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GroovyBee · October 21, 2015

Looks good. How about an Inty version?

Kiwi · October 21, 2015

Maybe.

I do want to design a side scrolling RPG action game for Intellivision first.

I do want to design a game scrolling engine where the player can have 2 MOB, 1 projectile MOB, 1 HUD MOB, and 4 MOBs for multiplexing object exteeding 4 MOBs. Player MOB will be redefine so many animation frames can be used without using up all 64 GRAM cards. HUD mob will be uploaded from RAM. Object MOBs will be using the GRAM cards. I'll figure out how to multiplex them only when they exteed 4.

GroovyBee · October 22, 2015

For a full screen scrolling game I'd use a MOB only to display vital information to the player e.g. energy. For Caverns (a Mars Minis game) I used 4 MOBs to display the distance travelled. Although that seems excessive, the distance travelled is all that counts in that game.

Another approach I took with Rocketeer was to display items as GRAM cards until the player picked them up. At that point I would replace it with a MOB. Adopting that approach might work well in your game to cut down on the flicker.