High Score Competition (April: Starfort)

[Opry99er]

Just need a new game now for this month and I will update the leaderboard and thread title

[ti99iuc]

Ok, so i have to decide the game for this month right ?

i am honored and thrilled !!

 

well i would like to post a little prize for this too:



Apple items are not included in the Prize


please let me see about the game, i would want to do something but waiting for an answer.

Edited May 3, 2018 by ti99iuc

[+Vorticon]

Congratulations ?. So I guess you get to pick the next game! What's it going to be?

[ti99iuc]

hello guys, sorry for the delay,

ok i obtained permissions by David Vella to publish the full version of his game developed in GPL

 

so the title for this month is also a gift to the community fom him :}

 

 

enjoy

BRKFREEG.bin

Edited May 4, 2018 by ti99iuc

[+Vorticon]

Excellent! I have the cart. Is David releasing the game into the public domain?

[Count9929A]

Nice choice, I never had the time to try the game, but it was in my to-do list :-)

 

I also would like to congratulate Ciro his excellent scores in HeroX! He uses to say that he sucks as a gamer, but this month's competition shows that it is not true, if he decides to commit he is very good! :-)

[ti99iuc]

@vorticon Yes David released it into public domain in this occasion. Asked to him about it and he agreed. It is a nice gift for all i think

 

@count9929a thanks. In true i feel like if Awarded my commitment more, i really worked hard to try and try again the game but if you read how i got the result you can see that is not as it seems

Edited May 4, 2018 by ti99iuc

[digdugnate]

excellent, thanks to David!

[+OLD CS1]

Very cool. At what difficulty level will the competition be: easy, normal, or crazy?

[Count9929A]

thanks to David :-)

[ti99iuc]

At what difficulty level will the competition be: easy, normal, or crazy?

 

talking with David we decided that will be not important the level you play but final points so everyone can play the game in a preferred difficulty but of course, who want have better chances to do more points have to try other hardest levels

 

I also want to remind players that you can jump to a next level only when you finally will find the "key" hidden under the bricks.

 

this is the link of the instructions manual

 

Edited May 4, 2018 by ti99iuc

[Sinphaltimus]

My first gameplay ever and I got the leaderboard high score playing on easy using PC Keyboard via USBKeys on real iron. This is going to be fun...

 

To be fair, it took me a while to realize that I needed to grab the key with the paddle.

Thank you David and everyone else listed in the game's credits.

Edited May 4, 2018 by Sinphaltimus

[globeron]

Very cool. At what difficulty level will the competition be: easy, normal, or crazy?

 

Shall we play "Normal" and also I saw on the second page (M=More) to post high scores here: http://facebook.com/breakfreehof

Maybe for this competition do it on both Atari Age and thanks to David at FB as well!

 

For FB there is in the middle a "visitor posts" column, and a person called Jake Allen scored 1st Jan. 2017 a score of 18560 ....!

 

Not sure if we are going to beat that...

 

 

My first attempt. Classic 99 60 Hz with keys -- Normal level: score 639

 

[globeron]

Started at Easy with Classic99 60 Hz and laptop using keys.

1x completed 6 levels. Noted that lives are resetted back to normal after 1st round (I had 14 lives?).

 

Then in 1st level (2nd round) it was this end score 9124

 

 

[+mizapf]

Why does the BIN file have such an uncommon length? I hope it is not clipped.

 

Here is a suitable RPK.

breakfree.rpk

Edited May 4, 2018 by mizapf

[Sinphaltimus]

14279



This is my final easy level gameplay score. I think I'm going straight for hardest next time I play to see how it compares.

Real Iron w/Slick Stik joystick.

Oh, and yeah man....

[Sinphaltimus]

 

... I saw on the second page (M=More) to post high scores here: http://facebook.com/breakfreehof

Maybe for this competition do it on both Atari Age and thanks to David at FB as well!

 

For FB there is in the middle a "visitor posts" column, and a person called Jake Allen scored 1st Jan. 2017 a score of 18560 ....!

I think we should all do that with our highscores at the end of the month. I'd hate to spam them every few days as I plan to vastly improve my score as the month rolls on...

[+OLD CS1]

Holy crap! I have to go grab it?! It's all so clear to me now!

[+Vorticon]

I'm having a bit of trouble adjusting to this one... The concept is great, and I love the fact that the paddle moves in the vertical direction as well which conveys an added tactical advantage. That said, there are some issues with the gameplay such as the response to keys and joysticks being laggy, making last minute adjustments very difficult. Also the collision detection is spotty, and I've had the ball go through my paddle on many occasions, and this is particularly evident when using the enlarged paddle. I even had the ball go through the wall on the left and reappear on the right wall once.

I'm going to call these features rather than bugs and keep chugging along because the game is still quite fun to play. After all, it does not seem to be stopping too many here from scoring high!

[ti99iuc]

I'm having a bit of trouble adjusting to this one... The concept is great, and I love the fact that the paddle moves in the vertical direction as well which conveys an added tactical advantage. That said, there are some issues with the gameplay such as the response to keys and joysticks being laggy, making last minute adjustments very difficult. Also the collision detection is spotty, and I've had the ball go through my paddle on many occasions, and this is particularly evident when using the enlarged paddle. I even had the ball go through the wall on the left and reappear on the right wall once.

I'm going to call these features rather than bugs and keep chugging along because the game is still quite fun to play. After all, it does not seem to be stopping too many here from scoring high!

absolutely subscribing your post i wrote the same sentence to the developer in 2016 :)

Edited May 5, 2018 by ti99iuc

[+Ksarul]

I recognize those "features" from my initial testing of the game when I was building the first cartridge image for it as well--and I do consider them features, as they introduce a nice level of unpredicatbility--just enough to keep the randomness fun but not enough to interfere with overall gameplay enjoyment.

[+Vorticon]

Overall the feel of a GPL game seems closer to XB than assembly, albeit faster than XB of course. Are there other GPL games out there?

[jwild]

 

My new purple shoes been amazin’ the people next door...

 

And my rock ‘n roll 45’s been enragin’ the folks on the lower floor...

 

19659 real TI w/trusty slik stik.

 

 

 

 

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[+Vorticon]

Still have some ways to go! Normal level Classic99 60 hz.

 

[+Ksarul]

This is probably the first game written totally in GPL since TI pulled out of the market. There have been a number of utilities in GPL, and several XB extensions (all of which are good), but the language doesn't get a lot of love outside of RXB at the moment. I am really glad that David chose GPL for this one, as it is a really good showcase of what GPL is capable of. Especially nice is that it runs on an unexpanded console, and it provides a lot more program than non-bank-switched software can give us. The bank-switched masterpieces using some of the other modern cartridge boards are Assembly at its most powerful (and they are awesome games), but things like Break Free also support the TI users out there without an expanded system, and so the audience is a bit larger (since there really are still some TI users out there using unexpanded consoles).