I do note the sarcasm


Thank you so much! How far did you get?

Elephants sometimes do forget...the rest of the levels.

Nothing since my last update. But check out this definitely-will-maybe-possibly-finish-sometime project I'm working on.

7613: You try to keep it from your math teacher that you can play games on your calculator, but it turns out it's the talk of the school and he's heard by now

Do you store each frame or do you somehow calculate them on-the-fly?

Each frame is stored. So are the relative positions where to draw them. Pixel art was the hard part, though.

Bump.

I finally started to get animations to work!


The only animation I've included thus far is the up-2 left-2 cartwheel, and if you make any move, it defaults to that animation (so doing it with any other move will look weird, but still work). I also split the "main code" and "graphics and custom variable definitions" into two source files.

Source files available for download in attachments, as well as the compiled program. Tell me what you think!

That's right, I'm making another calc game. It will be a port of none other than:


(title screen above just a mockup at this point, is not in this version of the game)

As of now, this is an extremely early pre-pre-alpha v0.0.0.0.1.0 version of the game, so do not expect anything more out of it than what it gives as of now.

For those who don't know what that is, it is an NES game featuring the mascot of 7-Up, Cool Spot, which takes on a style similar to that of Othello (Reversi for some people). You can duplicate spots on the board by placing them 1 square away, or move spots on the board by placing them 2 squares away. If there are spots of the opponent's color directly around the ending square, it flips them to your color. Fun concept, and interesting to play.

What I hope to do is to make the magic of that game (yes, even the animations Spot does during moves) appear on my TI-84+ calculator. Sure, this would be simple to program in TI-BASIC, and I may do that at one point as well, but I don't simply want it for the gameplay. I want to test myself to see if I can recreate the stunning visuals in 3-level grayscale on a 96x64 pixel screen. So far, I think I did a good job with the "spot selected" animation.


(I swear, grayscale looks fine on-calc. I don't know how to Wabbitemu settings )

ARROW KEYS - Move your cursor
2ND - Select spot and destination spot
CLEAR - Exit at any time

I have implemented a semi-playable 2 player version (one player takes a turn, then the other, etc). There is no spot flipping yet. Game over and "winning" is also not handled at all, so you must quit out if the board gets full or you cannot move any pieces.

Source code is in ASPOT.8xp. Compiled program is in SPOT.8xp.

With that, it's back to sprite editing and coding. Give me feedback, tell me what you think!

I can't believe I've gone about a month without posting another challenge. Time to set things right

Hello Omnimaga/CodeWalrus/Cemetech/friends/Romans/countrymen/lend/me/your/ears, and welcome to the ninth installment of...

As you can see, I am @JWinslow23 , the guy who started this idea in the first place. You may recall my weird fifth challenge I devised, and if you do, I'm doing something just as sinister.

Don't know what code golf is? Check out this contest thread OR this really old contest thread for an explanation. Don't know what code is? Then you will not understand this website in general

Without further ado...

Challenge 9

Problem

Family Feud is a game show where you try to guess the most popular responses to survey questions, such as "Name something people often steal from the office to use at home", "Name something that gets hard when it gets cold", or "Tell me a famous Dennis". This, of course, has been adapted into many video game ports, including one in 1993 on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).

Now, the SNES version has one glitch that makes the game that much more funny: as long as there are the right letters in the right order, the game counts it as correct. This can lead to some rather interesting answers being counted, as seen in this video.

Based on this, here is your challenge: Create a program that, given a string containing a typed-in answer, and another string containing all the accepted answers (encoded in a format explained below), tells the user the answer they matched, and if no answer was matched, tells the user they got a strike.

Let me explain:

The string with the possible answers the game will accept will be encoded and interpreted as follows:

• Answers will be written in uppercase letters.
• Backslashes "\" separate multiple valid answers for a given entry.
• Optional parts of answers are enclosed by a pair of underscores "_", i.e. "_RED_ MEAT" means that "RED MEAT" and "MEAT" are both valid.
• A caret "^" indicates that the following character is optional, i.e. "PICKLE^S" means that "PICKLES" and "PICKLE" are both valid.
• Spaces are usually optional (except in special cases). For the purposes of the contest, they are always optional.
• Any double letters are always optional, e.g. "RACCOON" means that "RACCOON" and "RACON" are both valid.

Input for your program will be in the form of "ANSWER YOU TYPED IN:POSSIBLE ANSWER 1:POSSIBLE ANSWER 2:ETC". Output for your program will be in the form of either the lowest answer on the board that it matches, or "STRIKE!" if it matches no answers. To clarify, here are examples:

Input: "CLEANER FLUID:CAR\AUTO:CLOTH_ES_:_KITCHEN_ FLOOR:BODY:TOWEL^S:BATHROOM:DISH_ES_"
Output: "CAR\AUTO"

Input: "FABULOUS DIET WATER:CLOTH_ES_\SHOES:FAT\WEIGHT:BILLS:FOOD:TIME"
Output: "FOOD"

Input: "CODE GOLF CONTEST EIGHT:SOCK^S\HOSE\STOCKINGS\NYLONS:PURSE^S\POCKETBOOK\BAG:POLISH:LACES"
Output: "STRIKE!"
If any more clarification is needed, contact me. I'll try not to give you COMMANDS FOR US INVASION... (whoops, I mean CONFUSION )

Scoring

All non-calc languages will be scored with this counter.
Assembly programs will be scored on binary size (minus the header), and TI-BASIC and Axe will be scored on on-calc source size (again, minus the header). For Axe, the entire first line (for example, ".PROGNAME") does not count.

Submission

PM me over on Omnimaga, Cemetech, or CodeWalrus with the code, or make an unlisted YouTube video and PM me the link. (If you take the latter option, then congrats for you )

Good luck! I wanna see if Feud come up with clever answers!

SysRPL

Rank	User	Size	Date
1	3298	220.5 (I swear)	Jul 29 2015 05:44:37 pm

Java

Rank	User	Size	Date
1	3298	371	Jul 30 2015 04:47:10 pm

C

Rank	User	Size	Date
1	3298	334	Jul 30 2015 04:47:10 pm

Language Ranking

Rank	Lang	User	Size	Date
1	SysRPL	3298	220.5 (I swear)	Jul 29 2015 05:44:37 pm
2	C	3298	334	Jul 30 2015 04:47:10 pm
3	Java	3298	371	Jul 30 2015 04:47:10 pm

Here is the code for the SysRPL, C, and Java entries, respectively. I guess the contest died, even I didn't notice it was already over. But hey, it was fun.

::
  ' :: OVERSWAP BINT1 POSCHR
    DUP#0=csedrp NULL$SWAP
    2DUP #!+LAST$ UNROT
    1_#1+SUB$ ;
  'NOP 2NULLLAM{}_ BIND
  CHR_: 2GETEVAL 1PUTLAM BEGIN
    CHR_: 2GETEVAL DUP BEGIN
      CHR \5C 2GETEVAL
      ONEONE BEGIN
        3PICKOVER
        OVERLEN$ OVER#< case
        :: 3RDROP 6DROP
          SWAPDROP ABND ;
        SUB$1#
        BINT32 OVER#=case
        :: DROP #1+ AGAIN ;
        BINT94 OVER#=case
        :: DROP #2+ AGAIN ;
        BINT95 OVER#=case
        :: DROP3PICK tokuscore_
          ROT#1+ POS$ #1+ AGAIN ;
        1GETLAM $PICK SUB$1#
        #=ITE #1+ SWAP#1+SWAP
      1GETLAM LEN$ 3PICK #< UNTIL
    3DROP DUPNULL$? UNTIL
  2DROP DUPNULL$? UNTIL
  DROP ABND "STRIKE!"
;
#include<stdio.h>
main(int c,char**v){char*i,*a,*s=v[1];while(1){while(*s&&*s!=58&&*s!=92)++s;if(!*s)break;if(*s++==58)a=s;i=v[1];while(*i!=58)switch(*s){case 0:case 58:case 92:while(*a&&*a!=58)printf("%c",*a++);return;case 94:++s;case 32:++s;break;case 95:++s;while(*s++!=95);break;default:if(*i==*s)++s;else++i;}}printf("STRIKE!");}
class G{public static void main(String[]c){c=c[0].split(":");for(int n=0;++n<c.length;)for(String s:c[n].split("\\\\"))for(int x=0,y=0;x<c[0].length(){if(y>=s.length()){System.out.print(c[n]);return;}switch(s.charAt(y)){case 94:++y;case 32:++y;break;case 95:y=s.indexOf(95,y+1)+1;break;default:if(c[0].charAt(x)==s.charAt(y))++y;else++x;}}System.out.print("STRIKE!");}}