Released: pulse

[joshuadenmark]

But sadly, I still like it great game.

[pixel]

No, it's not a joke: it got even faster.

https://github.com/SvenMichaelKlose/pul ... g?raw=true

Screen address calculation has been improved while working on Art Of Destruction and lots of them have been removed in the process. Enjoy!

[rhurst]

Downloaded, mirrored, nice!

BTW, how is it that this old man has the paltry hi-score of 364 attached to this?

[pixel]

BTW, how is it that this old man has the paltry hi-score of 364 attached to this?

My flatmate made it 4271... that sonofa...

[Vic 2000]

- THE (TRUE) GOOD REVIEW -

You got a nice feel in this game. The sound is really enhance the game a lot. The parallax scrolling stars adds much to the game too. Pulse even starts with lots of action when getting upgrades quick for more destructive blast power. I get some sort of R-Type feeling when playing this game, but not even R-Type was so packed with action from start and the ST version of R-Type feels pretty lame in comparison to your game Pulse.

Well done.


- THE (BAD) MADE UP REVIEW -

Puls is so bad...

*crowd in the background*

- How bad is it?

It's so f**king bad that i rolled around on the floor banging my head in the door post of frustration after the first level...hysterically screaming BRAIN DAMAGE continuously for two hours and then i got a trip to a shrink.

Pulse can damage your health seriously...



(it's quite fun writing bad made up reviews)

[pixel]

Some magazines are writing reviews about Pulse and they slapped me around for the glitches a bit. I just ended up banging together a quick +3K hack without the mirror images.

https://github.com/SvenMichaelKlose/pul ... g?raw=true

p.s.: I also took the chance to keep the speed more balance at the expense of a little bit of average speed. Do you think that was a good idea?

[beamrider]

I didn't think the glitches were too bad given the achievment, so not sure the improvements warrant needing an extra 3K.

Personally, I would have left it alone and maybe released a pulse-2 with more levels and aliens using the whole of the extra 3K (or even 8K) - but that's just me.

[Boray]

I think more people will be able to play an 8K version than a +3K version on real hardware.

[Boray]

Found this old poll:
http://sleepingelephant.com/~sleeping/i ... =11&t=2488

[beamrider]

Found this old poll:
http://sleepingelephant.com/~sleeping/i ... =11&t=2488

Shame it didn't distuinguish between 8/16K. I'd wager vast majority of users have 16K if anything.

A better poll would be something like, what's your highest memory config:

- Unexpanded
- 3K
- 8K
-16K
- Fully populated (megacart or similar)

[Boray]

But making a program for 8K will work on virtually ALL memory expansions except for 3K... so...

[beamrider]

But making a program for 8K will work on virtually ALL memory expansions except for 3K... so...

Yes, but a 16K program won't work on 8K so IMO not much point squeezing a program into 8K if most have 16K, might as well target just one of the following..

unexpanded
16K
Emulation/(Megacart or similar)

[beamrider]

anyway I think we're getting off topic....

[tokra]

Created a new poll just for the fun of it.

[pixel]

There'll be a review of Pulse on paper: The Micro Mart magazine prints something about it "this week". So, if you're living in Britain you might want to peek inside. I didn't read it yet but they let me know that they find the game "most impressive".

This is crazy!