Author Topic: [Axe] Lazer II (Read 7214 times)

c4ooo · « **on:** March 08, 2015, 08:41:24 pm »

Lazer (with an Z!) II is a sequel to Lazer I (also with an Z!), a cool Lazer simulator puzzle game where you spin mirrors to make lasers hit Targets. The original version was made in Ti-Basic, and can still be found http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/459/45934.html]here.
Lazer 2 will add the following to Lazer 1:
Lazer v2.1 download: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/464/46490.html

Re-Writen in axe, every thing faster!
Greyscale
Level packs (sorof there)
A level editor (coming)
More tiles

Thanks to @chickendude there is now an animated screen shot. Thanks chickendude

Also remember that every thing you see is still alpha

I have released the third version, v2.2.
Here is a changelog:
+MAD optimization
+Over 20 new levels, but maybe more

+Pressing [ + ] will make the lasers go 2 pixels at a time, and [Enter] will pause it.
+The game now requires only 1500 bytes at run time, which is a less arbitrary number then 2000B was

+Minor visual improvements
+Level name can be seen in the level selection menu.
The game itself looks relatively the same as before... so no need for a screenie.

I would like to thank@Runer112 for the greyscale code and @chickendude for bug testing

TIfanx1999 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 09, 2015, 12:07:33 am »

Sounds pretty neat actually. Good luck with this!

c4ooo · « **Reply #2 on:** May 24, 2015, 07:38:15 pm »

For those who may be wondering, I am still working on this. I have learned a lot of axe sence I started, ajd that resulted in an optimized rewrite of the game. Although I will promise no deadlines, I have a picture of my epic planing skillz:

Spoiler For Spoiler:

: gameplay pics will come eventually :p

Haobo · « **Reply #3 on:** May 26, 2015, 12:19:12 am »

Nice flowchart diagram

c4ooo · « **Reply #4 on:** June 02, 2015, 04:09:38 pm »

Well as I said before, I rewrote practically everything, and I decided to post a video of what I have so far. The main menus have a dark-greyscale theme, with the cursor automatically resizing using interpolation to fit the selected text. The file io works, (it opens files but can't save so should I say half works?) and the greyscale tilemap was loaded from from a file. My guitar is seen in the background. Hopefully the attached Vidio will work and will be of high enofe quality. If not I will edit the post.
The main menu, note curser

The tilemap engine. The big white box is the curser.

The curser can be used to spin mirrors, no firing lasers yet thou :p

Edit (not rly) I will just post pictures.
Edit 2:
Lazer 1 just reached 255 downloads, a nice round (in binary) clean number. I guess that's a landmark.

c4ooo · « **Reply #5 on:** June 29, 2015, 03:46:19 pm »

I have released an alpha test version so people can actualy play it: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/464/46490.html
It only currently features only 5 levels thou!

chickendude · « **Reply #6 on:** June 30, 2015, 05:19:42 am »

You might wanna test if there's enough free RAM before starting, it crashed on me when i didn't have enough RAM. Also, the menu seems a bit bugged? About is the options menu, Quit is the about menu, and options does nothing. You also spelled CANCEL wrong in the "select pack" screen.

The actual game itself is nice, though i have a suggestion for moving around. I suggest that pressing up/left/down/right move the cursor an entire square, you can have it smooth scroll like it does, so it could scroll 8 pixels and then update the cursor. Right now it's a little awkward to select the right tile at times. All in all it looks really pretty and plays well, though the puzzles are a bit.. easy

Also, do you not have an emulator that can take screenshots (like WabbitEmu)? I can upload some screenshots from an emulator if you'd like (i saw your pictures at ticalc are from a camera).

c4ooo · « **Reply #7 on:** June 30, 2015, 12:37:32 pm »

Quote from: chickendude on June 30, 2015, 05:19:42 am

You might wanna test if there's enough free RAM before starting, it crashed on me when i didn't have enough RAM. Also, the menu seems a bit bugged? About is the options menu, Quit is the about menu, and options does nothing. You also spelled CANCEL wrong in the "select pack" screen.

Off crashing with no ram is a bad bug that i somehow missed! The bugged menus are probably a result of me making a last minute change and forgetting to change other stuff, and about spelling errors, i have problems spelling

Quote from: chickendude on June 30, 2015, 05:19:42 am

The actual game itself is nice, though i have a suggestion for moving around. I suggest that pressing up/left/down/right move the cursor an entire square, you can have it smooth scroll like it does, so it could scroll 8 pixels and then update the cursor. Right now it's a little awkward to select the right tile at times. All in all it looks really pretty and plays well, though the puzzles are a bit.. easy

Thank you for the feedback

Also the puzzles are easy because they have no thought in them, they were just made to test the engine.

Quote from: chickendude on June 30, 2015, 05:19:42 am

Also, do you not have an emulator that can take screenshots (like WabbitEmu)? I can upload some screenshots from an emulator if you'd like (i saw your pictures at ticalc are from a camera).

Dude, that would be nice! (and also i need to set up Wabbit sometime

)

chickendude · « **Reply #8 on:** July 01, 2015, 02:07:07 am »

Here's an animated screenshot of the demo:

I figured the puzzles were just to test the demo, though i did spend a while trying in vain to figure out how to solve the last puzzle (level 5)

Also, i thought that [del] was supposed to restart the level, but it just seems to bring up a screen with the name of the level. The select level part also changes a bit too quickly, you have to tap left/right quickly to select the next level.

Anyway, it seems like you've basically got everything done, you just need to work on puzzles, right? Is there anything else (maybe other mirror pieces) you plan to add?

c4ooo · « **Reply #9 on:** July 01, 2015, 12:37:45 pm »

Quote from: chickendude on July 01, 2015, 02:07:07 am

Here's an animated screenshot of the demo:

I figured the puzzles were just to test the demo, though i did spend a while trying in vain to figure out how to solve the last puzzle (level 5)

Also, i thought that [del] was supposed to restart the level, but it just seems to bring up a screen with the name of the level. The select level part also changes a bit too quickly, you have to tap left/right quickly to select the next level.

Anyway, it seems like you've basically got everything done, you just need to work on puzzles, right? Is there anything else (maybe other mirror pieces) you plan to add?

Thanks for the gif,

~~Not trying to be an Ephraim, but when the gif ends it just becomes white, which is rather annoying~~
Level 5 is not currently beatable, actually

, and [del] does restart the level, but when it does it also displays the title. About the level selection, I am planing to work a bit on it to make it a bit more user friendly. Lastly, the only other major thing I am planning to add are portals, and probably a few minor variants of the current pieces.

Edit: i fixed the gif by uploading it to imgur and then linking it here

chickendude · « **Reply #10 on:** July 03, 2015, 08:06:04 am »

Ah, the gif works fine for me here (keeps repeating like normal). And i guess i only tested [del] on the last level since i was trying to figure out how to beat it, so it seemed like it didn't do anything

Portals are actually one of the things i had in mind, cool to see you'll be adding those. I'd also suggest making the cursor move to the next tile when pressing an arrow key, i think keeping the cursor in the middle of the screen at all times and then shifting the background 8 pixels in whatever direction would look nice. You can see in the screenshot that there were a couple times where i had trouble selecting the right tile.

c4ooo · « **Reply #11 on:** July 03, 2015, 12:43:54 pm »

Quote from: chickendude on July 03, 2015, 08:06:04 am

Ah, the gif works fine for me here (keeps repeating like normal). And i guess i only tested [del] on the last level since i was trying to figure out how to beat it, so it seemed like it didn't do anything

Portals are actually one of the things i had in mind, cool to see you'll be adding those. I'd also suggest making the cursor move to the next tile when pressing an arrow key, i think keeping the cursor in the middle of the screen at all times and then shifting the background 8 pixels in whatever direction would look nice. You can see in the screenshot that there were a couple times where i had trouble selecting the right tile.

I actually tried to implement the cursor like you suggested yesterday but ended up with a system that a)did not work properly; and b)was slow

Ivoah · « **Reply #12 on:** July 03, 2015, 05:44:37 pm »

Looks nice! It reminds me of this: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/139/13958.html

chickendude · « **Reply #13 on:** July 04, 2015, 05:02:55 am »

Maybe the reason it was slow was because it didn't work properly

Here's my suggestion, then: when you press an arrow key, just repeat that loop 8 times. I'm not sure how this is written in Axe, there's probably a for loop or something. In asm you'd just use djnz. If it feels too slow for you (which it shouldn't, since it should basically be the same as holding down a key, only slightly faster), you could try scrolling two pixels at a time. You'd of course have to redraw the screen after each rotation, though i suppose the grayscale routine takes care of that for you.

c4ooo · « **Reply #14 on:** July 04, 2015, 12:29:21 pm »

Quote from: chickendude on July 04, 2015, 05:02:55 am

Maybe the reason it was slow was because it didn't work properly

Here's my suggestion, then: when you press an arrow key, just repeat that loop 8 times. I'm not sure how this is written in Axe, there's probably a for loop or something. In asm you'd just use djnz. If it feels too slow for you (which it shouldn't, since it should basically be the same as holding down a key, only slightly faster), you could try scrolling two pixels at a time. You'd of course have to redraw the screen after each rotation, though i suppose the grayscale routine takes care of that for you.

That wont really work because each loop there are many things that must be done each cycle to make the game tick(ex update lasers{it would look odd if the lasers stopped moving when you moved the cursor}, copy tile map buffers to main draw buffers, draw stuff like cursors and lines around the map, and then flip the grayscale buffers), so yea , it cant be done with just a simple loop

Right now ime trying to debug why having more then one packs does not work, and then ile give a second shot at this

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