I made a BASIC game for the competition that was mentioned on here recently, and was rather pleased with my effort 'Orbital Pscribe' (as a piece of design that I'd not seen used before... Timed typing tutor as a game, with rotating directional jumps to ... look, it's quite hard to describe).
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CrKs1 ... 8cbgZO-i_p
Anyway, I don't really know how people received it in the competition (it was through a facebook group, and I don't f/b), so I thought I'd post it here, before (eventually) making it into a M/Code game (it'll be a long process).
My Assembly skills are ... okayish, but not pretty. But over the past few years I've built a masked sprite routine that I'm sure I can do the 'pointer' with, (using 24 locations, and directions for an 'arrow').
I think I can do a quicker 'draw' routine, for the 'jumps' the character makes, and check for pixel collision (and then check attributes to see if it's a nasty, or a switch). I'll use 16 bit co-ordinates, and use the high byte to be the location on the screen (thus I can have 24 different direction vectors to do the jumps, with multipliers).
I might use the ROM keyboard reading routine initially, I think (for ease), and keep interrupts enabled (I know, I know!) and use the system variables to calculate the 'time taken' and the keypresses. (If I like the results of how the game plays out, I'm thinking I can replace these afterwards).
I know I'll be reinventing the wheel with routines I'm using etc, but it'll be a fun challenge I think.
Anyway I thought I might use this as my progress blog, type thing. This'll be the most 'top down planned' thing I've approached, and it'll be interesting to see how my working practice changes as a result. Making the game in BASIC first means I definitely have an idea of the amount of variables and 'maths' I was using, and I'll have to think about how I can manage that in M/C (e.g. floating point maths and division is out for jump distances, I'll pre-divide them to the smallest fraction I need and multiply them back up).
It's quite possible I'm the only person who'll be interested in this, but there we go!
