Evening all,
Some screenshots of a new project: Transversion: a port to the CPC of the 1983 Solar-Fox/Gridrunner game originally for the Speccy. I'm using the lovely CPCTelera library, and I hope to have it completed in a few weeks, and I'll be including a few of the graphical tweaks from the awesome versions by Denis Grachev, (Sector and Sector:Invasion) which were released a few years ago, also for the Spectrum. Will work on any CPC, and full source code will be available. Stay tuned to this thread for more details!
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Didn't know of this, looks interesting.
https://youtu.be/TmOxYX8tTDc
But please do something about the sound 😁
Quote from: Gryzor on 04:11, 23 April 24Didn't know of this, looks interesting.
https://youtu.be/TmOxYX8tTDc
But please do something about the sound 😁
Our lovely MrLou has granted me permission to use some of his music instead of the Speccy's dulcet tones.
- add enemy bullets/collision detection
- game over splash
- music/sfx
- extra graphical touches and effects
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Nice. An idea, if it's not to late, make the tiles like bombjack, if you take them at a certain order to get higher score.
I always liked this game on the Atari 2600:
https://youtu.be/sk3resNu1kA?feature=shared&t=186 (https://youtu.be/sk3resNu1kA?feature=shared&t=186)
I'm looking forward to your CPC version.
Alright, so a brief video of a WIP. Note that this is obviously way too slow and sluggish. I'm still writing my code as if I've got unlimited fps and a graphics card to play with! But now I have a vague idea of what is going on, its time to properly optimise stuff and get rid of stuff that doesn't translate well on a Z80 (for example, needless integer division and unnecessary redrawing of areas on the screen that haven't changed!), and to make the frame rate like the proverbial poo off a shovel.
I've done some optimisation and additional work, though its not smooth or speedy enough yet. But its an enjoyable process to do so. I've got collision detection switched off for development purposes.
Cracked the speed issue. Next stop, collision detection and death animations. I also need to look at ensuring things all happen at a consistent pace, and there's no slowdown or speedup depending on what is happening on screen.
Wow that's a big difference!
What were the main optimisations that led to the speed-up?