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[atari2600land]

Alien Greed 3 is done, GoSub 2 is done, Asses of Fire is almost done, so i thought i'd start another game. it's along the lines of the classic 2600 game Star Ship, but with much better controls. It started out being a Duke Nukem parody, where Duke's neerdowell brother Clem gets a starring role in "Clem Nukem", but scrapped that idea since Duke is getting a new game, so I'm naming this game "Star Fleet Omega", where you shoot at spaceships (which haven't been implemented yet.) Go on, take a shot.

You are looking through the windsheild of one of the earth's best spaceships. You have infinite missiles thanks to the latest weapon regenerator technology. You are the last hope against the earth's greatest threat. You are a part of Star Fleet Omega.

I don't know. Sounds kinda dorky, huh? I'm not that great about writing serious storylines.

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[gambler172]

Hio Chris
A good start.....
greetings walter

[jbs30000]

Wow, pretty awesome shooting control.

[yuppicide]

Pretty cool. I had an idea and have tried to implement it. Maybe you can take it one step further than I've been able to.

Remember the code you and SeaGtGruff did for a scrolling playfield?

I like both demos, this one and the playfield one. I thought this one could be improved upon. I took your playfield scrolling code and combined it with this
code.

Here is what I've implemented so far:

Your original: When you move in your original demo it would just change the playfield to one of three showing the movement of the gun.

What I changed: The gun is now a player sprite. When you move, it does a gosub to the gun drawing routine and then comes back out of it.

My problem: I can't figure out how to change the sprite color. I've tried, it doesn't seem to work. It ends up the same color as the playfield and is
"hidden" because of the color. You can see it's there and that it moves when you move, though. I like the original color of the playfield (redish) but would
like to see the gun a different color. Since I can't figure out the color, obviously the missle being shot gets "hidden" in the playfield as well.

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What I changed: Moved crosshair to top for now just for demo purposes. I have not set any boundries of where it can and cannot travel, thus since it's the
same color as the playfield it gets "hidden" down there. The boundries need to be set to only allow it up top.


Attached to this is the code I've done in case anyone wants to fool around with it.. oh, I've changed the title screen so you need to hit F2 to start now.

Edited just to say hope you like it and that we can make it into something cool.

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Edited by yuppicide, Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:33 PM.

[atari2600land]

How about using this in a slalom game in a cart with a collection of winter games not called "Winter Games". In this cart, you can pick whatever game you want from a menu. What other games are in Winter Games? I know Slalom is one, but i suck at Winter Games so i turned it off in disgust. I'm a lot better at this version i made, though.

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[yuppicide]

Not a bad idea. I was thinking we could change the playfield later on.. so like for certain parts of the game it would have the playfield we would have as it is now, but other parts of the game you could change it up.. like if you're jumping or something.

atari2600land, on Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:05 PM, said:

How about using this in a slalom game in a cart with a collection of winter games not called "Winter Games". In this cart, you can pick whatever game you want from a menu. What other games are in Winter Games? I know Slalom is one, but i suck at Winter Games so i turned it off in disgust. I'm a lot better at this version i made, though.

[atari2600land]

Got a menu going. Slalom Short is 50 flags, Slalom Long is 100 flags, and Hockey is the beginnings of a hockey game. The controls in the hockey game work OK, but it's supposed to be a 2-player game.

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[gambler172]

Hi Chris
Wow,looks good and plays well.
greetings Walter