+atari2600land Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 So I've decided to make a game for the Jaguar that works, dammit. This second attempt is called "Ants," based on my other, non-stickman game that didn't get very far. I need help, though. I need someone to design a better ant graphic, 2-walk animation, where each ant graphic is 16x16 pixels. I'd also like someone to test out what I have so far to make sure it works on a real Jaguar. All I have done so far is the title screen, so don't expect anything fancy. I also would like feedback on the music. How loud is it? How loud should it be? Stuff like that. ants20170526v3romonly.zip 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAVE 1 GAMES Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 I can help test on SKUNK and probably help with the sprite work as well. It's the least I can do for your help with my game. PM me the details! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted May 27, 2017 Author Share Posted May 27, 2017 This mod I downloaded isn't working properly. After it goes through the song, it starts at the beginning and just plays the first pattern over and over again. How do I stop that from happening? titlescreen.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAVE 1 GAMES Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 How big is this MOD file? I generally only use a file 200K max in size. I have found that most files 20k-200k work best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted May 27, 2017 Author Share Posted May 27, 2017 It's 14.1 K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted May 27, 2017 Author Share Posted May 27, 2017 (edited) I made my own .mod file, and it turned out to be a whopping 127KB, but I put it in there and it works okay and loops good. I think this music gives the player an eerie sense more than the old music though, which is what I am going for (ants invading your house is eerie, right?) Let me know what you think. http://www.atari2600land.com/antsjag/ants20170527.zip Edited May 27, 2017 by atari2600land Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted May 27, 2017 Author Share Posted May 27, 2017 Here is some more ant goodness. Hope you all like the ant redesign. http://www.atari2600land.com/antsjag/ants20170527v2rom.zip 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAVE 1 GAMES Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 nice looking ants! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted May 28, 2017 Author Share Posted May 28, 2017 Made the ants smaller with sprite scaling. http://www.atari2600land.com/antsjag/ants20170528romonly.zip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted May 28, 2017 Author Share Posted May 28, 2017 I have gotten the angriest I think I've ever gotten with this stupid next update. Nothing seemed to want to work. Parts of code kept ignoring me, it was horrible. And all I wanted to do was add a counter to press Option, but when I clearly typed in OPTION in the code, in Virtual Jaguar, it was PAUSE I had to press. But the counter didn't even want to show up, and other times it showed up but the title screen didn't. But I did it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted May 28, 2017 Author Share Posted May 28, 2017 I tried all night and could not get text to work. I tried everything and it just won't get in there. I've had multiple VirtualJag crashes, countless refigurings, and I just can't do it. So unless you can, I'm calling this project dead because it needs a score. Below is a link to the whole project. http://www.atari2600land.com/antsjag/antswholeproj.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted May 28, 2017 Author Share Posted May 28, 2017 I got text! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted May 28, 2017 Author Share Posted May 28, 2017 What's the largest size a Jaguar game can be? I'm at 1.03MB right now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 I want to play ants. This is also a 2600 game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+af0l Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 6mb theoretically, only seen on skunk. Standard carts are 2 or 4 mb. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 You're in Salem? Will you be at the PRGE? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted May 29, 2017 Author Share Posted May 29, 2017 You're in Salem? Will you be at the PRGE? Unfortunately not. Anyway, I somehow magically got the size of the game down from 1.03MB down to 766KB. Apparently the Jaguar elves sort of helped. I tried to make pictures with an 8 bitmap depth, but the computer screws them up once I save them. That is why they were showing up as all screwed up. So I went back to 24 bitmap depth and they're good again. And yet the file size went down. How odd. http://www.atari2600land.com/antsjag/ants20170529romonly.zip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted May 29, 2017 Author Share Posted May 29, 2017 Added some in-game music. Also, the music option on the options screen should work now. http://www.atari2600land.com/antsjag/ants20170529v2romonly.zip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 Take a look at picnic paranoia on the 8bit for some gameplay inspiration Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted May 29, 2017 Author Share Posted May 29, 2017 Added in the arm. Is it okay if it's like this, where the top of the arm is in the black space up at the top? It's okay if it won't show up on real hardware, I just want to know if it's allowable. Also, you can move the arm around with the D-pad and press B to make a squishing motion. I am also wondering how to make it so that only the tip of the finger registers a hit instead of all of the arm. I'm imagining a 3d effect here. http://www.atari2600land.com/antsjag/ants20170529v3romonly.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted May 30, 2017 Author Share Posted May 30, 2017 (edited) You can now squish the ants! Since this is testing the ant collision registers, the ant disappears when it's squished so when you squish all three, there isn't really anything more to do. This, of course, will change. But I think I'll take a few days' break from this. http://www.atari2600land.com/antsjag/ants20170530romonly.zip Edited May 30, 2017 by atari2600land 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 Maybe use the hitpoints flags so you have to squish it 2-3 times, and change its colour/slow it down on each squish until its dead? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swansea_Mariner Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 Maybe use the hitpoints flags so you have to squish it 2-3 times, and change its colour/slow it down on each squish until its dead? There are of course different types of ant so possibly different types could require a different number of squishes while following the cycle you suggest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+af0l Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 Maybe use the hitpoints flags so you have to squish it 2-3 times, and change its colour/slow it down on each squish until its dead? Seriously, making them suffer like that? I can already hear the animal rights activists outside... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welshworrier Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 You should also add a flick option to see if you can get one ant to smash into another. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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