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waves demo

Fri, 30 Sep 2016 12:48:51 UTC

waves demo 0.1

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So this is a vaguely Dreamcast system menu-ish raster-based demo thingy with waves coming out of the center, slightly rising and falling and eventually disappearing in the background. Thought the end result looked nice enough to share with you all.

Alchemy Quest

Fri, 22 Jul 2016 05:21:17 UTC

Alchemy Quest 0.3

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Alchemy Quest is a WIP port of the puzzle game OpenAlchemist, which was developed by Guillaume Delhumeau and Antoine Morineau.

The objective of the game is to combine three pieces of the same type together, which merges them into a different piece. As more pieces are unlocked, the falling pieces become more varied and the game becomes more difficult. The pieces don't drop automatically, which means the player can take their time before deciding where to drop and how to rotate the piece.

CONTROLS:

left/right - move piece
down - drop piece
◯ (Z) - rotate counterclockwise
✕ (X) - rotate clockwise

TODO:

Scoring system
Music and sound effects
Puzzle stages (maybe?)

LICENSE:

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

CHANGE LOG / OLD VERSIONS:

Yet another sprite-based font

Fri, 10 Jun 2016 04:01:36 UTC

Yet another sprite-based font 0.4

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This is a set of sprites and functions that allow the user to draw text with a proportional font. The font covers upper and lowercase, digits and basic punctuation. This set is not as compact as the others right now, demanding 16 sprites, but it provides, IMO, more readable characters.

current version:

switched from using the bottom 16 sprites in the first page to a 4x4 area in the first page
restored all characters to their intended designs
old versions:

Yet another sprite-based font 0.3

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with some heavy optimization and small sacrifices, shrunk the font down to 16 sprites.
fixed the colon/semicolon

Yet another sprite-based font 0.2

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added digits and equal sign

Yet another sprite-based font 0.1

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Tetromix

Fri, 13 May 2016 13:24:12 UTC

Tetromix 0.83

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Inspired by the PicoMino game, I decided to create my own attempt at replicating the famous Russian puzzle game.

Pretty much all the expected functionality is available, such as 1- and 2-player gameplay, preliminary sound and graphical effects, level (garbage height) and speed selection, etc.

MODES:

The game provides two modes: A (endless) and B (25 lines).

In the A mode, the game continues until any of the players top out (until the game can't put a new piece on top of the playfield).
In a 2-player game, the surviving player is declared the winner.

In the B mode, the game also ends if the player eliminates 25 lines of blocks.
In a 2-player game, the player who manages to do so first is declared the winner.

When playing a 2-player game in any of the modes, elimination of more than one line will also send one fewer line of "garbage" to the other player, which will rise from the bottom of their playfield as soon as they put down a block. However, the players can defend against oncoming garbage if their current piece eliminates some lines, too. Each line removed prevents a garbage line from appearing. The amount of garbage lines the player is about to receive is shown as a blinking line saying "+1L" (or more) on top of their playfield.

CONTROLS:

left/right/down - move piece
up - drop piece immediately
O (Z or C) - rotate counterclockwise
X (X) - rotate clockwise

(You can swap the rotation directions in the options menu if you prefer.)

SECRET CODES:

On the "copyleft" screen, press the following buttons in order. If you pressed them correctly, you should hear a short sound. If you made a mistake, press the ✕ button and try again. The screen stays on for 5 seconds.

LEFT, RIGHT, O, O - Use a modern style randomizer.
O, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN - Draw a "shadow" at the spot where the piece will fall.

To play at speeds 10~19, hold LEFT while selecting between 1 and 2 player modes.

TODO:

Add any missing sound effects and two more music tracks

CHANGELOG:

CURRENT VERSION

Got rid of another embarrassing bug that prevented 2-player games from starting.

PREVIOUS VERSIONS