atari2600land's Blog - Aaron the Aardvark update

RSS Bot · November 18, 2018

So I went back to work on Aaron the Aardvark. I asked for some things to put in the game. I'm going to put in ants that Aaron can eat by pressing A. A will make Aaron stick out a tongue to eat the ants with. I've got the ants and an anthill in the game, and the ants can walk in a straight line, but Aaron can't eat them just yet. I'm wondering if I should make the ants bigger. Right now they're 16x8 pixels, and quite a reasonable size when you compare them to Aaron. But I don't want to make Aaron any bigger because then it would be impossible to dodge 5 separate bombs that come in the later waves.

It took some work to make the ant and hill to appear on the screen. They didn't want to appear even though I set the variable to "active," but I got it working after a couple more tries. I'm wondering how many objects I can have on screen all at once. Right now, I have text, background, Aaron, ant, anthill, poop and 5 UFOs. That's a lot. Hopefully I can add "tongue" to the list as well. But I will see if I can tomorrow because I don't want to work on it any more today.

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