[LogiCow]

I'm making a MZX platformer game. It uses 8x14 unbound sprites to make the vlayer linear. It's a huge up front cost, but it means I can draw something to the screen with a single copy overlay block command.

The theme is anti-capitalism. You fight cops and their army of home-grown donuts.
Your attacks and abilities are based on an inventory system; you have 16 equipment slots and you can drag items to and from a larger inventory to equip/unequip them.

It uses layers of 16x16 tiles, which it keeps a copy of in the vlayer so I only need to update scrolling regions. There's a dynamic framerate system, so if you've got a fancy monitor that goes beyond 60hz you can set speed to 1 and rely on vsync. Framerate does affect physics, but it's not too bad.

Everything's in a single large 2560x1400 vlayer sheet with background tiles, items, text, sprites and levels.

Done so far: art assets, a map editor, player movement, an incomplete inventory system, jump and throw dagger skills, a single map
Stuff remaining: 36 more planned skills, skill collisions, enemy collisions, enemy AI for 12 types of enemies, enemy spawns, more item attributes, item magic prefixes and suffixes, more maps.




misc/random videos of work in progress:
dynamic light shafts that impact the framerate too much so I had to take it out: https://www.youtube....h?v=G7wpFbMvdWk
weapon bounce test https://www.youtube....h?v=034aeJf_kdU
NPC textbox test https://www.youtube....h?v=O4AnUTgo3cI
Performance test with lots of stacking enemies https://www.youtube....eature=youtu.be

This post has been edited by LogiCow: 06 March 2020 - 04:44 AM

[Graham]

LogiCow, on 05 March 2020 - 08:34 AM, said:

I'm making a MZX platformer game. It uses 8x14 unbound sprites to make the vlayer linear. It's a huge up front cost, but it means I can draw something to the screen with a single copy overlay block command.

The theme is anti-capitalism. You fight cops and their army of home-grown donuts.
Your attacks and abilities are based on an inventory system; you have 16 equipment slots and you can drag items to and from a larger inventory to equip/unequip them.

It uses layers of 16x16 tiles, which it keeps a copy of in the vlayer so I only need to update scrolling regions. There's a dynamic framerate system, so if you've got a fancy monitor that goes beyond 60hz you can set speed to 1 and rely on vsync. Framerate does affect physics, but it's not too bad.

Everything's in a single large 2560x1400 vlayer sheet with background tiles, items, text, sprites and levels.

Done so far: art assets, a map editor, player movement, an incomplete inventory system, jump and throw dagger skills, a single map
Stuff remaining: 36 more planned skills, skill collisions, enemy collisions, enemy AI for 12 types of enemies, enemy spawns, more item attributes, item magic prefixes and suffixes, more maps.




misc/random videos of work in progress:
dynamic light shafts that impact the framerate too much so I had to take it out: https://www.youtube....h?v=G7wpFbMvdWk
weapon bounce test https://www.youtube....h?v=034aeJf_kdU
NPC textbox test https://www.youtube....h?v=O4AnUTgo3cI

Wow! This is quite impressive! Looking forward to checking it out!

[LogiCow]

Added: collisions, enemy AI for 2 types, enemy HP bars
Stuff remaining: 36 more planned skills, Enemy AI for 19 types of enemies, enemy spawns, more item attributes, item magic prefixes and suffixes, more maps, level transitions, death transition

showing off my first 2 enemy types: https://www.youtube....eature=youtu.be

[LogiCow]

A third enemy type and some item drops in this video />

https://www.youtube....eature=youtu.be

[LogiCow]

transitions and items https://youtu.be/ZnU-S1AjGu8
shield cop with grenades https://youtu.be/yVR6UVKfjhk
sniper cop https://youtu.be/5BfEFNk4GC8
cave parallax bg https://youtu.be/KXXfLPe_Lhg

Level and death transitions are done.
2 levels done, 2 levels remaining.
5 enemies done, 7 enemies remaining.
2 skills done, 38 remaining.
I don't have a specific amount of item attributes planned but I only have a few implemented so far.
Then I have to populate chests with some pre-defined items and some RNG ones rolled at the start of the game.
And I still need an ending but I've got something planned for that one.

[LogiCow]

Enemies are all done

https://www.youtube....eature=youtu.be

I can get started on skill and item now diversity now

[KKairos]

Looking good! It says the video in your last post is private, so I don't know if anyone can see it right now.

[MicMotorhead]

Very cool looking stuff! Looks like it's gonna be fun to try out. I like the different enemy behaviors a lot.


The graphics somehow remind me of both Amiga games and Sega Master System games.

Also, that cave parallax effect really adds an impressive sense of Z-axis depth perception.

This post has been edited by MicMotorhead: 20 March 2020 - 08:47 AM

[LogiCow]

Can you defeat my mini level?
Watch out for the snipers haha, they're a little aggressive.

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