High Score Challenge - S19 - R09 - Jet Power Jack

[KarateEd]

Stardot high score challenge
Season Nineteen: Round 09
Jet Power Jack chosen by Chrisn

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RULES
Round Nine starts at 9pm on Monday the 23rd of January and ends at 9pm on Monday the 6th of February
The aim is to score as many points as possible
Post scores and screenshots/photographs in this thread
The rules are here
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DISK IMAGE
http://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=64
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INSTRUCTIONS

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SCORING
Points will be awarded using the following formula.
points = (YS / BS * 50) + ((NOP - YP + 1) * (50 / NOP))
YS = Your Score
BS = Best Score
NOP = Number of Players
YP = Your Position
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HIGH SCORE TABLE

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Link to Overall High Score Table...http://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=25601

Thanks to Galax for the Mode 7 fonts.

Well, a lot of up and down in this one - cute killers....hmmmmm......Ed ...........
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[Rod C]

OK, I'll start things off. Nice game so far. I just got to level 2.

[KarateEd]

Well, don't want you to be all alone Rod.....

[FourthStone]

Twitchy controls and brutal hazards on every platform if you try to drop stright down or jet up too far.

Score: 3060

[KarateEd]

A tad better......

[Rod C]

Well, don't want you to be all alone Rod.....

Hi there, Ed!

[Venger]

Had a couple of goes. I agree that the controls are a bit twitchy but I've seen worse.

Oh yeah... Don't play level 5. The collision detection is absolutely shocking.

[KarateEd]

Well, don't want you to be all alone Rod.....

Hi there, Ed!

Hi Rod!

[chrisn]

My best so far: 6675

[KarateEd]

I'm waiting Rod......

[Rod C]

I'm on my way, Ed. No need to hang around though, you might get bored!

[FourthStone]

Ed & Rod, I have arrived

Score: 6545

[KarateEd]

Ok Rod I won't hang around then and FS, is there really a destination here?

[MatthewThompson]

First attempt, this was another 1.99 from the newsagents , but a lot better than the last one !

[Venger]

A slight increase. Twitchy, twitchy game. I think the game could've done without the random stopping and changing direction of the nasties on levels 2 and 3.

[fwibbler]

I remember this one as a really frustrating game bitd.
Nothing's changed for me. I find it almost impossible to judge the edges of the platforms correctly and usually end up at the bottom in a pool of blood!

[KarateEd]

Yup, the controls are real twitchy. It's taken me a lot of games just to get to level 3......Ummm, I'm not holding back Rod.....

[maniacminer]

LOL I've just fixed up another Beeb and installed Econet into it, this time I thought I'd play the challenge on it... (although it boots into Starship Command almost immediately ) Anyway, that's six hours of "Beeb time" that should have been spent debugging some weird firmware issue (solved now - who'd have thought students leaving reputable universities not understanding 2's complement!)

I went back onto the laptop and played some more of this game, as I've said before, when the yelling starts, I stop playing. The thing that finally did it for me was the dogs**t collision detection on the spiders what's worse, the final level has a gap that needs three, very precise, thrusts to get through each direction and what do you get for going through it all? Nothing.

It is so typical of a game that the developer added "difficulty" because they were play testing the game as they went. The death on contact with the edge of the platforms is a result, otherwise, one could cheese it by thrusting up and using the edge of the platform to line one's self up with the platform above... It is a shame that this game is so unforgiving, I am sure it could have been better if the things added to make it more difficult were not present on the first play through and then gradually added to give it some replay value.

[KarateEd]

It is so typical of a game that the developer added "difficulty" because they were play testing the game as they went. The death on contact with the edge of the platforms is a result, otherwise, one could cheese it by thrusting up and using the edge of the platform to line one's self up with the platform above... It is a shame that this game is so unforgiving, I am sure it could have been better if the things added to make it more difficult were not present on the first play through and then gradually added to give it some replay value.

Yes that would be the right way to do it but remember, this was one of the fairly early games for the Beeb, wasn't it?

It certainly could have been much better and...... a proper machine code routine for the player movement would have been nice, could have improved the game just by that and not having such a herky-jerky thing happening. That might have been another programming 'afterthought'.

[Rod C]

Made a little more progress.

[Rod C]

...and a little more. Just have to remember not to make mistakes!

[Rod C]

Getting a bit better.

[fwibbler]

Wow, by pure luck I've managed to get through the first level onto the second (twice in fact).
This second level doesn't look so tough, although I failed to complete it both times now...

[KarateEd]

Wow, by pure luck I've managed to get through the first level onto the second (twice in fact).
This second level doesn't look so tough, although I failed to complete it both times now...

That second level is tougher than it looks.....trust me. I've been to it many times but have only ever completed it once.

[KarateEd]

High Score Tables Updated

[FourthStone]

Slight boost...

Score: 7530

[Rod C]

Almost got through level 2.

[klintworth]

Late start for me - just getting used to the controls

[Rod C]

I managed an unexpected improvement after losing two lives in level 1 then sailed straight through level 2 without a twitch. Level 3 brought me down though.

[KarateEd]

A grand total of 100 more points.