Anyone noticed Tom & Jerry's new release Color Lines?
According to genesis8 it was sold at the Amstrad Expo Meeting...
Cool , finally out ;D
Wasn't aware there is a physical distro avaible at the Coutances meeting , actually so. (oh yeah ! i am on a physical distro :-* )
Let's hope they'll release some more physical packages
Ho ho...
Almost forgot it...
I should get me one of those.
Quote from: CPCIak on 19:30, 26 June 10
Let's hope they'll release some more physical packages
I hope so too! Judging by the pictures on the Genesis8 news page (http://genesis8.free.fr/index.php), it would complement my recently purchased copies of the Psytronik games and
Orion Prime nicely. ;D (By the way, I was only responsible for correcting Tom et Jerry's English translation of the instructions for the game,
not the text on the back of the inlay!)
Hi,
Well Nich, I hope the inlay text is not too bad :-). It made laught many sceners at the Coutances Meeting, I don't understand why :-).
A nyway, the game may be available tomorrow in .DSK format.
T&J/GPA
I want!!!!! So where could one get it??
Hi,
You can now download the .DSK release here :
http://tj.gpa.free.fr
Have a nice play :-).
T&j/GPA
Yeees, but what about the physical release? Hmmmm?
Hi,
Well, for the moment, no physical distribution (excepted for the people who have participated to the game).
We will see later if there is a way to sell it in a way that is not too time consumming for us... You should have come to the Coutances meeting, like Voxfreax or Optimus :-)).
T&J/GA
Nahhh I was washing my hair that night!
Keep us posted if you do release it, will you?
In the meantime, any pieces left that I could bribe you for?
Thanx a lot to Tom&Jerry for making Color Lines public :)
Sorry Gryzor, no one left at the moment. If it can comfort you, I even don't have a copy for me :-).
I'm happy I made a crap skin for it, so I can get it... :P
let's check this, also we'll have to put a poll to vote for the best skin...
If you don't want to release further copies, what do you think about making the artwork public? So everyone could print out the cover and stickers for his own needs.
Like Amstrad Today did for Ishido: http://www.amstradtoday.com/elements/bonus/ishido.htm (http://www.amstradtoday.com/elements/bonus/ishido.htm)
QuoteLike Amstrad Today did for Ishido
Or even for rick 128+... ;)
Ok, i tested the game..
This is really quite a dick tive...er... addictive.
Liked the rastered kalachnikov intro.
Lots of skins, and lots of very sweet music actually.
Perhaps a jukebox mode option would be great just to listen to musics without actually playing ???
Concerning the skins, it has a lot of variety.
Of course the Mode0 can't enable fine finely detailed stuff, but it is really coloured (of course...)
Some skins may be a bit messy actually (not enough contrast)... and IMO, some skin are not that easy to play.
The pawns , when sharing the same design, need to get the most varied colour scheme, or else this gets tricky...as CPC's palette has a lot of semi-similar colours.
But it must be better on a real CPC screen (will try when I get the disk...)
And it is good to have a good contrast between background and pawns...
Must be a hell on a monochrome monitor though.
I was well surprised that some peoples choose a non-black colour for the Background/border of the screen.
And some fonts are really great (mine was simplistic and rushed...lol).
I was quite impressed by Supersly's skin in that when you select a pawns, it is like it is removed from the board...very sweet idea, almost add some sort of animation and volume/relief...
My own skin being number 8, I was pleased...
8 is the number of chaos (octogon cross)... was it on purpose ?
I was also pleased to ssee my skin was displaying not the worse playability...I tried to get quite different shapes and colours...
But I was a bit disapointed by the messy look of my blue daemonette.
By the way, a nice game in overall, fun, and a lot of great and varied graphics and musics...
Were all those tunes writen especially for the game ?
Skin List :1) DIX HELL / CED
2) PURPLE WAVE / CED
3) RUST IN PEACE / ELDRIK
4) GAMMA RAY / ELDRIK
5) POWERSLAVE / ELDRIK
6) SANCTUARIUM / ELDRIK
7) BRICKS / FANO
8) CHAOS / MAC DEATH*
9) AUTUMN FLAVOUR /NORI
A) SECRET GARDEN / NORI
B) LOST GALAXIES / PAPY CPC
C) RIGOR MORTIS / REX
D) ROLLMOPS / SUPERSLY
E) SPARKLING / VOXFREAX
F) RAINBOW / WINNER
G) GHOST INSIDE / ZENITH
*the smiley w<asn't on purpose, lol... 8 + ) = 8) ...
Hi,
That's clear that the game can't be played on a monochronous monitor (shame on you, GT65 user, you could participate to create a skin... ). Some skins are not easy to play with, even on a real CPC :-). But that's artists' choices, not mine.
And for the Jukebox, Eldrik had the same idea, but not enough disk space. And a game is not a musicdisk :-). All music have been done for the game (hard job :-( ), except "Lonely robot" by Ultrasyd. You can find it inside the Arkos Trakker betas.
CPCiak, if we can't find another way to spread the game with a packaging, I suppose we will make an archive will the documentation, the inlay and the stickers. And we cannot pack the crystal box inside :- ). Be patient and keep courage :-).
T&J/GPA
Hi T&J. 8)
Quoteshame on you, GT65 user, you could participate to create a skin...
Supersly did a skin though...(he's quite a specialist in Monochrome monitor on CPC...is he not ?)
But hey, a game named color lines is clearely not designed for a Monochrome !
Well, you can still put the game to play the music, but getting a still picture on those old monitors is not a clever idea, unless you put a "screen saver"...
@Tom & Jerry! I like your cracks, but I love your game! Great work!! Well done!!! And every day of the 10 years worth to wait for.
Nice game, thankyou for releasing it :)
So many musics, I wasn't used to that on a CPC... ;)
Yet again, the only 3 channels can't enable getting sounds AND musics...I really should try to concieve an additionnal AY soundcard...when I'll see if the FPGA-based ACID erzatz work...
Quote from: MacDeath on 19:19, 28 June 10
Well, you can still put the game to play the music, but getting a still picture on those old monitors is not a clever idea, unless you put a "screen saver"...
I don't think I've ever seen a screen saver on cpc.
A starfield maybe? Or the 3D text showing CPC-related words and names? Or maybe lots of colored Amstrad logos flying towards you?
I don't think it'd be so hard :) Well, apart from the 3D text.
Quote from: Gryzor on 08:42, 30 June 10
A starfield maybe? Or the 3D text showing CPC-related words and names? Or maybe lots of colored Amstrad logos flying towards you?
I don't think it'd be so hard :) Well, apart from the 3D text.
yes a screensaver is not hard to write, but I don't remember seeing one in a game or utility.
SymbOS has a screensaver.
Starfield?!?
This 10 years haven't gone to waste, great game and awesome music, thanks for sharing it
Would it be possible to get the playlist of the tunes ?
Names, number of track and composer...
Also can it be released as a music pack for AY emulators and Starkos...
So I can put those in my AY emulator playlist per exemple...
Quote from: arnoldemu on 14:09, 29 June 10
I don't think I've ever seen a screen saver on cpc.
The very first screen saver was made for FutureOS loooong time ago. Now you also get screen savers for SOS.
Quote from: MacDeath on 01:09, 01 July 10
Would it be possible to get the playlist of the tunes ?
Names, number of track and composer...
Hello,
Well, I have composed all music, except tunes f9 page 1 (Color) and f8 page 2 (Lonely Robot), done
by Ultrasyd (you can find this information in the game documentation. Oh sorry, you don't have yet your
boxed copy :-) ).
My music have no real name, only things like CHAOS4, MARIKO, and so and so. That's not really useful
to put that kind of thing into the game.
I suppose it is possible to spread the .SKS files soon, but I don't want to make a musicdisk with them.
T&J/GPA
OK so I assume the names are the same as the name of the skin perhaps ?
Lots of "arpèges en quinte"...sounds quite metal perhaps... but on the overall, this is a complete AY-chiptune album actually...
Also the pre-set song for my skin is really catchy and the main theme/riff is struck into my ears.... ouch...
As many others...
some tunes sounds a bit like 80's synthetizer like Visage's "Fade to grey" IMO...
Also, i tried the game on emulator in Monochrome mode...lol...
1) unplayable
2) almost playable but not really
3) almost playable actually... need perhaps further tests.
4) almost playable but not really
5) almost playable but not really
6) almost playable but not really
7) almost playable but not really
8) playable thx to different shapes.
9) almost playable but not really
a) almost playable but not really
b) almost playable but not really
c) unplayable
d) almost playable but not really, yet the mermaid looks great. :o
e) unplayable
f) almost playable but not really
g)unplayable
By "almost playable" I mean that only perhaps a pair of tiles that are too similar, yet the tiles are well differencied with the bachground/empty tiles...or whatever..
yet it is still quite unplayable.
On the other hand, the HUD sometimes looks great in monochrome too.
being almost the only who designed different shapes...I saved the day ;) ...lol...
But hey, who plays on Monochrome nowadays ?
This is perhaps my pride, my skin (and the font) is not the better looking and many stuff are a bit amateur perhaps...
Also as i saw, I obviously ripped the blank tile from Fano's....ouch....
Yet it also contains a few originalities.
Game Over message per exemple, or the different shapes...renames of the stuff in the HUD...
And it is the only Monochrome friendly one... ;D
BTW, the concept of such production with a lot of peoples involved is truely awesome, should do more like this...
Here a typical exemple as attached picture.
But this skin is quite fun, liked it, in colour version.
For green screen it may be better to use patterns for the tiles, or unique tiles for each colour instead of using colours themselves.
Then making a special "Shape Lines" version... :P
Well well, in the name of the game, there is the word "color", so :-).
If someone would have take the time to design a monochronous skin (the toolkit has been spreaded about one year ago... ), we would add it with pleasure into the game, but now, it's a little bit late. Macdeath's skin is the only one that can be played on this kind of monitor, that is clear.
T&J/GPA
Not a big deal actually... that won't be necessary... :)
The game plays very well on emulator for Monochome-only possessors.
I was just curious to look at the result of the graphics in Greenscreen, that's all.
And appart from having some tiles hard to differenciate, many skins look good actually.
On another matter, Do you have a new project at the moment ?
Hello,
Just a little message to inform you that Color Lines music are now avalaible as .SKS and .YM files.
Just go to http://tj.gpa.free.fr
T&J/GPA
Thanks man!
Darn, let's look for that YM Winamp plugin again... :D