same file on apple 2 win emulator

same file on real Apple II computer

just FYI =)

I have a apple 2 High res color palette made up for the gimp (all 6 individual colors lol) and a lua script whipped up where I can make appropriate resolution and palette graphics in the gimp and a second later spit them out to the apple II

that is pretty much the hard part considering the framework of things, should be starting on game logic early Saturday (and its simple)

here is a picture of my desk, its the same desk, same computer as last time, though I have an addition on top, that is a Apple //c computer. I grew up with these and have owned them for just about as long as I have had all my PC’s in total (though this particular one’s serial number dates it to 1985), so yea I am going to make a game for it, something I have not done in a very loooong time

nothing special software wise, I will be using basic (though compiled to A2 / 6502 machine instructions for speed) no ASM (I do know a little just not enough to barf out a game in 48 hours), and I cant ever seen to get the couple of C cross compilers working right

The machine is a 1mhz AII machine with 128kb of ram and a 140kb per side 5.25 inch disk drive, and its serial video and audio ports are jacked into my PC for development, though a windows based emulator will be doing the bulk of the lifting, its there to ensure things work right on both the real metal and the emulator (which will be part of the final product so everyone can play, retro computer or not)

PS: though I show windows 7 loaded on the screen, my TV tuner card decided it was going to be a PITA and not switch over to composite input 2, so I’m in linux Mint which is not bad but just in case anyone follows this blog they wont wonder

to those who are not … I wish you the best of luck!

I am going to go take a shower

I actually did that much earlier this afternoon, but just now admitting it (stupid 48 hours)

90% of the game’s element is there just need to add my tractor beam and test, after that its all fluff, unlike most of my LD games if you figure out a way to cheat on this one, it will screw you over! the game’s score is based on time, so if you manage to hit a spawn (its randomly generated at start, and randomly manipulated per cycle) that allows some dead space that you can hide in, the asteroid fragments quickly increase in velocity assuring you a quick “death”

so, if we were to have a high score contest, its in your best interest to interact with the game (evil laugh)

If I have time in the next 18.5 hours I would like to have a win situation, and I have an appropriate idea of how to do that, but time will tell

oh yea, screenie

for those who are not in the know, the gimp and most other image packages have the option to do “web slicing” which in the gimp fires up a window and you can outline what you want and it spits out a plain text file for use on the web with xy coords, along with rectangle and circle you can also do polygons, which makes it point n click easy to slice up a sprite sheet and define bounding “boxes”

I am no artist, but if you know your vector image editor (inkscape in this case) and a little bit of image editor (gimp in this case) you to can produce some meh sprites heh

1) Figure out your general idea
2) Try to make most of your sprites
3) Start on your gamelogic

I have the idea worked out, I have all my sprites worked out and the rest of the “art” can be done in code and hopefully I will be on game logic very soon, just have some stuff to think about before hand

Good luck to everyone!

its fun what you can do with 3 rounded rectangles, 1 ellipse and 4 calligraphy strokes in inkscape, add a little bump map in the gimp and BAM decent looking critter

OH

and a desk photo too

I will be using processing this time, unless I really get stuck then I may have to jump back to love

and the usual assortment of tools (gimp sfxr)

and OMG is wordpress slooooooow on my work computer (more like my work computer is a chunk of )

see you all this weekend!

#2 thanks for anyone for playing my to big idea, all was going super awesome fast, then I hit a logic sequence bug that sucked 6 hours out of my day and the schedule went down the crapper! so at best i shoehorned in the very basic game mechanic and submitted it.

This game however is actually something I want to sit down and make right, and why not, I already have a “keyboard barf concept game” that (except for the last few hours) is reasonably openly scripted, even  if its cluttered and redundant

BUGS! yes I know, sorry

geti says …

Yeah, bring the love
Lost points for no image padding, but pretty cool game nonetheless. the combat mechanics could use some work.

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This was my first time using love 6, though my other 2 LD’s were with love 5, I have to say I still love it, but it was pitching a fuss on ubuntu and became rather annoying

image padding as in powers of 2 or as in collision?

combat was tossed in at a last minuet ditch to qualify it as a game, it needs a TON of work (you have init, you both roll a d20, anything over 8 is a hit)

fydo says …

Pretty cool idea. I fought against a pirate (red square) and after the fight, it seemed that the app stopped responding to input?

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I screwed up the world coordinates, and did not have time to fix it the hour before voting started, Ill update sometime but not on the official vote page, it still responds to input, but it only moves 1px at a time

Diet Chugg says …

weird. I get a white screen when loading. and crash didn’t come up. Looked fun though.

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I had that a few times developing it under linux but never under windows, usually a restart of the game would clear it, it seems to have something to do with love

on that note I have been moving to processing, its nowhere near perfect but it does more of what I want to do, and is on java so this will probably be my last LD love game  (cue 3 game montage)

So progress, starting to feel nappy, hence the tea + sugar, I have been up since 7am, worked a full day and am now on hour 7 of ludum dare (4 am the next day, hardcore!)

have love loading my collision map no problem, and have the ui part of the game pieced together, about to start on the water animation

game mechanics seeming to be ok on paper, so far, so good

the map is 4 layers to allow some basic animation to the water, the ui has 2 overlay layers for the feel good old monitor effect (ish), and another layer for buttons which change color depending on status

next I guess I need to hammer out some gameplay rules so I know what kind of swag I need to make

flattened for BLOG!

but maybe next time!