Code a game comp - 8-BIT WARS - Jan 25th to Mar 31st 2019

[Steve Elliott]

Such a high standard of games this time guys!  Congrats.  I'll drag my simple game over the line as soon as I can, but all the stops were pulled out here for this particular SyntaxBomb Competition by you guys!   

[Qube]

And I am Done! So is the game 

On the Mac version I get a popup window saying the game can't be found

However if I change a line in game.ini and options.ini to OutputDir="" then all is OK

[3DzForMe]

Finished!     Despite my Windows 7 Box DYING this morning, finding a Windows XP boot CD to resuscitate it to get my files of. Finished development on an old laptop, phew. Loved the challenge.

Game Title:   Big Dark Adventure
Download link:   Normally would, however its only 2MBytes and is packed attached to this post:-

BDA_packed_up_310319.zip  (see below)

(Actually spent 40 minutes last night getting my old web server up - cost me a hundred quid! Didn't need it after all)

OS requirements:   Windows   (tested on Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 10)

Required dependencies:   Something to unpack a compressed folder - double click on bigdarkadventureYAY.exe to run it

Info:   The Big Dark Adventure is a homage to the Hobbit format by Melbourne house. I'd a lot of aspirations for this - nearly bit of more than I could chew, but stumbled over the finish line.

Media information:   Included a text input code bt rontek from ye 'old blitzbasic archives. Cannot.... believe... I finished it.

90 percent of text and imagery by me, the other bit by my wife and kids chipping in briefly. 

[3DzForMe]

@Qube, just tried out Bomb Da City, quality. Will try all entrants throughout the week.... 

[Steve Elliott]

Info:   The Big Dark Adventure is a homage to the Hobbit format by Melbourne house.

The Hobbit, one of the best games on the Speccy, so look forward to playing.

[Qube]

@Qube, just tried out Bomb Da City, quality. Will try all entrants throughout the week.... 

Lol, couldn't resist squeezing that in

[Steve Elliott]

@Qube, just tried out Bomb Da City

I'm sure there was something in my eye lol.    But that really takes me back.

[3DzForMe]

Cheers Steve, I watched a walkthrough of the old Hobbit for inspiration, there's even evidence of using the actual pallette spectrum in one of the outer space scenes....

[Steve Elliott]

Cheers Steve, I watched a walkthrough of the old Hobbit for inspiration

You're welcome, from what I've seen you seemed to have captured the graphic style...But now the dreaded bug hunt week!!    But grab a beer or 2 and chill, you deserve it.

My inspiration was Splat!  Pacman and Manic Miner.   

[3DzForMe]

I once did an animation in DPaintIV similar to bomb da city, had to have a go respite the hours I've been glued to the screens

[Xerra]

@Qube, just tried out Bomb Da City, quality. Will try all entrants throughout the week.... 

Lol, couldn't resist squeezing that in

This was your inspiration from the Vic 20 for that one, right?

One of Andy Finkels first Vic games. He even wrote it in basic, as I recall.

[3DzForMe]

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My inspiration was Splat!  Pacman and Manic Miner.     

I was big on Pacman, think I'd the (somewhat questionable) Atari console version.... Looking forward to trying all entrants, as I already eluded to. Bit tired, so gotta leave it at one entrant for now, and yes, I'm on the Wolf Rock.

[Steve Elliott]

Splat!  Was better than 'that' version of Pacman lol.  Chill out and rest.  For the 'real' version I use my pi 3 under emulation.

[Qube]

I'm sure there was something in my eye lol.    But that really takes me back.

36 years ago I played that game, so waaaaaaay back

This was your inspiration from the Vic 20 for that one, right?

Yup yup - Spent many hours playing that on Vic-20 and thought it's be perfect as a quick addition under ZX 16k - Although with a mini twist when you do land

[Imerion]

I really hope I am in time here! Four minutes to go!

My game "Tiny Tales" designed in C64 style is (almost) complete. There are still bugs I know of, but feature-wise it should be complete except for the title screen and the music which I didn't have time to implement. A real download page and more info is coming soon!

Game Title: Tiny Tales
Downloads:
Windows: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vaqc2ea1te5ardu/TinyTales-Beta-Win.zip?dl=0
Linux: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ivhc3fujxlco4ho/TinyTales-Beta-Linux.zip?dl=0
MacOS: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4xgzstq37douenn/TinyTales-Beta-MacOS.zip?dl=0

Tiny Tales is a mini-adventure where you explore the land, solve puzzles, fight enemies and level up. All on a single screen! The game adheres to the C64 palette and a 320x200 resolution. I believe (almost) all 8x8 tiles are within the four color limit.

Media: All media was made by me.

A screenshot is attached!