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Offline Galandros

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Pure TI-BASIC grayscale ASCII game
« on: May 30, 2010, 03:24:51 pm »
This is an experiment I am doing mostly for my fun. It is intended only for SE calculators because of speed. It has some flicker but for Pure TI-BASIC is actually cool.
This will give use to my recent utility of hidden tokens, too.

The base code of is:
:While 1
:Dispgraph
:Disp
:End
This should enlighten who knows pretty well TI-BASIC. (at least I instantly knew how to make this code work) See the demo code for further understanding of the technique.

I already have a demo and screenie for the more skeptic.
But I need a idea for the game. It has to be with ASCII graphics, simple, a bit slow paced but fun. (if possible addictive too)
EDIT: puzzle or board games genres is the way to go. ;)
« Last Edit: May 30, 2010, 03:54:05 pm by Galandros »
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Re: Pure TI-BASIC grayscale ASCII game
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2010, 03:35:54 pm »
wow thats just awsome and the flicker isnt to bad ive seen much worse on things ive made with c3 X.x
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Re: Pure TI-BASIC grayscale ASCII game
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2010, 03:39:43 pm »
Quote from: Geekboy1011 on May 30, 2010, 03:35:54 pm
wow thats just awsome and the flicker isnt to bad ive seen much worse on things ive made with c3 X.x
Keep in mind that I pushed the emulator settings so almost any engine looks good. :P
But this is not emulator trickery. On calculator you get a very similar result to the screen shot.
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Re: Pure TI-BASIC grayscale ASCII game
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2010, 03:44:39 pm »
still its awsome although i wonder how much more it will flicker when you have a decent amount of code in it :/
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Re: Pure TI-BASIC grayscale ASCII game
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2010, 03:46:46 pm »
I agree with geekboy. This isn't exactly practical.
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Re: Pure TI-BASIC grayscale ASCII game
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2010, 03:49:10 pm »
Quote from: Raylin on May 30, 2010, 03:46:46 pm
I agree with geekboy. This isn't exactly practical.
I am going to verify that in coding.
If people did not tried lots of TI-BASIC commands like Plots, horizontal/vertical sprites with text, dual layer we wouldn't have the quality in graphics games we have.
It will definitely be a bit slow paced but for puzzles or board games is doable. I believe I can optimize and push speed to be very playable and even faster than some old ASCII games.

Quote from: Geekboy1011 on May 30, 2010, 03:44:39 pm
still its awsome although i wonder how much more it will flicker when you have a decent amount of code in it :/
That is why it has to be a simple game and slow paced. Still I added movement code without boundaries to check.

I think a puzzle or board game is the way to go. Action, adventure does not fit in this engine.
Someone that played lots of flash games or board game can give me a hint?
« Last Edit: May 30, 2010, 03:53:11 pm by Galandros »
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Re: Pure TI-BASIC grayscale ASCII game
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2010, 03:54:14 pm »
Checkers?
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Re: Pure TI-BASIC grayscale ASCII game
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2010, 03:59:52 pm »
Quote from: Raylin on May 30, 2010, 03:54:14 pm
Checkers?
Could be. And I could use that for testing how the engine will adapt to the code overhead. The darker tiles of the table will be in gray and in a perfect world I will be able to find tokens combinations for this. *Galandros sees the Weregoose pictures*

Make your bets, will the grayscale vanish with code overhead or not? Or Galandros does not have the skillz? j/k

If someone wants to leave another puzzle or board game suggestion for me to check later, would be nice.
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Re: Pure TI-BASIC grayscale ASCII game
« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2010, 04:09:17 pm »
Something like Checkers would be a good test. I say go for it!
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Re: Pure TI-BASIC grayscale ASCII game
« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2010, 04:18:52 pm »
checkers sounds great as a test and i think its very doable with boardgames
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Re: Pure TI-BASIC grayscale ASCII game
« Reply #10 on: May 30, 2010, 04:26:55 pm »
Thanks, that is a great support. ;D

I have a few ideas to speed up things like caching graphics on Pictures. And I might abuse unrolling code if I need. Hard code some lists in variables, anything that helps speed.
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Re: Pure TI-BASIC grayscale ASCII game
« Reply #11 on: May 30, 2010, 05:31:48 pm »
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unrolling code

What is that? Self-modifying code?
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Re: Pure TI-BASIC grayscale ASCII game
« Reply #12 on: May 30, 2010, 09:34:51 pm »
Quote from: Raylin on May 30, 2010, 05:31:48 pm
Quote from: Galandros
unrolling code

What is that? Self-modifying code?
Nope, it means instead of using a For( loop and such, do each iteration manually.
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Re: Pure TI-BASIC grayscale ASCII game
« Reply #13 on: May 31, 2010, 12:34:06 am »
seems nice. I wonder how fast it would be in a game?
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Re: Pure TI-BASIC grayscale ASCII game
« Reply #14 on: May 31, 2010, 12:41:32 am »
Wasn't this done in Metroid Pure Basic Version in the menu, except it was being off-set 1 pixel diagonal?
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