Crazy Caves

[Qube]

Lol at this rate there will be a "who did the best loader screen" section in the voting

Just sticking my oar in to say "I DID IT FIRST!!!!!!" :-)

No ya didn't but you were the 1st to show it

[Steve Elliott]

Haha, precisely.  Some hold back a little, others show more; it's all personal preference.

The good thing is everybody is showing some of their project and creating a nice buzz around SyntaxBomb!   

[Steve Elliott]

Still plugging away and nervously watching the clock lol, but pretty happy with the project so far.  Although some serious competition from the SyntaxBomb Community, good work guys!  I'll be happy to just get the thing finished on time.

[Qube]

Still plugging away and nervously watching the clock lol, but pretty happy with the project so far.  Although some serious competition from the SyntaxBomb Community, good work guys!  I'll be happy to just get the thing finished on time.

Lol, another day to try and squeeze some coding in - Last week is always the worst when you know you've still got loads to do - Main thing is to avoid feature creep.

[Steve Elliott]

Main thing is to avoid feature creep.

When I began the project I thought cool, 8-bit; less time required for graphics...Then I find myself fussing over the difference a single pixel makes!!  Drives you nuts lol   

[Qube]

It's not just me doing stupid thing then? Like spending 15 minutes deciding which colour I use for a platform, does the green one look better above the purple one?, nah, I'll put it back silly I know.

[3DzForMe]

Feature creep, that old tease. It's always more appealing to work in that extra little nuance of functionality, rather than focus on the tough bit,the story line. I thought with it being low ISH Rez, the creation of the graphics would be straight forward, wrong, less colours equals more of a head ache about green or purple.... Or dark brown? Good luck meeting the deadline folks!

[Steve Elliott]

lol glad it's not just me either!  But a single pixel at high res makes no difference really.  At low res it really does!

If you're a good pixel artist then it all comes naturally, for everybody else it's a learning curve.

[STEVIE G]

lol glad it's not just me either!  But a single pixel at high res makes no difference really.  At low res it really does!

Ditto - I call it being a perfectionist 

[Steve Elliott]

 

[GaborD]

lol glad it's not just me either!  But a single pixel at high res makes no difference really.  At low res it really does!

Indeed.
Attention to detail (down to the pixel haha) is what separates great from good. 

[Steve Elliott]

Sure does.

Installed AGK on the MacBook and Crazy Caves runs well on it, so there will be a Mac Version too.   

btw I guess everybody here has at least a 1920 X 1080 display?

[Qube]

A lot of cheaper laptops are only 1366x768 and then generally go 1280x800, 1600x900 up to 4K resolution on a poxy 15" display

Good thing about AGK is that if you do set the resolution to 1920x1080 and the persons display is lower resolution then it'll scale down, so you don't need to worry about that side

[Steve Elliott]

True.  My Macbook has quite a bit higher resolution than the 1920 X 1080 of my PC (but for gaming you can't beat a 1ms response rate monitor) although the game scales well.  And for an authentic 8-bit game you really can't run it in a window.

[3DzForMe]

I'll be running my 8 bit game in a window, makes it resizeable to whatever the user wants allowing him to access his desktop. Next, People will have to ship spectrum keyboards and 14 inch telly's to make their game authentic.