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  1. Posted · Edited by Mountain King

    Update 64 Beta-The game is finished barring any major bugs that might pop up.

     

    1. Refixed the eating bug while in the Zazzle Clearing, apparently I broke it again.

    2. Fixed the bug where occasionally you would remained trapped on the board after clearing all the enemies.

    3. Fixed the bug where the red tree would not appear right away.

    4. The tree acts more erratic now.

    5. The blood splat is timed better so it will not stop in mid air.

    6. Myrmica remains will splat on the playfield as well as the ground.

    7. Fixed a bug where Mymica remains did not hurt you. Now they do. Avoid touching them.

    8. Revamped the scoring.

    Pick up a cloud fruit 10 points

    Shoot a cloud fruit with the Zazzle Fly 30 points

    Find a lair trigger 50 points

    Enter a lair 50 points

    Ant, Wasp or Crab 100 points

    Invicta Minors 1000 points

    Invicta Prime 5000 points

    9. Added Sound to the Wasp and Crab. Also added sound when you pick up a cloud fruit.

    10. Changed the Ending Animation slightly

    11. Opening Animation Changes if you beat the game.

     

     

    This is pretty much it. Can anyone test it out on a real Atari? My Harmony cart died just as I was going to test this version.

    GIZZLEWAPdpc64beta.bas.bin

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  3. Posted · Edited by Mountain King

    Update 63

    1. Fixed a bug where the life bar would appear in the opening animation.

    2. Changed the sound when the Ant,crab or wasp dies from a "beep" to a "splat"

    3. Added a death animation to the ant,crab and wasp. They will "splat" and may fall to the ground and make a puddle of blood.

    (note: it's not recommended to touch Myrmica remains in any form. They are known to be toxic.)

    4. Changed the Invicta Minor AI slightly. They teleport away when hit.

     

    The blood might have made this game controversial in 1985. Not so know.

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    GIZZLEWAPdpc63.bas.bin

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  4. Posted · Edited by Mountain King

    Update 62, this ones for you Zackattack

     

    1. Really fixed the green score this time, it turns green when it is supposed to.

    2. Fixed the eating bug. Now your health goes up when you eat the fruit. No delay no matter when you have your meal.

    3. You no longer can eat a fruit unless you show visible damage about 32 points

    4. Your health bar and fruit count flash red when you take damage.

    5. When the left difficulty is set to "B" you can carry 4 cloud fruit. When it is set to "A" you can only carry 3.

    6. When the right difficulty is set to "B" the tree's poison does not affect you. When it is set to "A" you will take damage slowly over time.

    7. The Gizzle Wap's bouncing sound is timed better to how he moves. The tap sound is on the down animation.

    8. Added an opening animation after the titlescreen and the music plays.

    9. The Coud Fruit Float a little higher.

    10. If you are a good shot you can hit the cloud fruit with the Zazzle Fly.

     

    I think I'm at the home stretch on this game.

    GIZZLEWAPdpc62.bas.bin

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  5. Posted · Edited by Mountain King

    If you eat a cloud fruit on a cleared screen your health does not restore right away. You have to go to another screen and collect a new fruit before the health meter goes back to full. Is that what is supposed to happen?

     

    It would be nice if you can't accidentally eat a fruit when you already have full health.

     

    What's a good strategy for the Invictas? Those guys are also laying the smack down on me.

    Not healing right away is a remnant of only being able to eat during a fight. I'll try to fix that tonight.

     

    You actually can't eat if you're fully healed. You were probably damaged so slightly that it didn't show on the health bar. It's possible to eat all your fruit at once if you eat while you are being hit. "Riding the Ant" or being carried by the crab are bad times to have a meal.

     

    The Invicta Minors are so aggressive they don't give you a lot of time set yourself up for an attack. You might have to hunker down and let them come to you. Also try to touch a Humming Duck before taking on the Invicta. The added speed helps a lot. With the additional speed you can do a flying Jump Drop that can be an effective strategy, but you can expect to take damage.

     

    Hope that helps.

  7. Posted

    Yeah, I didn't press down fast enough. They start hitting really hard at that level. Anyway, here's the next update.

     

    Update 61

    1. Fixed the score so it will stay green if you collect more than the required amount of fruit. It will return to yellow if you eat enough fruit to drop you below the quota.

    2. There are 8 levels now. 7 Invicta Minors and 1 Invicta Prime.

    3. Decreased the difficulty of the 6th and 7th Invicta. It was nearly impossible to beat them.

    4. 3rd and 4th Invicta now have help in their fight.

    5. Invicta Minors now come in different colors.

    1st and 2nd Green

    3rd and 4th Gold

    5th and 6th Red

    7th Gray

    GIZZLEWAPdpc61.bas.bin

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  9. Posted

    Update 60

    1. Fixed and aligned playfield colors

    2. Tightened up the code, scanline count was hitting 263 during the fight loop

    3. Invicta Prime fight is more managable

    4. Sound shuts off properly in the finale animation

    5. Score color now turns green when you have collected enough fruit to remove the tree and signal the Gizzle Wap to return to the Zazzle field. You still need to drop off fruit when you have 1-3 fruit..

     

    GIZZLEWAPdpc60.bas.bin

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  10. Posted

    If you're running Stella the easiest way to check is pressing ALT+L. Your scanline count and FPS will be in the top left corner. NTSC should not exceed 262. There are other ways to check.

     

    https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fatariage.com%2Fforums%2Ftopic%2F181081-keeping-track-of-the-scanline-count-with-stella%2F&ei=9XVPVa6uA8OwggTAqoGAAQ&usg=AFQjCNFqZAGXoXxyuGaa1cvDoqBiUdCgaQ&sig2=QGhV6t4XCNSBplQB5EoglA

     

     

     

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  11. Posted

    Wow! I love the game play, concept and level progression. You have outdone yourself. You might want to tighten up your code though. You're over on your scanline count. It looks fine on Stella, but it will probably roll or flicker on real hardware. Otherwise, great job!

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  14. Posted

    I've been playing this game for several versions now and I really like the new additions. First, the music and the title screen really add a lot to the game - did you write the song yourself? It sounds great.

     

    Also, the death animation / melting effect on the screen is amazing - how did you do the screen stretching?

     

    When I collected enough fruit, the moths pulled the tree out of the ground. I ate a fruit before they got off the screen and the tree and moths popped back into place. Is that supposed to happen? I was still able to get to the boss afterward.

    I'm getting a little farther each time I play - I got to the boss for the first time tonight, but haven't beaten him yet.

     

    Nice work!!

    Hey Graywest. I wrote that song when I was about 15 on an old Tandy Color computer 2.

    The screen stretching is a function of the DPC+ kernal. There are 6 DFxFRACINC that allow you to set the resolution of the playfield and backround.

    Thanks for finding that bug. I'll test it today to see if I can recreate it.

    I guess you mastered the jump drop move, which currently is the only way to beat the ant. I hear from other play testers that beating the ant is the biggest challenge.

    Thank you for the feed back.

  15. Posted

    Thanks iesposta. I almost used stretching to set different playfield levels. If I had given this function more thought early in development I probably would have. The simplest example that comes to mind would be making one screen a pit, then stretch the center 2 defrac values to make a hill, something along those lines.

     

    The Gizzle Wap originated as bedtime stories we would make up at night. My daughter came up with the good characters and I did the evil characters. She keeps asking me to put in other characters she made up but sadly there's no room in the graphics bank and some don't fit in the story.

  19. Posted · Edited by Mountain King

    Update 56

    1. Fixed a bug where the finale would not play correctly.

    2. Fixed a bug where the red tree would appear briefly when the screen changed.

    3. The Invicta minor and the Invicta Prime now have separate hit routines.

    4. Cleaned up the title screen slightly.

     

    Attached are the rough drafts of the Instruction manual and cartridge labels.

    The Gizzle Wap Game Instructions.pdf

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  20. Posted · Edited by Mountain King

    Update 55

    1. The Finale animation is complete after you beat the Invicta Prime.

    2. The Cloud fruit is now animated and moves slightly.

    3. You may eat cloud fruit between fights as well as during fights.

    4. The Red tree is animated in all scenes.

    5. Fixed a bug that let you kill the invicta minors too easily.

    6. Overall difficulty has increased slightly.

    7. Level 5 and 6 Invicta minors have help in their fights.

     

    Thank you to iesposta for helping me find more space.

    GIZZLEWAPdpc55.bas.bin

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  21. Posted · Edited by Mountain King

    I don't know if you guys have seen this thread.

     

    http://atariage.com/forums/topic/236921-dpc-collision-example-program/

     

    But I've implemented this routine in my game and it works quite well.

    Basically what it does is compares the x and y value of player0 and compares it to the x and y value of the other objects. Whichever is closest jumps.

     

    I also did the same thing as iesposta where I used the ball and superimposed a player sprite.

  22. Posted

    Feels like all the little changes made for a large improvement in gameplay.

     

    Would it be possible to have a mode where the moth travels straight in whichever direction you're holding the joystick when the button is pressed? Maybe the difficulty switch could choose.

    Thank's ZackAttack. Being able to heal yourself really improved the game play. Now you have to make a decision, do I heal myself or give the fruit to the butterflies.

     

    I thought about the moth trajectory early on in development and I really wanted a missile you would fire and have very little control over. I used to make model rockets as a kid and one of my first models wasn't balanced right and I launched it with a "C" engine. That thing flew all over the place. But that's kind of what wanted. I think controlling the direction would make the game too easy and predictable. I'm also out of room in that bank. So I'm not sure I'm a good enough code cruncher to add that.

  25. Posted

    I agree - the AI and monster patterns need some tweaking. I haven't done any programming on the game in a few days, but I'm hoping to get around to it this week. I think I have a plan to fix the turret's "blind spots" and the blob's movement issues.

     

    I can't take credit for the C.H.U.D. name - it's a cheesy movie from the eighties, but I think it fits. :-) I am having fun writing the manual.

     

    As far as the tune goes, the data and the loop are in the same bank. Actually, they're not part of the main loop, but the title screen with the music and data are in a secondary loop with a separate drawscreen command.

    I figured the music out last night. I had to put my music in a separate bank and it was stumping me. I finally looked at the code for Princess Rescue and that helped.

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