4 player "Carnival" Shooting Gallery

Spacemario · 20 Jan 2020, 21:31

@SteveZX81 I prefer the black personally, for whatever that's worth-- it fits with the minimalistic arcade game motif, plus a background would just confuse the eyes I think.

SteveZX81 · 20 Jan 2020, 21:39

@Spacemario said in 4 player "Carnival" Shooting Gallery:

@SteveZX81 I prefer the black personally, for whatever that's worth-- it fits with the minimalistic arcade game motif, plus a background would just confuse the eyes I think.

Good point and I fully agree. (the only reason I was considering something else is my old eyes, the contrast with a pure black bg is a pain at times.)

Spacemario · 20 Jan 2020, 21:42

@SteveZX81 Oh, I see what you mean! You could try a very dark gray, to lighten it up a bit-- would maintain the game's character, while making it easier on the eyes?

SteveZX81 · 23 Jan 2020, 19:13

Little update video.

(having a bit of bother with the sound effects right now, have a couple that I don't like but I can't seem to find anything better)

SteveZX81 · 28 Jan 2020, 00:48

Was hoping to finish this over the last couple of days but sadly again I stumbled and am struggling but so so close to finishing it.

Just cannot get the targets to reset. was going to give up but am going to attack it tomorrow from a new direction.

Radima · 28 Jan 2020, 01:02

What you have made here is just fantastic. I seem to remember playing a version of this way back in the mists of time on my uncles Commodore VIC-20. I loved it then and I love what I am seeing here in your video.

Martin · 28 Jan 2020, 01:08

Looking forward to taking this for a spin Steve! If you reach the point of no return then let me know because I'll spend some time helping you sort this rather than see it getting completely stuck

PB____ · 29 Jan 2020, 10:56

I see I haven't yet replied to this topic, even though I've been following it and I'm looking forward to play it. It looks fun :)

SteveZX81 · 29 Jan 2020, 11:00

Thanks, its currently in pending so perhaps sometime today or tomorrow it'll be available to play ..and mock ;)

SteveZX81 · 29 Jan 2020, 12:49

Game is now live, the code is: MU463MND9D

Its a long long way from polished and lots of the code/functions are quite poor and could be far shorter and much neater.
I did enjoy working on it most of the time but after it got to a certain size, my brain was spinning and I kept forgetting what things were, so its lacking certain things that I would have liked to add and it's most probably got bugs but hey. you might get two mins fun out of it.

PB____ · 29 Jan 2020, 13:25

Really nice, thanks for sharing :) works as advertised ;)

Ok, so now the mocking :P
I added the following code at the very start, just to prevent me from accidentally closing the game right after starting it (loading takes a while and I was too impatient):

textSize(100)
printAt(7, 3, "loading...")
update()

EDIT: After playing it a little more, I can still say it is a really nice game! I feel like you know best what you want to improve, so I think I'm telling nothing new if I say I hoped to fire my last bullet to get more bullets, but it directly ended the game in stead :)

SteveZX81 · 29 Jan 2020, 13:48

Thanks and yes Martin also spotted that.
v1.3 has been submitted with two changes

1 - loading message (thanks PB__)
2 - the game now ends AFTER your last shot hits, not when its fired (thanks Martin)

SteveZX81 · 29 Jan 2020, 19:26

I just reshared the game and it is in pending again. at the request of the fuze guys (and I fully understand why) I have changed the duck,rabbit,owl graphics so they are different from the arcade game.

Quite frankly I have mixed feelings, whilst I totally understand and support their decision. the game with different graphics seems to lack the feel of the original. it's just not quite the same.

Maxwello · 29 Jan 2020, 20:06

Is it an arcade machine game? I assumed your game was a digital interperation of the actual shooting game ppl play at carnivals tbh (which I would not expect to have any copyright)

SteveZX81 · 29 Jan 2020, 20:06

Yeah its an arcade game that came out I believe in 1982.

Not sure if I can post youtube links but I'll try.

Maxwello · 29 Jan 2020, 20:08

@SteveZX81 ah ye, ye I totally get it now.

SteveZX81 · 30 Jan 2020, 12:06

v1.41 now live. just a minor fix.
I used my Switch docked 99% of the time but when the wife played it in handheld last night, I saw that the loading messsage didn't display right.

SteveZX81 · 30 Jan 2020, 20:19

For any of my Switch friends, I've shared the original graphics version. I will not submit it but it is there for any of my friends to grab and in my opinion it is far better then the changed version.