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Calculator Community => Other Calc-Related Projects and Ideas => TI Z80 => Topic started by: _player1537 on April 18, 2010, 10:02:47 pm

Title: Rally-X!
Post by: _player1537 on April 18, 2010, 10:02:47 pm
I've been working on a Rally X (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rally_X) game in Axe parser.  I've announced this a few times this weekend on IRC.  Anyways I'm gonna try and make it have better graphics, enemys, and maybe a few other things.  ATM it does collision through pxltests, though later (soon) I will make it use the tilemaps themselves.  anyways here goes...actually I need to switch to windows, so give me just a second
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 18, 2010, 10:06:30 pm
Nice, this is Axe Parser, right? I can't wait for screenshots ^^
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: ztrumpet on April 18, 2010, 10:10:39 pm
This sounds really cool!  Good luck! ;D
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: _player1537 on April 18, 2010, 10:15:34 pm
yeah, axe parser.  anyways here's the program (attached).  It's already compiled btw.
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 18, 2010, 10:17:01 pm
cool I'll download it

And screenshot!
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: Builderboy on April 18, 2010, 10:21:51 pm
Hey that looks great!  Especially like the scrolling tile mapper, very impressive.  Are you planning to implement the autoturning?  Like when you hit a wall, i believe it automatically turns a direction according to the wiki page?  
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: _player1537 on April 18, 2010, 10:24:27 pm
I just remembered that I forgot to tell DJ that if you press 2nd it switches to 15 mhz mode, he's gonna make a new screenshot
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: Builderboy on April 18, 2010, 10:25:33 pm
Oooh you should totally port the awesome theme song!! :D



heh, maybe not  ;)
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: _player1537 on April 18, 2010, 10:26:34 pm
theme song (/me goes to look through the wikipedia article some more)  also I will try to make the turning thing (forgot about that part)
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 18, 2010, 10:27:50 pm
And another screenshot when holding down 2nd :P
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: Will_W on April 18, 2010, 10:31:42 pm
You should try smooth scrolling.
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: meishe91 on April 19, 2010, 12:38:34 am
That looks really cool. Good luck! O0
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: Quigibo on April 19, 2010, 01:20:45 am
Awesome!  Reminds me a little of pacman, but with a different objective.  Can't wait till you finish it!
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 19, 2010, 02:17:57 am
I wonder what will be the final size for maps?
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: _player1537 on April 19, 2010, 06:55:26 am
well, the final size IMO is just going to be whatever looks good.  it will almost undoubtedly be more than 40 tiles tall and probably at least 40 wide.  Thanks for all the support.  btw I'll be in DC for 5 days starting Wednesday, so I won't have a computer to post anything about this or anything else (unless my dad finds some phone that can do it without service or I steal someone else's phone.)  Anyways, next on the agenda is making the map look better, ie not blocks but slightly curved pieces, but that might take up too many tiles, idk.  Either that, or just make the map's collisions work by tiles instead of pxl-tests. 
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: ztrumpet on April 19, 2010, 07:49:43 am
That looks great!  Good luck!
How are you storing maps?  I'm pretty sure you could easily get 400% compression. ;D
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 19, 2010, 11:08:56 am
well, the final size IMO is just going to be whatever looks good.  it will almost undoubtedly be more than 40 tiles tall and probably at least 40 wide.  Thanks for all the support.  btw I'll be in DC for 5 days starting Wednesday, so I won't have a computer to post anything about this or anything else (unless my dad finds some phone that can do it without service or I steal someone else's phone.)  Anyways, next on the agenda is making the map look better, ie not blocks but slightly curved pieces, but that might take up too many tiles, idk.  Either that, or just make the map's collisions work by tiles instead of pxl-tests. 
Aaah ok I hope you have fun there.

As for map size will roads also eventually be larger than 8 pixels wide?
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: jsj795 on April 19, 2010, 04:30:03 pm
Ooohhh! I remember this game!!! I played it when I was really young, like 5~6 years old.
I used to love this game. I didn't know the name of the game, and in Korea, I used to call it "Farting Car game" because the screen smoke reminded me of the fart^^
Good luck on this!
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: _player1537 on April 19, 2010, 04:40:02 pm
lol :D

That looks great!  Good luck!
How are you storing maps?  I'm pretty sure you could easily get 400% compression. ;D
I'm storing them with the same way as my tilemapping program (will find link in a minute).  I probably could get some really good compression if I made displaying maps slower, atm I am adding stuff so that it looks better and doesn't have just square blocks, I'll upload pics later of it.
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 19, 2010, 11:07:05 pm
Cool, I can't wait for them :)
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: _player1537 on April 19, 2010, 11:28:13 pm
almost have something that looks decent and will be easy to use with tile based collison, should be done in 10-15 mins, then I'll upload it (would you mind doing screenshots, it won't be like the other one where you are the car, its just a scrolling tilemap [no stopping going downwards though])
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 19, 2010, 11:34:03 pm
Ok I guess I could make one, just upload and I'll see if I can make one and post it.
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: SirCmpwn on April 20, 2010, 11:31:58 am
ZOMG RALLY-X!
This was one of my favorite old-school games ever.  I can't wait for a final release.
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: _player1537 on April 20, 2010, 04:40:51 pm
thanks :)  I am still working on getting the map to look good (so far, it looks pretty good, but haven't finished the tilemap I wanna show off).  Also getting pretty sidetracked with other axe projects (a few I won't mention 'cause I doubt they'll get past anything barely resembling what they should be [can't find sprites that look good D:]).  But I'm still working on this one (haven't made the thing where when it runs into a wall it turns).  Then I have to tackle the enemies and get good tilemap collison without pxl-test.  Anyways that's what I'm working on now.
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 20, 2010, 04:41:44 pm
For other projects you could always ask for sprites in the pixel art sub-forum. Some people would be very happy to help you.
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: _player1537 on April 20, 2010, 04:42:50 pm
oh yeah, forgot about that section, eh I'll get the gameplay before sprites on them probably
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: tensuke on April 21, 2010, 01:06:58 am
Awesome, I loved this game! Axe can do some really cool stuff. Can't wait for the updated tilemap, heh.
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: _player1537 on May 02, 2010, 10:54:58 pm
well, crap...

I backed up my calc the other day, but apparently I only backed up the ram, then I did a full memory reset, so I lost (almost) all progress on rally-x.  The good part is that the main portion of the code was just the tilemapper, so I'll redo that later.
Lesson: backup BOTH your ram and archive
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 02, 2010, 10:57:13 pm
x.x that sucks, I hope you don't give up, though :/
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: _player1537 on May 02, 2010, 11:00:05 pm
oh, I won't, it just means I'll have to restart (most of) it, which is fine 'cause I can optimize some code, and start out with collision before pxl-test
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 02, 2010, 11:09:03 pm
do you think you could also add smooth scrolling?
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: _player1537 on May 02, 2010, 11:10:42 pm
hmm, sure, how would I go about doing that though...
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: SirCmpwn on May 04, 2010, 06:24:01 pm
How does the player move now?  Does he jump from block to block, or move slowly?
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: _player1537 on May 04, 2010, 09:35:19 pm
well, since I lost most of my work (today I lost my sprite editor I revamped, oh well new features :D) it is just the tile mapper again, I'll add the go-kart sprite Will_W made for me in a while.  I'm not quite sure what you mean by block to block versus slowly though
Title: Re: Rally-X!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 04, 2010, 09:40:12 pm
x.x sorry to hear you lost the stuff again x.x

I think by block to block, he asked if the movement will be pixel by pixel (smooth movement) or tile by tile (every 8 pixel)