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#1 User is offline   Maxim 

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Posted 23 June 2021 - 11:18 PM

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You might remember this name from Kikan SE. It was a basic Asteroids clone set in the sky instead of in space. I decided to do a complete rewrite of the game to practice with unbound sprites and finally use SMZX mode 1 for something. More weapons, enemies, and bullets have been added to the game. Also it's no longer endless, but has game flow and multiple loops with progressively increasing difficulty. All of the graphics have been redone, and new level backgrounds have been added. All sound effects have been redone, and new ones have been added to account for the game's new features.

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If you download the game to play it, you should use the softscale renderer if it runs slowly with GLSL. Downloading the game is recommended because it saves your scores and number of game loops completed. But the web player works just fine.

Download: https://www.digitalm...how.php?id=2688

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Posted 23 June 2021 - 11:26 PM

View PostMaxim, on 23 June 2021 - 05:18 PM, said:

I recommend downloading and playing the game offline unless you have a very powerful computer. The web player's renderer struggles with the large number of unbound sprites. It should run well even on a slow computer if you use the softscale renderer.


The next MZX release is going to have a much lighter GLSL renderer variant enabled by default which should prevent this, sorry. I'll go ahead and build an update for the web player while I'm thinking about it...

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Posted 23 June 2021 - 11:45 PM

The web player's new renderer is much better. I was able to play several rounds without so much as a click in the audio. And my computer is a real piece of crap.
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Posted 17 July 2021 - 06:10 PM

Played this a whole bunch this afternoon - really fantastic job, Maxim! I of course loved the original minigame in Kikan but it's so cool to see this fleshed out to a full game with all sorts of awesome powerups and pixel-perfect movement.
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Posted 17 July 2021 - 11:16 PM

Thanks, Luke. I was hoping to hear your feedback because of how the original was used in Kikan. I had started on expanding the smoothie minigame years ago, but all progress was lost when my hard drive was destroyed by Virtumonde.
I hope to see more games using the new unbound sprite features. Not only does it take a lot of the pain out of pixel movement, it also fixes a few difficult cases with basic sprite behaviors.
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Posted 19 September 2021 - 11:39 PM

This is good shit. The graphics are impressive, the movement is smooth and fluid, the rotation on the ship is great. The TTS quips are amusing (What did you use to make those? Sounds kind of like a DECtalk).

Good stuff man.
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Posted 20 September 2021 - 03:09 AM

Thanks! I can't remember which program I used, but I think it was espeak. I ran a few light filters over the audio, but can't remember which of those I used either.
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Posted 30 March 2022 - 07:37 PM

Wow, Maxim, bravo. I love this. It reminds me of Astro Fire.

Edit: I played it a while ago but unfortunately didn't give you any feedback. You deserve more feedback. This is fantastic. :) And you're my friend, so...

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Posted 31 March 2022 - 12:33 AM

I'm glad you enjoyed it, Bramble. Did you also play Lancer's games Labyrinth I/O and Pandemonium Buster? I made a bunch of the graphics for those.
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Posted 06 March 2023 - 06:00 PM

View PostMaxim, on 30 March 2022 - 07:33 PM, said:

I'm glad you enjoyed it, Bramble. Did you also play Lancer's games Labyrinth I/O and Pandemonium Buster? I made a bunch of the graphics for those.



Maxim, where are you? Come to the discord. are you there?
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