matosimi Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Hi! I finished my latest game couple days ago.. it will be released soon... See video: Article: http://matosimi.websupport.sk/atari/2015/10/quarrion/ Regards, Martin 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam242 Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Cool! I've been looking forward to this one since last year's New Year's Disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popmilo Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 Nice one! Good work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matosimi Posted October 18, 2015 Author Share Posted October 18, 2015 (edited) Just a small reminder, Quarrion will be available for download at midnight CET (3 hours from now). Game took 3rd place in GameDev compo. Sources will be published sometime tomorrow HERE. Edited October 18, 2015 by matosimi 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam242 Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 (edited) I always enjoy a good puzzle game.. Just tried this out, managed 880 points. Nice bit of polish over the teaser release from New Year's. The special tiles give it a much needed bump in difficulty without making it frustrating... the problematic 4s and 5s are balanced by the powerful bombs. Very nice, thanks for sharing. Only thing - the title screen drives my 1702 monitor nuts! The top of the screen tears, like an old VHS tape with badly-adjusted tracking, and I had to play with the vertical hold to get it to stabilize at all. I suspect this has more to do with my odd hardware configuration (PAL ANTIC in an NTSC 800, connected to an NTSC monitor) than anything else. Edited October 19, 2015 by adam242 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matosimi Posted October 19, 2015 Author Share Posted October 19, 2015 I always enjoy a good puzzle game.. Just tried this out, managed 880 points. Nice bit of polish over the teaser release from New Year's. The special tiles give it a much needed bump in difficulty without making it frustrating... the problematic 4s and 5s are balanced by the powerful bombs. 880 is a bit low , difficulty starts to be interesting after you score 900, there are 5 tiles added every move then. Very nice, thanks for sharing.I'm glad you like it. Only thing - the title screen drives my 1702 monitor nuts! The top of the screen tears, like an old VHS tape with badly-adjusted tracking, and I had to play with the vertical hold to get it to stabilize at all. I suspect this has more to do with my odd hardware configuration (PAL ANTIC in an NTSC 800, connected to an NTSC monitor) than anything else. KIMG0525.jpg Yeah, this was reported couple days ago. Am I right that the issue is only on top part of title screen? ...or is there also something wrong ingame? ...because I used every scanline possible on PAL(on NTSC there are 8 top scanlines cut off - not shown in emulator)... so maybe I will squeeze logo and save 8 top scanlines to make it "sync". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Wow! Another great game to play on atari 8bit! Thanks a lot for sharing! This is highly appreciated. Do you take donations? Thanks! Marius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Oh an my TV goes nuts too (Atari 600XL, PAL) It's a problem seen more when titles are developed on emulator. In game no problems with screen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Great game, need to find out what the fancy squares do, only slight and I mean really slight issue is if you have audio on mono, it sounds a wee bit crackly at times, after swapping to stereo its great.(nice tune btw). But thank you, love it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poison Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 music is designet strictly for stereo:) it is not possible to listen it in mono:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Well, my PAL tv goes nuts with the Quarrion title too, so a fix for that would be nice. Sometimes just the top of the title is bad, sometimes the whole title is garbage... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 music is designet strictly for stereo:) it is not possible to listen it in mono:) Well... till now I did not want to build in a stereo update in my Atari because I want them to be original (I only work with external upgrades). But this games justifies this operation! I'll let you know when I have done the upgrade (might take a while, since I have to decide what atari I will use for that) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Am I right btw. that this happens in the game? Let's say I create this row: RED4 RED4 RED That this RED (not 4) disappears but that the RED4 RED4 stays on the screen? I was wondering why is the RED removed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matosimi Posted October 19, 2015 Author Share Posted October 19, 2015 Am I right btw. that this happens in the game? Let's say I create this row: RED4 RED4 RED That this RED (not 4) disappears but that the RED4 RED4 stays on the screen? I was wondering why is the RED removed? Basic rule is that you need at least 3 same colored adjacent tiles in row/column to make them disappear - let's call that "3-line". This is something that ALWAYS applies, even when 4s and 5s come to game. Additional rule is that in order to destroy 4, you need to build 4-line or 5-line. It applies similarly to 5s - which can be destroyed only by 5-line. 4 turn to bomb, which needs to to be part of (at least) 3-line, then it destroys itself and 4 adjacent tiles in shape of cross (top,bottom,left,right). 5 turn to cluster bomb, which also needs to be part of (at least) 3-line and then it destroys all same-colored tiles. ..that's all. I'm not sure if you could understand my explanation... because it was quite hard for me to write it at least understandable as it is... sorry for my english, i tried to keep it simple. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 I understand it completely! It is really a fabulous game! Why didn't it take place in the Abbuc contest? It is AWESOME! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matosimi Posted October 19, 2015 Author Share Posted October 19, 2015 Why didn't it take place in the Abbuc contest?Simply because it was not finished back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Simply because it was not finished back then. Okay ... clear... Can I make a donation? I would like to pay 10 Euro as a reward for the good game! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matosimi Posted October 19, 2015 Author Share Posted October 19, 2015 Okay ... clear... Can I make a donation? I would like to pay 10 Euro as a reward for the good game! sure, you can donate using paypal (there is paypal donation button on my website - right column at the bottom) Thanks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Last post from me for now I don't want to spam your thread haha. But look at this screenshot, how cool is this... I love the animation in those clusterbombs (not seen in the screenshot of course) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitoco Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Simply because it was not finished back then. But you had 6 hours to complete it instead of the creation of 3plex!!!! Nah... better this way. Now we have 2 more puzzle games to deal with. I've just finished my first Quarrion try, and got 2922 points. And waiting for 3plex to try it. BTW, I tried Quarrion in Altirra, and the music sounded somehow distorted... in your video it sounds clear. I thought it was a NTSC issue and a 1 every 6 frames filler in the tracker's tempo, but it also sounds distorted in PAL emulation. Now I know it is a mono/stereo issue. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matosimi Posted October 19, 2015 Author Share Posted October 19, 2015 But you had 6 hours to complete it instead of the creation of 3plex!!!! Yes, but quarrion had couple bugs that were "put on shelf" for a long time... so it took me some time to fix all DLI related stuff..like 2 days or so. and then i had to create some title screen and ask Poison to compose the music. He has done great job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matosimi Posted October 19, 2015 Author Share Posted October 19, 2015 could someone try this alternate logo on real HW if it still causes troubles? q_logo2.xex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 could someone try this alternate logo on real HW if it still causes troubles? q_logo2.xex The logo works, but there is a strange dotted line on the right of the logo which I don't see in your movie. That logo is also there on emulator (see attachment) There is no text under the logo... I can imagine it was not just the logo but the issue only occured in case of Logo + the rest of the display list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powersoft Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 thanks to the master of the great puzzlers will check this out later. the final result of the NYD entry... GREAT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam242 Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 could someone try this alternate logo on real HW if it still causes troubles? q_logo2.xex Works fine on my hybrid 800 system. Only the title screen had the issue, game itself is fine. 880 is a bit low , difficulty starts to be interesting after you score 900, there are 5 tiles added every move then. Well, that was just a first attempt. It's a very slow day at work, so I'm playing (on an emulator - no real Ataris at work, unfortunately) and my best so far is 2858. Enjoying it very much. This may be my favorite puzzler since Swapz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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