Decided to quit working on the Game Gear Hamburgers for a bit. This because I had an idea for the fourth and final game in X Vs. O. I had always wanted to redo Fatso! for the Odyssey 2. Now I think I will here.
He can walk around. I don't know why I had to spend hours longer than I had anticipated just to get him walking around the screen, but I eventually got it the way I had wanted it to work. I don't want to go back and fix the Shoot-an-O game to put in the x-walking animation. So
I started work on the bop-a-letter game. I was having trouble with the randomness until I realized "Hey! I don't need to use the seed stuff in this bank!" So I didn't. I used instead the timer. And now it works good.
There is still a lot of work to do, but it's a good beginning.
I decided since the player is reaching for the 3 button on the console to not start the game right away. So an ACTION button press starts the game up. There are Os to bop and Xs to not bop. I need to make
I tried to make it look better, but the computer was having none of it. It just gave me a blank screen after I attempted to put in the fancier screen drawing code. I tried moving stuff around. Nope. So I am forced to make it look like this:
The next thing I need to do is add a score and some X's to help. The O's are to avoid and the X's are to touch. Imagine a semi-"Fast Food" clone. I wanted to redo Fatso since I have learned so much stuff since then (Fatso! was my first-ever Odyssey
Today I woke up. That is a real accomplishment. I went to bed at 2 p.m. and didn't get up until about 8 a.m. I could go back to sleep for a few more hours, too.
So I got bored and drew a picture. It is an X shooting an O and the O shooting back. It is for my X Vs, O game. It probably won't be used or anything, but I was bored and decided to do it anyway. After a few modifications to the art after I drew and scanned it, it looks like this:
One of the big problems I had was having
More work this morning on X Vs. O. I was working on something else yesterday night and I looked at the clock only to discover it was almost 10 in the morning! So I went to sleep at about 11 last morning and woke up at around 11pm. Last night was spent trying to make the X vs. O game be sane. The reason for the insanity: I had put in to make the score be 0 since it was displaying garbage a long time ago. I fixed it and now everything (should be) working fine.
So I decided to work on t
I am in the beginning stages of making a clone of Venture for the Odyssey². My "Q" adventure game doesn't seem to be really connecting with me so I've decided to drop that and instead work on this. And work I did. It took a few hours and tons of retries but I finally got the beginning of it.
It took FOREVER to figure out why the dot was going through the walls. But I figure I somehow magically put screen display code in the correct place now. And when I say "early" I mean early. The ti
So I finally realized I couldn't use characters as enemies because they may overlap. I tried making the enemies sprites 1-3 and the guy be sprite 0 and the umbrella consist of characters, but while I got it semi-working, I realized it wasn't very good. So I've decided to cancel it.
I've been bothered by my toes lately. I looked between them multiple times, trying to find like a cut or something to be a reason why they would hurt sometimes, but I couldn't.
I played Donkey
Spent all day working on getting a second ghost in level 2. I finally suceeded, but noticed it wasn't moving. So I spent about 3 hours getting the ghost to move. I think I finally did. I noticed something though: when the guy keeps banging against the wall, the game slows down. I made it so that only happens on level 1. Because level 1 is done and I don't know how I fixed it. I'll make it a "feature".
The score is missing and I know why. The life counter starts at 0 and I know why that
I finally got two flies in the game after learning that three is impossible without major flickering and one is too much like my celery game.
I still need to learn my fate about the ultrasound I went to yesterday. But I got two flies in my game and I got my RZone SuperScreen working, so that's good. I also decided to put in The Voice support for it. It says "Go!" at the beginning and "Gotcha!" when you swat a fly. But unfortunately, I can't test the game's Voice support on a real conso
I got a package today. I didn't think I would since here in the States it's now a federal holiday. So anyway, I noticed it was from Brazil. This could mean one of two things: 1.) my copy of ZipZap I was promised finally came, which wasn't very likely. or 2.) My copy of Tunnels of Terror had come. It was the latter. I now have a copy of my own Odyssey 2 game I made. Tunnels of Terror is now at my house.
I opened the box. Inside was a lovely cardboard box for the game, which I haven't
I tried to make Yars' Revenge on the Odyssey 2, but I got to the point where I was going to put the qotile in the game. So I put the qotile in the game but it doesn't move in lock step with the shield characters like I wanted it to. I tried putting the qotile drawing code in various places, but nothing seemed to work. I guess I'll pick it back up later as I wanted to work on Odyssey 2 coding, but not with tiny issues like that not working the way I wanted them to.
So I went back to w
So I've decided to return to work on Q. The game will have 4 levels. I'm just about done with the first level. The second level will be a desert, the third level will be a snow level, and I don't know what the fourth level will be yet.
I have just about run out of room on level 1. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to save one's progress. I don't think a password will work. It would take up too much precious room. And even now I feel the first level is too short. I guess it'l
I worked all day yesterday on this. About 10 hours of programming was spent trying to make this game work. And at about 9:30 p.m., I got it working. I am almost out of room. I used 1,980 bytes out of a possible 2,084. But I got the first part done.
So now that it's done, here's the plan:
The Odyssey 2 always starts in the last bank. If it's a 2k program (like it is now), it will just start. But if it's a 4k program, it will start in bank 2 out of 2. But if it's an 8k progra
I have been working on an Odyssey² game called "Robot Ron in 2084". For four days now. Today's work was fairly easy. I began work on the enemy, and the score as well. I think I got everything under control except once on the title screen it played the Cedar Games intro on o2em. I don't know what that was about.
Right now I'm working on colors. I had to change the boundaries of Ron and the shots. I don't know what colors I should make this though. Here's what I have currently.
I have a disease called "reverse insomnia" now. I made it up, but I still have it. It's when once you go to sleep, you don't want to wake up. I fell asleep at about 2 a.m. last night. I got up briefly at around 4 p.m. or so and then went back to sleep and didn't wake up until 7:30p.m. But the problem is, if you told me to go to sleep now, I could sleep for a long period of time. But since 7:30 I have been fighting to stay awake. It led me to the Quirky Q's program.
I thought I was do
So I have been hard at work working on an Odyssey² game called "Quirky Q's." It's about getting q's in various ways. Our intrepid q lover (who bears a striking resemblance to Pac-Man), can't get enough of the quality letter q. But what would a game be without an enemy? Enter the q hater. He hates the letter q so much he wants to stop anyone who likes the letter q from getting any. I worked on this so long these past couple of days.
I had insomnia. I kept thinking of ways to make the
So I put in an end to level 1. Q is dodging fireballs while trying to move right. And I worked on the mechanics for level 2. Turns out I used over 700 bytes of that bank just getting them in. I don't know whether I will like this game once it's finished or not.
Level 2 has snow. And the trees have been replaced with igloos. So now I have about 1,200 bytes to use up for the rest of level 2. I added around 200 bytes of code to level 1 and I think I have around 20 bytes left in it.
I don't like the letter q. It seems so redundant. You could just as easily spell "quick" as "kwick" and if you say both, none would be the wiser as to their spelling. So am I an alien?
I am going to make a game called "Q Haters" for the Odyssey 2. If you press 1 at the "SELECT GAME" screen, you'll start the game. All I have is a level intro screen that in my opinion looks rather cool, like you're going down a tunnel, which is what I wanted it to look like. And I plastered the words "NEW LEV
Today I worked a lot. I worked on Odyssey 2 programming. I worked and worked and worked. I made it so it's technically a game. Which was really fast, even for me. I started work on it yesterday and by late today I have a game.
One thing I am wondering though is why when the umbrella is supposed to appear in a random place, and it does, but it never appears near the center of the screen. While I have tested the game a lot, not ONCE did the umbrella pop up in the middle of the screen. We
This wizard is under attack by lots of mean evil creatures. What's more he's stuck inside different mazes! His only protection is the Dynamorb, a big ol' orb of force he can summon and hurl at those dumb enemies.
(You'll have to use your imagination a little.)
So I added shooting the Dynamorb into my game. To throw the Dynamorb, you just press Action. I mean, how easier can it get? I had a version, but shooting diagonal was a little wonky, so I fixed it. I tried adding a ra
I tested the game yesterday last night. It had a whole bunch of issues on a real Odyssey 2 that I needed to fix. I spent two hours trying to get the score not to go wacko when the q wasn't on screen until I discovered I needed to set the Q y position when it's not on the screen. I haven't run into that problem before. I got rid of the steps sound last night, but I woke up today and just tried to get them back in. Success, except the Q sometimes disappears mid-screen. So I am going to turn it int
I came back to work on my Odyssey² game again. I was working on a version of Oranges only involving letters. You control the X and he must rescue the ps and avoid the os. Occassionally a Q comes up you don't have to get, but if you do get you get 20 points for it.
This is all part of my X vs. O game I have been working on. I've used up about 1,400 of my available 2,048 bytes in the bank where this is located. Lucky for me, I'm pretty much almost done with it now that I've added the Q.
Working on UUU for Odyssey 2 some more. Today's work was adding in level numbers. I had a really hard time wondering why it went from saying "level 09" to level "0:" instead of "level 10". I went back and looked at my code for Tunnels of Terror and found the answer: I was missing a key part of code:
mov r5,#0 ; add 1 to score
mov r1,#level ; point to score low byte
mov a,@r1 ; get current value
add a,r5 ; add r5
da a ; decimal adjust
mov @r1,a ; store back
Since I was adding 1 t
It finally snowed a couple of inches the night before last. Last night the power went out while i was in the bathroom. i thought "oh nooooo!" since I once went 6 days without power, but a few seconds later it came back on again. Right now there's still snow on the ground. Lots of it. The high got to be about 40 degrees, so some of it melted, but there is still some left to melt. It won't tonight since it's supposed to get below freezing.
I worked a ton on Robot Ron today. I got the f
I worked on the game this morning, trying to get a treasure in a room. I got the ghost moving. I got the treasure in the room. I made it so if the treasure is gotten in a room, the room gets locked.
There is the rare, semi-precious Jade j that Illinois Smith (use your imagination) needs to get. This all takes place within a pyramid and the ghosts are the mummified spirits guarding the letters. Remember that ghosts can go through the walls. Believe it or not, that is actually easier to
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