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Octopus sucks

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Entry posted by atari2600land May 29, 2012

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I don't understand people. They say they want the octopus in the game, and yet when I ask for help trying to get the stupid thing to move, they all go silent and won't help me at all. It's like activity is nil over there. I asked for help at the videopac.nl forums, two days later, absolutely no response. Life just isn't fair. If you want to help, I uploaded the code to my site here: http://www.atari2600land.com/gosub/agosub22.a48 in hopes that the stupid octopus will move the way I wanted it to, similar to the code for the sonar ping at the title screen, have a variable act as a timer, and have another one be the direction, so that the octopus will move. I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing wrong. It's not unusual for me to butcher my code all up. Since nobody helps, i try stuff on my own and often times it ends up worse than what I had before.

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Serguei2 1,220

Posted May 29, 2012

People want an octopus in your game are not programmers so don't expect them to help you.

You should start a topic about your problem at: http://www.atariage.com/forums/forum/11-programming/

In GoSub 2600, the octopus comes too early makes the game unplayable, I barely finish the level 1 and cannot complete level 2. I'd put the octopus at level 3.