11 replies to this topic

[Mclaneinc]

I don't know if you guys remember a little while back a guy from the UK who had written a machine code shooter that looked real nice was offering to release it if people donated to a cancer(??) fund, but he wanted a hell of a lot of money at the time.

Did he ever release it?

Aha, sector wars

Edited by Mclaneinc, Mon Mar 15, 2010 4:03 AM.

[mimo]

never relaesed as far as I know. Don't think he got the £s he required

[spookt]

From his JustGiving page he has raised £87.00 from a desired total of £1000.00.

[Rybags]

Doesn't look like much of a game anyway.

Given that quality releases like Yoomp and Bomb Jake were released both freely and as purchasable media, maybe the better course of action would have been to just give people both options.

You can produce a floppy and a little flyer or booklet for under a buck, and sell it at a reasonable price and still make a decent profit.

[Mclaneinc]

I've written directly to him asking if he will release it and I'm yet to get a reply. I think he set his sights a tad too high looking for a grand even if it it a worthwhile charity.

[Rybags]

A Grand is a lot, especially if you're talking UK Pounds.

The other thing is that stuff like medical research funding/donations is a very locallised thing. People in other countries would rather give to their own rather than an overseas research organisation.

[Mclaneinc]

No reply, guess this one's on the missing list for good....

[SectorWars]

Mclaneinc, on Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:09 AM, said:

No reply, guess this one's on the missing list for good....

Sorry I didn't reply to your message about Sector Wars - I didn't see it so it much have got lost somehow. Had a busy two years working abroad but I will definitely try and release the game over next few months - I have moved the family overseas now so once things settle down I will try to put a game over sequence in the game and fix some issues.

I did look at this about a 18 months ago but unfortunately some of the source files got corrupted so I ended up trying to disassemble the memory to re-create the missing source files. For some reason the screen memory is get messed up when running the game - I will get to the bottom of it and will definitely upload it at some point. I also wrote about seven games in Atari BASIC which I will upload as well. I only ever sent off a couple to magazines and they were published in Home Computing Weekly. The games were HCWMAN (Pacman clone) and The Chaotic Crossing (Frogger clone). The other games I never submitted were Electro Maze, Warrior of the Flies (Yars Revenge Clone), Spider Wars, Starship Dock and maybe another couple which I can't recall.

It is right that the Sector Wars game isn't much to look at, however at the time it was a lot of work especially working in 6502 assembler - very enjoyable though

Thanks for the interest. Cheers

[snicklin]

What I like about this game is that there are several very different playing scenarios, whereas most games only have 1 main gameplay routine.

Best of luck with completing the game.

[invisible kid]

snicklin, on Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:44 AM, said:

What I like about this game is that there are several very different playing scenarios, whereas most games only have 1 main gameplay routine.

Best of luck with completing the game.

Yeah, and it has a nice, old school, arcade-like look to it. I saw some good influences from Gorf, Pleiades, and Galaxian. A bit of Demon Attack too. I too like games that infuse a bunch of different scenarios. Good work!

Edited by invisible kid, Wed Jan 12, 2011 2:29 AM.

[therealbountybob]

Have you thought about entering your game into the abbuc software contest? That way if you won any prize money you could dontate it to your charity/appeal. Looking forward to seeing the game

[SectorWars]

Thanks everyone for the comments, and the info about the competition.

I wrote the game when I was 14/15 and at that time my top games were Phoenix, Gorf, Galaxian and Astro Blaster so "tried" to take bits and pieces from those. I didn't realise there was still a community of people developing for the Atari's so that is great to hear. Well get back to the game as soon as we settle in our new home/country. Thanks