I was super bored last night. So I began working on my Game Boy game. Not the Ran-Over Possum Man one, but the other one. I made three new levels, two of which are really easy. I guess the third one is really easy too, but it takes longer.
I think I quit working on this because I was frustrated with designing levels. But now that I've had a few months off, I can refresh my brain and think up of more.
I still think I did an excellent job drawing the underwear. So now what I'll
So today I worked on Ugly Uppity Umpire for the Game Boy. I came to realize that this was going to be a much better game than my Commodore 64 game. So I decided I'm going to shelve the C64 game for now and work on Ugly Uppity Umpire until I finish it. I worked on adding level 32. Most of it was trying to make it a beatable level with an idea I had.
The underwear at the top and bottom are fast and the one on the right side is slow. So I kept on trying various things until I was happy wi
So this morning I took @Tanooki 's advice and made the guy walk the way he's facing. Took up all of my waking hours and more to get it working good. Found a few bugs that I think I fixed.
The majority of the trouble came with attempting to use sprite_prop to flip the sprites. Eventually I had to give up doing that and making flip sprites that I can call instead. So the next thing to do is design and add level 39 in.
It's been such a boring Saturday otherwise it felt lik
I worked a lot on UUU these past few days. Saturday especially. What I was mainly doing was making the code more efficient. I put in some functions instead of switch statements. The game works exactly the same as before, but the code is much more efficient. I made a couple more levels for the game.
The big challenge in programming this was trying to make the underwear enemy in the middle move diagonally. But I eventually did it.
Steve left. And my new razor came. It doesn't
I think this is the hardest level yet.
The ghosts move around in a square pattern. This was the hardest part: making sure they do. I had to check boundaries over and over again and make sure they weren't being crossed. And then I had to make sure the level was solvable. I eventually found a way to solve it, but it did take a while. That's why I said it may be the hardest level yet.
I worked on it because I was fat and I was trying to get my mind off eating and the fact that
I forgot I had to subtract the password number to get the correct password number by pressing left, but only if the number is a B. But I couldn't get it to subtract letters correctly. So instead I did this:
Pressing Start will redo the password entry. I didn't want to have to do it like that, but my computer was being a jerk. To the point that A and B just quit working altogether. So now what I need to do is stop working on this for a few days to refresh. I find after I spend most my w
I tried. I really did. I tried to make the background scroll and use that thing I used in hamburgers so I could put non-moving text on the screen. But it just wasn't going to happen. My computer was being a stupid jerk. This was all for the password entry screen. So now it's static. Look.
I somehow managed to make a good (IMHO) password screen song. Since I spent hours on this before giving up, I'm not going to do anything else on this today since I'll probably be going to bed in a cou
This morning I decided to change the whole thing around and instead of it saving your progress, it has passwords instead. Growing up as a kid, I always hated passwords in games, but now as an adult making this, I understand why most games have them: to keep costs down.
I decided to make each password a binary number between 1 and 255. The 0s are represented by A presses and the 1s represent B presses. For example, the password for level 2 is ABABABAB. You enter this on the password s
Just because the Odyssey 2 version is cancelled doesn't mean the Game Boy version is cancelled. In fact, quite the opposite. I just got done programming in level 29 while waiting for the groceries to get delivered. They said they'd come between 7-9 a.m. After they come I'm going to sleep because I'm sleepy. It's almost 8 a.m. here and they still haven't come. It's past my bedtime. I want my groceries so I can go to sleep.
I thought I might have heard a bee in the house, but I haven't h
This weekend I made two new levels. That brings the total number of levels to 28. My goal is 50. While I was working on the game trying to figure out why the third ghost in level 28 wasn't working correctly, the power went out for a few seconds. That was a little over an hour ago. I had to turn my computer back on and resume working on it. I fixed the third ghost problem. It was a "well, duh!" moment.
I have an idea for the final level. So I have to design 21 more levels
I just played Chip's Challenge. Not the whole thing, I got stuck on level 9 so I quit. But there's just somet hings that Chip's Challenge will have that UUU won't. Like the mud blocks that turn solid when water touches them. And perhaps even water. I've got about 39% room left in bank 0 (the game's logic bank). I guess if I need to I could put the title screen in a different bank, but I don't want to.
I added keys, though.
You can't go to the keyhole square unless you have
It is not the "Uppity Ugly Umpire," it is the "Ugly Uppity Umpire." I made level 24 today. Solving it proved very difficult, but doable. Making it solvable was also hard. The key was to slow the underwear down. But it still is difficult because the ghost is chasing you as well.
I don't think I'm going to be able to make 100 different levels all by myself. So the new plan is 50. So I'm about half-way done with the game.
I also worked some more on the Celery program for Channel F, f
Now you can try level 1 of my new game I started work on yesterday. Download the game at the official Ugly, Uppity Umpires webpage. I fixed some bugs and changed some sprites, including the underwear sprite. They now look like this:
I've been having horrible problems with my mouse lately. It left clicks like Hell, sometimes dragging stuff I didn't even click on around. I tried to put this image in this blog. It ended up putting all the files in my folder in here, so I had to delete th
So I got bored with Frank the Fruit Fly. It happens: I get bored with something and want to work on something else. I wanted to try and make something like Chip's Challenge for the Game Boy. What came out of that was Ulysses, the Ugly Uppity Umpire. His quest is for umbrellas. Chasing him is a pair of dirty underwear. Let's face it: underwear is evil.
I need someone to draw a better pair of underwear for me. But this will have to do for now. What Ulysses needs to do is get all the umbr
So with Frank the Fruit Fly finished, I need to work on something to make me not bored. My thoughts returned to the Ugly uppity umpire game I was working on for Game Boy. I have decided to return to work on it. I found a few flaws that I fixed and everything should be okay now. Now I can go back to work adding new stuff when I think of things.
I added some stuff I thought of in Frank the Fruit Fly here as well, like only displaying NEW GAME when there's no save data, and adding in CO
One of two things done with the finishing up of Ugly Uppity Umpire.
I told you I couldn't draw. Now I need to make an ending.
I had to change it because it said "Uppity Ugly Umpire." It seems that even I can't remember the name of the game.
So I have made a decision. I'm going to stop work on Frank the Fruit Fly and devote all my Game Boy time to Ugly Uppity Umpire. It was not an easy decision. Perhaps I will go back to FTFF some day, but for now, I need to quit on it because it has quite a few bugs. But do you know what doesn't have any bugs? The Ugly Uppity Umpire.
I've been working on it for a few hours. One of the thing I did was add saving. It automatically saves after you beat a level. Then I put in a "new game" o
I knew my code was correct. But one thing I didn't realize had kept it from working: The fact that all the variables you use have to be stored in bank 0. I didn't know that. From then you can call them in bank 4 with "extern" uint8_t. You can't just store them in the bank they're currently being used in.
So now you can delete the password one letter at a time. And I'm happy, relatively speaking.
I kept in the part about pressing select to get to level 1 in case you got to this scr
Well, it took about about a year of off-and-on working on this, but I finally put 50 levels in the game. I worked on level 49 today, and after finishing it, I decided I might as well just design and put in the 50th. I will not put pictures nor update the site with the final version with all 50 levels, so don't go looking for them. You'll have to play the game to find out what they are.
Level 50 was really hard to design correctly. So hard to beat I got so angry even though it was pos
I worked on Ugly Uppity Umpire today. I made level 48.
Do you know what this means? I only have 2 more levels to design! It's been really REALLY hard designing these levels, so not having to stretch my brain trying to design them will be really good.
So once level 50 is done, I can work on the ending. I'll put the ending in bank 5. I'm also wanting to design a really cool Super Game Boy border and put it in bank 6, but I suck at drawing. I should have all the levels designed by ea
Two more days of wondering what could be wrong with me. In the midst of all that, I decided to work on Ugly, Uppity Umpire again. When I get angry or worried my eye starts hurting. So my eye has been hurting each night now. I made level 42. It took a LONG time to make this into a workable, non-easy level. I declared it finished, but easy. So I decided to work on it some more, moving more blocks and opening up new ways. This is a long way from what I had originally started with.
I had t
I introduced some new game mechanism. As the level designing keeps progressing, I figured I needed to mix things up a little. I designed a level that I wanted Ulysses to go off the screen and reappear on the other side. But after trying to do that, it wasn't going to work due to the moving tables I need to rely on for whether he can move or not. So I decided to do this: Add teleporation devices.
When Ulysses steps into a teleportation device, he will reappear at the other one with a wh
Here is level 35 of Ugly Uppity Umpire for Game Boy. The ghost chases you and the underwear moves from left to right at the bottom. I added in the underwear as I thought the level was too easy, especially without it.
As you can see, I darkened the wood. I did this so it's easier to see the ghosts. So I will put level 36 in banks 2 and 3 and then start with the bank 4 unifying thing. This was because my code in bank 0 to get data info had it so the temporary level was temp=level/12. 36
After playing and testing and stuff Sunday night and this morning I think I got all the bugs fixed and I'm calling Ugly Uppity Umpire completed and finished. Now I'd like for someone to publish this for me, but I doubt anyone will. I worked on this for about a year off-and-on.
I tested this on a real Super Game Boy and I can't get rid of the black screen for a few frames when it powers up due to the fact that the PAL SNES needs four frames to wait for the Super Game Boy border to loa
So I decided to give up on the Commodore 64 doodling and instead go back to something I can understand, if only at least partially. I made level 31 of Ugly Uppity Umpire.
It looks easy, but it took a while for me to complete. So I know it can be done because I did it.
Happy fourth. I haven't heard any fireworks yet. Must be because I sleep then. I don't expect to be woken up, my fan is pretty loud. I think I may have sleep paralysis. When I wake up, I can't move my head and get up
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