Retro - ASCII - game

spikey

Why do less code lines project take longer? and why does the night not have enough hours since FUZE4 appeared on the Switch?
Wanted to show you some more.

vinicity

Very nice! Incredibly retro!

AndyG1985

That looks and sounds brilliant - very professional!

spikey

ups, level 10 leads to a sudden death of Smack Man.

xevdev

Yep still giggling at that one .
Gotta love unintended consequences

spikey

Finalization phase has started. Old-school help screen ;-)

and I am working on a multiplayer feature, but it will cost me the 1000 line of code idea and I will have to do an exception on only using green as a color, because multiple green smack mans, even if I use different unicode characters, are making the game confusing.

Jongjungbu

You could keep this to 1000 line then make the multiplayer and other extra stuff as Smack Man II or Smack Man Vs or some such

spikey

@Jongjungbu That would be a proper solution, thank you for the idea. I already reduced the priority of 1000 lines, because I am so curious about to see, how the gameplay works with multiplayer. Also, if the gameplay needs major changes, to make it work well for multiplayer, I will consider this for my next game.

spikey

Finally, the beta version is finished. I tried to max out the amount of simultaneous players (currently 18), not sure how this works out. To make a good demo video, I need more joy-cons with a drift ;-) I will further increase the controls-help screen and minor adjustments. But this has to wait a bit.

Share ID: Z8463MNDN8

spikey

Its done.

added jingles for new high score, game over, level complete
cleaned the input interpreter for 18 players
a help screen, that looks like a how to for a flight simulator 😅 but its just for the joy con split mode
made everything a bit bigger, to allow comfortable gaming in undocked mode
Hope you enjoy, this homage to the PC retro gaming.

vinicity

Very cool! The jingles are just perfect! (If a bit loud, but I guess that is caused by the sound recording issue you posted about before...)

Will try it with the kids tonight!

spikey

@vinicity Thanks, I wonder how they react to such a retro style game. And yes, i am still struggling, with recording synth sound. Normal audio files are recorded in the volume, given in the parameter.

Martin

Very neat! But I think I might have just woken the whole street up :)

spikey

@Martin ooh no, still? I mean with the video or did you download the game. I put it all to a lower volume.

Martin

The video - my fault for watching it at 3AM :D

spikey

Fixed for FUZE 3.1.0: (pending for approval)

I had to rename fuschia to fuchsia
I had to rename my own custom function drawTextEx() to customDrawTextEx() because the new FUZE version contains now an amazing function named like this
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