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TI Z80 / Time Portal
« on: April 19, 2009, 06:50:07 pm »
From those of you that know me from Ti-Basic developer, you probably remember my Portal game.
http://tibasicdev.wikidot.com/archives:portal
It seems to be my most successful game and has gotten rave review from all those who downloaded it. Either way, I am making the sequel, Portal 2, Time Portal.
The story takes place before the events of Portal 1, even before GLaDOS was ever hooked up. You have normal people guiding you through the tests and everything seems fine. The game play will be different though, instead of portals that take you through space, you will have a device that moves you through time. Then you will need to collaborate with previous versions of yourself to solve puzzles.
For example, there might be a button that you stand on to open a door, but when you step off of it, the door closes. What do you do? Step on the button, and then travel back in time. You will see the previouse version of yourself step on the button, and then you can walk through the door.
This concept can be expanded indefinitely (Within reason) so you might have up to 5 versions of yourself on the screen at any given time. I will try to gt a screen shot up as soon as i can, as i have the time travel engine up and running.
It might be worthy to note that I had this game almost finished twice already. I had completed the engine and most of the levels, and was working on the story. Then two idiots at school stole my Calculator and erased all of m memory... twice...
So this is the third time creating it. My only consolidation is that now I have a greater understanding of the code, and when you re-write a game, generaly you re-write it a lot better.
http://tibasicdev.wikidot.com/archives:portal
It seems to be my most successful game and has gotten rave review from all those who downloaded it. Either way, I am making the sequel, Portal 2, Time Portal.
The story takes place before the events of Portal 1, even before GLaDOS was ever hooked up. You have normal people guiding you through the tests and everything seems fine. The game play will be different though, instead of portals that take you through space, you will have a device that moves you through time. Then you will need to collaborate with previous versions of yourself to solve puzzles.
For example, there might be a button that you stand on to open a door, but when you step off of it, the door closes. What do you do? Step on the button, and then travel back in time. You will see the previouse version of yourself step on the button, and then you can walk through the door.
This concept can be expanded indefinitely (Within reason) so you might have up to 5 versions of yourself on the screen at any given time. I will try to gt a screen shot up as soon as i can, as i have the time travel engine up and running.
It might be worthy to note that I had this game almost finished twice already. I had completed the engine and most of the levels, and was working on the story. Then two idiots at school stole my Calculator and erased all of m memory... twice...
So this is the third time creating it. My only consolidation is that now I have a greater understanding of the code, and when you re-write a game, generaly you re-write it a lot better.