In the making: Arukanoido – an Arkanoid clone

[pixel]

Download: http://hugbox.org/pixel/software/vic-20/arukanoido/

Arukanoido requires +24K and a joystick or paddles. Keyboard mode is a little nasty.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz5wB50rfME

[orion70]

Impressive! Another (hopefully) soon-to-come release from the excellent Pixel Productions
Apart from the obvious to-dos, is it me or the ball varies its speed suddenly from time to time, at least in VICE?

[Boray]

Wohooo! This will be great! So impressive for the Vic-20. Are you planning for both joystick and paddle play by the way?

[pixel]

I'm glad you're exited!

The varying speed thing is kind of confusing me. I guess there's something wrong with the sine table. It'll get resolved sooner or later.

Paddles already came to mind. Perhaps the Vaus should be wider for joystick players, because I find it really hard to catch the ball with just a joystick.

[joshuadenmark]

This was/is one of my favorite games on Amiga 500

Your version for the friendly one looks really nice - my vote is for paddle support and lots of RAM expansion

Whaaaaaaa I use sunscream already

[pixel]

Oh, no! A misunderstanding! There absolutely will be paddle support! No way around it.

[joshuadenmark]

Great paddles out of the closest

[orion70]

Out of the closest... closet? Good to have them at hand

[Mayhem]

If it's gonna need extra memory, screw 3k and make it 8k instead, feel the space

[Vic 2000]

You can even afford 16k if you want.

Great job, feels lightyears smother then any breakout game i have played on Vic 20. Nice graphics too. At last, Arkanoid on Vic 20.

[tokra]

This looks very promising indeed! I see you a 32 character vertical screen = 256 lines. This will just be visible on most PAL-TVs. Better add an option to adjust the vertical position as some CRT-TV-sets may be off a little.

is it me or the ball varies its speed suddenly from time to time, at least in VICE?

If I observed correctly the ball is fast when going diagonally. Maybe something to do with this?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... SpeedBoost

[pixel]

This looks very promising indeed! I see you a 32 character vertical screen = 256 lines. This will just be visible on most PAL-TVs. Better add an option to adjust the vertical position as some CRT-TV-sets may be off a little.

O.K. I will. Guess I'll have to cut off four lines for the NTSC version as well?

is it me or the ball varies its speed suddenly from time to time, at least in VICE?

If I observed correctly the ball is fast when going diagonally. Maybe something to do with this?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... SpeedBoost

That would surprise me a little. It started to go wrong when I changed the math (I didn't like some workarounds that came with the first version). Some quality sleep will probably do the trick.

[pixel]

If it's gonna need extra memory, screw 3k and make it 8k instead, feel the space

LOL!

You can even afford 16k if you want.

Great job, feels lightyears smother then any breakout game i have played on Vic 20. Nice graphics too. At last, Arkanoid on Vic 20.

With only small adjustments the core would be ~1700 bytes at the moment. Looks like an unexpanded tape version is easy to do, but I won't focus on that. I'm afraid the game has to be finished ASAP. 16k sounds pretty good. Guess I'll keep the level data uncompressed and add a level editor instead.

EDIT: the smoothness is because it's got 1/256th pixel accuracy.

[Vic 2000]

You're really good at what you do and shows what Vic 20 is capable of. This game almost have a non Vic 20 feeling to it, it's simply too smooth. I like the graphic design as well. Vic 20 has many great shooters but no awesome break out, this seems to fix that.

[pixel]

Just surfing a giant wave called manic episode.

One can catch bonuses. Only the laser can be activated but it hits the bricks now.