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Three more games for unexpanded VIC - Edition #3

Posted: Sun May 23, 2021 12:45 am
by huffelduff
Hi there all,

Here are three more games for the unexpanded VIC

1. Hydrocarbon Emergency - Derivative of the LCD game Oil Panic by Nintendo
2. Megapolitan Destruction - You know this, flatten a city with bombs
3. Yet another cycle race (YACR) - No explanation needed I think

All three games are single player, joystick only

As per my usual request: Please test on physical hardware if possible
Hopefully there will be more games to follow.

Greetings

Older game posts:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=9845
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=10074
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=10077
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=10087
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Image - Cover Front (MD).png
Image - Cover Front (YACR).png

Re: Three more games for unexpanded VIC - Edition #3

Posted: Mon May 24, 2021 2:44 am
by aitsch
all these games are fantastic.
Simple gameplay with lot of fun.

I like the light effects in the oil game grafics and look forward to see more games in future.

Unexpanded rocks 🤘

Re: Three more games for unexpanded VIC - Edition #3

Posted: Mon May 24, 2021 7:38 am
by huffelduff
Hi aitsch,

Thanks for checking it out. Glad you like the oil technician in Hydrocarbon Emergency.
I looked at vicarate. I knocked the ponytail guy out and got to level 3, but then he eventually gets you and bows! Kiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Greetings

Huffelduff

Re: Three more games for unexpanded VIC - Edition #3

Posted: Mon May 24, 2021 8:44 am
by AndyH
Very nice, you should post screenshots of the games themselves as they are excellent. I would have loved to have had the light cycles game back in the day.

Re: Three more games for unexpanded VIC - Edition #3

Posted: Mon May 24, 2021 12:40 pm
by chysn
I like the way your games look like old LCD or LED pocket game devices from the 80s. It's a cool aesthetic.

Re: Three more games for unexpanded VIC - Edition #3

Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 5:49 am
by huffelduff
Hi there Andy and chysn,

Andy you wrote: "...you should post screenshots of the games themselves"
Point taken. I will do so in future releases. I noticed from your website that you develop for multiple platforms. I downloaded the Burps and will play around with it when I have chance. I see you did the graphics for it and it looks like fun.

Chysn you wrote you liked the aesthetic. Thank you for calling it an aesthetic because I really try to give the games a distinctive look. I noticed from your website you're into synth development. I listened to your work posted on soundcloud. I enjoyed 'Who Are You Really And What Were You Before?". I like the frenetic nature of it. Anyway I have included a pic of a synth I made but have not completed yet, its called a SX50B and its a triple oscillator. As you might notice it has no labels for the controls yet and at first glance it seems quite simple I would suspect. Its got a nice fat sort of sound and I tend to tie adsr lines together into a single control :)

Well thank you so much for taking an interest and giving feedback

Greetings
Incomplete synth SX50B.png

Re: Three more games for unexpanded VIC - Edition #3

Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 6:22 am
by AndyH
I'm mostly Vic 20 these days, with a slight leaning to the Pet, C64 and CPC :) The Burps was a fun one to work on, that was about 30 years ago though. Time flies!

Look forward to seeing more games from you. :)

Re: Three more games for unexpanded VIC - Edition #3

Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 7:31 am
by chysn
huffelduff wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 5:49 am I enjoyed 'Who Are You Really And What Were You Before?"
Thanks for listening!
Anyway I have included a pic of a synth I made but have not completed yet, its called a SX50B and its a triple oscillator. As you might notice it has no labels for the controls yet and at first glance it seems quite simple I would suspect. Its got a nice fat sort of sound and I tend to tie adsr lines together into a single control :)
That's cool! Is this is a screenshot of a softsynth, or a mockup of a hardware synth?

My involvement in synths is mostly as an alternate firmware developer for a eurorack module, but I'd like to combine this interest with my VIC-20 interest in the near future. Right now I'm exploring prior art; I just got a really nice copy of Vic Composer, but I think it's unfortunate that this kind of thing passed for music composition software on the VIC-20.

Re: Three more games for unexpanded VIC - Edition #3

Posted: Thu May 27, 2021 11:22 am
by kokkiklhs
Excellent games, thank you for all three of them!
8)

Re: Three more games for unexpanded VIC - Edition #3

Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 3:32 am
by huffelduff
Hi there chysn and kokkiklhs,

kokkiklhs you wrote: "Excellent games, thank you for all three of them!"
Thanks a bunch!

chysn you wrote: "That's cool! Is this is a screenshot of a softsynth, or a mockup of a hardware synth?"
Its a soft synth, a VST2.
If I get to finish it I'll post a vst4free link.

Greetings

Huffelduff