I was going to work on portal this afternoon, but I found some old sprites from "Adventure" (a game I was working on but never finished). I started adding/editing sprites and got a bit carried away. Here's where two hours got me:


Mockups:






Unfortunately, I think these mockups are a bit dense to have good performance on calc. I do think that I'll take this project up again at some point, I already have several ideas that will make it more interesting, and easier to make as well.

There's a flash version of portal. If the dimensions work out, maybe you could just rip some of those sprites and use them.

There are a few flash versions of portal. Of the two I've played, both would be somewhat difficult to implement, and one of them I don't really like the sprites for. Right now I'm most likely to use CHK4's sprites for the CSE version, or I may make my own.

that's looking sweet!

Thanks! Too bad you don't have an nspire

EDIT: I found some serious issues with my portal physics as they are now, so I'm going to completely redo them. This might take a few days.

EDIT 2:
Here's the new portal/physics engine:
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Next I'm going to make some changes to portal shooting, and then I'll move on to other game play elements.

Socks, more socks, and a trip to France this February
*is excited*

Why weren't Matref and I considered for CoT ? I mean, nKaruga and SSBO were quoted on external websites, and SSBO even brought 300 guests a day on Omnimaga. So why not us ?

As honored hand happy I am to be CoT, I agree that Matref and Hayleia are very deserving of the title and if there is some sort of limit on the number of CoTs, then I would actually (but somewhat grudgingly) step down so that one of them could become CoT.

Looking nice! Is this tested on OS 3.6 or 3.1, out of curiosity?

It hasn't been tested on calc yet, but is currently 3.1 compatible. (It will probably run best on 3.6 and 3.9, but I don't think speed is going to be a serious issue)

This is awesome What kind of sprites are you looking for? Do you want an actual player character sprite?

Right now the character is a 10x10 square, I'm fine leaving it that way, but a sprite would also be really cool. I would be fine with slightly increasing the player size to make it spriteable (within reason). Also, so that the gun can rotate depending on where you are shooting, the character's arm and gun would have to be a separate sprite.

I'd also like a texture for the walls (right now it would be 16x16, but if the character gets bigger, I might increase the general wall thickness as well).

At some point, a unique logo for the home screen and menu would be cool, but that's not really doable until I actually come up with a name for this project (if anyone has any ideas, let me know!)

After the completion of my entry for Cemetech Contest #13 and nomination as a new CoT, I've been working hard on my most ambitious project yet, Portal for NSpire. I've gotten a good amount done, but there's still a lot left to do. I'm taking my time with this project and I want to make sure that it is as high quality as I can possibly make it.

Currently you can walk around, and fire portals (which collide with walls but don't create actual portals yet). The next step is creating and passing through portals, which is by far the most important and most challenging part of this project.

Screenshots:

(title screen)                            (main menu)                         (in game, shooting blue portal)

This project is going to be a lot of work and I'd greatly appreciate some help.
I'm looking for help with:

• Testing (because my calculator is currently damaged and I can't transfer files)
• Spriting (I can do this myself, but if someone feels like making sprites for this, it would be greatly appreciated!)

Let me know via PM or in this topic if you want to help!
So that's where I stand right now. Let me know what you think. I'm still trying to think of a good name for this project other than "Portal Nspire".  Unfortunately, I'm going to be busy until January 10th. I'll still have some time to work on this project, but not nearly as much as I'd like. I'll be sure to keep you updated as I continue to progress with this project!