Axelay

[genesis8]

Any news on Axelay ? Web site link isnt good anymore.

[Bryce]

Not sure what you mean. He was online yesterday, he hasn't gone anywhere.

Bryce.

[Carnivius]

Seeing Axelay as a topic name made me think someone's having a go at porting the classic SNES shooter to CPC.  Which would be crazy... except maybe for Batman Group?  

[VincentGR]

Seeing Axelay as a topic name made me think someone's having a go at porting the classic SNES shooter to CPC.  Which would be crazy... except maybe for Batman Group?

Same here, but as you mentioned nothing can impress or surprise me anymore after PDreams...

[Axelay]

@Carnivius - I know, hopes dashed! 

Any news on Axelay ? Web site link isnt good anymore.

Sorry but I dont have a personal site any more.  That was with my old ISP and they removed that facility, so it disappeared.  It wasn't really used for news though, only for putting game releases on, and there are now better places for finding games since I first made that page.

[Xyphoe]

@Carnivius - I know, hopes dashed! 


Sorry but I dont have a personal site any more.  That was with my old ISP and they removed that facility, so it disappeared.  It wasn't really used for news though, only for putting game releases on, and there are now better places for finding games since I first made that page.

Hey Axelay! Are you currently working on any new Amstrad games?

[arnoldemu]

Hey Axelay! Are you currently working on any new Amstrad games?

Give the man time to recover 

CPCRetroDev is just finished:

[sigh]

Give the man time to recover 

CPCRetroDev is just finished:

Holy crap! Bullet hell on the CPC?!?! This is lovely!

[Puresox]

oh wow nice work!!!

[Axelay]

Hey Axelay! Are you currently working on any new Amstrad games?

Always!     As @arnoldemu points out though, the last release was barely a month ago, so the next will be some way off yet.

[kawickboy]

Hello Axelay, is there any update planed for megablasters ? Especially with a 4 battle-mode ?

[Joseman]

Hello Axelay, is there any update planed for megablasters ? Especially with a 4 battle-mode ?

with M4 - wifi support!!!! :O

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[sigh]

Where can we download Dragon Attack?

@Axelay: Are the bullets sprites or are they some sort of "character or symbols" that's produced by the CPC?

[Axelay]

Hello Axelay, is there any update planed for megablasters ? Especially with a 4 battle-mode ?

It's not the current project but it's not out of the question for a future project.

Where can we download Dragon Attack?

You can get it from the competition results site, or at CPC-Power.

@Axelay: Are the bullets sprites or are they some sort of "character or symbols" that's produced by the CPC?

They are 2x1 byte compiled sprites, effectively, depending on how you choose to define sprites.  There's no "character or symbols" display mode on the CPC, it's purely a bitmap.

[Puresox]

the graphic styling(title pages),is quite something. Very inspired ,with great flair. leading

[kawickboy]

It's not the current project but it's not out of the question for a future project.

There's a lack of such multiplayer games for retrogaming-party on CPC, so there's a market for it.

[sigh]

It's not the current project but it's not out of the question for a future project.



You can get it from the competition results site, or at CPC-Power.


They are 2x1 byte compiled sprites, effectively, depending on how you choose to define sprites.  There's no "character or symbols" display mode on the CPC, it's purely a bitmap.

So how many of these sprites are there on screen at one time?
Also - how much further can you take this game? It's very much like Ketsui DS where it was a boss rush game that worked very well. Would it be possible to include a proper level with enemies?

[Axelay]

So how many of these sprites are there on screen at one time?

There's a maximum of 256 normal enemy bullets on screen at once.

Also - how much further can you take this game? It's very much like Ketsui DS where it was a boss rush game that worked very well. Would it be possible to include a proper level with enemies?

It would depend on what you mean by taking the game further.  If you just mean adding waves of fodder enemies before the boss, it depends on how many and how fast.  It could be difficult without finding a much faster way of dealing with the bullet movement and display, or alternatively, rebalancing how you spend your cpu time.


The game is presently built around the idea that the normal enemy bullets and the bosses dont need to move very fast, so the bulk of the game elements can 'get away' with moving at just 17fps, allowing for a lot of cpu time, and so a lot of enemy bullets.  Then the player, player bullets, input, collision detection and one of the special enemy bullets are all updated under interrupt at 50fps to give the control response you'd expect for such a game.  Trying to introduce something like large numbers of fast moving enemies would mean that approach would need to be rethought.

[sigh]

There's a maximum of 256 normal enemy bullets on screen at once.



It would depend on what you mean by taking the game further.  If you just mean adding waves of fodder enemies before the boss, it depends on how many and how fast.  It could be difficult without finding a much faster way of dealing with the bullet movement and display, or alternatively, rebalancing how you spend your cpu time.


The game is presently built around the idea that the normal enemy bullets and the bosses dont need to move very fast, so the bulk of the game elements can 'get away' with moving at just 17fps, allowing for a lot of cpu time, and so a lot of enemy bullets.  Then the player, player bullets, input, collision detection and one of the special enemy bullets are all updated under interrupt at 50fps to give the control response you'd expect for such a game.  Trying to introduce something like large numbers of fast moving enemies would mean that approach would need to be rethought.

The current speed that you have looks perfect. With Cave games, they usually implement some type of slowdown on some of their previous games and some of their releases even made it a feature such as Espgaluda and Espgaluda 2.

I was thinking more of having the enemies shoot far fewer bullets or no bullets at all and instead have the bosses do the bullet hell like you already have.
I was just thinking that this change of pace could be really interesting:)

Anyway - just throwing out my 2 pence. What you have already done is wonderful and I didn't think it was even possible.

[keith56]

The current speed that you have looks perfect. With Cave games, they usually implement some type of slowdown on some of their previous games and some of their releases even made it a feature such as Espgaluda and Espgaluda 2.

I was thinking more of having the enemies shoot far fewer bullets or no bullets at all and instead have the bosses do the bullet hell like you already have.
I was just thinking that this change of pace could be really interesting:)

The CPC game I am developing is "Inspired" by the cave game "Death Smiles"... "Coincidentally" due to the wondrous limitations of 8 bit, it also has a maximum of 256 bullets on screen...

Sadly I'm not the coder  that Axelay is, so the framerate is nothing compared to "Dragon attack's", but maybe it will be interest to you - My game will be released around Xmas, and is called "Chibi Akuma(s)"

[ldaneels]

Oh, I'm looking forward to seeing your project. There can't be enough bullet hell shooters

[sigh]

The CPC game I am developing is "Inspired" by the cave game "Death Smiles"... "Coincidentally" due to the wondrous limitations of 8 bit, it also has a maximum of 256 bullets on screen...

Sadly I'm not the coder  that Axelay is, so the framerate is nothing compared to "Dragon attack's", but maybe it will be interest to you - My game will be released around Xmas, and is called "Chibi Akuma(s)"

Death Smiles is a great game. I have it on my 360 and it's almost like a gothic version of Cotton:D
I look forward to your game.