Spectrum Computing

I'm looking for good reference graphics for rocks, not your average square blocked rubble from Boulder Dash or Rockman, but serious, nifty outcrops.


Satan is a reasonable example.

And these outcrops in More Tea Vicar are superb:



Others?

Rex
Cauldron (some caves)
Backpackers Guide to the Universe
Nodes of Yesod
Myth History in the Making

Ah! I forgot Underwurlde...

Well,

Dizzy games for single boulders:


Sword of the Samurai (maybe too simple for your case):


Shadow of The Beast


Darius


Check also later levels of:
Shadow Dancer
UN Squadron
Midnight Resistance

Is this of any use to you? I found this link at Dunny's SpecBAS website.

http://www.playfuljs.com/realistic-terr ... 130-lines/

llewelyn wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 10:13 pm Is this of any use to you? I found this link at Dunny's SpecBAS website.

http://www.playfuljs.com/realistic-terr ... 130-lines/

Cheers, I'm after graphics from Speccy games I can use for inspiration/ripping off. Looks interesting though.

Feud,Fred,Hydrofool,Desperado,Phantis,Soldier of Fortune,Spy Hunter,Fantastic Voyage,Ghouls 'n Ghosts,Action Force II,Scuba Dive,Shadow of The Beast,The Sacred Armour of Antiriad,Where Time Stood Still,Jaws,Astro Marine Corps,Leovigildo,Shadow of the Unicorn,Capitan Trueno,Pentacorn Quest,Bestial Warrior,Mermaid Madness,Captain Planet,Enduro Racer

Don't think I'm going to win any prizes on that front. My rocks are a bit randomy squiggles.

Maybe not but the Kremlin looks great.

Titanic,Mutan Zone,Stryker,Lost Caves,Mythos,La Gruta de los Cuatro Diamantes,Journey to the Centre of the Earth,Dogmole Tuppowski

I cannot find a nice one where you got mixed with the pattern of red cave passageways

Narco Police managed to create a nice not-so-blocky rock tunnel:

R-Tape wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 1:12 pm Maybe not but the Kremlin looks great.

You are dead to me.

druellan wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 1:51 pm Narco Police managed to create a nice not-so-blocky rock tunnel:

That's quite a neat 3D effect - it's the same graphic just being drawn a little further across and down each time, but because of the sloped edge and the overlap spreading out it looks a little bigger each time. Shame it has to be pixel-masked though as that's clearly slowing things down.

Joefish wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 3:50 pm

druellan wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 1:51 pm Narco Police managed to create a nice not-so-blocky rock tunnel:

That's quite a neat 3D effect - it's the same graphic just being drawn a little further across and down each time, but because of the sloped edge and the overlap spreading out it looks a little bigger each time. Shame it has to be pixel-masked though as that's clearly slowing things down.

Well, yes. Is not quite a problem when you are just walking the tunnels (love the effect when you move side by side), but the action sequences are at the verge of being unplayables. Just as a fun fact, while the game was published in Spain, the original development team was from Uruguay.

I have seen Narco Police before but never got into it. Couldn't understand it what I am supposed to do, beside walking in some tunnels of course.

But I know some people do like this game.

So you guys have a challenge. It has never been recorded as rzx walkthrough. If anybody feels compentent do a recording and send it to Rzx Archive

Oh, didn't noticed there is no RZX of this game. But as far as to try to finish it, not sure if I can manage to do that without a trainer.

I've also loved the background shown in Yie Ar Kung-Fu:

Does Virus count?

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Sun May 20, 2018 9:12 pm I've also loved the background shown in Yie Ar Kung-Fu:

Looks like a bloody shambles!

Seven.FFF wrote: ↑Sun May 20, 2018 11:19 pm Does Virus count?

It looks more suited to a Spectrum utility for finding oil reservoirs.

R-Tape wrote: ↑Mon May 21, 2018 8:10 am

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Sun May 20, 2018 9:12 pm I've also loved the background shown in Yie Ar Kung-Fu:

Looks like a bloody shambles!

It's modern art, you uncultured!

R-Tape wrote: ↑Mon May 21, 2018 8:10 am
Looks like a bloody shambles!

...And not a naked woman in sight..!

Morkin wrote: ↑Mon May 21, 2018 8:42 pm ...And not a naked woman in sight..!

Dunno, there's bound to be some cryptic smut hidden in this melange.

The original arcade background is almost as vague.
Looks a bit more like a painting though.

I recolored the arcade version to avoid the black on dark blue...

Actually it's not a bad port then. The speccy misses out George Washington at the bottom left but kind of manages Scandinavia at the middle top.

R-Tape wrote: ↑Wed May 23, 2018 7:52 am Actually it's not a bad port then. The speccy misses out George Washington at the bottom left but kind of manages Scandinavia at the middle top.

And I see the head of a demon at bottom right.

And it's not Scandinavia, it's a crocodile.