The bottomless pit

Entry posted by atari2600land August 1, 2018

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I'd been working on this for a few hours earlier this morning. It's a Doodle Jump game for the Odyssey 2. The only trouble is, I had to make it so it always scrolls down since I couldn't figure out how to make it stop and be nice like it is supposed to. I got disgusted with the way it wasn't working, so a total rewrite was in order. Once I got that mostly done, I tried to make it so it stops, but I just couldn't figure out how to. I think the problem is I need to figure out the y position of each individual platform upon jumping on it, something that I can't do because the collision detection is set between a sprite and EVERY CHARACTER on the screen, so I can't do a collision detection for a specific character. How dumb is that?

I tried to figure out how to make it so it knows which character it jumped on, but I failed miserably, so I'm just giving up on that part and am just having it continually scrolling downwards. The code for the game so far is 1,102 lines long. Yes, I did all of that in four hours. Most of it was just copying and pasting from the old version into an all new version. And then I had to keep moving stuff around so it works and wasn't broken. I haven't tried this on a real Odyssey 2 yet. I'm going to a little bit later.

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