Pretty amazing for 10-lines, I say. Perhaps that's the secret - by
limiting decisions & branching, the game-play is remarkably fast. I was
also impressed by the precision required to successfully jump, not too
soon, not too late.
Thanks Ken, that was enlightening.
Philip
On 1/08/2021 10:18 am, Ken Pettit wrote:
Hey Scott,
While I didn't mention the M100, it was *definitely* written for the
M100. I just found the working copy and it is attached in both
tokenized .BA and .DO formats. Press the space bar to jump. I also
have a screenshot of the "moon buggy" mid jump over a crater. :)
Philip, the "scrolling" is somewhat decent speed in BASIC. But it
doesn't actually scroll anything ... the "moon craters" are created in
a BASIC string variable that just get's printed over and over on line
7 of the LCD. The location of the moon craters in the string is what
is changing.
Ken
On 7/31/21 3:09 PM, Scott McDonnell wrote:
I didn’t assume Ken was talking about the Model 100 because he did
not specifically mention that. Sounded like one of those 10-liner
competitions.
But yeah, if this was on the Model 100, I am definitely interested, too!
Release it! Release it!
*From: *Philip Avery <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent: *Saturday, July 31, 2021 5:56 PM
*To: *[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject: *Re: [M100] Dungeon Warrior - Game...
Ken, in BASIC did the graphics really have the necessary speed? I
would have thought you'd need the scrolling to be in assembly
language and then maybe direct lcd-driver programming.
I'd sure be interested in seeing Moon Buggy.
Philip
On 1/08/2021 5:22 am, Ken Pettit wrote:
I actually wrote a BASIC 10-liner game similar to this in 2018
that I never released. It is called Moon Buggy, and you
basically have a mood buggy that says in one place while the
"moon terrain" scrolls underneath. The goal is to jump as many
moon craters as possible. If expanded to be more than 10 lines,
it could even be extended to add moon rocks that need to be shot
with the forward lasers.
The only thing really missing from the game is every so often it
should pop up one of those annoying commercials you have to watch
with web based games. Guess I could add that and then release it :)
Ken
