Mr. Driller 2600 (mockup)

[happymonster]

Ok, yet another mockup from me. I think this one could be done.. It uses 3 alternating playfield lines to create the colours, tiles of 4 x 21 size and a level view of 9 x 9 tiles. There is only vertical scrolling and the logic is less than in Boulderdash. I use both sprites with recolouring for the player sprite, a missile to the right of the screen (recoloured) for the depth display (this is optional), and a couple more players and playfield data at the bottom for a quick status display panel.

 

What do you think?

[supercat]

What do you think?

 

What's the game? The graphics themselves look like they might be achievable.

[Bakasama]

Think that this will explain a bit about this game:

 

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8773

 

I think this game began as an updated version of Dig Dug but it became something else.

[Impaler_26]

A similar game for the 2600 called "Big Dig" was started but never finished...

Big_Dig__2004___Christopher_Tumber___Prototype_.bin

[8th lutz]

Mr. Driller is capable of being done for almost every game console that existed.

 

The game has basic gameplay.

 

Here is a little bit of gameplay video of the game:

 

[supercat]

Think that this will explain a bit about this game:

 

It doesn't explain how the player should decide what to drill, etc.

[Bakasama]

This hopefully explains the gameplay:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Driller

[happymonster]

I like the solid colours of Big Dig, but the gfx are much simplified. The problem is that there are 4 block colours and a background, so unless you try to come up with sophisticated player/missile work I had to use 3 alternating colour scanlines.

 

If we used 2 colour scanlines we could get 3 colour blocks and the 4th colour would be some kind of pattern, but I don't know if that would look too good..

 

Any one interested in this? Since I can't program the 2600, I'm just suggesting possible game ideas that people might like.

[Shannon]

Well if anything, these mockups are fun to look at!!

 

Mr. Driller is a pretty fun game. Hopefully someone will do it.

[happymonster]

They do take a bit of work though, so I doubt I will do many more of them if no one is too interested.

[supercat]

They do take a bit of work though, so I doubt I will do many more of them if no one is too interested.

 

This one looks interesting. Many other ideas on my plate at the moment, though.

[Cybergoth]

They do take a bit of work though, so I doubt I will do many more of them if no one is too interested.

 

There's probably only a dozen active people here that could program such a game, most of which are already doing "something". Some day someone may pick it up though, so it's good to have those mockups

 

Regarding Mr. Driller, I actually prefer the clean look that Christopher chose, the mockup looks very busy.

[happymonster]

It does look busy, but personally I'm not a big fan of very simple gfx. :/

[ZylonBane]

Then 2600 games are not for you.

[vdub_bobby]

I'm very interested in seeing mockups of more tiled games - I currently have a supercharger kernel/demo that can handle a scrolling, tiled display - currently 8x7 but could probably get 10x7, 8x8, or 10x8 - and I'm interested in projects for it. No promises, though.

[happymonster]

Zylon:

 

Many 2600 games prove that not true.