No code on the previously untitled bee game for tonight as I discovered this afternoon that I’d accidentally broken some of my code for Flap Happy since my last compile. This was pretty scary news as I couldn’t see where the code had broken or exactly what had caused it, as the game still worked but was having issues suddenly.
I was worried that if changes were needed to the code that I’d be unable to fix it but, thanks to having a copy of the last known good build in an email sent to Mega Cat Studios, a handy disassembler and a text comparison tool, I was able to fix the 2 byte error that had occurred.
2 bytes.. My gosh!
Also, today I was describing my next NES game to my son and he stumbled upon a fantastic name for it, “Bee Happy” This now feels like a trilogy of Happy games should be made, wander what the third one will be, hmmmm…..
No image tonight, beer has been had, code has been saved and all is good again, nn all xXx
Untitled Bee Game Day 2
Day 2 and we have our first enemy on screen! Launching stingers like it’s going out of fashion!
The wasp enemy zooms on the edges of the screen and can launch (with it’s optional future friends) stingers from a cache of 8 on screen at any one time. Of course, it has a shadow because, hey, I think it looks cool. Yep, those lil bits under the stingers are meant to bee shadows also, I’m not sure how well that’ll work overall but we shall see.
The wasp normally shares it’s sprite colour with player1 but will shift to player2’s sprite colours just before it fires, to give the players at least some sort of a warning.
Maybe tomorrow will bring another update, who knows?
Lets start NES Game#2 Untitled Bee Game!
Right, so, begun the next game, aiming for a simpler game to program this time around, with a few variants on play styles.
It’s gonna be a spin off the QBert style of games where you have to turn all the blocks a certain colour to continue.
In this case, your bee must collect all the pollen from the flowers and returning it to the hive up to 5 at a time, whilst being attacked by Wasp stingers, Birds and Crabs.
It’ll be playable by 1 or 2 players, with there being the option of 2 players playing co-operatively to beat the levels, or against each other in a single level basis, one person controls the bee, the other controls the wasps. (I’m thinking D pad to move them all around, A button firing vertical wasps, B button firing horizontal wasps.
The difficulty curve should some from starting off with slower, fewer wasps, before increasing the number and aggression of them, before introducing more enemies as it goes along.
Below is a pic of the game screen in-progress from inside a NES Emulator, lots to get on with but lots done today!
