Rock Run: A Game in Development

[Green1]

I said I'd do it for a pro credit, and I'm a man of my word.

Plus I do expect a generous stipend/bonus if it unexpectedly blows up viral and makes megabucks...

I guess it is not like you are having to 3d model all this stuff. You seem to be pumping out those sprites pretty darn quick.

[Buster's Uncle]

Eh, that work isn't going to set the world on fire (if there were levels w/ different appearances, I'd suggest one with all the same elements done all bright, simple and 16 bit-looking) but I suppose it's competent.  At the small size I'm working in, getting something to look like what it's supposed to be is the challenge, but once that's figured out, it's not a lot of pixels to arrange, and not being able to do that much cuts down on the urge to fiddle/tweak for perfection.

[Dale]

Slime tile two frames wide or what?  Tell me more.  -Like what you see slime as looking like...  Is it a puddle on the floor or a gelatious blob blocking the way, and does it 'splode or anything?

Two intersecting frames, or one 20x40?

Sorry, should've been more descriptive.  Keep forgetting some people have no idea what the 80's game BoulderDash is. 

Slime is a full size blocking tile.  By two frames I mean animation frames.  So a "jiggle" in the slime.  In game, slime grows slowly filling all dirt/empty spaces.  If it gets blocked in and can't grow anymore it turns into diamonds.  If a bug touches slime it dies.  The player doesn't die but is blocked by slime.  Player can also act to block slime turning it into diamonds.

[Buster's Uncle]

So I should google BoulderDash for inspiration and then not do exactly that.  Got it.

[Green1]

So I should google BoulderDash for inspiration and then not do exactly that.  Got it.

Boulder Dash had a lot of clones, too back in the day.

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm seeing that.  There's a 20-minute play-through video here:
http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Boulder_Dash
and I found the slime in action at 6 minutes, but find myself watching it all...

[Buster's Uncle]

I'd have liked to do something more creative, but I don't see how fooling with the shape/edges could be done w/o making it a lot more complicated...

See how these work out.

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[Buster's Uncle]

Here's roughly how it will look ingame at 800ms a frame...

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[Buster's Uncle]

Hey - I think I just came up with a better arrangement of what I already posted...

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[Buster's Uncle]

Anything to report?

[Geo]

It's Sunday evening in eastern Australia?

[Buster's Uncle]

[checks the time for Kilkakon and subtracts three] Still morning in Melbourne, I think.  Dale may actually go to church.

[Dale]

There's one more major bug (to do with bug calculation of empty spaces around it) to iron out, and then I'll be able to upload something.   

[Geo]

[checks the time for Kilkakon and subtracts three] Still morning in Melbourne, I think.  Dale may actually go to church.

It was morning in Europe when I posted.

[Dale]

Here you go, something to look at.  Download, install via setup.exe.  Note: written in XNA so it may require additional Microsoft files to download (ie: XNA Runtime files, DirectX).  They're safe to install.

Arrow keys to move.  Collect the diamonds, avoid the bugs.  Only 4 levels.

http://www.brrgames.com/files/RockRun.zip