Bryan Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 This could be made pixel exact! http://terrycavanaghgames.com/maverickbird/ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenjennings Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 This could be made pixel exact! http://terrycavanaghgames.com/maverickbird/ The download time takes about as long as loading the average Atari game from cassette, so that part is already authentic. I played it about 147 times and my hi score is 5. It hates me. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 (edited) Alright, I played "Flappy" for the first time. It actually has an appeal in it's simplicity. But, it doesn't adhere to one simple concept, gradually increasing difficulty. This is not to say a game should be easy for 5 levels. But crap, it doesn't even give you a reasonable amount of time to get used to controlling the bird. To me, how a game's difficulty increases is one of the most important design factors in creating a game. Anyone who doesn't quickly master the skill of flying and continues to play this game is either a knucklehead or a sadist. It could be a decent little game, but as far as I'm concerned, the way it is, it's a piece of rubbish. Edited February 21, 2014 by MrFish 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
José Pereira Posted February 21, 2014 Author Share Posted February 21, 2014 @MrFish: The 'way hows difficulty' on the original doesn't need to be the same way on ours 8bits. Remember that we are converting not porting. It's the original that is used. All the code have to be done from scratch so its up to the coder to implement the increasing difficulty. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 @MrFish: The 'way hows difficulty' on the original doesn't need to be the same way on ours 8bits. Remember that we are converting not porting. It's the original that is used. All the code have to be done from scratch so its up to the coder to implement the increasing difficulty. That's why I said, "could be". Even with a port it could be tweaked to be playable, since controlling the character alone is half the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
José Pereira Posted February 21, 2014 Author Share Posted February 21, 2014 Indeed I am more worried and thinking is 'hows the controls?' because there no possibility to use the finger. How? Anyone already thought or can have some ideas? Just had a crazy idea but even if it works: Had more people the Atari LightPen and we could move it on the base. Maybe it doesn't work because the pen it's not above the T.V. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fibrewire Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 (edited) Indeed I am more worried and thinking is 'hows the controls?' because there no possibility to use the finger. How? Anyone already thought or can have some ideas? Just had a crazy idea but even if it works: Had more people the Atari LightPen and we could move it on the base. Maybe it doesn't work because the pen it's not above the T.V. You could configure the controls as follows: Spacebar = Flap any other key = Pause Edited February 21, 2014 by fibrewire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fibrewire Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Alright, I played "Flappy" for the first time. It actually has an appeal in it's simplicity. But, it doesn't adhere to one simple concept, gradually increasing difficulty. This is not to say a game should be easy for 5 levels. But crap, it doesn't even give you a reasonable amount of time to get used to controlling the bird. To me, how a game's difficulty increases is one of the most important design factors in creating a game. Anyone who doesn't quickly master the skill of flying and continues to play this game is either a knucklehead or a sadist. It could be a decent little game, but as far as I'm concerned, the way it is, it's a piece of rubbish. Yes, the achievements aren't very impressive, and after 30 successful flaps you get a gold medal. Top score is 9,999 for any user. For identical gameplay and actual achievements, try Splashy Fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sack-c0s Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 really? my copy shows a top score of 65535, and the hex editor shows way more digits available I'm reading the bitching about the original and other suggestions between builds, so I'm taking it on board. I might add a few other little things if I can to perk the game up a bit if possible 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fibrewire Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 really? my copy shows a top score of 65535, and the hex editor shows way more digits available I'm reading the bitching about the original and other suggestions between builds, so I'm taking it on board. I might add a few other little things if I can to perk the game up a bit if possible Ahh, i should have been more specific. The top score in the Apple IOS version when looking at the in-game scoreboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 I just played...(on PAL 130XE with Joystick) Bats (Stan Ockers - Perhaps a Page 6 Magazine game?) Superfly 1K+ (Matthias Luedtke) Hopp2012 (PP's) All three fire to go up and let go to descend and touching the scenery is bad news In Bats you scroll from L to R (the background stays put) and the missiles travel R to L - collect them for points. The bright one kills you. After a few rounds the caves get narrower. Not bad and a BASIC game too! Superfly - Wow! Superb! Really nice float and gravity effects; you can get on a roll going under and over the walls. Very slick movement using momemtum and great scrolling, simple sound effects and good use of colours too. Hopp2012 - Not bad, has fixed rate lift and heavy fall, making it very tricky. If you do survive long enough there are moving obstacles independent from the borders. Bigest improvement would be to add some in game sound effects (has explosion only) These games don't really appeal to me but might make a good bonus game in the HSC. Perhaps if they had short levels with variations to keep them interesting or a 2 player head-to-head would be a nice idea. Superfly was by far the best and did make me want to have 'one more go', but after a while I thought wish I could shoot... then I thought I might as well fire up Fort Apocalypse and turn the gravity on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 (edited) ..or a sadist. I mean masochist. The coder is the sadist... Edited February 22, 2014 by MrFish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solaris104 Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 C64 version is very nice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE1uKIE4e5U Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sack-c0s Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 D'oh - looks like I can throw the C64 code back in the bitbucket and finish up the A8 version then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
José Pereira Posted February 24, 2014 Author Share Posted February 24, 2014 What a great sh... So the 1st time Me Want to have a go and a 'colaboration' between A8 and C64... And 1st time Sack wanted to try something on A8. The great thing in here is that I don't have anymore anything on C64 and Sack can still become famous on the A8 community Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Well... Sack... Do at least the A8 version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfollett Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Talk about jumping on the band wagon. I just went to the Windows 8 store and look at the flood of Flappy birds and it's clones surfacing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 There's actually a second port for the C64, don't think it's been released though: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fibrewire Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 This could be made pixel exact! http://terrycavanaghgames.com/maverickbird/ I *WISH* this game was for the Atari 800! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sack-c0s Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Maybe I should just switch tracks a little, play with the parallax a bit more and go for the theme of an empty, dull game with lots of graphics and do 'Shadow of the bird' 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
José Pereira Posted February 25, 2014 Author Share Posted February 25, 2014 Maybe I should just switch tracks a little, play with the parallax a bit more and go for the theme of an empty, dull game with lots of graphics and do 'Shadow of the bird' I think the better by now is to have the game like original and if possible use those gfxs I sent you.Get it running and using that code (parallax) I have an idea for other, not bird and some different gameplay ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 I think parallax could be the way to go. The barriers are simplistic enough that all the permutations shouldn't be too great when merged with a background of mountains, buildings or whatever. Leaving most/all of the PMGs free then means a nice colourful bird could be done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenjennings Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Joust is enough flapping birds for me. I can get a higher score than 5 in Joust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfollett Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 OK, now a really "Crappy" knock off of Flappy Bird showed up at the Windows store. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHW Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 There's actually a second port for the C64, don't think it's been released though: Hey folks, I've tried Flappy Bird for C64 and it plays great. High score so far is 7. (Does anyone know what the highest score on any Flappy Bird is ever?) I'd really like to try Happy Flappy as well as it seems to have an awesome soundtrack. Anyone know where the ROM download is available? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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