free mini game: bexa64n

[sh3-rg]

Bello!

 

Here's out first release: bexa64n. It's a little tiny teaser of our forthcoming game bexagon. It's also available for the Atari Falcon and the first release created in bello basic - see readme doc below.

 

bexa64n:

 

People use the phrase "mini game" without having much understanding of what that really might be or what goes into making any given game, understandable if they're not people who make games themselves. Well here's a true mini game. It's a 64kb file played in a 64x64 pixel area! It has sound*, increasing difficulty, scoring and that's about it. It's very simple stuff, but represents a lot of work... all stripped down and hacked away leaving the simplest gameplay elements and little else

*sound - the 64kb version has a small loop, the 2MB ROM has much nicer audio.

 

Here's the latest video of the proper game, bexagon, from probably around a week ago. This is far from being a minigame... it spends much of its time being a 6MB ROM and a PITA!:

 

 

Check the readme for more info:

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bexa64n

a 64pixel x64pixel x64kb teaser for the forthcoming game, bexagon, by bello games

Written using Bello Basic. What's this? Simply put, it's the good old Raptor Basic+ but modified and extended so it can

also support 16/32 Atari platforms. Both Jaguar and Falcon versions are compiled from the same source files and different

codepaths are used for every platform. This is of course very limited to begin but will grow more sophisticated with time.

Falcon support was added from scratch within 8 days.

64k .ABS contains a small, low-freqency sample

.ROM contains a larger, higher frequency loop, both for the Atari Jaguar.

.PRG contains a Falcon030 version.

bb :: ggn

raptor :: cj

audio replay :: zerosquare

audio :: contains a loop from "Nightrise" by Jens East

(http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jens_East_ft_Henk/Nightrise_1702/Jens_East_-_Nightrise)

used under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) by bello games

64kb optimisations :: george

testing and direction :: luis

game code :: kevin

Use a Jagpad in port 1. Press B to begin and use left/right, A/C or 1/3 to steer.

See bellogames.atari.org for more info

This game is released under a "don't be a twat" license, meaning you're free to take a copy from our website or anywhere

we choose to post it (such as atari age or some demo party release or whatevs) but don't do obviously scummy things with it.

bexa64n.zip

Edited March 25, 2018 by sh3-rg

[masematte]

looks cool, shit that my skunk is broken , hope ill can fix it, cause the game looks like fun

Edited March 25, 2018 by masematte

[PeterG]

Nice music too... Will have to try it later. Thank you for sharing.

[Zerosquare]

This begs for a limited physical release, with an Fresnel lens included in the box:

Edited March 25, 2018 by Zerosquare

[ggn]

This begs for a limited physical release, with an Fresnel lens included in the box:

Actually the Falcon owners were spared - at first I thought about using 640x480 resolution, which would probably have ended up people ordering

 

[ColecoGamer]

Dang! I really need to buy a Skunkboard. Does anyone know where I can find one?

 

Edit: Thank you for sharing your first game! I really want to play it.

Edited March 25, 2018 by ColecoGamer

[+LS650]

That looks cool, though I think I might need my reading glasses to play it!

[+Saturn]

Dang! I really need to buy a Skunkboard. Does anyone know where I can find one?

 

Check this post

 

 

Thanks so much for sharing this. Looking forward to the Bexagon release

[Diatoir3d]

That looks awesome :-). Love the style and gameplay looks really addictive... A "one more go" kind of game - Banging tunes too!

[UHATEIT]

Sweet music for sure! I'll have to try this on the skunk when I get home. Very small to see on the screen here at work

[sh3-rg]

Sweet music for sure! I'll have to try this on the skunk when I get home. Very small to see on the screen here at work

 

It's not big on any screen anywhere

It's just a little thing (purposely very little) for fun, a game inside a 64x64 pixel block. When I tested it I was sat 14" from a massive TV, so it didn't looks tooo small. It's hardly worth the effort, but I might make a version of the 2MB ROM that lets you scale the play area up, then at least it's still 64x64 but people can actually see it. I was going to add blitter rotation to it just because I couldn't find anything better to use it for, not for release, just for something to do... so might give both those a go later this week once I'm feeling less iffy.

 

Still liking zero's idea with the lenses though

[UHATEIT]

That's kind of what I took from that 64x64 comment. Would definitely be nice at full size on a screen.

 

Whether this is related or not, I seem to find that with my tv a lot of the CD games or any games for that mater keep showing up with about a 1 inch black line down the left side of the screen, as if it's shifted to the right. I have seen some games with options to change the screen position and others not. That's probably a TV issue vs a jaguar issue I guess.

[nicolaspersijn]

Cant wait to try this out. Looks fun as hell. Rotary control seems like a good fit, but well see.

Edited March 26, 2018 by nicolaspersijn

[sh3-rg]

Cant wait to try this out. Looks fun as hell. Rotary control seems like a good fit, but well see.

 

This ain't the proper game, just a little thing for the sake of it. I'm not sure "fun" plays much part tbh

[nicolaspersijn]

 

This ain't the proper game, just a little thing for the sake of it. I'm not sure "fun" plays much part tbh

Lol. I actually meant the completed game. This mini demo is probably cool in its own way, but I havent been this pumped about a homebrew game since rebooteroids.

[ggn]

But then again, if you try playing this with a rotary it's a new game mode on its own!

[+Sauron]

This is looking quite nice! Can't wait to play the finished game.

[sh3-rg]

Here's an interesting write-up from GGN regarding how this release came about and other things surrounding raptor basic, bello basic and achieving a 64kb .ABS.

 

http://d-bug.mooo.com/beyondbrown/post/bello-basic/

[GroovyBee]

That ceBreak game is pretty cool (pun intended ). There are some good game play mechanics in that one.

[piter]

very good game ! I prepare article for my printed magazine - Atari Fan !

 

for all users/readers - How do you rate it ? send me to email piter@atarifan.pl , please

 

rating between 0 - 10 for graphics, music/sound and playable

thank you very much

 

[sh3-rg]

graphics: 1/10 - only 4,096 pixels used out of 84,480

music: 1/10 64kb version, 10/10 2mb ROM - that Jens East track is great

play: 1/10 - level data lasts about 3 seconds then loops, rubbish!

 

overall: lol/10

 

Full game soon for Falcon and Jaguar - review those

[piter]

haha, thank you

 

I classifies them as a PREVIEW - I will print the magazine in end of April, maybe the version you are writing about will be available yet?

but this is very good mini game ...

[ggn]

beating the shit out of everything in order to make the thing fit in 64k: 3/10 - pfffffft, just look at all those modern 64k PC demos and how much stuff they can cram. Mediocre!

porting the game to Falcon in 8 days: 2/10 - you guys are sloooooow!

creating a system to generate the same game in 2 vastly different platforms from one basic source: 3/10 - nobody cares, you're not impressing anyone you know!

gameplay: sqrt(2)/2 - what do you mean "you can't shoot at anything"? Come see me after class!

 

Overall: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ / 10

 

(disclaimer: both me and sh3 might have something to do with the release, disregard our ratings )

[Atlantis]

Just, WOW!

[UHATEIT]

I just tried it out a few minutes ago. It's a decent game to mess around with. I got a Max score of 293