bluswimmer Posted November 9, 2018 Author Share Posted November 9, 2018 Yeah the gameplay was really good and addicting. Though I preferred the poodle graphic, the amoeba one is equally good. I will be looking forward to it, not trying to crap on the op's thread or nothing. I did buy Balloon Trip... No offense taken! Dionoid's Amoeba Jump is a great homebrew, people SHOULD be looking forward to a cartridge release of it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 Yeah the gameplay was really good and addicting. Though I preferred the poodle graphic, the amoeba one is equally good. I will be looking forward to it, not trying to crap on the op's thread or nothing. I did buy Balloon Trip... Yeah I second that! Love the poodle!!! Need to leave him in the game....someway 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 Yeah I second that! Love the poodle!!! Need to leave him in the game....someway Should be easy to do. Difficulty switch or something swaps between poodle and amoeba graphics... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 Should be easy to do. Difficulty switch or something swaps between poodle and amoeba graphics... Thats what I was thinking........... don't know if Dionoid will do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 Thats what I was thinking........... don't know if Dionoid will do it.Even if it's a 4k game, this would be easy to implement. For ROMs, offer two downloads. For cart, include both copies of the game for an 8k ROM, one with Poodle and one with Amoeba graphics. The code checks the position of the difficulty switch upon boot (or even in game) and swaps banks accordingly. Extra rom space is virtually free in 2018. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluswimmer Posted December 13, 2018 Author Share Posted December 13, 2018 For some reason I tried to do a video where I play the game and talk about some of my experiences developing it. I kinda ramble on a lot during the video, so watch it at your own risk here. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 (edited) Loved watching the video, thanks for posting it bluswimmer! It's rare to see Atari 2600 developers posting commentary videos of themselves playing their own games and it was also great to hear you go into your history of programming VCS games. It was interesting to hear the development process of the game and things you still want to change even after the cartridge had already been released. :-) For some reason I tried to do a video where I play the game and talk about some of my experiences developing it. I kinda ramble on a lot during the video, so watch it at your own risk here. Edited December 14, 2018 by cimmerian 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dionoid Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 For some reason I tried to do a video where I play the game and talk about some of my experiences developing it. I kinda ramble on a lot during the video, so watch it at your own risk here. Always nice to hear the programmer giving some background information on how a game came to be! In the video you talked about creating this game during a boring summer job, so I assume you're a young developer. Great to see young people showing interested in an old console like the Atari 2600! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 For some reason I tried to do a video where I play the game and talk about some of my experiences developing it. I kinda ramble on a lot during the video, so watch it at your own risk here. It really is a great game. Please don't berate yourself because you built the title screen entirely out of playfield blocks, or came up with clever little shortcuts. It's brilliant. All Atari games bitd took liberties and shortcuts to do tricks onscreen for stuff that wasn't previously possible. Those tricks get copied and adopted by other programmers. Games like this showcase the sheer variety that is possible with 4k titles. It could have easily existed bitd, but Nintendo would have sued. LOL. I think this game is well enough below their radar, still mourning the takedown Princess Rescue. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluswimmer Posted December 16, 2018 Author Share Posted December 16, 2018 It really is a great game. Please don't berate yourself because you built the title screen entirely out of playfield blocks, or came up with clever little shortcuts. It's brilliant. All Atari games bitd took liberties and shortcuts to do tricks onscreen for stuff that wasn't previously possible. Those tricks get copied and adopted by other programmers. Games like this showcase the sheer variety that is possible with 4k titles. It could have easily existed bitd, but Nintendo would have sued. LOL. I think this game is well enough below their radar, still mourning the takedown Princess Rescue. Thanks for the kind words. Make no mistake, I'm still really proud of the game and the fact that so many people enjoy it. I'm just pointing out a couple of things that I want to work on/address for my next game, even if they aren't necessarily issues in the eyes of most people. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AW127 Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 Good game, really makes fun. Does this exist as a PAL or PAL60 version too? Even in the AtariAge Shop it seems that it's only available in NTSC version. I also tried different keys on the Atari, if maybe the colors can be switched, but seems not to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluswimmer Posted November 8, 2019 Author Share Posted November 8, 2019 12 hours ago, AW127 said: Good game, really makes fun. Does this exist as a PAL or PAL60 version too? Even in the AtariAge Shop it seems that it's only available in NTSC version. I also tried different keys on the Atari, if maybe the colors can be switched, but seems not to work. I didn't make a PAL version of Balloon Trip. Unfortunately this game was made before I had the sense to use constants for my color values. I'm currently pretty busy with school right now, but I'll see if I can make a PAL version soon. Frankly, it's long overdue... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 Just now, bluswimmer said: I didn't make a PAL version of Balloon Trip. Unfortunately this game was made before I had the sense to use constants for my color values. I'm currently pretty busy with school right now, but I'll see if I can make a PAL version soon. Frankly, it's long overdue... That would be great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluswimmer Posted November 9, 2019 Author Share Posted November 9, 2019 (edited) The PAL60 and SECAM60 versions of Balloon Trip are finally here. Should've done this to begin with, but better late than never I suppose. balloontripPAL60.bin balloontripSECAM60.bin Edited November 9, 2019 by bluswimmer typo 5 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AW127 Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 (edited) On 11/9/2019 at 3:40 PM, bluswimmer said: The PAL60 and SECAM60 versions of Balloon Trip are finally here. Wow, that was fast. Thanks "bluswimmer", now i can play your game also on my real console. Great! ? Edited November 11, 2019 by AW127 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissCommand Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 On 11/9/2018 at 10:37 PM, Arenafoot said: Yeah I second that! Love the poodle!!! Need to leave him in the game....someway A third on that... the poodle with the flopping ears was really cute! ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AW127 Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 It's funny, when you fly fast horizontally over the water and the fish tries to catch you, cause when you fast enough, he is to late sometimes and you see him jumping out the water behind you. *lol* I tried to fool him a little bit in this way, some minutes ago, but then he caught me from underneath, because i must slow-down a little bit, dodging one of the sparks, hahaha. Think the fish was pretty angry about me at that point. ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glurk Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 (edited) Apologies to @bluswimmer for hacking his game, and the necro-bump of this thread... Anyways, I kinda like this game, and in order to try to hone my '2600 skillz' I've disassembled and hacked up this game, and hopefully improved it in some way. Although I did this for myself as a learning experience, I thought the result was good enough to post. Lots of changes, but it's still the same game. It now has more colors and stuff. I'll let others be the judge... ----- UPDATE!!! I'm still working on this, now it's 'Balloon Trip Plus'. I've added a good bit more stuff, flying piranha fish, graphics updates, a very special bonus round, new animations, and etc... And I've optimized the code to be smaller, and there is still about 1.5K of ROM left. It's still WIP as I figure out what more to do... It's got a lot of ROM space to add more features. Check out this new version, it's kinda cool: balloontrip+ [glurk].bin Edited October 19, 2022 by glurk New Version Added 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluswimmer Posted October 19, 2022 Author Share Posted October 19, 2022 On 10/15/2022 at 4:10 AM, glurk said: Apologies to @bluswimmer for hacking his game, and the necro-bump of this thread... Anyways, I kinda like this game, and in order to try to hone my '2600 skillz' I've disassembled and hacked up this game, and hopefully improved it in some way. -- snipped for space reasons -- Don't apologize, I welcome romhacks like this! Honestly, I'm kinda flattered.... I haven't played much of it yet, but I definitely appreciate some of the updated graphics, especially the death animation. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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