Ben_Larson Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 I guess it's high time I announced my new WIP homebrew, so without further ado I present to you... the epic saga of... PANKY THE PANDA: EPISODE I: QUEST FOR THE UNSEVERED PENIS This is going to be a platformer game where you will traverse a bunch of underground rooms looking for keys and other items to help you proceed to new areas. Think scaled-down metroid-type gameplay. The goal (obviously!) will be to find your brother who is being held captive by Chinese poachers who are going to cut off his you-know-what and sell it on the black market. Anyway, here's the latest WIP build. Not much to do yet except jump around a few rooms, but the game engine and physics is mostly complete as you'll see. The game uses a tile system for each screen, with 12 tiles (in a 4x3 arrangement) out of a 'palette' of 64 tiles (actually 32 plus a reflect bit) making up a screen, so I think it should be possible to get 100+ rooms in an 8K ROM. Of course if it ends up being larger, even more rooms will be possible. As always comments are welcome... pp.bin.zip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 What platform is this for? Can you post screenshots too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s0c7 Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 What platform is this for?2600. This is very cool! I can see this being quite fun when you get it a bit further along. Score going to be in the box on the bottom? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 I guess it's high time I announced my new WIP homebrew, so without further ado I present to you... the epic saga of... PANKY THE PANDA: EPISODE I: QUEST FOR THE UNSEVERED PENIS The game looks great so far... maybe not the name, but the game looks great! The jumping is perfect and feels like good 'old Super Mario Brothers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland p Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Looks nice! I've noticed a fracture in the space-time-continuum. If you open the door, proceed to the right screen, then go left, you'll end up somewhere else. Anyway, it looks like a nice platformer and works very well already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben_Larson Posted June 10, 2009 Author Share Posted June 10, 2009 What platform is this for? Sorry, yea it's 2600. The jumping is perfect and feels like good 'old Super Mario Brothers. You may have noticed that if you hold the button vs. tapping it, you jump higher, just like SMB... Score going to be in the box on the bottom? Actually that's where your 'active item' is going to be, which you'll be able to change by pressing up/down. You might have noticed in the first screen a pair a boots sitting there. That's going to be one of the items that you get at some point in the game to use later... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 I'm not sure I want to see the label contest for this one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 I'm not sure I want to see the label contest for this one... (shutters) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Anyway, here's the latest WIP build. Not much to do yet except jump around a few rooms, but the game engine and physics is mostly complete as you'll see. It's an excellent start! It already has a very nice feel to the controls, and the graphics look terrific. Looking forward to more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Loguidice Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Don't like the name, but it looks great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Impressive beginning! I did run into a screen jitter problem on this screen: Trigger the jitter by holding joystick right and hitting fire button to jump while standing at the position shown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TrekMD Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 This looks very good. Thanks for sharing the binary. I look forward to see where this goes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrok Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 This looks fantastic. Really well done art and responsive control. Nice work so far! So will the game mainly consist of jumping puzzles and memorizing the locations of keys/doors? It might be nice to add a simple enemy here and there to shake things up. Also, I'm not sure whether the quest to save Hsing-Hsing's thing-thing is quite compelling enough.... I mean, its not like they're using them anyway. Cheers, J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Also, I'm not sure whether the quest to save Hsing-Hsing's thing-thing is quite compelling enough.... I mean, its not like they're using them anyway. Maybe he just could have been kidnapped by an unscrupulous zookeeper, and you're working your way through his evil underground lair beneath the zoo. That could open up the possibility of running into other animals as enemies, too. Or perhaps there are other animals you'd have to rescue first, in order to gain items/help from them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuppicide Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 I also don't like the name, but the game looks great. Although my wish would be for it to turn into a "Kangaroo II" or "Kangatoo" as I call it. Lovin the Panda, tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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+atari2600land Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 Looking great so far. I assume the words "Episode I" are in the title because there will be an Episode II some day? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 I assume the words "Episode I" are in the title because there will be an Episode II some day? I hadn't thought of that. Now I'm really worried... PANKY THE PANDA: EPISODE II: THE REATTACHMENT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impaler_26 Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 This is great! I like the concept and the name ( ) and the jumping is already very nice. Looking forward to see how this one develops! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cd-w Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Nice work - I like the flicker-free graphics and movement of the Panda - looking forward to seeing how this develops. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben_Larson Posted June 15, 2009 Author Share Posted June 15, 2009 Nice work - I like the flicker-free graphics and movement of the Panda Well... , it probably won't stay that way. The way I've set up the data structures for each room in the game is that you can have 2 objects per room, even though I'm only showing 1 right now. To display that, I'll probably have to use 30Hz flicker on the objects when there's 2 in a room. The other option would be to reset the object position mid-screen and 'reuse' the sprite if possible. Unfortunately, I don't think there's enough time in the kernel to do that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richi_S Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 The control is great. A good omen for a platformer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben_Larson Posted July 4, 2009 Author Share Posted July 4, 2009 Ok new WIP version. Still mostly just a useless demo right now though. Changes: * Fixed scanline bug * Added in functional item display * Added ability to have multiple-objects-on-screen 30Hz flicker (walk to the left to see) * Refactored into 8K, in preparation for adding the level info * Added ability to have different colored backgrounds (walk to the left to see) I have the game world already laid out on paper. I think I'm getting close to a point where I can start implementing it and maybe have an actual playable demo of some sort... Ben pp.bin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 Ok new WIP version. Still mostly just a useless demo right now though. Changes: * Fixed scanline bug * Added in functional item display * Added ability to have multiple-objects-on-screen 30Hz flicker (walk to the left to see) * Refactored into 8K, in preparation for adding the level info * Added ability to have different colored backgrounds (walk to the left to see) I have the game world already laid out on paper. I think I'm getting close to a point where I can start implementing it and maybe have an actual playable demo of some sort... Ben Simply outstanding. The graphics and controls are top-notch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben_Larson Posted July 6, 2009 Author Share Posted July 6, 2009 Simply outstanding. The graphics and controls are top-notch Thanks. Likewise with K.O. Cruiser. I think I'm getting close to a point where I can start implementing it and maybe have an actual playable demo of some sort I was crunching the numbers today, and I think the game will have 113 screens. If it takes me 15 minutes to put together a screen (that's probably optimistic), that's like 28 hours of effort. With that in mind, I think maybe I'll make a very simple Java level editor that allows me to place the game tiles for a screen visually and then output the appropriate text. I have a feeling this could be a major time saver down the road... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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