 90 minutes to get it the way I wanted it to be.

To simulate scrolling, the chickens will be heading downwards towards the Stupidmobile as they are crossing the road. Hopefully, like the tree in act 1's street, this will be good enough. A bit of an interesting thing. The word "Luckily" is not in the Scrabble dictionary. I was trying to figure out how to spell it, so I looked for it in there and it's not in there. So I had to change the quote to "Lucky for" instead of "Luckily," All this time I've been using this word that isn't really a word at all! Dictionary.com doesn't have it, so it must not be a word. And no one told me.

I have had it with White Castle burgers though. I choked on one. It took a good 20 minutes to dislodge something I had in my throat that was preventing me from even drinking water. These choking fits I have are stupid.

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