Axeanoid

[Juju]

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I am proud to announce that I'm working on a Breakout clone written in Axe since last Tuesday.

Date of release: March 21, 2011 (v0.0.1)

Features:
4 types of blocks (including an unbreakable one and 1-3 hits to break ones)
Grayscale
Level Editor
And many more planned! Hours of fun!

Current title screen mockup:

(Yes, for now it's the original logo.)

Screenshots:


Download v0.0.1

[Binder News]

Oooohhhh. Fun!

[DJ Omnimaga]

THis sounds promising. As you said on IRC and the other topic, you had a big part of the gameplay done already, right? As safety tip, make sure to backup often in case a crash occurs. I'm glad you're back into calc programming.

[Juju]

Yep, the basic is done, only have support for more than one level and level complete detection left to do, maybe some powerups too, and, of course, bugs to solve.

And I love how Axe backups your code in archive everytime you compile it. I had lots of RAM clears during development. (Like when the game refuses to quit and I have to pull a battery.)

[DJ Omnimaga]

Cool, will you post screenies soon? And I see. Don't only rely on Axe backups, though, because I heard about stories of corruption before. Also perform backups on a computer from time to time.

[Munchor]

@juju: The title screen is so stylish!

[Juju]

Thanks

I'll post some screenies soon, when I'll finish installing Windows on my mom's laptop.

[Juju]

Axeanoid's not dead, writing the readme...

[DJ Omnimaga]

I'm glad to hear. I was a bit worried when there were no updates ;.;

[leafy]

So its almost done then?

[Juju]

Well yeah, half done. I didn't had any school this week, so my calc was kinda uninteresting...

And a wild screenshot appears, showing some bugs left.

[shmibs]

are you just switching really quickly between which sprite/buffer to display for your grayscale? if so you should still use a dithering pattern to clean it up a little.

i rather like how this is looking. congrats.

[DJ Omnimaga]

This looks nice, but yeah I think you should use DispGraph^r for grayscale dithering, to minimize the flickering effect. It would make your grayscale look like Reuben Quest.

[Juju]

Yeah, right now I use a boolean variable that changes values each frame for grayscale. I'll try to figure out DispGraph^r soon. In fact, next time I'll mess with the code.

Right now, grayscale is pretty much like this. But a little more optimized.

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.Do stuff If G  Pt-On(r1, r2, Pic1BK Else  Pt-On(r1, r2, Pic2BK End .Do more stuff not(G)->G DispGraphClrDraw

[AngelFish]

And a wild screenshot appears, showing some bugs left.

I kind of like that the ball travels under the paddle. It'd make for some insane gameplay if you had a second paddle immediately underneath and you could bounce the ball off of it when the ball catches like that.