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Re: Game selection help
« Reply #15 on: December 28, 2012, 05:18:47 pm »
I don't know if Lua can do this, but what about a top-down racing game?
* epic7 was thinking of making one of those after finishing DrillMiner
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Re: Game selection help
« Reply #16 on: December 28, 2012, 06:10:21 pm »
mhmm, how about, umm, THE GAME?
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how about some mario game
EDIT: or the worlds hardest game, that one is awesome >.>
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Re: Game selection help
« Reply #17 on: December 28, 2012, 11:09:33 pm »
Lotus Turbo Challenge.

If it's too complex for Lua speed, you could maybe merge multiple rows of pixels into one and just change the road sprite so it looks like a left or right curve instead of straightforward. I did that in xLIB BASIC once by splitting the road parts into 4 chunks (1st screenshot) instead of 32 or so (2nd):





Also my game had the game set in 2nd person view rather than 3rd person, so the car always stayed in the middle of the screen with the road moving around, rather than the opposite, and the background scrolled in curves in mine. That might be a bit overkill in Lua, but I guess it doesn't hurt to try. :P
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Re: Game selection help
« Reply #18 on: December 29, 2012, 02:59:50 am »
Hmm, these are some interesting ideas :)

Is this lotus turbo challenge what is meant by top-down racing game?
Lua isn't fast, but if I don't use images (and maybe draw a border or something around it so i don't have to redraw the whole screen) it might be somehow possible.. I'll test some things out before I say anything more.

Sorunome is it the impossible game you mean like the one penguin77 made?

And epic7 go ahead, why not :) And you could make it in C, that way it'll be faster for those that have Ndless.

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Re: Game selection help
« Reply #19 on: December 29, 2012, 03:02:34 am »
Nah, top-down is more like this: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/437/43721.html

Lotus and my engine demo are pseudo 3D. Also my method uses 4 images for the road, 1 for the background, 1 for the car and an horizontal line, so I don't know if it would be problematic.
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Re: Game selection help
« Reply #20 on: December 29, 2012, 03:04:31 am »
Oh, right. hmm, i always wanted to make one of those, espescially if you see the ones for 83+/84+, those are some amazing games

I guess that can be done, but the speed won't be wunderbar, but i can test it

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Re: Game selection help
« Reply #21 on: December 29, 2012, 03:27:23 am »
If anything, I doubt it will be as slow as my TI-BASIC+xLIB version above, though. I couldn't even get 4 FPS. Unless Lua images are really that terrible, lol.

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Re: Game selection help
« Reply #22 on: December 29, 2012, 03:35:53 am »
If I would use images, I might be able to get that 4fps, but of course it depends on how big they are.
As an example, with my uno game, it takes about hald a second to redraw the whole screen in the biggest version, And it's about 1/3rdf filled with images.
I think that describes enough on how slow lua images are...

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Re: Game selection help
« Reply #23 on: December 29, 2012, 03:36:29 am »
O.O

What about lower quality ones or displaying small ones? That said, for the road you could always use shapes I guess (such as gray triangles and rectangles with no outline, if supported)
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Re: Game selection help
« Reply #24 on: December 29, 2012, 12:29:45 pm »

Sorunome is it the impossible game you mean like the one penguin77 made?

No, I mean the worlds hardest game
http://www.addictinggames.com/action-games/theworldshardestgame.jsp

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Re: Game selection help
« Reply #25 on: December 29, 2012, 12:55:18 pm »
wut? what kind of game is that? I died like 20 times in the first 4 levels :o That's sooooo awesome, i might do that one, it's just wonderful :)

The only problem is that i'll have to complete them all..

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Re: Game selection help
« Reply #26 on: December 29, 2012, 12:56:37 pm »
No worries, there are walkthroughs on youtube :D
And IIRC there is also a port of dat one for the 84+ which i got never to work >.>

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Re: Game selection help
« Reply #27 on: December 29, 2012, 12:57:45 pm »
It would take longer to play through the game than it would to port it O.O

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Re: Game selection help
« Reply #28 on: December 29, 2012, 12:59:04 pm »
That's true, but it is also the same with the impossible game :P

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Re: Game selection help
« Reply #29 on: December 29, 2012, 12:59:07 pm »
Indeed, i'm sure it will :) but it's so awesome, isn't it?