+atari2600land Posted March 7, 2008 Author Share Posted March 7, 2008 Here's a binary with the new sprites. I had to change the jumping one a little bit, but I think Raccoon Lad definitely did a good job with these sprites. tandp15.bas.bin tandp15.bas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwierer Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Here's a binary with the new sprites. I had to change the jumping one a little bit, but I think Raccoon Lad definitely did a good job with these sprites. t_fart player0: %11101110 %00100010 %00100010 %00010010 %00010001 %00010001 %00001001 %00111111 %00111111 %00110111 %00110110 %01100010 %10111110 %10111001 %00001101 %00000001 %11111000 %10101000 %11111000 %01110000 %11110000 end player0color: 4 16 16 16 16 16 16 64 64 64 64 64 64 46 46 46 46 46 46 244 end Did you mean for this sprite to be short one row of colors? There are 21 rows of pixels, but only 20 colors. -Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted March 7, 2008 Author Share Posted March 7, 2008 Thanks for finding that. It'll be fixed with the latest version I'll post later today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MausGames Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 For a game with no enemies and no weapons, just moving obstacles that you eliminate a screen at a time by pushing a button, once....I'm not sure where I was going with that. You seem to want to create games for the sake of creating games, rather than to create something that is actually fun and enjoyable. Nothing wrong with that, except that I really think you are capable of the latter. Sorry for the harsh criticism, but this is sloppy buggy code and leaves a lot to be desired in the gameplay dept too. Harder, better, faster, stronger! Don't let your skills plateau, advanced techniques are what separates the good from the bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primordial Ooze Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 I like the game, but it needs some work. The game is too easy and can be beaten by pressing the fire button a single time on each screen, and with unlimited ammo anyone can beat it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Hi Chris A really nice game;i like Southpark. greetings Walter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primordial Ooze Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 I found a bug, when a pig hits you on the left side of the screen, collisions are constantly detected and eventually after a minute of the death sound repeated over and over you lose. Sincerely, Open Source Pong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted March 7, 2008 Author Share Posted March 7, 2008 OK, apparently there was a bug with the hidden unlimited ammo code. You were only supposed to have 3 farts per level. So what I did was remove the farts all together and you now jump with the fire button. The bug Open Source Pong mentioned has been fixed. Also, level 1 is complete. And, I added some background music which you can turn off at the title screen by putting the left difficulty switch to A. I hope this is better. tandp16.bas.bin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hakogame 箱亀 Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Cool beans! FYI, you implemented the walk animation sequence as A,B,C,A,B,C. But it's supposed to play as A,B,C,B,A,B,C,B. (I think that makes sense...) Also, It'll probably look better if the player switches to the stand frame when he's not moving. I kind of like the music, it adds more life to the game, but I suggest avoiding long notes if at all possible. Anyway, my suggestion for gameplay is to give unlimited farting, but change the way it works. You could use the ball as a slow moving fart cloud like in the .GIF animation I posted. animate it by doubling /halfing it's size. It could be short range too. (maybe activate it by pressing down + fire) You could also have Terrence collect cans of beans (color striped player missile?) to recharge his fart meter. Anyway, here's silly idea I had for a final screen. When you get near, the pig would stop humping Phillip, jump down, and then attack you on the lower platform. Fart on the pig to save phillip and win the game. (of course, you'd have to avoid/defeat the flying pigs at the bottom of the screen first) These are just my suggestions, but I think this game has alot of potential. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 (edited) Fun little game! It just crashed Stella 2.4.2 (OS X) on the ninth screen or so, the one with the horizontally-flying pigs. Not sure whether that was Stella's fault or something in the code, but thought I'd send up a flare, since Stella almost never crashes on me (it just froze and hung). However, I was able to get past it fine the next time, so maybe it was a fluke. Also, I really found myself wishing for a variable jump height. I think the game needs it. Edited March 8, 2008 by thegoldenband Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 I havent played this yet... I plan to, but havent yet... An idea for the farting... How about, instead of limiting to 3 farts per screen, that you have to pick up a can of beans for each fart? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DracIsBack Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 This is awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted March 11, 2008 Author Share Posted March 11, 2008 level 2 is all set up now. I added a screen for it. It's supposed to be a desert level, so I added what I think is appropriate music. Warning: the background isn't black, and there might be some bugs, and if there are, tell me about them. tandp17.bas.bin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwierer Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 level 2 is all set up now. I added a screen for it. It's supposed to be a desert level, so I added what I think is appropriate music. Warning: the background isn't black, and there might be some bugs, and if there are, tell me about them. Source? Thanks, Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Don't know if you'd want to use them, but I was playing around and made some new sprites for your game. These sprites are amazing and I will use them in the game. Thank you! When somebody gives you images like that, how do you add them to the game? Do you do your best to recreate the images or is there a tool you use that can extract an image from a GIF and convert it to a sprite? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 I havent played this yet... I plan to, but havent yet... An idea for the farting... How about, instead of limiting to 3 farts per screen, that you have to pick up a can of beans for each fart? Not beans. T&P eat Kraft dinner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted March 12, 2008 Author Share Posted March 12, 2008 When somebody gives you images like that, how do you add them to the game? Do you do your best to recreate the images or is there a tool you use that can extract an image from a GIF and convert it to a sprite? The first one. I do my best to recreate them in bB. There might be a tool for the second option, but I don't know what it is or how to get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 (edited) When somebody gives you images like that, how do you add them to the game? Do you do your best to recreate the images or is there a tool you use that can extract an image from a GIF and convert it to a sprite? The first one. I do my best to recreate them in bB. There might be a tool for the second option, but I don't know what it is or how to get it. OK, thanks. It would be cool if someone could make a tool that would take an image and convert it into a sprite. It might even be able to match colors as closely as possible to make a multicolor sprite, but a single color conversion would be better than nothing. Edited March 12, 2008 by Random Terrain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted March 20, 2008 Author Share Posted March 20, 2008 New version. Among the changes: +The life counter is now Terrance heads. If the black status bar drops to zero, you lose a life *and* begin at the beginning of the level you died in. +Because I can't control the color of the status bar color (apparently it decided to be black now), I changed the background color of level 1 to a dark blue to still indicate night time. If you want to see this, press up and fire at the title screen and you'll start at level 1; otherwise, you'll start at level 2. +Added 2 new screens to level 2. tandp18.bas.bin tandp18.bas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted March 22, 2008 Author Share Posted March 22, 2008 A new version. +A few little bugs have been fixed. +I've also added a little intro screen before the title screen saying "ae PRESENTS" and has Terrance walking across the screen. I think it's cute. What do you think? tandp20.bas.bin tandp20.bas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piggles Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 A new version.+A few little bugs have been fixed. +I've also added a little intro screen before the title screen saying "ae PRESENTS" and has Terrance walking across the screen. I think it's cute. What do you think? I love your pigs. They're so cute. I'd like to see a down + button for a fart attack also. Farting is what T&P do, so I think it would add value to the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted March 27, 2008 Author Share Posted March 27, 2008 With each new version, the code gets more convoluted and harder to follow. But there are two things that aren't wrong with that: #1 - I understand it, and #2 - it compiles. If you find any bugs in this latest version, especially at the screen with the horizontally moving platform, please tell me. tandp21.bas.bin tandp21.bas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 Thoughts and questions about the game as it is so far: Is there a way to turn off the background music if we want? I don't really like the jump then move style. Are there any 'smart' enemies? So far pigs just move up and down. Instead of stupid enemies, I'd rather have moving platforms and a 'smart' enemy once in a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted March 30, 2008 Author Share Posted March 30, 2008 To turn off the background music, during the game or at the title screen, left difficulty switch = a. I'll try to program in some smart pigs and more moving platforms during the later levels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 It would be cool if someone could make a tool that would take an image and convert it into a sprite. It might even be able to match colors as closely as possible to make a multicolor sprite, but a single color conversion would be better than nothing. Looks like a tool like that already exists. Check out this post: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...t&p=1491393 A new bB IDE is coming soon that will make it easy to create B&W and color graphics, so a non-programmer artist could use it to make sprites or playfields for you, save them and then send you the files and you could use them directly without the need to convert them. But for images that already exist, the Bitmap to Ascii converter mentioned in that post is pretty good. I wanted to do a test, so I grabbed an image from a post earlier in this thread and made it black and white: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...t&p=1478388 Since it was just double the size of what it's supposed to be, I used 50% width reduction and 50% height reduction, but I could have resized it with Paint Shop Pro and used a straight 100% conversion. ..XXXX. ..XXX.. .XXXXX. .X.X.X. .XXXXX. ....... .XXXXX. ..XXX.. .XXXXX. XX...XX XXX.XXX X.X.X.X X.X.X.X X.XXX.X X.XXX.X X.....X ..X.X.. ..X.X.. ..X.X.. ..X.X.. XXX.XXX The Bitmap to Ascii converter will be a great program to have around. I bet we could use something like paint Shop Pro to pixelate a fairly simple image to make it even simpler, resize it, clean it up, save it, then convert it. Then we could paste it into a sprite file for the new IDE, load it into the sprite editor, flip it, add color, save it, then put it in the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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