Swat those flies! (part 3)

Entry posted by atari2600land August 27, 2020

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I thought I was somewhat finished with the fly swatting game on Game Boy. So I went and posted about the game over at Video Game Sage. Someone suggested I put in a boss robotic fly. So that's what I did. Although the fly isn't robotic, but it is big. I am using 8x16 sprites, so this screenshot has 7 sprites going around.

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I think the maximum on the Game Boy is 8, so I can't really add much more to the fly boss stage. The boss stage has a giant fly that you must swat 10 times to defeat it. Once you defeat it, it goes back to regular fly swatting but with two bees on the screen. I guess the boss fly part breaks up the monotony of just swatting flies all the time. How do you get to the boss stage? Swat 30 flies. I also made it so it loops over and over again (you can swat 30 more after the first boss and the boss will come up again.) But I think only the best fly swatters will be able to do that. When you swat the boss fly, he disappears and reappears from outside the screen and flies into the visible area from a random point.

One thing I think I will add: different backgrounds. They should be light and simple, like this one I have in here now (can you believe it's only 2 different tiles repeated over and over again?) Anyone want to design a pattern-based background for me? The screen should be 160 pixels by 160 pixels and have a small amount of differing 8x8 sections (tiles).

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