initial gameplay

Posted by SpiceWare, in Frantic 18 August 2011 · 106 views

All the humanoid images are in place and you can run around and shoot robots!

ROM

frantic_harmony20110818.bin (32K)
downloads: 34

Source

Frantic20110818.zip (493.48K)
downloads: 34

LS_Dracon
Aug 19 2011 6:22 AM

Not tested yet but I have a question.
Is the playfield collision made by software?
Is there a possibility to avoid robot collisions with wall using an AI code?

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SpiceWare
Aug 19 2011 8:21 AM

All collisions are detected by software.

That's the plan - in the Berzerk variation the robots can run into the wall while in the Frenzy variation they won't.

I also discovered you can load this ROM into the current version of Stella, you just won't get any digitized audio. Instructions in my Homebrew topic

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Nathan Strum
Aug 19 2011 12:43 PM

Very impressive. Although I noted you can't shoot the robots in the eye.

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SpiceWare
Aug 19 2011 1:15 PM

Yeah, I discovered that after I posted everything. The problem is the eye doesn't exist in the source image and collisions are calculated using the source image.

The way the eye currently works is it gets added on the fly when the image is put into one of the sprite data streams. The eye is only added if row 2 is empty, as when the robot is moving sideways or upward the eye is not visible.

I'm going to redo it so the eye row is filled in(I think it'll be the exact same image as when the robot is moving upward) and instead of testing for row 2 to be empty I'll test for specific image IDs.