Game mock-up graphics and ideas

[alexgt]

Yeah, I do find that HUD's work better if they are on the bottom of the screen :/

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Well, in my case it's not that I prefer them at the bottom of the screen, but rather that Output() cannot display text at the top of the screen. With the faster map loading potentials I could always just display the HP/MP in a menu that is full screen, but I thought it was cool to see it displayed at any moment.

Else, the other idea I had in mind was just to use CE Textlib fonts but they can be akward to display on an aligned grid that isn't multiples of 12 pixels horizontally :/

[alexgt]

Oh, I forgot there is a toolbar at the top of the CE xD. And yeah, I have no experience with Textlib so I can't relate

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Yeah I removed the toolbar.

Also I made an H letter that is 5*7 once (but it's small so perhaps not practical)

[alexgt]

wow that is small

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Indeed. Sadly, displaying the letters at 8 pixels intervals seems impossible without heavy work, so if I ever used such small font they would be spaced out every 12 pixel horizontally, which might look weird. I also had another font idea (11x19) but they're kinda big.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

This could actually become a thing, one day. (using Sprites v3)

Note that the title would be drawn three times with different offsets. I already have all text/sprites but I still need to convert them to base-36 data. The game would probably be similar to the Ghouls 'N' Goblins mockups I posted a while back, but with better sprites. And the main character would be a

[Dream of Omnimaga]

@JWinslow23 's discussion about an Axe Pac-Man on IRC made me remember my old mockups of Pac-Man for the 84+:



The goal there is to not annoy the hell out of players with scrolling or a map flipped sideways. (Some people don't mind scrolling in Pac-Man, though)

The layout is the same as @AssemblyBandit's Pac-Man color clone.

[c4ooo]

Dont really know where to post this, but since @DJ Omnimaga was wondering, here is the OS in 8,4,2, and 16 bit modes respectively: 



In the second image (4 bit mode) , the contents of the homescreen aren't the same as all the other though.

Alternating between your current mode and the mode lower could be used as some sort of magic spell effect in RPGs

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Oooh thanks. I did see the 8 bits mode on a real calc at last when grosged made Sprites v3.x use 8 bpp, and it kinda looks cool, although I bet it must be hard to use the calc in that mode. XD


But thanks for sharing those pictures. It looks kinda cool actually (too bad in 2,4 bits mode it's apparently slower to display stuff, because people could have saved a lot of memory on sprite data)


EDIT: Also TI-Smartview doesn't support anything other than 16 bpp. If you try playing Pacman on it you'll see 4 green screens.

[JWinslow23]

My own Pac-Man mockup. I wouldn't mind scrolling, so long as I'm accurately able to see that the game is functioning as I want it to. (And I'll be scrutinous).

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Yeah it's up to you. Also that looks very great! I hope flickering isn't too bad, though if it gets done. Also I hope it's not gonna die like Spot and your Mario game

[JWinslow23]

We never speak of those games. They were way too involved for me to begin with and you know it. I barely even finished TITOL.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Ah sorry then D:. That said I think their artwork could be of good use if someone else was to finish them, although it seems like people prefer coding for color calcs nowadays.

Which reminds me, what about Wal-Rush! 84+?

[JWinslow23]

Repurposed, and subsequently ported. The demo couldn't play for crap.