Cracking on for easter , game now released

[kevin]

Good work.  I haven't even started :)

[micky4fun]

Good work.  I haven't even started

well no were as busy as you are with site Kevin so gives me more time , anyway ive added a pause function to it just right click mouse button to pause and left click to continue , also what ever you scored by hitting the chick floats up the screen from that chick , as BlinkOk's demo a good few posts back , well all looks and plays ok , another day testing tomorrow and ile post it up

mick :)

[kevin]

  Spent a bit of time tinkering with it last night and today.  Not on the game,  just converting the images.  As such, have a found a few well hidden oddities in one of the libraries. 

[micky4fun]

Hi Kevin

As such, have a found a few well hidden oddities in one of the libraries.

i take it you meen the hammer sprite im using for collision detection ?

ok ive fully tested this so here's the latest version , all files are uptodate , ile sort out instructions and write the description copy in the next day or 2 and post it , but for now here it is below

thanks
mick :)

[kevin]

i take it you meen the hammer sprite im using for collision detection ?

    Nah,   There's a few size issues, so some of the frames should really be resized, to trim any dead pixels.  The Wind animation is a good example of this. Each frame in this animation is  640K (in memory), so the animation costs 640*18= 10240K (10meg) .   An overhead older computers can't really afford.

   What I was mainly tinkering with, was a way of automatically building Alpha channels for the foreground sprites.   Which can be seen in the picture bellow, although i've intensionally over accentuated it, so they look like ghosts.   

[BlinkOk]

if you want alpha channels i can easily re-render the sprites with 24bit alpha

[kevin]

24bit for the Alpha channel is overkill.  8bit is fine. 

[micky4fun]

Hi Kevin

ahh see what you meen , maybe another way of doing wind effect then , most pc's these days have gfx cards that have a minium of 32 meg , ahh i remember my first pc with 512k gfx card , i take it i cant play it on that then , haha

ile leave the alpha channel stuff to the experts as i have no idea about that at all yet , but i can see the effect your talking about and it looks quite good.

i look forward to your code..

mick :)

[BlinkOk]

24bit for the Alpha channel is overkill.  8bit is fine. 

i disagree. 8bit produces jagged edges and trying to fix that up on the fly rather than letting an image app do it just doesn't make sense.

[kevin]

 Pixel intensities (A,R,G,B) are only 8bit.  The extra bits are lost..

[BlinkOk]

if you get it looking as good as the flash one i'll believe you

[kevin]

Well, if you know better, do it yourself.   

[BlinkOk]

 ::)

[kevin]

Mick,

   is this version the final ?

[micky4fun]

Hi Kevin


yes this is the final version , by the way the link to the game at top of forums , news: is linking Simple Map Maker For PlayBasic  and not this game

im still mucking around , i have'nt stopped , how can i as its so adictive , heres a screen shot of my latest simple game , old atari 400/800 favourite

mick :)