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03-12-2003, 09:17 PM
marmotte

pixelBoy series > first release

pixelBoy series...

maybe some of you already know it, i'm now developing some original little games that look like real gameboy cartdridges.
i just said "original" because i'm not using ripped graphics anymore. now i'm the real author of my flash games! yay! i'm maybe not a pixel art superstar, but it's not ugly also...

ok, here's the first game of the series, it's called "escape the planet" ( it certainly took me ten years of researches to find a title so absolutely perfect ^^. hehe)

some infos
- arrow keys to move, space to fire. that simple.
- meteorits have different sizes: when you shoot at the biggest, they divide themselves... it's sometimes dangerous, but your score increases more
- if you decide not to shoot at them, it's fine. they divide once they hit the extremity of the window... or just re-bounce at you!
- difficulty is of course increasing

what is missing
- sound. i'll put an original actionscripted music.
- ending. well, it sais you have to reach station AD-108, but it's not done yet.
- online scoring?
- maybe better cutscenes, but i don't want to do too much, the game need to remain simple.
- more options in the configuration menu? difficulty settings?
- maybe the buttons of the pixelBoy handheld interactive? when you push a key with your keyboard, it does the same?

i was wondering if it's too hard at the begining? and as there are in the space sometimes a LOT of sprites, is the game slowing down?
ok, thanks for your tests and comments...

the link, as usual:
http://www.marmotte.levillage.org/

the screenshot:
http://board.flashkit.com/board/
03-12-2003, 09:34 PM
sspskater

Damn mormotte you blow me away with the actual looking gameboy grpahics and animations. Are you going to be a gbv programmer? Great game. In the future are you going to make a pixelboy color or a pixelboy advance? lol. Any way a thousand compliments to you and oh I saw your pixel art for the contest great work almost looks like a Super Sayian Chrono. hehehe. :D

Oh the game runs nicly I had it loaded in about 2 secs with a 56k. Its hard but leave it that way or there won't be any competiton.

Laters and can't wait for more.
03-12-2003, 09:44 PM
marmotte

hey sspskater!
thanks for these comments!

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Damn mormotte you blow me away with the actual looking gameboy grpahics and animations

hehe ^^. i also put a fade in/out that is very similar to a real gameboy game, including some of these "bugs", with sprites removed during fades for example, or that kind of non synchroniastion. i hope it's good.

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In the future are you going to make a pixelboy color or a pixelboy advance

who knows, mmmhh? ^^

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can't wait for more

the next one will be more platform... but sshhttt ^^

i was wondering; the game looks like in high quality, with some pixels "wrong" (i hope you understand), although i specify _root.quality="low" and embed that code also with the html page. is it a mac bug or is it effectively in high quality? you can notice it when the loading bar in increased, it seems a little "not t the right place".
thanks
03-12-2003, 09:46 PM
Son of Bryce

Only compaint I have is it's difficult to see at the resolution my monitors at. Could you make an option for a 2x size version of the game?
03-12-2003, 09:53 PM
marmotte

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Originally posted by Son of Bryce
Only compaint I have is it's difficult to see at the resolution my monitors at. Could you make an option for a 2x size version of the game?

it's a good point. i'll see what i can do. thanks for the idea.
03-12-2003, 10:44 PM
BlinkOk

who many frames is the main stage, one or more?
03-12-2003, 11:33 PM
d3s_inc

As usual, marmotte, great JOB! I love the shaking of the window when you die!
Only 2 compaints:
[1] A 2X size would be nice... hard to see on me resolution
[2] The time it takes for you score to add up! too long!

--edit--
oh! you can skip the score part... sorry!
03-12-2003, 11:41 PM
fospher.com

marmotte, i adore your style :D

you seem to hide the effect that im actually playing a flash game and not a rom. great stuff, but since the pixelboy container is static, why not just make it a gif instead of embedding it into flash? im sure it would improve the game fps by some.
03-13-2003, 03:30 AM
dotsyntaxJunkie

Great game! But... I've always wondered, does having only 4 or 8 colors on screen at once improve performance significantly over a 16 bit-ish game that may have over 60 colors on screen at once (and probably around 8 per sprite)?
03-13-2003, 04:51 AM
nGFX

damn! that is cool ...

i felt like i had my first gb inmy hands again ...

anything else was said before

<olli/>

just 1 thing: MORE!
03-13-2003, 05:59 AM
kay_siegert

Re: pixelBoy series > first release

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i'm the real author of my flash games! yay! i'm maybe not a pixel art superstar, but it's not ugly also...

... looks very original - congrats ;)

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it certainly took me ten years of researches to find a title so absolutely perfect ^^. hehe)

:D yeah, i know that

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i was wondering if it's too hard at the begining? and as there are in the space sometimes a LOT of sprites, is the game slowing down?
ok, thanks for your tests and comments...

it was running fine on my machine (PIII 500 MHz, 256 RAM) - no slowing down.
i think it´s a bit too heavy at the beginning - maybe the rocks should be slower and the movement speed increases. (just a thought)

k. ;)

btw: i got 2297 points
03-13-2003, 06:46 AM
mbenney

hmmm, it seems i cant access your site at the moment :(
03-13-2003, 07:45 AM
marmotte

that's what i discover when i wake up... thanks for your comments everyone! ok, the quotes:

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[1] A 2X size would be nice... hard to see on me resolution
[2] The time it takes for you score to add up! too long!

yes, the x2 version is coming! about the score, you discovered it, you can swap it. but i'll do it faster also, it's increasing only by one point per frame...

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you seem to hide the effect that im actually playing a flash game and not a rom. great stuff, but since the pixelboy container is static, why not just make it a gif instead of embedding it into flash?

if you think you are playing a rom, then it's a great compliment! ^^
about the pixelBoy handheld, i was thinking addind buttons interactions (look at the "what's missing" text in the first post)...

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who many frames is the main stage, one or more?

frame 1) loading
frame 2) startup screen
frame 3) all the game
the fact is, i can put some day a special downloadable version of pixelBoy with all games enabled in one, because it's really to add a lot of games with my method)

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I've always wondered, does having only 4 or 8 colors on screen at once improve performance significantly over a 16 bit-ish

really, i don't know. i would say yes but i'm not sure.

key
great score! may i add a hiscore board?

ngfx
thanks ^^ that's also a big compliment!

mbenney
it happens sometimes, unfortunately :-(

again, thanks for your coments!
03-13-2003, 07:51 AM
hooligan2001

I like it. I like it alot :)
03-13-2003, 08:15 AM
mbenney

looks very polished, didnt have much time to play but i like it
03-13-2003, 08:20 AM
Squize

I think the main points have already been covered / addressed so this is just a "Wow!" post.

Nice little game, stunning presentation. I think the best thing I can say is that it doesn't feel like a Flash game at all.

Not a very constructive post I'm afraid, but well done posts are always nice :)

Squize.
03-13-2003, 08:33 AM
marmotte

thanks for your comments.

do you think that the integration of several levels will ruin the game? because it may be repetitive to destroy meteorits each time...

oh, i just played the game with a faster comp, and yes, it's hard, wow! but i think i'll keep it that way. or is it better to decrease the difficulty at the begining (only at the begining?)
03-13-2003, 08:44 AM
marmotte

wouhou!!!!!!

i got 9965!!!
03-13-2003, 08:49 AM
Squize

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do you think that the integration of several levels will ruin the game?

No, adding different levels will help it ( Even if it is only flying over a starfield with space ships flying down towards you. The attack waves don't need to be really complex, it wouldn't suit the gameplay ).
Big end of levels baddies would be way cool, but then you don't want the game bloating up too much (?)

Sorry, I'm just posting my first thoughts so it may be a ramble.

It is hard straight away, if you were to add different levels you could ease up on a bit 'cause the further levels would be the players "reward".

Squize.
03-13-2003, 08:55 AM
jonmack

:o call me thick as fudge pie, but where exactly is it on your site??? :D There's no links that i can find (pictures) and no new text in the news section since 05.02.2003... I tried clearing my internet cache and everything, but it remained the same. I know i will look daft not finding it, but it looks so good i dont care, i just want to play it!!

Cheers.
03-13-2003, 08:56 AM
marmotte

what i'm planning:

at the begining, you can choose 3 different places of the planet: easy, medium, hard.

> then when finished, score is added and recorded (shared objects?), and each time you can re-enter the level to improve your score.

> about baddies, there's no baddy apart meteorites, so no, you just have to escape and rescue.

^ it may be a good idea. not for the file size though :-(
03-13-2003, 08:59 AM
marmotte

jonmack

??? the news section is updated, plus the game is on the first page. strange you cannot access it even after clearing your cache?
03-13-2003, 09:24 AM
vont

..wow .. marmotte that's great :) .. can't wait to play it again :D
03-13-2003, 09:26 AM
jonmack

:confused: OK, i cleared both caches (including the stupid copies that our network creates), rebooted my comp, went to your site again, and i still see no change.

So sorry marmotte, i'm a great fan and would love to try this game but our LAN must be doing something dodgy - it has been playing up a bit lately... Sorry!

Is there any chance you could post the direct link to the page sometime? I've got to go for a few hours anyway, so no rush, but hopefully when i get back i can be amazed with your silky smooth gaming skills once more.. "^^" :D
03-13-2003, 09:33 AM
marmotte

^^
of course, here's the link:
http://www.marmotte.levillage.org/_h...elBoy_001.html
03-13-2003, 09:36 AM
xMCNUGGETx

8420.. my max score.... so far ;)
03-13-2003, 09:40 AM
marmotte

WOW!!! 12999pts!!!
03-13-2003, 09:45 AM
xMCNUGGETx

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03-13-2003, 09:48 AM
marmotte

!!! congratulations!

(i see you are using the brightness function ^^)
03-13-2003, 10:07 AM
dJide

good looking stuff! btw, did u tile based scrolling this time, or are you moving a whole jpeg again?
03-13-2003, 10:19 AM
dJide

btw, I like the cool Matrix effect u implemented when the game gets hard!
03-13-2003, 10:26 AM
marmotte

dJide
this is not tile based. this is not a whole gif ^^
it's a MC that is scrolling; and when it moved one screen._height, it's replaced to it's original _y position, with a nextFrame() (next graphics).
about the matrix effect, it must be ingame slowdowns ^^
03-13-2003, 10:45 AM
xMCNUGGETx

BUG ;)

Not a big one just a little ;)

Dont shoot anything. Just run into the first rock you see.

Then when the scores adding press space to skip watching it add up.

Look at your score... Lots of 0's
03-13-2003, 10:46 AM
ushino

what can I say this is an awsome idia
03-13-2003, 10:58 AM
marmotte

xMCNUGGETx
haha, you!!! you might be an excellent bug tester! ^^

thanks ushino!
03-13-2003, 11:01 AM
xMCNUGGETx

Eighter that or, someone distracted my and I died at the first dumb rock that came my way. Then was so pissed i was ready to play again and started smashing the keyboard....

you decide.
03-13-2003, 01:48 PM
jonmack

marmotte - amazing!

I love this game already. Graphics are classic, gameplay is smooth and it's difficult enough for me to come back for more. Nothing wrong that i can find.

Contrast control was a nice touch too :)

Is this the final release of this game yet? Or almost? I think a little sound could help, but not alot, too much will ruin it, and you dont want big filesize anyway... having said that it's fine so far without sound to be honest.

Would a small "final boss" not be good? I think so.. it's nice to be given the chance to completely "beat" it, not just trying to beat your score... although keeping them in SharedObjects would be nice for when you complete the game and want to improve. There doesnt have to be a huge boss at each level, just one final one. and one more little gif inst going to change the filesize by much.

But then what would the boss be - it's an asteroid accident... or was it?? :D

Anyway, just some random thoughts. Whatever you decide i'm sure it'll be just as good as it is now.

**Bow's down in the direction of marmotte in repect**
03-13-2003, 02:53 PM
dJide

wot's SharedObjects?
03-13-2003, 03:37 PM
jonmack

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wot's SharedObjects?

It's flash MX's built in save format, allowing you to save the values of variables etc to a text files on the users computer, so next time you can reload them. Like cookies for internet browsers.
03-13-2003, 04:01 PM
dJide

cool, Im still using Flash 5, sigh. So what's the syntzx for these things?

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