amarok Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 I would like to present my first ever game for Atari 8-bit computer which is also my entry for ABBUC Software Contest 2022. Arcadia is a Zuma/Luxor-like shooting game. The main goal of the game is to remove all segments of marbles before they reach the temple at the end of the path. Otherwise the temple is being destroyed and the player loses a life. The steering is by the joystick plugged into port number one. The player takes his aim by moving the joystick left and right and shoots a new marble by pressing the fire. He can swap the current marble with the next one by moving the joystick up or down. The player may pause the game by pressing the space bar on the keyboard. If a newly shooted marble creates a group of at least 3 of the same color, the group disappears. Otherwise the new marble extends the segment. Each consecutive removal of a group of marbles increases the combo or the chain reaction counter. Every third combo or chain reaction creates a power-up on a board which may be catched by a new marble shooted by the player. There are power-ups which affect the movement of segments like slow down, pause or reverse. Other power-ups are painting the marbles in a particular color, removing all marbles of particular color, destroying a vertical group of marbles by lightning, removing marbles by a shield or sorting the order of marbles of the oldest segment. Destruction a group of at least 5 marbles makes a heart power-up. Every tenth catched heart gives a new life for the player. After each 3 consecutive levels a bonus round appears. The goal on a bonus level is to destroy as many marbles as possible. Every destroyed segment makes a new heart power-up. Player cannot lose his life on the bonus round. There are 4 difficulty levels in the game - easy, normal, hard and insane. They differ by speed, number and length of segments to be destroyed. In the game there is a hall of fame screen containing the top 5 scores. Also there is a help screen with a short description about the rules of the game. 31 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdefabri Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Well done - good luck! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNameOfTheGame Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Nice, I like the concept and it looks great also! Good luck in the contest. 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Considered your artistic taste shown in Rastaconverter thread, it's no surprise that your game looks so beautiful. Can't wait to receive ABBUC floppy disks. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 I agree.. Your RC conversions are amazing. Good luck. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 3 hours ago, Philsan said: Can't wait to receive ABBUC floppy disks. I already have them!?! . . . . . . . . . . Oh wait, I am the one who creates them... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darwinmac Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 I like Zuma-style games. I look forward to playing it. I keep looking on the ABBUC website for the ATRs since there are a number of entries that look interesting. Bob C 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelen Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 Very nice! Hope to play this game! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 On 8/19/2022 at 8:46 PM, darwinmac said: I like Zuma-style games. I look forward to playing it. I keep looking on the ABBUC website for the ATRs since there are a number of entries that look interesting. Bob C now loooooong time that I read Zuma... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarok Posted August 22, 2022 Author Share Posted August 22, 2022 I would like to present a video containing sample gameplay through the first 3 levels and a bonus round at the end. It presents the general game mechanics, catching and using various power-ups, passing to the next level and loss of life as well. Hope you like it 12 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popmilo Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Nice game @amarok ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarok Posted September 4, 2022 Author Share Posted September 4, 2022 I prepared a short video presenting all types of power-ups available in the game. As you can see it is worth to catch power-ups because they may help to clean up the board. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarok Posted November 1, 2022 Author Share Posted November 1, 2022 (edited) I am pleased to share a disk image with Arcadia. This is the exact version which I posted to the contest. I tested it using my Atari 130XE (PAL) with SIO2SD, Altirra v4.0 and Atari 800 v5.0 emulators on PAL and NTSC systems. Game does not require any additional hardware or extensions, the stock 64kB Atari should be enough. If you have any comments or questions, feel free to write here. I hope you enjoy the game 🙂. arcadia_abbuc_2022.atr arcadia_abbuc_2022.xex Edited November 1, 2022 by amarok 7 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarok Posted November 1, 2022 Author Share Posted November 1, 2022 (edited) I am posting an additional message because the previous one did not appear on the list of topics... Edited November 1, 2022 by amarok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNameOfTheGame Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 Thank you! Nice game, very well done. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 (edited) Just had a quick go. Very quick and responsive which is what you need for a game like this. I failed after around 2 mins but that's at a first attempt without having read the instructions. I can see this being very addictive. Thanks for creating it. Looks great too. The standard for this competition is very high. Edited November 1, 2022 by Beeblebrox 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darwinmac Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 @amarok - Great game! As an ABBUC member, I have been playing your game for a while now. I am glad to see other people are now able to play the game. I was impressed at how responsive the joystick was for setting your marble. I am used to playing Zuma with a mouse so I was not sure how well a joystick would work. Hints for others: you really need to shoot the power-ups when they appear. That will help you survive. Last night, I ended up just under the 5,000 points needed to make the half of fame. I think Arcadia saves your high score so you may want to download the ATR image if that is important to you. Bob C 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarok Posted November 1, 2022 Author Share Posted November 1, 2022 20 minutes ago, darwinmac said: I think Arcadia saves your high score so you may want to download the ATR image if that is important to you. Actually it does not save the high score list. But I can put the idea into the TODO list for a future version. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darwinmac Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 3 hours ago, amarok said: Actually it does not save the high score list. But I can put the idea into the TODO list for a future version. My mistake. However, it would be great if you added a saved hall of fame. If you make it there, it deserves to be remembered. Bob C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spookt Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 Really nice game. Tried it out last night and it looks and plays great. Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killerwatts Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 only got a chance to try this emulated (took a quick break at work), but gotta say - i'm impressed, fantastic work on this! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snicklin Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 Wow, now this is a very well put together game. Well done Amarok. It's a bit difficult on the first level for it to be called 'Easy' though in my mind.... but it is beatable. I think I need to use the powerups more, I am so obsessed with trying to get rid of the bubbles, I don't bother with the powerups very often. Maybe that's why I find the easy level moderately difficult. It appears to have a lot more colour in the main playfield than it actually does, which is a clever achievement. Are those the default colours in the game, hard to tell? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 ZeroPage Homebrew is playing Arcadia as part of the ABBUC Software Contest 2022 Playthrough: Part 1 on tomorrow's ZPH stream LIVE on Twitch, hope you can join us! We will be playing the rest of the games in Part 2 on Tuesday's stream! Fri Nov 4, 2022 | LIVE @ 6PM PT | 9PM ET | 1AM GMT+1Day WATCH LIVE: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/WATCH LATER: https://youtube.com/zeropagehomebrew/ Games: Retro Dschump (2022 WIP A8 Port) by Peter Hinz @RetroCoder (Code/Graphics) / Michał Szpilowski @miker (Music) Dark Keep (2022 WIP A8) by Vladimir Janković @popmilo PacMen Evolution (2022 WIP A8 Port) by Lars Langhans @LarsImNetz dye - Heritage Edition (2022 WIP A8) by Christian Krueger @Irgendwer Arcadia (2022 WIP A8 Port) by Amarok @amarok Bunny Hop (2022 WIP A8) by Frantisek Houra @Fandal (Code) / Zdenek Eisenhammer @pseudografx (Graphics/Music) / Vin Samuel @VinsCool (Audio Driver) Moon Quest (2022 WIP A8) by Michal Radecki-Mikulicz - stRing @michomis (Code/GFX/MSX/Story) (WATCH AT 1080P60 FOR BEST QUALITY) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarok Posted November 6, 2022 Author Share Posted November 6, 2022 For those who are interested I have published the repository of Arcadia. You can find the source codes on my gitlab: https://gitlab.com/amarok8bit/arcadia Below you can find some information about tools which were used to create the game: - the game has been compiled with MadPascal by @tebe, - fonts have been designed with MadStudio by @Gury, - PMG of power-ups have been designed with SprEd by @bocianu, - music and sfx have been done with Raster Music Tracker by Radek Sterba, - title screen has been drawn in MS Paint, - levels has beed designed with a simple editor which I implemented in Python. Level editor is extremely simple and does not have any tools for drawing. It just decodes the asm code containing selected level definition and draws it on the screen. The image on the title screen is my version of the picture “Parthenon” by Heinrich Leutemann (1824-1905). I used the following folk greek music pieces: “Patima”, “Sousta of Volissos” and “Milo Mou Kokkino“.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-pfsE0NkNg 7 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 Nice production and fun game. This is my favorite of the competition. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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