Quest of the Cranberry (Channel F WIP)

[+atari2600land]

I have a question for you all. Should I keep working on this game I've been making? I am toying with an idea of trying to make a game that's like the Atari 2600's "Adventure" but movement like that in "Pitfall." And, not only that, it's for the Channel F. I've been making a lot of Channel F stuff lately, like Golf, and am just wondering if what I'm doing is too much, or am I starting a Channel F homebrew scene? This will be very hard to come up with ideas for, so I was just wondering if it will be worth it?

 

quest17.bin

[+atari2600land]

Minor update: I got bored, so I decided to make the game run a lot faster than it used to. I optimized and changed some code to do this.

quest18.bin

[Mikebloke]

There is no such thing as too much, especially for the Channel F!

 

I've got loads of potential ideas for the system if only I could get my head down for longer than 30 minutes to work out how things work as they do.

 

I suppose theres two ideas potentially of branching it:

 

Keep it more like Adventure, and allow movement in all directions, creating a "maze" of screens to find items. Not sure how complex this could be for Channel F but could then use Adventure like mazes where you have to switch screens to get to new areas.

Make it more like Pitfall, and have a single axis of movement (left, right) and add a form of jump button to avoid obstacles and enemies. It could perhaps be expanded to an underground level through a ladder system later (perhaps switch it to black and white for these areas to make it look "dark").