Go To Your Room!

[+atari2600land]

While taking a break from Halloween Havoc, I tried to make an Adventure-styled world. But I've run into a bit of a snag because it won't recognize rooms 7-9 as actual rooms (see code), even though they have exactly the same coding as the other rooms. Why is this? Here's a map of the world (it's a small world, after all)

b equalling 1 or 2 is for programming purposes.

adv.bas

[SeaGtGruff]

it won't recognize rooms 7-9

There were two problems:

 

(1) b wasn't always being set to 1 or 2 whenever you switched areas, and

 

(2) the order of some of the ifs caused a to be updated more than once.

 

A simple way to fix (2) would be to just add a goto at the end of each if to jump over the other ifs, but I was able to correct it by just rearranging them a bit.

 

Michael

adv.bas

adv.bas.bin

[+atari2600land]

Thank you, Mike. I was just thinking about what, if any, purpose this game might have, and I'm hoping to make a cross between Adventure, Venture, and Skeleton + with this once Halloween Havoc is finished. A title might be "Tons of AdVentureS"

[+atari2600land]

OK, now suppose I want player0 to appear in a random room. I tried this:

	player0:
11110
end

decide_c
c=rand
if c=0 then goto decide_c
if c>10 then goto decide_c
if c=1 then goto decide_d
if c=2 then d=1 : goto main
if c=3 then d=1 : goto main
if c=4 then d=2 : goto main
if c=5 then d=2 : goto main
if c=6 then goto decide_d
if c=7 then d=1 : goto main
if c=8 then d=2 : goto main
if c=9 then goto decide_d
goto main

decide_d
d=rand
if d>128 then d=1
if d<=128 then d=2

 

 

and then put

if a=c && b=d then player0x=e : player0y=f (e and f are two values I determined

at the start of the game)

but if it appeared at all, it would only be in a few of them. What am I doing

wrong?

Edited July 9, 2007 by atari2600land

[+atari2600land]

I figured out that problem. I shouldn't be thinking when it's too hot. But now I have a new problem: Mr. Enemy Block is showing up at the top when he's supposed to be in the center of the screen. I think the problem lies in the get_g part. I think I got confused because there's no drawscreen and I'm trying to get a sprite to appear, and well, here.

adv3.bas

[+atari2600land]

Sometimes trying again the next day is a key to success. Not wanting to think *too* hard, I just focused on getting Mr. Enemy Block to stand still on a random screen. Success! I'll work on getting him to move on a day less than 90 degrees.

adv2b.bas

adv2b.bas.bin

[+atari2600land]

Update: I managed to get the blue block moving, but there's two problems:

1. Sometimes there's no enemy (blue block) to be found

2. Sometimes the enemy is in the playfield.

Could someone look at my code and tell me what I'm doing wrong and how to fix it?

blox1a.bas