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[_cooper_]

Hello

In order to test the C compiler, i did a little game in one evening, called Knight Moves. The goal of the game is to go on each tile, in the less amount of moves. You can go twice on a tile. You can move the horse like in a chess game (in 'L' shape).

This is just an example game for me, so don't mail me if there are some bugs, i willn't correct them

Two pictures :

Title pic :



In-game :


The file : .o lynx file


Have fun

[Pocket]

Excellent Cooper, good luck for your next project

[Nimtene]

Beautifully done, Cooper.
Keep up the good work.

[Clint Thompson]

You did that in one Knight, er, night? Awesome!

Looks good!

[TailChao]

Very nice! I like the color scheme.

[_cooper_]

Thanks for the nice comments guys

[karri]

Your file knight.o seems to be removed already before I had a chance to try
it out. Well, the low res graphics looked really nice. You seem to have
a good eye for low-res stuff.

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Cheers,

Karri

[Albert]

Very cool, especially for one night's work! I'd like to try it out in Handy if you make the binary available again.

..Al

[_cooper_]

Sorry for the broken link... Here is a new one : .o file

I'm ok with low-res pics as i was already doing some things on Atari ST (320x200 / 16 colors)

[Fadest]

Hi Coopy

Welcome aboard, it has been a long time since last JC, but now, you are a Lynx developper

Something let me think that next week-end in France will be a very good one for Lynx productions.

[Turbo Laser Lynx]

Nice! the Graphics and sounds are nice, and it´s actually a fun minigame.

[Songbird]

This looks like a really fun and different minigame. I look forward to trying it out this week!

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OK, I tried it out tonight. Impressive! Couple of areas of feedback for you:

* Performance seems to slow down towards the end of the game for me. I was getting immediate feedback at the start, but by the end it was at least a quarter-second delay before the game would respond to a button press.

* Would be nice to make the cursor change colors (maybe to green) when you land on a valid move square. Audio feedback for attempted bad moves (a short buzzer or whatever) would also be nice.

* Would be nice to let the user select a variable size board, or at least select from several pre-sized boards. The latter would allow you to show the same "best solution" number at the end, which is a nice touch. More boards would also increase replayability, since if a player ever got the optimal solution, there's not much point in playing again.

* How about turn-based 2-player support (or more) with multiple knights on the game board? Then you could score points until you can't move to a blank square any more. It would need some playtesting to see if this is viable, but it could make it an interesting competitive game.

Overall, this is a very cool first effort. Keep making some improvements to it, and you'll have a great minigame on your hands.

Edited by Songbird, Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:16 PM.

[_cooper_]

wow, thanks for this report

Regarding the slowdown, i was aware of this, but i was hoping nobody see it
It's because i'm always drawing the grid during the game. It was the fastest way i found due to some parts of my code... but it can be easily enhanced i think.

I'll write the other ideas down, and try to add them when i'll be motivated again on this little minigame. And thanks again for giving them