winkdot Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 (edited) The Goons You are a Goon on Goon Island and your tribe needs gold. Use joystick to move up and down and left and right. Collect gold for points. Also the number of gold chest you collect will take you too the next level. Avoid everything else as they will cause your death. You have three lives. There are 8 levels. Feedback is welcome!Version .02 - Minor graphics updates,tighter platform codeincreased up/down controlsFaster movement left/rightVersion .03Did some level balance changes.Added a castle to each level - Avoid them.Version .04Changes to some enemies.A bit of code cleanup.Special thanks for info from Muddyfunster Version .05Changed goon death so he shows what hit himOnce again increased the debounce for the up and down movement. Version .06Updated the player movement the-goons.01.bin the-goons.02.bin the-goons.03.bin the-goons.04.bin the-goons.05.bin the-goons.06.bin Edited May 5, 2019 by winkdot 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bhall408 Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 Off to a great start! Here is my quick/off the cuff feedback after playing for 5-10 minutes... Love the title screen... Could use some sound... The font used for the score reminds me of Atari 800 game fonts like you'd find in Preppie, etc (which is nice) The up/down controls feel way too sensitive to me... I far too often pop 2 levels when I meant to only do one. (for what it is worth, I am playing using OpenEmu on a Mac) Left/right controls on the other hand feel too slow... Game over animation is quite nice... Would be great to add a sound effect or tune here too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkdot Posted January 27, 2019 Author Share Posted January 27, 2019 Thanks for the feedback Off to a great start! Here is my quick/off the cuff feedback after playing for 5-10 minutes... Love the title screen... Could use some sound... The font used for the score reminds me of Atari 800 game fonts like you'd find in Preppie, etc (which is nice) The up/down controls feel way too sensitive to me... I far too often pop 2 levels when I meant to only do one. (for what it is worth, I am playing using OpenEmu on a Mac) Left/right controls on the other hand feel too slow... Game over animation is quite nice... Would be great to add a sound effect or tune here too... Are you using a keyboard for control? I struggled to find the right lag for the controls. On my keyboard I learned to hit it just right (just a tap) but I don't think all keyboards respond the same. I need to try it with a joystick where it could be too slow.Love the people that make good tunes on the Atari, I'm just not one of them. Think some of it is the Atari is out of tune which sorta grates on my head. Some do amazing songs on the Atari and I respect their hard work though.I can fix the slow left and right though. Need to test that out. I had to remove some stuff because of scan line issues. There are routines that try and calculate placement of sprites so they are not placed into the same lane (they work most of the time), but it takes a various numbers of cycles to pick the right placement.Thanks for the feedback Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluxit Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 Playing with a nes pad, I have to agree with bhall408. We need some debounce. About half the time I'm moving two levels unintentionally, and I'm only tapping. I like the concept and graphics. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenfuzz Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 Looks fantastic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 Cool, will be checking this out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkdot Posted January 28, 2019 Author Share Posted January 28, 2019 Playing with a nes pad, I have to agree with bhall408. We need some debounce. About half the time I'm moving two levels unintentionally, and I'm only tapping. I like the concept and graphics. Thanks for the feedback. There is debounce there. I backed some of it off. Will look at it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bhall408 Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 Thanks for the feedback. There is debounce there. I backed some of it off. Will look at it again. What I would try is this... If you detect an up/down, wait for another 500ms of that direction before deciding to do the 2nd (or more) movement, and perhaps consider it a "repeat" each 250ms that the stick stays in that position after the first 500ms. If you detect an up/down, then center, then up/down again, you could process them as fast as the player can do those inputs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 Yeah, I'm with everyone else on the slippery controls. I'm using a game pad with Stella and I'm almost always going up or down two levels. Love the theming! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkdot Posted January 29, 2019 Author Share Posted January 29, 2019 Version .02Minor graphics updates,tighter platform codeincreased up/down controlsFaster movement left/rightGive it a run and see if it works better.Thanks 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkdot Posted January 30, 2019 Author Share Posted January 30, 2019 Version .03Did some level balance changes.Added a castle to each level - Avoid them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Some observations on the new build: - The up/down movement is getting better but I'm still finding myself moving two spaces when I only meant to move one. - I've found that I only need to move horizontally once there's a castle above or below me, other than that I can always get out of the way of things by just moving up and down. - You could put the clouds with the lightning above other enemies so that there are two obstacles on the "same" horizontal space and then strike the lightning down if it passes over you. Looking forward to playing it on the livestream in a few weeks! Version .03Did some level balance changes.Added a castle to each level - Avoid them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkdot Posted February 6, 2019 Author Share Posted February 6, 2019 Version .04Changes to some enemies.A bit of code cleanup.Special thanks for info from Muddyfunster 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Excellent! Thank you! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 We'll be featuring The Goons LIVE on tomorrow's (Friday) ZeroPage Homebrew stream on Twitch at 12PM PT|3PM ET|8PM GMT! Hope everyone can watch!Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.t...ropagehomebrew/Games: - Adventures of the 50-foot-tall Stalk of Celery (WIP) by Chris Read aka atari2600land- The Goons (WIP) by Ed Riley aka winkdot- Tron (Arcade Port) by orange808- Astronomer (Patch Challenge) by Alex Pietrow aka Coolcrab 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Hate to broken record here, but I'm still moving 2 tiers at a time in version 4. Otherwise, I'm liking everything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkdot Posted February 17, 2019 Author Share Posted February 17, 2019 Version .05Changed goon death so he shows what hit himOnce again increased the debounce for the up and down movement. Let me know if it's better for you. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bhall408 Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Debounce is definitely better since last time I tried (v3)! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkdot Posted February 23, 2019 Author Share Posted February 23, 2019 Debounce is definitely better since last time I tried (v3)! Thanks for testing it! Is is good enough? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bhall408 Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 Thanks for testing it! Is is good enough? Not one to complain, but if you are up for it, I think it would benefit from one more round of improvement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Thanks for testing it! Is is good enough? on the first round, the double guys have a flicker when they approach the left side of the screen as they go off the screen using Stella 6.0 the up and down movement has a little too much hesitation to it now IMO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 I have to concur on this, it seems like you added a hesitation when first pressing up/down which sometimes doesn't register movement when I press quickly in a direction. At the same time I'm still accidentally going two spaces instead of one, probably made even worse now by having to hold it longer to get the guy moving. the up and down movement has a little too much hesitation to it now IMO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Karl G Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 Instead of a delay, I would recommend using a repetition restrainer which will prevent any further motion in that direction until the joystick has been released. The bB commands page has an example for restraining the fire button, but the concept is exactly the same. You can use the same restrainer bit for both directions, unsetting it when !joy0up && !joy0down http://www.randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-batari-basic-commands.html#repetition_restrainer_for_fire_button 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkdot Posted March 1, 2019 Author Share Posted March 1, 2019 Thanks guys will take yet another look. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkdot Posted May 5, 2019 Author Share Posted May 5, 2019 I tried the repetition restrainer method but never got it to work well. Not sure why. Likely me.So I did some more adjustment to how I was doing it.Version .06 has this change. As always it is in the first post. Let me know what you think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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