New Game: Emu's Massive Hunt (WIP)

[AndyH]

Tonight I'm working on the plumbing.

Once again, click to view

[AndyH]

Dusk and Dark - these will be used for some areas in the dungeons. I might change the edges of the light areas to blue.

Once again, click the images to see them in action.

[LOFI_CODER]

That looks really great!
As a monochrome fan, I particularly like the night mode.
From my point of view, no colour needs to be added in the immediate surroundings of Emu.

How do you create these cool GIF clips?

[huffelduff]

Tonight I'm working on the plumbing.

Hi Andy,

Its looking great.
Suck pipes! Whooohoooo, I love it.
I've been looking at Turbo Rascal and your code examples btw.

Greetings

H

[AndyH]

You could be on to something there - for full night I'll try just blue around you for a very dark feeling. Might be too much but will see.

I use ScreenToGif to capture the screen, it's a nice little tool.

Unfortunately with the animated gif's you're not hearing the suck noise as you jump into one, or the dink sounds as you hit corners

Thanks BTW Next I will be adding the baddies finally. This is what memory looks like at the moment, with no optimisations.

Compressed room data is in block 5 but I'm expecting I will need to eat into block 3 before I'm finished. Then need to fit the rest of the code in the last 8k. I have all the graphic data, included the shifted sprites, already in and that's what takes a large chunk of RAM. Fingers crossed I can keep everything and not run out of memory.

[AndyH]

Still need the colour on the dusk mode, but here's what the dark mode looks like just in blue.

[Rich]

This is looking like a well polished game, well done!!!

[AndyH]

Thanks Rich!

[Ola H]

Dusk mode is great
It truly captures the sensation of running with a headlamp in nature at night. It's like you're carrying civilization with you, making you feel secure in the midst of the unknown.

[mingle]

Very nice looking game. However the flickering in the illuminated area around the character is a little disconcerting.

Is that a design feature, or just a Vic limitation?

Cheers,

Mike.

[AndyH]

Dusk mode looks good on a CRT screen too.

The flickering has been improved in the latest, a little more random rather than strobing. It is intentional, supposed to be like candlelight. I don't want to give anyone a fit or anything. The good news is there are only some limited areas where it will be used and not many rooms.

[Lechuck]

It is great!

I love the sucking pipes effect. Looks so real!

Looking forward to the final game…

Cheers

[AndyH]

Thanks!

Baddies that move up and down added. I've got horizontal and diagonal baddie movement to put in next.

[AndyH]

This area is quite tricky. I may have to relax the difficulty.

[LOFI_CODER]

So many different rooms and options!

It's going to be an open-world game, isn't it?

Looking forward for the first beta version!

Greetings
LOFI