ZX Larry (Leisure Suit Larry remake)
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Re: ZX Larry (Leisure Suit Larry remake)
Haha, I still remember the Larry games in the MSDOS years!
Great idea for a Spectrum game. Thanks for the info!
Great idea for a Spectrum game. Thanks for the info!
Re: ZX Larry (Leisure Suit Larry remake)
A remake of one of my favourite old adventure games. Decent graphics, nice spot FX and remarkably faithful to the original, basically all the major puzzles are there. All in 48k, that's pretty impressive! The GUI was a bit clunky at first but I got used to it. Haven't completed Larry 1 in a few years but I still remembered the solution and got a score of 240/255 in the end. Really enjoyed that, great job Ralf!
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Thanks for making the thread! And yes, it's my game
I started doing it a long time ago, around 2012-2013 which were the best years of my Spectrum related productivity. I completed it then around 70-80% and then lost interest for a few years.
Now I somehow managed to find motivation to finish it for the compo and here it is There may be some bugs as I finished it in a hurry before a deadline.
It's an adult game, but presented in some funny and delicate way I hope. Still if playing a game about finding a sex partner somehow offends your
feelings, then just don't play it.
I started doing it a long time ago, around 2012-2013 which were the best years of my Spectrum related productivity. I completed it then around 70-80% and then lost interest for a few years.
Now I somehow managed to find motivation to finish it for the compo and here it is There may be some bugs as I finished it in a hurry before a deadline.
It's an adult game, but presented in some funny and delicate way I hope. Still if playing a game about finding a sex partner somehow offends your
feelings, then just don't play it.
Re: ZX Larry (Leisure Suit Larry remake)
Great job, Ralf. Except for the tragic cursor speed. But this won't deter me from trying to find a sexual partner.
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You may use Caps Shift+direction to move cursor slower.Great job, Ralf. Except for the tragic cursor speed. But this won't deter me from trying to find a sexual partner.
Also you may use Caps Shift + fire to abandon started action.
And also you may choose Kempston mouse. For example Spectaculator supports it.
It was very briefly tested and may be buggy but seems usable to me.
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This is FANTASTIC! Congrats Ralf.
I find standard speed wayyy to fast, and the slow speed too slow; and it's a pain to have to press another key all the time. I hope you don't mind, but I've made a patch that sets the default speed as perfect for me. If others like it, perhaps it could be feedback for a fix?
Here's a snapshot with the patch.
And here's the patch:
I find standard speed wayyy to fast, and the slow speed too slow; and it's a pain to have to press another key all the time. I hope you don't mind, but I've made a patch that sets the default speed as perfect for me. If others like it, perhaps it could be feedback for a fix?
Here's a snapshot with the patch.
And here's the patch:
Code: Select all
org 24122
call slowdown
org 65281
slowdown:
halt
halt
ld bc,65278
ret
I'm not familiar with the original (far too innocent ), does it contain anything that would stop us hosting the file in the SC archive (indecent images etc)?
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I played it with Kempston mouse and I think I completed it, but it was hard to tell because clicking on some objects (bartender, peephole, taxi stand) resulted in a lot of random text spewing all over the screen And I had some unused objects left over at the end. But it's a really nice game, the UI feels great to use and the graphics and music are good too. Nice job!
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I'll to try do some bugfixes and release version 1.1. But give me a few days to restI played it with Kempston mouse and I think I completed it, but it was hard to tell because clicking on some objects (bartender, peephole, taxi stand) resulted in a lot of random text spewing all over the screen
Actually there is no nudity or profanity in the game. But it is about trying to have sex and there is a scene of sex covered with "censored" sign.I'm not familiar with the original (far too innocent ), does it contain anything that would stop us hosting the file in the SC archive (indecent images etc)?
In the end my feeling is that it belongs to adult category indeed. If SC doesn't show titles like Soho Sex Quest (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek ... id=0006998 ) which don't have any graphics at all then to do justice it shouldn't include my remake too. I'm a bit sad about it but rules are rules I guess.
ZXDB is a bit different thing I guess. As I understood ZXDB contains info about adult games, just SC doesn't use it.
If you decided to add my game to SC however, I would accept it with joy.
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Re: ZX Larry (Leisure Suit Larry remake)
"KEN SENT ME" - I still remember these magic words
not sure if they are present in this remake, I need some time to play it - so many new games coming from the competition, so little time
not sure if they are present in this remake, I need some time to play it - so many new games coming from the competition, so little time
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Re: ZX Larry (Leisure Suit Larry remake)
I´m trying to complete it today.
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Very very nice! The screens look so authentic, both to the original game as to the Speccy. Great stuff!
The controls are ok (using Fuse) after switching to kempston mouse.
It would have been very cool if the tune had been truer to the original, now its just annoying.
I did have a crash when I attempted to give the bottle of wine from the store to the tramp.
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It may be related to using the Kempston mouse. There must be some bugs with it as people reported other weird behaviour too.I did have a crash when I attempted to give the bottle of wine from the store to the tramp.
I wrote this code a long time ago with zero previous experience of mouse support and actually didn't test it recently
I'll try to deal with it later.
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Really nice game Rafal!
I would have some suggestions how to improve the interface of the game.
1) If you select a command (e.g. LOOK) and then change your mind, it would be fine, if you could select another one (e.g. TALK). It would be much more intuitive than CS+FIRE.
2) If you select a command (e.g. LOOK) it would be better to continue with 'looking' more than once fully automatically (look at girl, look at sign, etc). Now you must click on LOOK command every time again and again.
I would have some suggestions how to improve the interface of the game.
1) If you select a command (e.g. LOOK) and then change your mind, it would be fine, if you could select another one (e.g. TALK). It would be much more intuitive than CS+FIRE.
2) If you select a command (e.g. LOOK) it would be better to continue with 'looking' more than once fully automatically (look at girl, look at sign, etc). Now you must click on LOOK command every time again and again.
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Thanks for feedback, Pavel. I also got info about the interface from some other people and it looks like everybody says that the game could benefit from some interface retouch.
Now I'm going to have a few days of rest but I'll certainly make some fixes later.
Now I'm going to have a few days of rest but I'll certainly make some fixes later.
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Completed now.
Some bugs report:
1) Inventory for 10 items may not be enough, how we can see in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKMgxlSUWV8
2) If you use mag (via LOOK command), it doesn't disappear from inventory.
3) Time to time, if you use the sign for TAXI, messy text will appear. Maybe with Kempston mouse combination?
Some bugs report:
1) Inventory for 10 items may not be enough, how we can see in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKMgxlSUWV8
2) If you use mag (via LOOK command), it doesn't disappear from inventory.
3) Time to time, if you use the sign for TAXI, messy text will appear. Maybe with Kempston mouse combination?
Re: ZX Larry (Leisure Suit Larry remake)
Seems about right.R-Tape wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:10 pm This is FANTASTIC! Congrats Ralf.
I find standard speed wayyy to fast, and the slow speed too slow; and it's a pain to have to press another key all the time. I hope you don't mind, but I've made a patch that sets the default speed as perfect for me. If others like it, perhaps it could be feedback for a fix?
Here's a snapshot with the patch.
Re: ZX Larry (Leisure Suit Larry remake)
The mouse speed is slightly fast too I think. Survivisection had a menu with different settings for the cursor sensitivity - would it be possible to add something like that? (if it's not too much work)
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Nice to see something like this on the humble Speccy. I'm sure a point-and-click game such as Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis (not the isometric one we got) would've been possible. I really like the graphics and the use of colour.
How hard would it be to implement a pixel-based cursor routine?
How hard would it be to implement a pixel-based cursor routine?
Re: ZX Larry (Leisure Suit Larry remake)
Hi Bruno, nice to see that you like my remake of Larry
As for pixel precise cursor it is of course possible in general case but this Larry game uses almost all of memory and I would have to struggle hard to add some bigger code into it.
Another thing is colour clash. When we allow pixel movent we probably will have to accept clash and cursor taking colours from the background. I wanted to avoid it in my game so I went for this little glowing square moved by 8 pixels.
As for pixel precise cursor it is of course possible in general case but this Larry game uses almost all of memory and I would have to struggle hard to add some bigger code into it.
Another thing is colour clash. When we allow pixel movent we probably will have to accept clash and cursor taking colours from the background. I wanted to avoid it in my game so I went for this little glowing square moved by 8 pixels.
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One advantage of having a char-based cursor is that it's much quicker to fully 'explore' the screen, never liked point and click games where you had to 'hunt' pixels to make progress.
I tried R-Tape's speed mod and it feels spot on to me. Also it would be nice being able to cancel using the joystick, pavero had some nice ideas regarding this.
I tried R-Tape's speed mod and it feels spot on to me. Also it would be nice being able to cancel using the joystick, pavero had some nice ideas regarding this.
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Re: ZX Larry (Leisure Suit Larry remake)
I think it would be really big mistake to "censor" the game at SC site. Especially if this types of games are so rare on Speccy scene.Ralf wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:45 pmI'll to try do some bugfixes and release version 1.1. But give me a few days to restI played it with Kempston mouse and I think I completed it, but it was hard to tell because clicking on some objects (bartender, peephole, taxi stand) resulted in a lot of random text spewing all over the screen
Actually there is no nudity or profanity in the game. But it is about trying to have sex and there is a scene of sex covered with "censored" sign.I'm not familiar with the original (far too innocent ), does it contain anything that would stop us hosting the file in the SC archive (indecent images etc)?
In the end my feeling is that it belongs to adult category indeed. If SC doesn't show titles like Soho Sex Quest (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek ... id=0006998 ) which don't have any graphics at all then to do justice it shouldn't include my remake too. I'm a bit sad about it but rules are rules I guess.
ZXDB is a bit different thing I guess. As I understood ZXDB contains info about adult games, just SC doesn't use it.
If you decided to add my game to SC however, I would accept it with joy.
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Do we all experience more or less the same emulator speed and keyboard sensitivy? I ask because I remember we had a similar issue with Ralf's Archaomania.
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R-Tape wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:10 pm This is FANTASTIC! Congrats Ralf.
I find standard speed wayyy to fast, and the slow speed too slow; and it's a pain to have to press another key all the time. I hope you don't mind, but I've made a patch that sets the default speed as perfect for me. If others like it, perhaps it could be feedback for a fix?
Here's a snapshot with the patch.
Thanks for this, much better and more playable now.