Hi Tom.
Was that the arcade game which fucntioned a little like a shooter with you
having a cross hair to move around the screen and aim your lasers as lots of
stuff came at you? we used to have that game on the amstrad computer and it
was indeed cool.
Much as I'd love a realistic starwars game, the one problem with a starwars
arcade game is that I could see it too easily turning into another mota,
that is a simple game concept which gets expanded way behond it's
simplicity.
For instance, you mention realistic x wing physics. Well knowing that you
have the tech manuals, just as with final conflict you would probably want
the actual x wing stats in the game, which would mean also including the
actual tie fighter stats and size and shape of the deathstar trench as well
as weaponry and action from the films themselves.
So already we have more complex physics than just an arcade game would seem
to need.
then either yourself or the public might want to include more stuff in the
game, like the other rebellian pilots fighting on your side, darth vader in
his tie fighter, the death stars attack towers, a time limit before the
deathstar got to the moon of yavin etc.
so, while I love the idea of a starwars game, I think there is too much to
include to make it affectively a simple arcade game like berzerk or
millipeed would be, which is what we were discussing.
I'd suggest personally if you were! going to make a starwars game go the
hole hog and do a full flight combat sim with realistic physics, missionsk,
weaponry etc.
As to montizuma's revenge, there were two versions of the game I tried from
retroremakes. one was a rather enhanced one with 3D graphics and great
music, but it had a very bad contrast and isommorphic perspective that made
it a little hard for me to play.
the other was much more faithfull to the original I think, though possibly
with more colours, and that is the version I meant, still, it'd be worth a
try though i'll not be able to play it until next weekend when I'm back at
my flat.
I'll have to check retroremakes and see what I can find out about the
different versions.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] light game query
Hi Dark,
In deed. Audio Berzerk would be cool. Although, I have a few arcade
ideas that would be better as an example of the genre.
For example, one game I'd like to create is Star Wars: Death Star
Mission. That was a simple arcade game based on the final battle in
New Hope when Luke Skywalker flew his X-Wing into the Death Star and
blew it up. Its a simple enough concept, but with realistic Star Wars
music and sounds we could make a kick ass game out of it.
For one thing we could design it more as an X-Wing flight sim with 3d
mechanics and some realistic physics to improve upon the original
game. The only worry here is the copyright issues. However, it is a
good idea all things considered.
As for the Montezuma's Revenge remake from retro remakes I've got it
on one of my backup drives. If you want it I'll Sendspace a copy to
you. It is actually pretty decent, and I've considered asking the
author if I could use his music and sounds in a project of my own. It
has pretty cool background music and sounds and I've been told the
graphics are decent as well.
Cheers!
On 11/19/12, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote:
Hi Tom.
audio berzerk would be cool, and obviously eminantly possible, some stat
tracking and maybe some miner achievements to make things progressive
would
help too, sinse then your quick five minutes of robot blasting wouldn't
be
wasted :D.
I myself used to be really scared of the noise that would happen if you
ran
into a wall or get shot, it was just an evil noise as was the pink
flickery
doom!
With packman, it was one of those atari games wich was a little harder to
play low vision wise sinse it obviously requires a good field of vision,
though i do remember having huge amounts of fun with pack mania which
was
an enhanced remake for the amigar and came with a more isometric
perspective
and thus made it a far more explorative game than one about quick
overview
of the maze.
Actually the amigar was great for those sorts of arcade games, I remember
one public domain game called little yum which was sort of like a cross
betwene packman, bubble boble and a maze game like monti, where you
played a
little yellow monster who spat balloon's at enemies.
Very simple, just run around the maze, grab keys to open doors, blast
monsters and get some power ups to increase the size of your shots, but
actually lots of fun!
with what you say about montizuma's revenge I'm sorry i didn't keep that
rather faithfull remake I got from retroremakes a few years ago. The
makers
met an ironically similar fate to yourself and got sued and had to take
the
game montizuma's revenge down, even though it was an entirely free game
they'd coded themselves.
Maybe I could ask on the retroremakes forum to see if anyone has a copy?
Either way though, a simple arena or maze shooter would be awsome! it was
indeed for this reason i thought that old project torrent which was due
to
be an audio asteroids sounded so interesting, sinse it'd be a different!
form of audio arcade game from what we've had up to now.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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