Androidz Redux released
Androidz Redux released
Hi all,
I have great pleasure in releasing Androidz Redux - an attempted remaster of my 1994 arcade game for the BBC Micro!
Play online via jsBeeb - https://bbc.godbolt.org/?disc=https://w ... d&autoboot, or download the attachment below.
Featuring 20 levels, and a lot of shoehorning to get the game into the extra colours available under Mode 2, Androidz Redux features a handful of newly designed graphics, and some revised gameplay.
I'll be in the process of uploading the game to my website, and to Github in the coming days. I'm hoping to create a more annotated version of the code, so that anyone interested can perform a compressed build of the game.
I've now pushed a repo of the current codebase to https://github.com/sassquad/androidz-redux
I've wanted to get this out of the door for months, but have been waylaid by all manner of distractions, and sometimes sheer lack of enthusiasm, developer burnout. You name it, I've been through it. But here we are.
A massive thank you to everyone who has responded to my nagging threads over the past year (yes, it was August last year when I began to blow the dust off this game), and particularly to 0xCODE who helped me with a variety of techniques to help me out of tight spots earlier this year.
I've playtested this game to death in the past few days, but am always open to any other issues or improvements that can be made. I'll be especially keen to hear from anyone who tries it on real computers. So far, I've only used the b2 emulator on Mac OS to test it.
I hope you enjoy this remastered edition of the game.
I have great pleasure in releasing Androidz Redux - an attempted remaster of my 1994 arcade game for the BBC Micro!
Play online via jsBeeb - https://bbc.godbolt.org/?disc=https://w ... d&autoboot, or download the attachment below.
Featuring 20 levels, and a lot of shoehorning to get the game into the extra colours available under Mode 2, Androidz Redux features a handful of newly designed graphics, and some revised gameplay.
I'll be in the process of uploading the game to my website, and to Github in the coming days. I'm hoping to create a more annotated version of the code, so that anyone interested can perform a compressed build of the game.
I've now pushed a repo of the current codebase to https://github.com/sassquad/androidz-redux
I've wanted to get this out of the door for months, but have been waylaid by all manner of distractions, and sometimes sheer lack of enthusiasm, developer burnout. You name it, I've been through it. But here we are.
A massive thank you to everyone who has responded to my nagging threads over the past year (yes, it was August last year when I began to blow the dust off this game), and particularly to 0xCODE who helped me with a variety of techniques to help me out of tight spots earlier this year.
I've playtested this game to death in the past few days, but am always open to any other issues or improvements that can be made. I'll be especially keen to hear from anyone who tries it on real computers. So far, I've only used the b2 emulator on Mac OS to test it.
I hope you enjoy this remastered edition of the game.
- Attachments
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- Androidz-Redux.zip
- Android Redux Zipped Disc Image
- (10.24 KiB) Downloaded 57 times
Last edited by sa_scott on Mon Aug 23, 2021 1:44 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Stephen Scott, Digital Media Muckerupper
Games: Androidz Redux, Headcase Hotel, Polymer Picker
www.sassquad.net
Stephen Scott, Digital Media Muckerupper
Games: Androidz Redux, Headcase Hotel, Polymer Picker
www.sassquad.net
Re: Androidz Redux released
Congrats on getting this released and glad I could help a little
0xC0DE
"I program my home computer / Beam myself into the future"
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Visit my YouTube channel featuring my games and demos for Acorn Electron and BBC Micro
"I program my home computer / Beam myself into the future"
Follow me on Twitter
Visit my YouTube channel featuring my games and demos for Acorn Electron and BBC Micro
Re: Androidz Redux released
Awesome, great work! It has kind of a Spectrum vibe with the colour scheme, and a bit of a Matthew Smith aesthetic I think?
Re: Androidz Redux released
Thank you dear sir!
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Stephen Scott, Digital Media Muckerupper
Games: Androidz Redux, Headcase Hotel, Polymer Picker
www.sassquad.net
Stephen Scott, Digital Media Muckerupper
Games: Androidz Redux, Headcase Hotel, Polymer Picker
www.sassquad.net
Re: Androidz Redux released
That's high praise. Thank you!
I was initially hoping to use background as well as foreground colours to define the graphics. But this would have resulted in rectangular shapes, so it wasn't practical.
VDU23 graphic definitions is certainly more old school, but the 2 colour approach isn't too bad in some respects.
Aseprite proved very useful for some of the graphics.
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Stephen Scott, Digital Media Muckerupper
Games: Androidz Redux, Headcase Hotel, Polymer Picker
www.sassquad.net
Stephen Scott, Digital Media Muckerupper
Games: Androidz Redux, Headcase Hotel, Polymer Picker
www.sassquad.net
Re: Androidz Redux released
I can`t get this to run in Edge, in fact.. nothing runs on Edge from that page :/
Re: Androidz Redux released
A nice little game, though I completed it on my first try in about 20mins.
- Nigel
BBC Model B: ATPL Sidewise, Acorn Speech, 2xWatford Floppy Drives, AMX Mouse, Viglen case, BeebZIF, etc.
BBC Model B: ATPL Sidewise, Acorn Speech, 2xWatford Floppy Drives, AMX Mouse, Viglen case, BeebZIF, etc.
Re: Androidz Redux released
Congratulations!
There was me thinking I had calibrated it to the point where I could hardly complete it in one sitting!
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Games: Androidz Redux, Headcase Hotel, Polymer Picker
www.sassquad.net
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Re: Androidz Redux released
Just as Pernod said: a nice little game, thanks for all the effort, now if you excuse me, I am going back to trying to finish it under the 20 mins mark.
Re: Androidz Redux released
Thank you for your comments. Would be interesting to see if this is ever nominated for the High Score Challenge!nicolagiacobbe wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 9:48 pm Just as Pernod said: a nice little game, thanks for all the effort, now if you excuse me, I am going back to trying to finish it under the 20 mins mark.
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Stephen Scott, Digital Media Muckerupper
Games: Androidz Redux, Headcase Hotel, Polymer Picker
www.sassquad.net
Stephen Scott, Digital Media Muckerupper
Games: Androidz Redux, Headcase Hotel, Polymer Picker
www.sassquad.net
Re: Androidz Redux released
I think everyone would get 100% within a couple of hours, so wouldn't be much of a challenge.
- Nigel
BBC Model B: ATPL Sidewise, Acorn Speech, 2xWatford Floppy Drives, AMX Mouse, Viglen case, BeebZIF, etc.
BBC Model B: ATPL Sidewise, Acorn Speech, 2xWatford Floppy Drives, AMX Mouse, Viglen case, BeebZIF, etc.
Re: Androidz Redux released
I think I just got burned!
I was going to suggest how quickly anyone could complete the game, not the fact that anyone would reach 100%!
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Stephen Scott, Digital Media Muckerupper
Games: Androidz Redux, Headcase Hotel, Polymer Picker
www.sassquad.net
Stephen Scott, Digital Media Muckerupper
Games: Androidz Redux, Headcase Hotel, Polymer Picker
www.sassquad.net
Re: Androidz Redux released
Sorry for any inconvenience, but I just realised that I broke the links to the game on my various pages. A big DOH! moment for me
I've attached the latest version to this message, but the following sites now have the correct link:
https://sassquad.github.io/androidz-redux/
https://github.com/sassquad/androidz-redux
https://www.sassquad.net/riscos#androidzredux
And for the uninitiated, I wrote a blogpost on how to use Beebasm for the creation of BBC Basic based game discs (for Windows and MacOS/Unix)
https://sascott.blogspot.com/2021/08/us ... games.html
I will need to amend the blog to take account of more of the Windows side of things, which I'm hoping to do sometimes this week.
I've attached the latest version to this message, but the following sites now have the correct link:
https://sassquad.github.io/androidz-redux/
https://github.com/sassquad/androidz-redux
https://www.sassquad.net/riscos#androidzredux
And for the uninitiated, I wrote a blogpost on how to use Beebasm for the creation of BBC Basic based game discs (for Windows and MacOS/Unix)
https://sascott.blogspot.com/2021/08/us ... games.html
I will need to amend the blog to take account of more of the Windows side of things, which I'm hoping to do sometimes this week.
- Attachments
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- Androidz-Redux.zip
- (9.9 KiB) Downloaded 34 times
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Stephen Scott, Digital Media Muckerupper
Games: Androidz Redux, Headcase Hotel, Polymer Picker
www.sassquad.net
Stephen Scott, Digital Media Muckerupper
Games: Androidz Redux, Headcase Hotel, Polymer Picker
www.sassquad.net