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Aug. 3rd, 2015 09:24 amStill working away at Graze, slowly but surely. I didn't have any weekly release this weekend since it's been hot which makes me useless. Also there's a bunch of things I want to accomplish in this update and only a portion of them are added so far.
For this week however, I did have some kind of release to show people - a demo program for showing a way to aim a projectile at a target. I'll be using it in Graze, but since it's got lots of uses I whipped up a program demonstrating it and posted it and it's source on Atari Age. Pretty simple concept overall, although it needs refinement. That's part of what I need to do for this week - adjusting and narrowing the resulting speeds. The demo itself has them moving a little too fast at times.
Otherwise when I haven't been working actively on Graze I've been just putting some thought into other potential game ideas to work on after it. Beyond thinking of how it would work I haven't done any actual work on these and I don't really plan to until Graze is finished - to keep me focused. ^^
One of those ideas included trying to make an exceptionally brutal pseudo-sport variation on Hockey. I figured what game of hockey is complete without death cannons amirite? These kinds of odd sports games are right at home on the 7800 imo, given it already has Ninja Golf.
Another idea, while it might not be possible without the XM unit (That is not yet released, so this idea is more in the background than the hockey game.) is to try to do "OW!SF7800". Basically in practice it'll look more like the original OW!SF dos game, but perhaps include elements to the OW!SF2000 PC game that never went anywhere. :D
goldPseudo managed to extract the original sprites from the dos game last night, so at the very least we have something to start from - even if out of the 3 characters, we'll only be able to officially use either 1 or 2 of them. (Johnathan, naturally, and maybe Nic-chan, if we can get RockmanX's approval - assuming we can find contact info for him. ;)
For this week however, I did have some kind of release to show people - a demo program for showing a way to aim a projectile at a target. I'll be using it in Graze, but since it's got lots of uses I whipped up a program demonstrating it and posted it and it's source on Atari Age. Pretty simple concept overall, although it needs refinement. That's part of what I need to do for this week - adjusting and narrowing the resulting speeds. The demo itself has them moving a little too fast at times.
Otherwise when I haven't been working actively on Graze I've been just putting some thought into other potential game ideas to work on after it. Beyond thinking of how it would work I haven't done any actual work on these and I don't really plan to until Graze is finished - to keep me focused. ^^
One of those ideas included trying to make an exceptionally brutal pseudo-sport variation on Hockey. I figured what game of hockey is complete without death cannons amirite? These kinds of odd sports games are right at home on the 7800 imo, given it already has Ninja Golf.
Another idea, while it might not be possible without the XM unit (That is not yet released, so this idea is more in the background than the hockey game.) is to try to do "OW!SF7800". Basically in practice it'll look more like the original OW!SF dos game, but perhaps include elements to the OW!SF2000 PC game that never went anywhere. :D
goldPseudo managed to extract the original sprites from the dos game last night, so at the very least we have something to start from - even if out of the 3 characters, we'll only be able to officially use either 1 or 2 of them. (Johnathan, naturally, and maybe Nic-chan, if we can get RockmanX's approval - assuming we can find contact info for him. ;)
