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Doris (1k) - 2600


seemo

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tiny and excellent! good work

 

Nice, good work. A back to the basics fun little game.

 

I was thinking Doris the Explorer, though. Looks and sounds more like Doris' older sister, Doris Day, any other Dorises?

 

OOPS that is Dora the Explorer. My Bad.

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I had a lot of time to play this game tonight, and have some suggestions:

 

* Make the player look in the direction you move it. I understand Animation would take up a lot of ROM considering you are shooting for 1K, but since the player graphics can be reversed by hardware, it would only cost you a few bytes.

 

* Make the hearts loose energy faster. All of my deaths were because of the moving platforms, maybe you can add a difficulty option?

 

* Make more than one hear appear as the game goes on (not sure if this is possible without a new kernel)

 

As I said earlier, I like it a lot so far!

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Nice game. I've never been interested in 1k games when you could just add more things and make it 2k or 4k, but I do understand. So my vote is for more options (yet keeping it simple) and making it a little larger.

 

Things I were to add if making it just a tad larger:

 

- Different sprite for left and right movement

- Animated feet moving

- Title screen

 

 

Things I were to add if leaving your game as is:

 

- Make the hearts lose energy faster as the game goes on.. all my deaths have also been from touching things.

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I love the concept for this game!

Only the Atari could have a game about a secretary with an Afro collecting Valentine's from her co-workers while avoiding the stares thrown by their wives :) That is very original and bad to the bone! Hats off to Seemo for this one.

Wp

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It looks great, I'm sure it plays well too. I love lead 1k.

 

I'm having an issue playing it, however. Moving left and right the character will jitter as I move. It's sort of similar to a jittery paddle. For example, as I move to the right, I will progress to the right, but I will jump back to the left about three times a second. Moving up and down is fine. I'm playing it on real hardware (I doubled the the bin to 4k and put it on a 2532 eprom). Has anyone else successfully got it working on an actual 2600?

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Many thanks to everybody :)

 

Here's an updated version

 

- the sound played when the heart is caught has been changed

 

- hearts loose their energy faster now (each level has its own rate)

 

- mirrored sprite when Doris faces left (thanks Wickeycolumbus :thumbsup: )

 

- @Vectorman0 : this binary has the 'padding' nops moved in the last part of the file, does it work on hardware ?

 

Simone

doris_1k_20090202.bin

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I like the sound effects a lot better on this one :D

 

Maybe you could make the hearts move horizontally across the screen (difficulty switch candidate?).

 

 

Has anyone gotten 999 yet? My highest is 510.

 

Edit:

 

seemo, you should release another multicart with Omicron 2K, Doris 1K, and Lead 4K. I know I would buy it!

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Hi,

another update:

 

- the pitch of the note played when the heart is caught is now related to the hearts's energy (more energy-->higher pitch-->more points)

 

- before starting a game, you can set the right difficulty switch to 'A' and the hearts will move... vertically (again, thanks Wickeycolumbus !)

 

Bye

Simone

doris_1k_20090203.bin

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The moving hearts are insane :D

Actually, I think it makes the game a little easier. You can mostly stay in one horizontal plane, and just wait for the hearts to come by instead of chasing them down. What would make it a lot harder, is if the hearts came up in a different spot every pass.

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