ultima Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 (edited) 8-27-18 Rev 2 Last Build NTSC The Sword Of SURTR.bin Loki the god of mischief has stolen the sword of the fire giant Surtr and hidden it away!! Take control of Haldor and find the lost blade then seek a way into Valhalla to bring it to Odin himself... Will you journey through the ice caverns of the Dwarves? Or seek out the Mysterious Old Man up in the mountains? Or command your Dragon ship through a deadly Maelstrom in search of unsung treasures? The choice is yours!! Press the fire button to begin a new game and use your weapon. Simply walk over items to pick them up, most have a visible effect on the player. Search the world carefully, secret entrances long hidden may contain wondrous treasures or deadly creatures. A viking action/adventure for the Atari VCS and Flashback Portable. Seek the Sword of Surtr and bring it to Valhalla. Beware of Vikings, wolves, ravens and traps. Seek powerful artifacts to aid you in your quest. Use with Joystick controller. Console switches used: -Reset starts new game from Titlescreen -Left Difficulty A-Player has only 1 life B-Player has infinite continues and retains inventory items. Edited March 13, 2019 by ultima 22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountain King Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Only had a chance to play this game for a little. I enjoyed exploring the world and only found one piece. Good start. Still a little rough around the edges. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountain King Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Only had a chance to play this game for a little. I enjoyed exploring the world and only found one piece. Good start. Still a little rough around the edges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 I like this game. I collected all the pieces and almost made it back to the ol' A-frame, but got hit by a giant spider (I called it a spider!?)! I've played it few times now. I like the Zelda-like screens and the search and find aspects of the game. Good stuff! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KaeruYojimbo Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Nice start. I think this could become a very cool game. Looking forward seeing it develop. Victory! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 If you want to get rid of the sticky walls, this might help: randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-batari-basic-commands.html#sprite_collision_example 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultima Posted March 18, 2015 Author Share Posted March 18, 2015 (edited) I like this game. I collected all the pieces and almost made it back to the ol' A-frame, but got hit by a giant spider (I called it a spider!?)! I've played it few times now. I like the Zelda-like screens and the search and find aspects of the game. Good stuff! Thanks Papa in fact it is a giant spider! The other enemy is only known as "the thing from the forest" If you want to get rid of the sticky walls, this might help: randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-batari-basic-commands.html#sprite_collision_example Wow that code is rather math heavy for collision I'll see if i can break it down into caveman code lol ** got this working thanks you can rub all over the walls now!! unfortunately a side effect was the size went -84 bytes of code left so I ripped out some screens and it worked great Edited March 19, 2015 by ultima Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultima Posted March 31, 2015 Author Share Posted March 31, 2015 I made an update it has random terrain's collision fix and I added one difficulty switch (right side I think) to control enemy speed A difficult/B easy. Update is in the first post. Will add more later... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I made an update it has random terrain's collision fix and I added one difficulty switch (right side I think) to control enemy speed A difficult/B easy. Update is in the first post. Will add more later... I love smooth, non-sticky walls. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultima Posted April 10, 2015 Author Share Posted April 10, 2015 (edited) Update** Latest version is in 1st post added back screens removed from the first version added another weapon option in the difficulty switches fixed a few small bugs like the death screech and rearranged the code layout oh and after re-reading the viking myths I renamed the game to fit closer to a real viking theme in the next update I'll be working on random placement of objects and enemies Edited April 10, 2015 by ultima 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultima Posted April 26, 2015 Author Share Posted April 26, 2015 Ok build 7 is in the first post has random placement of objects it also gets more action as you complete the sword next up I would like to work more on enemy locations, ai paths and make some tweaks to the world layout 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultima Posted April 30, 2015 Author Share Posted April 30, 2015 (edited) hmm not sure if anyone on here could help but i've found a nasty bug in the game that I can't figure out. if you beat the game around 4 times in a row the players lifebar changes color then on beating the next game the lifebar starts cycling colors as the player moves eventually crashing the game after reaching the winning condition. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Here's the source (sorry the comments are not up to par) Edited January 11, 2019 by ultima Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 I'll see if I can find any problems, but it will take me a while to go through all of that code. I'll also rearrange some things to help me understand the code. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graywest Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Fun game! I enjoy the exploration aspect and being able to go inside the caves and buildings is cool. Nice work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I'm still working on this. It's just taking me longer than I hoped. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultima Posted May 4, 2015 Author Share Posted May 4, 2015 thanks RT if i can help in anyway just pm me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 The problem you had was caused by ending the game using a gosub instead of a goto. I started adding comments, but once I added enough to help me figure out some things, I stopped. I got rid of all of the gosubs except the one that knocks the enemy back. I moved the rooms to bank 3, then split the main loop between bank 1 and bank 2 to give you more room for code. I changed the flashing of the score and objects. See if you like it or hate it. I fixed it so if you move between the room with the big red thing and the room with the spider-looking thing, their shapes won't be contaminated with the shape of the other enemy. I fixed it so there is a 2 second freeze when the game is over, then the player can press reset or the fire button to start the game. haldors_saga_2015y_05m_06d_0301t.bin haldors_saga_2015y_05m_06d_0301t.bas 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultima Posted May 6, 2015 Author Share Posted May 6, 2015 (edited) Ok back to working on enemy's, ai paths, some tweaks to the world layout, game variations, a titlescreen, demo mode and hope to add support for a second player brawl mode too. Edited January 11, 2019 by ultima Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Thanks I had no idea that happened. So maybe trying to return from the gosub if figured it couldn't so it crashed? I find having weapon options on a difficulty switch makes me want to do both in the same game. If you were still using the gosubs, "if pfscore1 = %00000000 then room = 17 : pop : goto draw_room_shape_17 bank2" would have also fixed it. I have a habit of adding new program sections as subs, first as a small solo example code then adding it to the main program as a sub. Is it better to remove the gosub call then add the subprogram inside the main loop once they work properly? Unless a significantly large section of code is going to be used by multiple places in the program, I try to avoid gosubs from the start since gosubs in a bankswitched game use up too many cycles: randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-batari-basic-commands.html#cycle_count_gosub It's also too easy to create a tangled web of gosubs that can be hard to untangle later on, so trying to avoid the web from the beginning can make things easier. I didn't know that a mainloop could be stretched that far! Thanks Yeah, the main loop for Seaweed Assault is stretched across 5 banks, if I remember correctly. As long as the data you need for a certain section of code is kept in the same bank with it, you are free to spread your main loop out over multiple banks (if you have free banks to use). Love it I had no idea that colors could use dim _Color = u.v Yeah, that's a quick and easy way to slow down the speed of the color change. I wasn't aware of this, thanks for pointing that out and I'll have a look at how you fixed it for future reference. All I did was reset your enemy timer when the player moves to a new room. Since the image for the enemy only changes at certain times, there could be a fraction of a second when the wrong enemy is displayed. Resetting the timer seemed to fix it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultima Posted June 1, 2015 Author Share Posted June 1, 2015 A little update I added a simple titlescreen that shows when the game is booted on first time 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultima Posted June 20, 2015 Author Share Posted June 20, 2015 Added a simple fix to the arrows so your not firing dots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultima Posted March 9, 2016 Author Share Posted March 9, 2016 New version added to first post -added the titlescreen kernel -updated collision prevention code to RT's latest version -added some color 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultima Posted March 10, 2016 Author Share Posted March 10, 2016 Added - Demo mode to explain gameplay - A little water area - new enemy I've been considering a 2-player viking duel for a game variation and of course need to work in the enemy AI What do you guys think? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Seems to be working fine with no problems so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackAttack Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 I'd like to suggest the movement speed for diagonal movement be decreased so it's the same as moving along a single axis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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