Bob's Blog - Whole Lotta Nothin'

RSS Bot · June 8, 2006

AFTER MAKING BIG plans earlier this year I've done a whole lot of nothing so far.

Hmmm...strike that. Looking back through my blog, I've done more than I thought. Mostly I just haven't managed to produce a game.

I was going to use this blog entry as a data dump for everything I've half-assed over the last couple of months - and don't worry, I still will use it for that purpose! - but I think I will change gears and use it as a sort of retrospective of the year so far. Maybe help me get focused. :lol:

So, if you follow the link above (don't bother), you'll see that these were my plans for the year:

1. Write something for the Supercharger contest.

2. Write a standard cart 2600 game

3. Port Go Fish! to the A800

4. Write something for the minigame compo

I've sort-of made progress on a few of those things. I started work on an SC RPG for the contest but ran out of enthusiasm and time. If Glenn extends the contest deadline, I might pick this up again. Here's what I've got so far:

SCRPG20060317.bin

Basically, I took Andrew Davie's Boulderdash kernel concept and tried to shoehorn it into the SC. I got bogged down trying to figure out how to do the text.

My start-of-the year ideas for a 2600 cart were 1. a paddle-controlled, four-player horizontally scrolling shooter, 2. a port of Metroid to the 2600, and 3. something else that would use the paddles. I don't remember what. :lol: To lay everything on the table, I suppose I could also pick up my Arkanoid demo and finish that and I could finish the PONG demo. I've also been working on (pencil and paper) a Street Fighter II-esque fighter for the 2600 - which would have an insanely complicated kernel. Most likely, and tying in with #4, Squish 'Em will be the next game I finish.

As for porting Go Fish! to the A800 - I'd still like to do that, but I will probably try to port it to the GBA (!) first.

In other news, I've done some music with Tommy. I haven't heard anything so I'm assuming that it ended up being too late, but Tommy and I wrote a title-screen tune for RPS, which I will unveil here:

RODTVTheSong20060529.bin

I think it turned out pretty well. I also am planning on writing (with Tommy) a tune for another game; hopefully this one won't be too late. :roll: