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Zombie Calavera Prologue
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 1:37 am
by majikeyric
Re: Coming soon : Zombie Calavera Prologue
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 6:19 am
by beamrider
looks fantastic!
those sprites have a real turn of speed and the artwork is excellent.
Re: Coming soon : Zombie Calavera Prologue
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 6:39 am
by hasseapa
Jumping, shooting, elevators, bats, the living dead (skeletons instead of mummies) - reminds me about Pharaoh's Curse!
Looks excellent.
The 'micro-scrolling' (I guess by necessity rather than by design) makes it even cooler.
Re: Coming soon : Zombie Calavera Prologue
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 6:42 am
by Ola H
![Surprised :o](./images/smilies/icon_surprised.gif)
The quick jumping and shooting makes it look a little like a zoomed-in Pharaoh's Curse with more distinctive, up to date artwork. Looks like it plays really well too. Very excited about this!
Re: Coming soon : Zombie Calavera Prologue
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 5:24 pm
by Ghislain
Looks great! The VIC-20 is really having a renaissance these past few years.
Re: Coming soon : Zombie Calavera Prologue
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2018 4:42 am
by AndyH
Amazing - like the look of this a lot.
Re: Coming soon : Zombie Calavera Prologue
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 8:48 am
by Kweepa
WOw.
Please complete ASAP!
Also please fix the outline around the moon!
Re: Coming soon : Zombie Calavera Prologue
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 10:32 am
by tokra
Kweepa wrote:Also please fix the outline around the moon!
I agree this looks fantastic. I've thought about the outline around the moon as well. It looks like the game uses the inverse-mode, so the background color is black and every other color is a char-color. Two solutions to fix the outline come to mind:
- using raster-interrupts to change the background-color
- using multicolor-chars for the moon
However both methods would lead to corruption once a "sprite" goes through the moon-graphics. Not sure, if the moon could be placed in a safe-area on the screen that the sprites cannot go, but this would probably mean a big change to the level-design.
Re: Coming soon : Zombie Calavera Prologue
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 11:03 am
by Kweepa
Ugh, stupid VIC-20.
Ah, I just noticed the 'mojon twins' credit - so it's based on an old Speccy game. Nice!
Re: Coming soon : Zombie Calavera Prologue
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 12:21 pm
by orion70
Kweepa wrote:Ugh, stupid VIC-20.
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Do not dare Kweepa!
Great job Majikeyric, can't wait to play this! Also, a cart commercial release with its wonderful box and instructions and everything would be just COOOOOL
![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon_razz.gif)
Re: Coming soon : Zombie Calavera Prologue
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 1:21 pm
by beamrider
tokra wrote:Kweepa wrote:Also please fix the outline around the moon!
I agree this looks fantastic. I've thought about the outline around the moon as well. It looks like the game uses the inverse-mode, so the background color is black and every other color is a char-color. Two solutions to fix the outline come to mind:
- using raster-interrupts to change the background-color
- using multicolor-chars for the moon
However both methods would lead to corruption once a "sprite" goes through the moon-graphics. Not sure, if the moon could be placed in a safe-area on the screen that the sprites cannot go, but this would probably mean a big change to the level-design.
another alternative would be to draw those corners in every alternate frame and let the moon shimmer a bit
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
Re: Coming soon : Zombie Calavera Prologue
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 11:07 pm
by joshuadenmark
This game looks amazing, wooow
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
Re: Coming soon : Zombie Calavera Prologue
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2018 7:22 am
by hasseapa
I guess the most simple solution to the moon borders would be a coarse black outline. It would require 8 additional chars though.
![moonoutline64x64.png](./download/file.php?id=2779&sid=f42f234e6e82e3db02aba4518ed9721a)
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Note that this is the Spectrum version moon + outline (i.e. square pixels and Spectrum colors).
The outline can be camouflaged further in many ways:
Half moon with craters
![moonhalfcraters64x64.png](./download/file.php?id=2780&sid=f42f234e6e82e3db02aba4518ed9721a)
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Wicked man-in-the-moon
![mooncrescentmaninmoon128x64.png](./download/file.php?id=2781&sid=f42f234e6e82e3db02aba4518ed9721a)
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Spookily clouded (needs even mored additional chars)
![moonclouded128x128.png](./download/file.php?id=2782&sid=f42f234e6e82e3db02aba4518ed9721a)
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Re: Zombie Calavera Prologue
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2018 8:58 am
by majikeyric
It is released! Happy halloween everyone!
http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... 16#p102416
sorry hasseapa there are none char left in the game charset.
Re: Zombie Calavera Prologue
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2018 9:58 am
by hasseapa
majikeyric wrote:
sorry hasseapa there are none char left in the game charset.
Yeah, I almost expected that after having seen the full map of the Spectrum game.
Thanks a LOT for the game! I hope to have a first go later tonight.