Electrobots - new game for Elk/Beeb/Master

[daveejhitchins]

But the Electron is really taking a beating!

Last warning . . . Stop it!

Dave H.

[0xC0DE]

Plays really nicely - can't believe how smooth the graphics are! What do you know that 80's developers didn't?!

Thanks! Honestly, I don't really know. I think it helps that I can use modern tools, have all the information at my finger tips and, most of all, I'm not burdened with a commercial deadline

[0xC0DE]

But the Electron is really taking a beating!

Last warning . . . Stop it!

Dave H.

Sorry Dave But the Elk is indestructible, so no worries!

[ChrisB]

OK - trying to figure this "fast drop" out. I think I'm just seeing it on the platform because that's one of the few places where there's a large drop.

However I do think there's something slightly odd about the fall. Here are 4 frames from the start of the fall overlaid.

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I think you're adding some gravity and then - once you get to a certain speed - limiting the amount of fall per frame.

So you can see that the difference between frame 2 and 3 is far greater than frame 3 and 4 (and subsequent frames). This gives a "jolt" at the start of the fall and that might be what I'm noticing.

Apologies for being so picky...

[0xC0DE]

Don't worry, Chris, I need this kind of feedback to fix things that need fixing.
This is very interesting indeed. Thanks for your detailed report. I will look into it myself and let you know what I find.

[Steve8bit]

This looks amazing!

[0xC0DE]

I just released v1.00 of Electrobots: https://github.com/0xC0DE6502/electrobots-releases

Download and play for free. Donate whatever you want to support me: https://ko-fi.com/0xC0DE

I hope you enjoy playing my game as much as I enjoyed creating it!

[Snuggsy187]

Excellent !

Congratulations on your V1.0 release. Watching this progress (so quickly) has been interesting.

Will give some proper feedback when I get some time to play this properly on my newly resurrected Elk !

[0xC0DE]

Excellent !

Congratulations on your V1.0 release. Watching this progress (so quickly) has been interesting.

Will give some proper feedback when I get some time to play this properly on my newly resurrected Elk !

Thanks mate! Would love some proper feedback. You're next with Pooyan, right?

[Snuggsy187]

........yeah...... (still loads to do), was going to do a small update this morning until I saw your release !

I'm sure Tricky will be next up with another masterpiece !

[0xC0DE]

Updates are always good!

[lurkio]

I just released v1.00 of Electrobots: https://github.com/0xC0DE6502/electrobots-releases
Download and play for free. Donate whatever you want to support me: https://ko-fi.com/0xC0DE

Congrats! May we host the game at bbcmicro.co.uk?

[0xC0DE]

I just released v1.00 of Electrobots: https://github.com/0xC0DE6502/electrobots-releases
Download and play for free. Donate whatever you want to support me: https://ko-fi.com/0xC0DE

Congrats! May we host the game at bbcmicro.co.uk?

Thanks! Yes, please do

[leenew]

Brill
Thank you

Lee.

[0xC0DE]

Brill
Thank you

Lee.

Enjoy! =)

[ChrisB]

Congratulations on the release. Very smooth and playable.

[sa_scott]

My goodness, this is such a slick game! Really amazing what can be achieved with 4 colours. Love the smooth animation and playability. This will be a hard game to complete. But amazing piece of work all round, let alone an Electron game.

Congratulations on releasing this!

[0xC0DE]

Thanks Chris and Stephen!

[cardboardguru]

Looking forward to trying this. Gotta get some more work done on mine first though...

[0xC0DE]

Looking forward to trying this. Gotta get some more work done on mine first though...

Make sure to relax and play Electrobots for a while

[cardboardguru]

I didn't resist for long. It's a great game!

Is sound a special treat for the Electron only? I might be out of luck if so as I couldn't find an Electron emulator that works on a modern version of MacOS. Maybe I should get the old PC out.

[0xC0DE]

I didn't resist for long. It's a great game!

Thanks, happy to hear that!

Is sound a special treat for the Electron only? I might be out of luck if so as I couldn't find an Electron emulator that works on a modern version of MacOS. Maybe I should get the old PC out.

Sound effects should be identical on Electron, Beeb and Master and any emulator. On what configuration exactly are you experiencing no sound?

[cardboardguru]

Ah! Never mind. Problem my end. I was using Bluetooth headphones, which was working for all my other computer sounds - music, YouTube etc. But it turns out the b2 emulator directs it's sound to the internal speaker regardless. Which was turned down.

I've got sound for Electrobots now.

[0xC0DE]

Don't worry, Chris, I need this kind of feedback to fix things that need fixing.
This is very interesting indeed. Thanks for your detailed report. I will look into it myself and let you know what I find.

@ChrisB: I was never able to reproduce this behaviour in my demo or in the final game. I would be interested to know if it happens to you in the released game.

[0xC0DE]

I've got sound for Electrobots now.

[billcarr2005]

I just released v1.00 of Electrobots: https://github.com/0xC0DE6502/electrobots-releases

Download and play for free. Donate whatever you want to support me: https://ko-fi.com/0xC0DE

I hope you enjoy playing my game as much as I enjoyed creating it!

It's such a good game, it deserves praise in more than one place!
Congratulations on squeezing such an amazing game from the lowly BBC, and even more so on the Electron

[0xC0DE]

I just released v1.00 of Electrobots: https://github.com/0xC0DE6502/electrobots-releases

Download and play for free. Donate whatever you want to support me: https://ko-fi.com/0xC0DE

I hope you enjoy playing my game as much as I enjoyed creating it!

It's such a good game, it deserves praise in more than one place!
Congratulations on squeezing such an amazing game from the lowly BBC, and even more so on the Electron

Excellent, thank you, Bill, very much appreciated!

[Kecske Bak]

Wonderful surprise to see the game released and I've had a lot of fun with this today; it's interesting how you have to play the three areas in parallel in order to unlock places you can't get to.

This was exactly the sort of game that went down well on the BBC and Elk BITD and I think it's a huge amount of fun to play.

[0xC0DE]

Wonderful surprise to see the game released and I've had a lot of fun with this today; it's interesting how you have to play the three areas in parallel in order to unlock places you can't get to.

This was exactly the sort of game that went down well on the BBC and Elk BITD and I think it's a huge amount of fun to play.

I am very happy to hear that you enjoy playing my game!

[roland]

I discovered this topic just yesterday and I downloaded it to my web server and started it from WiDFS. That works
You have made another great game. A real great job