I thought the boss screen in Flying Hamburgers looked rather sparse, so I decided to attempt to put some clouds in there. That was easy, but then I discovered the shots and the burger were going behind them. A whole bunch of sprite address rearranging then occurred and then I finally got the result I was looking for.
It's amazing what adding just four sprite tiles does to the look of a game.
I also fixed the blackness (or sometimes whiteness) that appeared to the strawberr
So there was a 20% eclipse here. Not anything like the 2017 one. I went outside with some 2017 glasses to see if I could see it. It doesn't look amazing over here. I heard on the news it's supposed to end at 12:19, but the peak was at 11:25. So I went out there and it wasn't impressive at all. Oh well.
I made some changes to the hamburger game. Level 5 especially. I changed the background. I made it look like this:
I added some trees and more mountains behind them. I thoug
I discovered that the explosion sound didn't play when the autofire was happening. So I made it so you can't shoot until the sfx is done playing. Then I had to shorten each sfx so it doesn't sound and play awful. I also made it so if you touch the boss, you'll die. This was another change that had to be done with autofire. You can still get up right to the boss's face and autofire, but you'll risk getting hit by one of the boss's onion rings. I changed the colors to level 6's background so they'
So I took some feedback. I posted the game over at SMS Power forums. I made some changes to the game.
levels 1-3 will have either a shooting (strawberry) or non-shooting (chocolate) milkshake.
levels 4-6 will introduce the pizza which shoots (green moldy) or doesn't shoot (plain). Also, the enemies can move faster.
levels 7-9 will introduce the taco that also comes in moldy or regular varieties. Also, the enemies can move move up or down in addition to a straight line.
I love party mix. I got a couple of boxes of them. I was horrified by the amount of pretzels they put in this. It's like 3/4 pretzels! I don't want that many pretzels!
I put in pretzels in my Hamburgers Game Gear game. The pretzels start appearing at level 11. They move randomly. Moldy pretzels shoot potato chips at you.
And it's almost 7pm and it's still light outside! I hate summer. It's horrible. I went to sleep at about 6am or so and woke up at 5pm. This is bad because
I'm busy redoing the levels in Flying Hamburgers for the Game Gear. Today I did the music and background of level 3: the desert.
Instead of modifying actual photography, I'm instead drawing the backgrounds. While it gives it more of a cartoonish look, I hope it's better, but I'm not too optimistic about it. I fixed the part where the burger was over the word "pause." I think I am going to add some more levels since about half the space is blank.
Since it's the desert, I th
This morning was spent working on adding autofire. To use it, you hold down the button. Someone suggested that. I ran into some more bugs when I put it in, but I think they may be gone now. I thought about adding some lines in the grass, but I decided I didn't want it to look really busy, so I didn't. I'm using 15 colors, so if I wanted to, I could have even made them a different color.
I noticed the life counter was flashing 0 for a frame or so when it went to the game over screen.
So I thought I'd make level 8 be in outer space instead of in a beehive. So here is the hamburger floating in space.
I also added a little bit more detail to the tops of the palm trees.
I tried and failed to make the transitions more smoother. It seems like for a frame or two the screen has a horizontal line across it at least in my emulator when the game switches to the boss screen. I tried everything to fix it but I couldn't. Life gets so stupid all the time. Why can't so
I decided to go back to working on Game Gear Flying Hamburgers even though I deemed it finished. I thought of something I could do. So I worked on making the onion rings not disappear during the boss screen. I made it work. It got harder. And it's a good thing I worked on it.
During my other testing, I found a major bug. I don't know what it was at first. I tried various things until I discovered that if the enemy is shot and his projectile keeps going, it gets a new enemy at that pl
So I finally got rid of the garbage display for a frame in the Hamburgers game. The solution was roundabout: I had to make a black, blank screen and have THAT be displayed for a frame or two. I don't know why it had to come down to that, but it did. I got this idea after trying to do it a "technical" way and failing. I'm guessing there probably IS a way to do that, but darned if I can find it out.
That work makes the game look a lot better than it did before surprisingly. So now I ca
Sometimes I get so angry working on a video game that my eye begins hurting. When this happens, I have to lay in bed until I feel the urge to vomit. And then I go to the toilet and barf up all the food I ate that day. Well, that happened last night. But I discovered something: If I eat food while my eye hurts I don't have to wait as long for me to vomit.
What made me so angry last night was me trying to put in a pow! explosion graphic when the enemy got shot in Hamburgers. Oh, I coul
I've decided not to pursue publishing this game with 2Minds. That's not to mean I don't want it published at all, it just means I need to find someone else to make Game Gear games.
I made a few changes to the Flying Hamburgers game. I noticed that strawberry milkshakes (which are pink) shoot at you while all the other food that shoots at you are green. So I changed the strawberry milkshake which was pink to the same shade of green of the shooting sprites.
I also made it so the bu
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