Pinball!

DigiTan · Posted: 30 Nov 2004 07:58:33 pm Post subject:

Let's just say I know good work when I see it. It's cool to see these high-end games hit it big. (Plus it's the first TI-82 game in months). I showed my non-calc friends the game and they couldn't beleive it.

b__ · Member Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 173

I just played this and was really impressed. It was probably the best calc game ive played (with maybe the exception of mario). One thing that you could add though would be so that it says when you get a highscore and maybe lets you put in your initials, because i usually don't remember what the highscore was before or who got it.

CoBB · Active Member Joined: 30 Jun 2003 Posts: 720

Honestly, I do not value this program at all. It could have been done much better... The general reaction towards it only proves how much people underestimate the capabilities of the calculator most of the time. I find that strange, since Gemini has been out for quite a time now, and it really squeezed out everything of the CPU, which Acelgoyobis did not. Nevertheless, while on this project, I always kept 'pleasant game experience' the topmost priority. I always asked the testers about their feelings and gameplay improvement ideas besides mere bug checking.

As for entering your name, I was contemplating it, but I dropped the idea, because it would make the executable much bigger without adding too much to the game (anyone who programmed a text input routine with custom font in assembly knows that). I left out other little features, because I wanted to release it at last and knew that I wouldn't have free time for a long time. The main replay value lies in the table editor in my opinion. Well, it needs some brains to handle, but it gives you a high degree of freedom, if I may say that.

leofox · Posted: 01 Dec 2004 03:15:33 pm Post subject:

DigiTan · Posted: 02 Dec 2004 11:43:21 pm Post subject:

Heh heh. CoBB, you modest son-of-a-gun!

Well, I guess what you say is true. Very few games that come to mind actually...I mean really push the TI hardware (except memory, which is no task). The only exceptions that come to mind are Defiance (3D) and Daedalus (3D) and a few others that involve sprite scaling and rotation and that sort of stuff. And there's two good reasons for that. It's hard and it takes forever!

It's a really big deal. Most people wouldn't come up with this stuff off alone even if they were getting paid! I mean, think about it; the early Gameboy games were made from teams of what? 10? 20? 30 people? (See where I'm going with this?)

Well, I'm guess I'm excited about it mainly because TI-82 gaming has been very stagnant the past few years, except for Dwedit's and Deus Makina's work. It's really cool to see 'business' picking up again. Cool

CoBB · Active Member Joined: 30 Jun 2003 Posts: 720

If that makes you feel better, every calc project I intend to do in the future will involve the 82 as well. Smile

Thank the unification project.

DigiTan · Posted: 03 Dec 2004 05:21:54 pm Post subject:

Can you send me the link to that page? I need it bad.

Er, one more question. How did you get Acelgoybis to appear in the 82 and 83+ directories at ticalc?

sgm · Calc Guru Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Posts: 1265

http://etrange.paxl.org/?path=ti83/unification.html

Not much updating lately.

Sinclair computers? wtf? Speccies suck.

CoBB · Active Member Joined: 30 Jun 2003 Posts: 720

Upload comment: 'please link this file from the relevant directories as well; details in the readme'. Something like that. As for Death Rally I requested the links via e-mail long after the actual upload, so it can be done at any time.

Unfortunately linked files don't participate in the 'become top downloaded file in the directory' game, so I can't rule the SNG dir. Smile

The real file is in the 83+ ION directory, and there are five links to it (for each of the 3 82 and 2 83 executables).

alexrudd · Posted: 01 Jun 2007 10:47:56 am Post subject:

This has been pinned long enough.

frenchcalc1 · Posted: 01 Jun 2007 04:42:45 pm Post subject:

Weregoose · Posted: 01 Jun 2007 04:57:31 pm Post subject:

alexrudd · Posted: 01 Jun 2007 08:42:11 pm Post subject:

No I'm not deleting it, just unpinning it. (When I remember to hit the [go] button, that is)

TheStorm · Calc Guru Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 1233

bTW has there been any recent updates to this program because this looks cool but I couldn't tell what has all theri from reading the thread.

Weregoose · Posted: 01 Jun 2007 10:47:12 pm Post subject:

frenchcalc1 · Posted: 03 Jun 2007 03:53:50 pm Post subject:

Weregoose · Posted: 03 Jun 2007 04:10:43 pm Post subject:

It conveys meaning well enough, and is understood by anyone who reads it.

Xphoenix · Elite Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 756

By me, for example.

So this is the thread of the famous Acelgoyobis...
I never really bother with threads with posts from 2004.

TheStorm · Calc Guru Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 1233

wow this is a cool game, to bad the levels have to be unarchived though.

Xphoenix · Elite Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 756

That's one of the things that brought down the game's popularity.

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