The World's Hardest Game

[Runer112]

Well I'm finding it pretty hard to make sense of the level loading and actual game code, so I haven't gotten around to optimizing that yet. The menu, however, I could understand and optimize. And although I don't exactly understand all the level loading code, I optimized everything before the line If A≠C or B, as well as doing something like you suggested to get rid of all the different level strings and just have two strings (one for appvars, one for programs) in which the level number changes. I also made a few other optimizations throughout the program in random places, but for the most part, everything after the If A≠C or B line is unoptimized.

As far as I know, everything still functions correctly. Please tell me if this is not the case! If anything doesn't work correctly any more, it would probably be the level loading code, as I couldn't actually test it because I don't have a level with which to test it!

Total savings so far: 865 bytes (89% original size).


Maybe I'll try optimizing the level editor next. If I can somehow manage to shave off like 2000 bytes it will fit in a program.

[DJ Omnimaga]

Wow if everything works that's a quite big optimization o.o.

[yunhua98]

Nice!  I love this game!  Beat it twice with 0 deaths. 
I was thinking about porting this over the summer as well after Bomberman died, but the I lost motivation. 

[JustCause]

Aaaaahhh! Yay! I wish I'd thought of this.

Best of luck!

[ztrumpet]

Nice!  I really liked this game when I found it over two years ago, and now it's for calcs.  Wonderful job!

Can all thirty levels be included inside the game?

[Darl181]

Wow! It's great all the attention this is getting!

@ runer It doesn't seem to detect the appvar...
Hey, the lower size finally works
I had to modify the source a bit, though. 
before, a string was defined as vWHGLVL1, with a lowercase v.
I changed it to the 2nd+8 v.
Importing 8xp→appvar(whatever that is) doesn't work, however

What I hope to do, now that opimized jumbers are working (thanks runer ) is to implement letters.  WHGLVLA, WHGLVLB and so on.  Sort of like TinycarZ.
26 letters + numbers 1-9 = 35 potential levels.
It can't quite be the complexity of the flash game, however, because some enemy movements I have no idea how to do (go in circles for example) or there's too much to cram into the calc's screen.

As a side note, the level I posted earlier was actually one of the easier ones.  There are some harder ones attached.
Again, they have to be imported.
By the way, you can easily make your own and see if it works...

edit:
another bug--Teacher key doesn't work correctly in MirageOS. idk why

[MRide]

This looks great!  I never really played this game (It was too hard ).  I wonder which is harder: The Impossible Game or The World's Hardest Game?

* MRide lost the game

[DJ Omnimaga]

I think MirageOs tends to conflict with some Axe programs.

ANyway great progress! I'll try some levels soon

[Jonius7]

id better try this soon, i love the original pc version.

[Deep Thought]

This looks great!  I never really played this game (It was too hard ).  I wonder which is harder: The Impossible Game or The World's Hardest Game?

* MRide lost the game

Definitely the Game. I can never seem to win...

* Deep Thought loses again

Looks great, though! I loved the Flash game (though it was pretty hard for me ). I'll have to try this soon.

[thepenguin77]

I don't know how you do your enemy movements, but going in circles can be done with a look up table. The size of your circle will will affect how many entries you need to make it smooth, but here's how you would do it.

Make a table of the cosine's and sine's of the angles from 0 to 330 counting by 30's multiplied by the radius. If your circle is massive, you might have to go by 15's. Then, just treat those new numbers as the x and y velocities and just go to the next one every frame. And behold, a circle!

Here's a simple basic prog of what I mean:
:Radius -> R
:For(A,0,330,30
:Disp RCos(A),RSin(A
:End

Since those will be decimals, treat them as two by numbers where the upper byte is the whole part and the lower byte is the decimal times 256.

[squidgetx]

This reminds me of Aspirin, but more complex

[offtopic] I like your new avatar, penguin Can't wait for Wednesday [/offtopic]

[Darl181]

@thepenguin77 thanks for the tip, I'll look into that.  It looks fairly complicated and will probably take a while to figure out, but I should get it eventually

Actually, I played Aspirin before I played TWHG, so I guess that sparked the idea, along with the way that for some reason, last school year, TWHG was the game to play.  You'd walk into the school library and about 15/20 of the computers would have people playing the game at once.
Aspirin's fun too, though

This looks great!  I never really played this game (It was too hard ).  I wonder which is harder: The Impossible Game or The World's Hardest Game?

* MRide lost the game

I don't quite know which would be harder, but with the level editor you can just edit/make an easy level.

Attached another level.  Easy this time.

[Happybobjr]

i don't understand the lvls.

Are they just blank.   Or is my calc refusing them?

[Darl181]

You need to import them.  At the level select menu, press MATH.  The program take care of unarchiving and such for you, the 8xp's just need to be there.  The program converts them to 8xv's to the program menu isn't cluttered too much.  Then you can delete the program.

You can also do the reverse, 8xv → 8xp.