Game idea - CPCanabalt?

[Devilmarkus]

Some tiles:
4 colours (4th is green = transparent, so ahaaaaa we need a mask!!!)

(More will follow if you like them)

[TFM]

The gaming principle of the Canabalt remembers me about the very first games of the 70ties & 80ies.

It's just a small sprite moving to the right until it falls in a hole.

I'm curious if there is really interrest in such a game for the CPC???

[robcfg]

Me thinks it would be a nice game to play on the CPC.


And it would be also quite a challenge to code that paralax scroll... 

[TFM]

Me thinks it would be a nice game to play on the CPC.


And it would be also quite a challenge to code that paralax scroll... 

Interesting 


Forget about the parallax scroll in the way they show it there in that youtube videos... I don't say it's not possible, but it suxx to code that kind. If a parallax scroll similar to that "Altered Beast Demo" would be used, that would be different, more easy to do. Or for example also Sub-Hunter. Smaller screen though.
However parallax scrolls like shown in the videos, that's no fun coding it on CPC. If you do that - hehe - then you really have only cpu time for one very small sprite - hahaha.

[MacDeath]

Let's think about it as an interactive demo...

[TFM]

You got a good way to look at things 

[Morn]

Let's think about it as an interactive demo...

That describes the majority of newly developed games for the CPC pretty accurately...

[robcfg]

Getting back to topic...

Winners don't use palettes, hehe!

As Canabalt is essentially grey, would it be possible to use mode 2 to simulate mode 1 pixel while using patterns to get the different shades of grey?

[MacDeath]

Wouldn't be as smooth as using 3 colours yet larger pixels.

I guess...

[fano]

As Canabalt is essentially grey, would it be possible to use mode 2 to simulate mode 1 pixel while using patterns to get the different shades of grey?

Beware , on CTM if you apply this on tall surfaces you'll take the risk to have awfull moirure effects 

[MacDeath]

Why not trying a Mode1 and 2 only demo then ?

Just to show peoples that those can be very colourfull modes too...

Beware , on CTM if you apply this on tall surfaces you'll take the risk to have awfull moirure effects

I found out that even big dithered surface in mode1 produce such moirure effects...
But I suppose this is even worse in mode2...

[Devilmarkus]

Closed...

[Gryzor]

Well, there's a better solution than locking a potentially great thread. I'm reopening it and removing the irrelevant stuff...

[tastefulmrship]

Well, there's a better solution than locking a potentially great thread.

I think the thread has served its purpose and shown people how MODE1 could be properly used in the future, but I fear CPCanalbat (as a project) is dead.

As a fond farewell, here's the CPCanalbat title page in our original BLUE, GREY and CPC-YELLOW palettes.
Here's to what COULD have been!


EDIT1: Apologies to everyone for being the one who threw this thread into obscurity with banal postings of incongruent crap!

EDIT2: Edited posts to add a few more colour choices on pages 1 & 2.

EDIT3: Someone issued a CALL &BC02 to one of my pictures, I apologise!

[Gryzor]

I think the thread has served its purpose and shown people how MODE1 could be properly used in the future, but I fear CPCanalbat (as a project) is dead.

So should we lock all threads and projects we may consider 'dead'?

[TFM]

So should we lock all threads and projects we may consider 'dead'?

This would render "considered dead" into "absolutely dead".

Why don't give you guys that idea a break and sleep over it?


I can tell that now... I thought about using my Game engine for a CPCanabalt, but for some reasons (mainly time) I frooze that project. The introduction of parallax scrolling would be too time consuming, but this doesn't mean that there will be no CPCanabalt in future. I guess somebody else is already working on it.

[Gryzor]

Aw, come on, just read in RG that there exist not one, but TWO Canabalt versions for the c64... Darn.

[Gryzor]

...and last night I read (again in RG) that the C64anabalt is really nice. It is, indeed!

[TFM]

They got 20x more coders etc...

[robcfg]

I bought it some time ago, and I have to say that it's a pretty good game on the C64.


I mean, there had to be a game that took advantage from all those grey colors... 

[ivarf]

Grey machine with grey colours onscreen. Fabolous Looks nice, shaky camera I guess.


But isn't this the speed and smoothness that we get on the CPC when using the hardwarescrolling at full speed?

[TFM]

Sure, but that parallax scrolling is a bit to keep considered.

However, the idea of the game is boring. I played it 3 times (pc) and then I moved on...
I mean... if there would be levels, save points, level codes or so... ok, maybe the CPC version will have them 

[TMR]

But isn't this the speed and smoothness that we get on the CPC when using the hardwarescrolling at full speed?

It appears to be the equivalent of four mode 0 pixels a frame at full speed, but the speed is reduced by collisions with rooftop objects or furniture in the buildings.

[Gryzor]

The 2600 got it
Endless Runner Canabalt Ported To Atari 2600 In JumpVCS | RetroCollect

[TFM]

Take any kind of jump an run game, glue the joystick to the right position. Now delete nearly all features of that jump an run game... what do you get?    .........     Right! Canabalt!