MateoConLechuga wrote:
JamesV wrote:
This is looking incredible, Mateo!
The only suggestion I currently have would be to bring the play screen down a bit, and putting the world name up the top. It might break up the screen a bit nicer. Or it might backfire and get messy.. But maybe worth a try depending on how hard coded the play screen vertical positioning currently is
Thanks; yeah I kind of made it so the y offset is hardcoded now; since calculating from 0 is faster than adding an offset every time. I'll keep playing with it 
Anywho, added pipes and vines for fun; I still have to work out some bugs with left/right pipes, but up and down work fine.
So, question. How do you plan to do levels? I can see you are using SM3 graphics, were you wanting to create worlds with the levels in it? If so, maybe http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/400/40006.html will have some inspirations on making level sets? What you've got going so far looks fantastic so far!
KermMartian wrote:
Even though you're on sabbatical, the contributions you have made to the community continue to help us daily. We hope you'll eventually return!
Does this mean that Mateo is taking a break from programming for a while? 
TheLastMillennial wrote:
tr1p1ea wrote:
I'm pretty sure that you do get an extra jump when you jump on a koopa?
I am certain of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyaV69g6mps
Although this is not the exact kind of Mario that Mateo is creating, I just played Mario on my Wii (yeah, I still have Wii 
) and you do bounce when you jump on a shell, or a koopa. But it does have be a perfect landing on the middle of the shell.
Sure, you can bounce on a shell (and stop it) if it was moving before you jumped on it, but I don't think shells that weren't moving work the same way.
JosJuice wrote:
TheLastMillennial wrote:
tr1p1ea wrote:
I'm pretty sure that you do get an extra jump when you jump on a koopa?
I am certain of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyaV69g6mps
Although this is not the exact kind of Mario that Mateo is creating, I just played Mario on my Wii (yeah, I still have Wii ) and you do bounce when you jump on a shell, or a koopa. But it does have be a perfect landing on the middle of the shell.
Sure, you can bounce on a shell (and stop it) if it was moving before you jumped on it, but I don't think shells that weren't moving work the same way.
That's right, if a shell is not moving, and you touch it, it gets kicked to the opposite direction from which you landed on it (have no idea how exact center is handled), and there is no bounce.
Hey cool game you created! I was wondering how I can download this game because I can not find anyway to download this.
BEZALBEATER wrote:
Hey cool game you created! I was wondering how I can download this game because I can not find anyway to download this.
Ya can't it is still being created, and therefore, not released yet. It will probably be announced somewhere when it does get released, I think at this point we are all very excited about this project!
mr womp womp wrote:
BEZALBEATER wrote:
Hey cool game you created! I was wondering how I can download this game because I can not find anyway to download this.
Ya can't it is still being created, and therefore, not released yet. It will probably be announced somewhere when it does get released, I think at this point we are all very excited about this project!
Yes I'm excited too, but on the topic 'Happy birthday MaterConLechuga' Kerm said
Quote:
Even though you're on sabbatical, the contributions you have made to the community continue to help us daily. We hope you'll eventually return!
Does this mean that Mateo is taking a break from programming for a while?
TheLastMillennial wrote:
but on the topic 'Happy birthday MaterConLechuga' Kerm said
Quote:
Even though you're on sabbatical, the contributions you have made to the community continue to help us daily. We hope you'll eventually return!
Does this mean that Mateo is taking a break from programming for a while?
That was last year... As far as I know, he is here almost every day lately, and churning out piles of code, so I think he is definitely not on a break 
mr womp womp wrote:
TheLastMillennial wrote:
but on the topic 'Happy birthday MaterConLechuga' Kerm said
Quote:
Even though you're on sabbatical, the contributions you have made to the community continue to help us daily. We hope you'll eventually return!
Does this mean that Mateo is taking a break from programming for a while?
That was last year... As far as I know, he is here almost every day lately, and churning out piles of code, so I think he is definitely not on a break
Heh, :embarrassedface: I forgot to look at the date of the post! Oh well, thanks! 
Some strength testing. Not any slowdown
Very nice! I want to resurrect one of my own ancient game projects that included a tilemapped background world and many moving items, so I'm definitely going to be inspecting and understanding your code when I make the time for it. Do you intend to filter out the core game engine as anything skeletal and extensible at some point, or is that outside the scope of your interests at the moment?
KermMartian wrote:
Very nice! I want to resurrect one of my own ancient game projects that included a tilemapped background world and many moving items, so I'm definitely going to be inspecting and understanding your code when I make the time for it. Do you intend to filter out the core game engine as anything skeletal and extensible at some point, or is that outside the scope of your interests at the moment?
Yeah I probably want to make a bare-bones system, but then again I don't know how much time that will take to clean it up and make it not as crazy as it is now. Also, slopes are hard 
Very hard.
MateoConLechuga wrote:
KermMartian wrote:
Very nice! I want to resurrect one of my own ancient game projects that included a tilemapped background world and many moving items, so I'm definitely going to be inspecting and understanding your code when I make the time for it. Do you intend to filter out the core game engine as anything skeletal and extensible at some point, or is that outside the scope of your interests at the moment?
Yeah I probably want to make a bare-bones system, but then again I don't know how much time that will take to clean it up and make it not as crazy as it is now. Also, slopes are hard Very hard.
KermMartian wrote:
Yes, that was something I discovered while working with
M-Game it's not something I want to do in ASM any more, and it's barely something I want to do in C.
Heh yeah that's the truth. Anywho, started added support for slopes... right now I just have 45 degree ones but adding the two other ones shouldn't be too hard.
Yay!!! Mateo you are awesome!!!
Holy potato. Great stuff Mateo!
I think we already know which release will win POTY 2017 in the CE category..
EDIT - I'm currently working on porting over a platformer from the 83/83+, and wondered if you could offer some advice?
You're using 16x16 8bpp sprites, is that right? And scrolling 2 pixels per frame when walking at normal speed?
What are your thoughts on using 4bpp sprites? Is the size saving (128 bytes per 16x16 4bpp sprite vs. 256 bytes per 16x16 8bpp sprite) worth the speed sacrifice to write to the 8bpp vram?
Is your sprite data compressed in the appvar and you decompress when the program starts?
JamesV wrote:
You're using 16x16 8bpp sprites, is that right? And scrolling 2 pixels per frame when walking at normal speed?
Yep, that's right
Quote:
What are your thoughts on using 4bpp sprites? Is the size saving (128 bytes per 16x16 4bpp sprite vs. 256 bytes per 16x16 8bpp sprite) worth the speed sacrifice to write to the 8bpp vram?
Maybe if they were decompressed... It might be worth it to just use 4bpp in that case.
Quote:
Is your sprite data compressed in the appvar and you decompress when the program starts?
Nah, it's read directly from the appvar in flash.
Almost done with all the different slope collisions; few minor bugs but it shouldn't take too much to fix:
Hey! Nice job getting slopes almost done, I understand you dind't exactly want to implement them
MateoConLechuga wrote:
Almost done with all the different slope collisions; few minor bugs but it shouldn't take too much to fix:
Curious minds inquire if you are tagging tiles with some kind of hidden black-and-white (ie, true/false) collision mask, or using some other method.
KermMartian wrote:
MateoConLechuga wrote:
Almost done with all the different slope collisions; few minor bugs but it shouldn't take too much to fix:
Curious minds inquire if you are tagging tiles with some kind of hidden black-and-white (ie, true/false) collision mask, or using some other method.
Heightmaps; so just sloped tiles are handled differently. Pretty simple to implement; if it is touching a slope tile than it can either move or not depending on the xy value inside the tile.
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