4-mula

[+atari2600land]

So I wanted to take a break from Castle of Doom a little. I spent a few hours creating this. It's a proof-of-concept for a game. Right now It's kind of like Entombed, but I want it to make it different than that. Most of the few hours was making the scrolling work correctly. It kept showing the title screen even though I had scrolled down to make the first level. But I think I fixed that part. Right now you press FIRE to start the game and the joystick to move the man around. The object is to get to the bottom of the screen. When you do, the screen will scroll up revealing line after line a new screen for you to navigate through. The passageway placement is random. So, what do you think?

4mula1.bas.bin

[+Random Terrain]

The walls are sticky. You might want to clean them.

[Lewis2907]

I like how your program scrolls. Would you mind posting the .bas or a text file? I'm interested I. How you did that. I'm working on a scrolling program at the link below. I think your code would help me get closer to what I want to make next. Basically a level that is left and right scrolling. Then another level up and down scrolling, thanks.

 

 

http://atariage.com/forums/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_id=607257

[+atari2600land]

I cleaned the walls up and changed a couple of things.

2600 limitations made me think of gameplay. What you want to do is shoot all the enemies on the screen before you can make it to the next one. There will be different types of enemies. Some will shoot, some won't, etc.

 

4mula2.bas.bin

4mula2.bas

[+Random Terrain]

That's better.

[fultonbot]

This is very cool!

So you smooth scrolled the playfield blocks in the standard kernel?

Edited December 3, 2018 by fultonbot

[+atari2600land]

Thanks.

Yes, this is all done using a standard kernel.

[+Karl G]

The engine has a promising start. The character's head gets chopped off after the board scrolls, though, so you might want to scroll slightly less.

[+Muddyfunster]

Nice start, half reminds me of Tutankham by Parker

Edited December 3, 2018 by Muddyfunster

[+atari2600land]

Changed a few things and now the guy can shoot. There's nothing to shoot at yet, though.

4mula3.bin

[fultonbot]

Thanks.

Yes, this is all done using a standard kernel.

 

How did you scroll the pf blocks without them jumping 4 pixels?

I'm a total newbie at this.

[+atari2600land]

I used the "pfscroll up" command.

[+atari2600land]

Added an enemy that you can shoot at. The enemy can shoot back, but it'll only do so if you're around. The enemy is a cyan square now since I haven't designed it yet. The enemy will go away when the guy exits the screen and reappear somewhere randomly on the screen. There's no health or dying yet.

4mula5.bas.bin

[+atari2600land]

Back on working on this again. Added/changed some stuff. Stuff still to do:

+ add a level system, the higher the level, the harder it gets.

+ add a health bar for the guy.

 

4mula6.bas.bin

[+atari2600land]

Back on this again. Stuff I changed:

+ added a nifty (in my opinion) title screen song

+ fixed scanline count issues

+ added lives. If you get to 0 and die, the game resets.

 

Stuff still left to do:

+ add levels. The more you get in the game, the harder it gets. Ideas on how to do this, anyone?

4mula7.bin

[+Random Terrain]

Is it a song or a tune?

[+atari2600land]

FINALLY got what I wanted to do. When you get 7 points, instead of a maze, it turns into a hall. This lets you know you've reached the end of that stage and are about to go on to another one. I think the way I can make it increase in difficulty is to make it a multi-setting game (like Gorf, for example), where there's different things for you to do. If you get past 7 points, the game goes crazy and keeps scrolling because I haven't told the game what to do when you reach that point yet.

 

4mula8.bas.bin 4mula8.bas