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Getting back to unfinished games...

Posted by PacManPlus, 15 May 2011 · 181 views

Ugh. My list of 'games-started-but-not-worked-on-in-a-while' is getting bigger.

I'm almost up to GroovyBee

After Meteor Shower is completed, I'd like to get back to Frenzy but I have all of these in total:

Frenzy
Armor Attack
BattleZone...

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Meteor Shower

Posted by PacManPlus, 12 May 2011 · 105 views

Started working on this game - inspired by 'AstroSmash' on the Intellivision.
Once I get the basic gameplay down, I will work on differences that will make the gameplay somewhat unique.

Bob

P.S. - I think I need help in drawing the background landscape - that looks...

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Working on Frenzy...

Posted by PacManPlus, 23 January 2010 · 88 views

Been working on Frenzy, and having a hell of a time with the maze, collision with the objects and maze, collision with the shots and maze, etc. It's unfortunately a lot of code, but I think I got past that part:

This demo allows you to run around, shooting away parts of the walls and reflecting off of the solid ones.

I...

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Difficulties with Frenzy's Maze

Posted by PacManPlus, 04 January 2010 · 85 views

Ugh.

I've been having a hell of a time with Frenzy/Berzerk's maze collision detection for the past week. I'm actually stumped for the time being.
This detection is different than the others I've worked on because it's not *just* the maze piece if it's there or not, but it also matters *where* the player hits the maze piece. To...

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Some progress on Space Invaders 7800

Posted by PacManPlus, 30 March 2008 · 274 views

Finally got to work on this a little this past week, and I made a little progress, and ran into some stumbling blocks. There are some screenshots below

As of right now, my biggest issues with this are:

1) How to do the shields, and have them 'break away' piece by piece. I am assuming they have to be sprites(like the ufo and player) instead of...

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Where I've Been ...

Posted by PacManPlus, 31 May 2007 · 47 views

... Not that anyone cares

I haven't been on that much lately, many things going on - including my girlfriend of 12 years being put into the hospital the end of January and coming out the end of February needing kidney dialysis for the rest of her life. She actually went back in the hospital over this past weekend due to an infection (with a 103...

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Gave up on Super Pac-Man... For Now

Posted by , 08 March 2006 · 64 views

I finally started to try and make Super Pac-Man for the 7800, and already got stumped.The first thing I looked at was the maze. It is made *very* differently than the normal Pac-Man maze. To any of you who know how it is made up, each vertical maze section (for example) is made of two sides (left and right):