+CyranoJ Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 As mentioned in the DragonKeep thread, smaller free releases is something I've wanted to get back to for a while, so here we are again. We're all still getting hammered in one way or another by COVID and all the other joys 2020 has wrought on the planet, so the sentiment stands that hopefully folks can have a few hours away from the real world with a new game and some fun. Announcing: BIOPEDE Flash this to your Skunkboard or copy to your JaguarGD cart to play. As usual the ROM is locked to these devices. Sorry, but we all know why and we all wish it was otherwise. Biopede_Skunk_GD_v4.rom Biopede_Skunk_GD_v4.mrq UPDATE: V4 (05/12/2020) "Press B to play" removed from options screen You can now take your score from the game over screen, level and mode are shown Score anti-farming in place on the Skeleton, Dragonfly and Mosquitto UPDATE: V3 (01/12/2020) Fixed a bug that caused Princess to block the Biopede Fixed a score but that crashed the game out after 65535 points (ironically because it sent the lives counter negative!) UPDATE: V2 Fixed a game over screen glitch if the game was started while the info screen with the sprites was displayed Biopede chunks that get turned to shrooms are worth 50pts if they are still there at the end of the level Changed the music replay rate from 16Khz to 24Khz (Yumm!) Added 4 new backdrops (More Yumm!) If the EEPROM becomes corrupted, hold 2+0 as the REBOOT logo fades in and it'll reset it A nicer MRQ with the BIOPEDE logo Based on the classic games "Centipede/Millipede" you must defend against waves of horrible Biopedes, Spiders, Butterflies, and the garden Skeleton (because every garden has a skeleton, ok?) - The beautiful princess will pop up if the shrooms start getting low in numbers. The music was created by Roald Strauss from https://indiegamemusic.com/ and is fully licensed for use. Logos: Sonik All other artwork for this was sourced from: https://opengameart.org Living Tissue: https://opengameart.org/content/living-tissue-background Grass Texture: https://opengameart.org/content/my-first-grass-texture Stone Hexagonal: https://opengameart.org/content/stone-hexagonal-background Backgrounds: https://opengameart.org/content/backgrounds-3 Shrooms: https://opengameart.org/content/micro-world-dlc-tileset Bullet: https://opengameart.org/content/lasers-and-beams Spider: https://opengameart.org/content/2d-spider-animated Princess: https://opengameart.org/content/miss-princess-animated-16x16 Cave: https://opengameart.org/content/fossil-cave Font: https://opengameart.org/content/bitmap-font-pack Skeleton: https://opengameart.org/content/tiny-16-expanded-character-sprites Butterfly: https://opengameart.org/content/butterfly I'd like to extend thanks and gratitude to the people of that site for giving their talents and time to the community. their talens! Change from Standard to Advanced on the options screen to add more enemies and other things into the game. There is a unique scoreboard for both modes. You can also change the controls to enable/disable inertia. Scores will be saved to EEPROM if available (Use the .MQR file for JagGD, or on a Skunkboard with a 2k EEPROM only - 128byte EEPROMs will not work) Many thanks to the testers, especially Sporadic and Saturn, for helping out with this one. ENJOY! 35 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Saturn Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 Awesome, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chicgamer Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 Awesome! Look forward to trying this out over the weekend. Does this have mouse support? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted October 10, 2020 Author Share Posted October 10, 2020 18 minutes ago, chicgamer said: Awesome! Look forward to trying this out over the weekend. Does this have mouse support? No mouse on this one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juansolo Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 That's really rather cool. Cheers dude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted October 10, 2020 Author Share Posted October 10, 2020 Just now, juansolo said: That's really rather cool. Cheers dude. No problem, if someone has fun and chills out for even a minute then job done 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sporadic Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 This is a fun shooter, great job! Nice balance of shooting and difficulty. There is something satisfying shooting those Biopedes head on and nailing all segments. If you have a skunk or GD, get this flashed asap 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tripled79 Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 That font looks very familiar. I'm thinking Do+The Same... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidD Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 5 hours ago, CyranoJ said: Flash this to your Skunkboard or copy to your JaguarGD cart to play. As usual the ROM is locked to these devices. Sorry, but we all know why and we all wish it was otherwise. ...as someone who has a Jaguar (somewhere in the closet) but only a tertiary interest in Jaguar stuff -- is there a thread somewhere that explains this part? I'm curious -- is it something to do with folks making pirate carts easily, or...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted October 10, 2020 Author Share Posted October 10, 2020 3 hours ago, DavidD said: I'm curious -- is it something to do with folks making pirate carts easily, or...? Bingo! We have a winner. Take a gold star and go to the head of the class There's more than one thread, searching for 'Etsy' or 'scum' or 'etsy scum' should do it, failing that - search for 'atari jaguar, the gift that keeps giving' ... but that is enough here, this thread is about giving people something fun to play! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+madman Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 Thanks for releasing this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted October 12, 2020 Author Share Posted October 12, 2020 Just uploaded a new one with some improvements / bug fixes. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted October 12, 2020 Author Share Posted October 12, 2020 Oops, that one had some bugs in the bugs code... Fixed now Biopede chunks that get turned into shrooms are also now worth 50pts at the end of the wave/death - so it is in your interest NOT to kill them. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Saturn Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 Nice, will load this up in a bit! Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bhall408 Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 Reminds me a bit of the old Mac game Apeiron by Ambrosia Software in the early 90s... Nice! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ls650 Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 Loaded this onto my Skunk2 board and gave it about 20 minutes of play yesterday. Pretty fun take on Centipede - I will play it some more after work tonight. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TrekMD Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 I had not seen this! Looks really good! Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 Oh cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor_shred Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 This looks awesome. I'll load this up on the Jag GD later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyaage Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Oh wow, centipede on the Jag! Thank you ever so much Reboot for adding fun to our lives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted October 30, 2020 Author Share Posted October 30, 2020 Thanks for the comments Hope people are having fun with it - we'll probably run a HSC with it just like we did for DragonKeep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cubanismo Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 1 hour ago, CyranoJ said: we'll probably run a HSC with it just like we did for DragonKeep. I guess I'd better keep practicing. I assume 16325 isn't going to win me anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clint Thompson Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 1 hour ago, cubanismo said: I guess I'd better keep practicing. I assume 16325 isn't going to win me anything. I must be up too early, I thought there was some deeper meaning like 16/32bit 5th generation.... nice score lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Dangerous Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 I REALLY want to play this (Huge Centipede fan) but don't have the SD Cart yet and can't get my skunk working. Hopefully it comes out on a compilation cart someday. Nice work CJ! EDIT: How hard would it be to make this 2 player? Love me some two player Centipede. Co-op or head to head 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
str0m Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 Works well on Jag SD thanks! Maybe an option to skip the 50 point counting at end of the level by hitting a button? Lovely and smooth gameplay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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