Jinroh Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 (edited) Great update this is looking fabulous! Very fun to play around with even with the lacking features. ^^ Keep up the amazing work! Edited August 26, 2018 by Jinroh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 Well that's interesting... Do you happen to have a reference for that mention in Zeropage Homebrew? I'd be interested in seeing it. I kind of went looking for it thru one of the videos... skimmed it a bit... but didn't stumble upon it I will say that Zeropage Homebrews is a very neat concept. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/300941832## go to the 49:10 mark .... they talk about Dishwasher game and Burgertime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+splendidnut Posted August 30, 2018 Author Share Posted August 30, 2018 How about some burger dropping action? Burger dropping seems to be working properly now... FYI, music is currently turned off in this build because it was getting annoying... that and it makes it easier to hear the rudimentary sound effects. chaoticGrill-2018-08-30.bin 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 How about some burger dropping action? Burger dropping seems to be working properly now... FYI, music is currently turned off in this build because it was getting annoying... that and it makes it easier to hear the rudimentary sound effects. Awesome!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Found a bug: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+johnnywc Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 (edited) Great work Philip, this is looking and playing really well! As a side note... Back in March, I was contacted by another homebrew developer who was/is very interested in doing a Burgertime remake. Whether this person wants to reveal themselves or not, is up to them. So it's quite possible there will be a Burgertime remake in the near future... whether it's this one, or that one. That's me! Last March I visiting the Free Play Arcade in Providence, RI, and one of the games I played was BurgerTime. As it turns out, it's one of my girlfriend's favorite games so she asked if I had plans to make a version for the 2600. Inspired, I went home and spent a few hours putting together a POC and shared it with Nathan Strum (who does all the graphics for my games) to see what his thoughts were; he mentioned that Philip was working on a remake (which I was not aware of) so we touched base to 'compare notes'. I'm not sure what the plans are for my version, but the way Philip's is shaping up I may end up putting my efforts towards my many other projects instead. For those of you who are interested, here are a few screenshots of the POC; the big difference is that I decided to use an alternating PF color to allow the ladders/platforms/condiments to be different colors, but I think Philip's method may work better for the moving condiments since mine would have to move in increments of 2:http://atariage.com/forums/gallery/album/2275-burgertime-wip-pics/ Edited September 5, 2018 by johnnywc 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accousticguitar Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenJ Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 So glad this project is back on track!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TrekMD Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 That is looking really good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hizzy Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 This is amazing!!! Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 Looks fantastic. Great to see another homebrew port of this since the original port is so poor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+splendidnut Posted September 5, 2018 Author Share Posted September 5, 2018 Over the past week, I ended up doing a lot of rework on the burger dropping code which spilled into reworking the level layout data structure which then spilled into the player/enemy movement code. The results: - Burger dropping appears to be completely functioning. - There are now 3 (three) levels included with the ability to rotate thru using the SELECT switch. - Enemies will appear to get stuck on occasion... this is part of a patch I added to prevent an infinite loop from occurring. Here is the updated version: chaoticGrill-2018-09-05.bin 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+johnnywc Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 The is looking and playing great - awesome job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xybot67 Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 This is great! keep up the good work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 looks great! i hope to see a cart release for it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TrekMD Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 Wow, this is just getting better and better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 (edited) Heya Splendidnut! We're doing an 'early WIP homebrew' special episode tomorrow on ZeroPage Homebrew and thought Chaotic Grill would fit in perfectly. :-) We'll be broadcasting LIVE on Twitch tomorrow (Friday) at 2PM PT/5PM ET, so I hope you can make it! If not, you can catch the episode in our YouTube archives the next day. Hopefully see you there in the chat! Twitch LiveStreams: http://twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/zeropagehomebrew Over the past week, I ended up doing a lot of rework on the burger dropping code which spilled into reworking the level layout data structure which then spilled into the player/enemy movement code. The results: - Burger dropping appears to be completely functioning. - There are now 3 (three) levels included with the ability to rotate thru using the SELECT switch. - Enemies will appear to get stuck on occasion... this is part of a patch I added to prevent an infinite loop from occurring. Here is the updated version: Edited September 7, 2018 by cimmerian 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+splendidnut Posted September 9, 2018 Author Share Posted September 9, 2018 Heya Splendidnut! We're doing an 'early WIP homebrew' special episode tomorrow on ZeroPage Homebrew and thought Chaotic Grill would fit in perfectly. :-) We'll be broadcasting LIVE on Twitch tomorrow (Friday) at 2PM PT/5PM ET, so I hope you can make it! If not, you can catch the episode in our YouTube archives the next day. Hopefully see you there in the chat! Twitch LiveStreams: http://twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/zeropagehomebrew Thanks for letting me know... I enjoyed watching. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+splendidnut Posted September 9, 2018 Author Share Posted September 9, 2018 (edited) Time for a buggy update. I've added the ability to give the enemies a ride on the burgers with the additions necessary for the burger pieces to drop multiple platforms when an enemy is riding. It's a bit buggy... sometimes a burger gets stuck between platforms, and sometimes the enemy doesn't ride the burger. But it's fun to have the ability to send the enemies for a ride. Also... added another level... for testing purposes of course... SELECT switches levels. To summarize: - Enemies can now ride burgers... (buggy) - Enemies are stunned afterwards. - Burgers can fall more the one platform... triggered by enemy riding... (buggy) - Added a level... now there are 4. Enjoy. chaoticGrill-2018-09-08.bin Edited September 9, 2018 by splendidnut 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imstarryeyed Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 Hey Splendidnut, amazing version you have.. it's really coming along... If I can make one gameplay suggestion, one you may already be making, it would be.. When setting a "trap" for the food guys, can you make it where if you set up the trap to give a ride a bit too early and just camp there, they try to go around and kill you the other direction? I noticed in the arcade if you wait for them on the edge of a bun or something that the food usually goes around that and comes from behind or below you. I also noticed in the arcade if you are trying to get them to chase you so you can either squish them or give them a ride they will often go down or up a ladder at the last second to foil your plan. Sometimes it feels like the arcade "flips" a coin to decide when food decides to continue to chase you or use a ladder to go around you, I am sure there is logic I have not figured out ha ha. Looking forward to seeing more of your very much needed game, as the original one from the 80s was blocky and weird.. haha.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+splendidnut Posted September 16, 2018 Author Share Posted September 16, 2018 Hey Splendidnut, amazing version you have.. it's really coming along... If I can make one gameplay suggestion, one you may already be making, it would be.. When setting a "trap" for the food guys, can you make it where if you set up the trap to give a ride a bit too early and just camp there, they try to go around and kill you the other direction? I noticed in the arcade if you wait for them on the edge of a bun or something that the food usually goes around that and comes from behind or below you. I also noticed in the arcade if you are trying to get them to chase you so you can either squish them or give them a ride they will often go down or up a ladder at the last second to foil your plan. Sometimes it feels like the arcade "flips" a coin to decide when food decides to continue to chase you or use a ladder to go around you, I am sure there is logic I have not figured out ha ha. Looking forward to seeing more of your very much needed game, as the original one from the 80s was blocky and weird.. haha.. Thanks! My understanding of the enemy movement is that the enemies are suppose to alternate between taking ladders and platforms... with a preference for ladders. Which might explain the "coin flipping" and "last second" direction change that you're seeing. I think the pickle might be different... as he seems to take a more straight/direct path towards the player. Let me know if this lines up with what you're seeing. My current implementation of enemy movement is overly simple... and gets tripped up because it doesn't properly identify intersections... which is the main cause of the enemies getting stuck on the ladder. I've been putting off redoing the enemy movement code while I concentrated on the burger dropping logic (one of the most important aspects of the game). But now that I'm starting to work on the enemy squashing code, my overly simple enemy logic is working against me. So that'll probably jump up the priority list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+splendidnut Posted September 16, 2018 Author Share Posted September 16, 2018 Time for another update... not much different from the previous one... except for bug fixes! Mutliple enemies riding on the burgers and burger then dropping the appropriate levels - that all seems to be working now. I've now started work on enemy squashing, which isn't working yet, so it's been disabled. Please let me know if you stumble upon any bugs. Enjoy. chaoticGrill-2018-09-15.bin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 Time for another update... not much different from the previous one... except for bug fixes! Mutliple enemies riding on the burgers and burger then dropping the appropriate levels - that all seems to be working now. I've now started work on enemy squashing, which isn't working yet, so it's been disabled. Please let me know if you stumble upon any bugs. Enjoy. bug? ....Mr. Pickle fell down with the top of the burger below the floor..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imstarryeyed Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 Splendidnut, I went ahead and studied some Burgertime game play and I think you are right on the money when you say the enemies kind of make a decision to use a ladder or not when they are coming toward you. In fact here is a blurb from someone doing a writeup from Cheapassgamer.. https://www.cheapassgamer.com/blog/1358/entry-8842-classic-arcade-game-of-the-week-62409-burgertime/ Here is the quote.. "What made BurgerTime extremely challenging was how the enemy foods were programmed to seek out and attack the player. I hesitate to use the term "enemy AI" here, as that's giving Mr. Egg, Mr. Hotdog and Mr. Pickle too much credit, but they were insidious nonetheless. Instead of taking a direct line to the player, they would take right-angle routes, making planning attacks difficult. " The poster said Mr Pickle followed that same logic, but he may not be aware that Mr. Pickle may be a bit more "intelligent". I think I agree with you that making one or two of them "intelligent" with the others following that right-angle route would be fun. Of course I wonder how the game would play if they all were intelligent? Maybe a "Hard" mode? One more thing I never knew about the arcade was: At level 28 and beyond the food gets a speed boost for like 90 sec.. From strategywiki https://strategywiki.org/wiki/BurgerTime/Walkthrough#Beyond_Stage_28 "The game will continue normally until stage 28. Starting on stage 28 the enemies move about 2 1/2 times faster than they did before. After 90 seconds (if you can survive that long on one chef), they slow down to a crawl, moving one step every 5 seconds. You can still die if you run into the enemies. The chefs speed never changes." That might be fun to have changing speed in the hard mode that changes the speed of the food every so often or when you grab a prize or complete a burger for some amount of seconds, or something like that.. In any case your game is looking so great, regardless if you like any of these ideas, I am sure you game is going to be the best version for this system... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+splendidnut Posted September 22, 2018 Author Share Posted September 22, 2018 Time for an update... with New Sprite Graphics done by NostAlgae37 Other things updated: Fixed the bug Arenafoot found - enemies should no longer fall thru condiments on the piles at the bottom. Enemies can now be squashed/killed by falling condiments. Enjoy. chaoticGrill-2018-09-21.bin 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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