The hamburger experiment

[+Steve Jones]

Out of curiosity, your games all seem to be food based. Are you hungry all the time?

[+atari2600land]

I noticed that as well. GoSub isn't about food, though. But the rest of them are. I guess anthropomorphic food is funny to me.

[+Steve Jones]

I forgot about GoSub, though some people eat octopus

but Peter the Pea, Celery, Secret Waffle Project...

now I’m getting hungry too

 

waffles....mmmmm

 

[+fdr4prez]

21 minutes ago, atari2600land said:

This is as fat as I can make it. I had to stretch it x4 to make it the height I wanted. And I can only stretch it x2 horizontally.

 

Better.  

 

I guess Japanese Eggplant is long and skinny, but those aren't too common in the US

 

 

Can you add a green top?

 

 

 

 

[+stupus]

I think chris also made explosive diarrhea and poo, right?

Also not about food....well i guess kind of they are, nevermind.

[+atari2600land]

I can't add a green top because I'm already using all 8 sprites.

[TIX]

How about some animation (4 frames)?

I guess I can draw a "better" eggplant if you give me the dimensions and pixel shape..

 

[+atari2600land]

The dimensions of all Intellivision sprites are a maximum 8 x 8 pixels. I use the zoom function to stretch them.

[TIX]

   

 

eggplant 8x8

stretched x4 vertically and x2 horizontally

[carlsson]

Actually you can draw 8x16 sprites that use aligned 2 GRAM cards, and then expand it vertically 0.5X, 1X, 2X, 4X. That way you can get more detail at the expense of not having the same resolution horizontally and vertically.

[+atari2600land]

Oh yeah, I forgot about that.

[+atari2600land]

Could tix draw me a different 8x16 boss eggplant? In the meantime, I put in a temporary boss eggplant. I also made the score stop flashing more when an enemy gets hit.

 

herts_2021_01_20_intv.zip

[TIX]

try this..

 

 

 

[+atari2600land]

Why can't I get the stupid fish to scroll correctly when the waves above do?

    ' scrolling
        movetimer=movetimer+1
    
        if movetimer=3 then
        
            IF offset_x=0 THEN
                stupidfish=stupidfish-1
                offset_x=7
                PRINT AT 140 color #bgcolor, "\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258"        
                PRINT AT stupidfish color 5, "\256"
            end if


            if offset_x>0 then offset_x=offset_x-1
            
            SCROLL offset_x,0,2

            movetimer=0
        end if

result:

EDIT: SOLVED.

[wolfy62]

32 minutes ago, atari2600land said:

Why can't I get the stupid fish to scroll correctly when the waves above do?

    ' scrolling
        movetimer=movetimer+1
    
        if movetimer=3 then
        
            IF offset_x=0 THEN
                stupidfish=stupidfish-1
                offset_x=7
                PRINT AT 140 color #bgcolor, "\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258\258"        
                PRINT AT stupidfish color 5, "\256"
            end if


            if offset_x>0 then offset_x=offset_x-1
            
            SCROLL offset_x,0,2

            movetimer=0
        end if

result:

EDIT: SOLVED.

I see the GoSub in you was not to be denied in this game!?

[+DZ-Jay]

Wait.  I get that there's pea in the pool, but ... wouldn't the hamburger get soggy?

[+atari2600land]

It's the Sesame Seed Sea.

(Yes, I know that burger bun does not have sesame seeds on it, but most burger buns do.)

The fish is there for decoration. You can't shoot at it. I thought it looked rather boring and plain without it.

I need to do different songs for levels 2 and 3 now.

My eye is continually "twitching". I don't know why.

 

herts13.zip

[wolfy62]

7 minutes ago, atari2600land said:

It's the Sesame Seed Sea.

(Yes, I know that burger bun does not have sesame seeds on it, but most burger buns do.)

The fish is there for decoration. You can't shoot at it. I thought it looked rather boring and plain without it.

I need to do different songs for levels 2 and 3 now.

My eye is continually "twitching". I don't know why.

 

herts13.zip 13.6 kB · 1 download

You could make it turn into a fish sandwich when it is in the sea,then the predators would be after it.

[+atari2600land]

Fixed the bugs in level 3.
added new music to levels 2 and 3

I don't know why, I think it's my computer, but in jzIntv, some sprites flash or do weird stuff for a frame or so sometimes.

This is how TIX's boss eggplant looks in the game:

herts_2021_01_21.zip

[+stupus]

That eggplant is so boss!

[+fdr4prez]

Great looking Eggplant Boss

[carlsson]

If there is a Whataburger, surely somewhere there's also a Waterburger?

[+fdr4prez]

Maybe it is a Krabby Patty

 

[+atari2600land]

I've been thinking a lot about the huge connection of my food and my video games and I got to thinking, with Peter the Pea and the Secret Government Waffle Project, perhaps it's not best if if I make a game about burgers at this time. So rather than completely give up on the game, I've decided to give it a different theme. You are a lowercase letter W. All the other letters of the alphabet have got together and attacked W-Land. Your job: Shoot all the other letters with your lowercase i. Some letters may be shooting a lowercase o at you. What do you think?

w16.zip

[First Spear]

I think this whole thing should be moved to the Programming sub forum... Maybe ask the admins to move it?

 

For the score/numbers, you might want to consider using BACKTAB graphics. You could conceibably pack two digits into a 8x8 tile and change them based on a calculation. This would cost you a number of GRAM tiles (4?) and enough ROM to hold every conceivable number combination (99?) but it would save screen space. If you’re interested in going that route, the Inty Letterpress tool (runs on Windows 10 GUI) would let you make the numbers/graphics.