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Re: Advanced Spectrum Arcade Simulator

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2018 1:08 pm
by SteveSmith
druellan wrote: Thu Dec 20, 2018 12:35 pm
SteveSmith wrote: Tue Dec 11, 2018 6:39 pm Just started adding another game. Any guesses which one?
Androids!
Correct! A forgotten classic.

Re: Advanced Spectrum Arcade Simulator

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2018 1:12 pm
by Alessandro
SteveSmith wrote: Thu Dec 20, 2018 1:08 pm Correct! A forgotten classic.
Forgotten by who? :lol: It was one of the very first games I played on the Spectrum (16K!) and I still enjoy it every now and then. At higher levels life becomes very hard :mrgreen:

Re: Advanced Spectrum Arcade Simulator

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2018 1:16 pm
by druellan
The speed compared to other games around that date was remarkable, very frantic when you learn how to navigate the maze.

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Re: Advanced Spectrum Arcade Simulator

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2018 1:54 pm
by redballoon
hikoki wrote: Thu Dec 20, 2018 11:32 am Hi. Let me share with you my googling around in search of ways to smoothen voxels.
Hikoki, why in the world would you want to smooth out voxels?!?

You could have something like this, brimming with style and charm
https://twitter.com/armyoftrolls/status ... 93472?s=21

Re: Advanced Spectrum Arcade Simulator

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2018 2:59 pm
by hikoki
Nice artwork indeed.
I rather thought of something not so much square on everywhere that reminds you of first 3d from the 90's arcade machines or something lowpoly spiky like first PS1 Tekken, Rare works for the N64..
The smoothed out voxel guy I posted above looks a little like the blond baddies from Doom, maybe you could make characters with voxels and other rounded forms and smooth out the whole set in the end.
Another different style would be having characters with micheli-esque muscles in some places which give them a really fierce and nasty look. I took the horse and bunny pics from some academic pdf papers..dunno if such softwares are available to the public.

Re: Advanced Spectrum Arcade Simulator

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2018 3:11 pm
by SteveSmith
Okay, here's an easier one:

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Re: Advanced Spectrum Arcade Simulator

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2018 3:29 pm
by Alessandro
Krakatoa. Another old favorite of mine :D

Re: Advanced Spectrum Arcade Simulator

Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2019 1:21 pm
by SteveSmith
5MinuteRetro wrote: Wed Dec 05, 2018 9:13 pm I like the idea. How/when/where can we get hold of it?
I've just open-sourced it. Help yourself to a copy at https://bitbucket.org/SteveSmith16384/spectrumarcade . There's a few niggly problems to solve before I can package it up into a nice simple download. After that, I'm going to start work on a multiplayer FPS version of Chaos.

Re: Advanced Spectrum Arcade Simulator

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2019 8:57 am
by SteveSmith