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Re-programming Atari 2600 "Adventure" for current systems. [SCREENSHOT UPDATE]
halkun
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The iconic yellow castle, and the carnivorous.... Ducks? When I was a young laddy, I played the holy living hell out of this game. I recently got in contact with Warren Robinet who original made the game, and told me that every few weeks he gets an email from a fan who still plays this timeless classic today.
So anyways I've been on vacation and I'm working on a little project. I've decided to give adventure a facelift of sorts. I found that a pixel-perfect engine had been ported to C, and now I'm in the process of sticking in a sprite engine to handle SNES-type graphics.
I have a desktop screenshot of my development so far. It's not pretty, and has a lot of placeholder graphics, bit it's coming along.
As a little peek, here is my dragon.
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btw, this was the first game to ever feature an easter egg. By moving an invisible block somewhere, you can get past a barrier and see a little mini credits page.
The game was also remade with the quake engine.
The code is quite an eye opener.
Also, I will be bitterly disappointed if there's no easter egg which makes the dragons turn into ducks.
Edit: Also, are you working off this source code?
I'm using Allegro. The whole game is skinnable, so you will be able to "theme" the whole game using bitmaps. If you want to use the original dragon sprites, all you have to do is swap files.
You can also change the backgrounds and collision masks, the means you could make a FF6-themed version with the castle in a slightly different shape. For example the castle placeholder in the OP is actually a 640x384 graphic of the castle. (Actually, it's the black and white collision mask, black means you can't move there, white is OK). So themeable backgrounds have already been implemented.
Umm, diff shows that that's identical to the code available at the link I posted. Did you mean you just removed all the other Windows specific files?
Doesn't Allegro provide functionality for most of the platform hook stuff?
The state machine is working, and the sprite display system works. I still have to work on the code to move the objects around. The yellow castle in the background is a bitmap and can be any kind of picture, for example sprite art or a painting. I just have the original graphics there as a placeholder. I want to get the engine done before I go full-bore on the graphics.
I wonder how I can solicit help with the artwork?
This is all in portable C code. Maybe I should port this to the GBA when I'm done.
What are the limitations for the sprites in term of resolution and animation frames?
As an example, could you list those requirements (If there are any, that is.) in regard to say... the player character sprite, for instance?
The backgrounds are 640x384 pictures. You can draw whatever you want there. To keep the hero from walking on the "walls" a back and white picture is used as a collision mask. (If it is black, the hero can't walk there.)
Here is the collision mask for the castles. The object is to draw another graphic using this as a template. Now you can alter the mask if you want too, drawing black where you don't want the hero to go, but I rather try and keep everything a "pixel perfect" as I can for now, following the original game
The are style for the background I'm thinking of having is 16x16 sprites like below..
So, graphic wise, the only thing that *really* needs to be done is the backgounds and a 32x32 sword.
Here is a map of the adventure world. There are a few things I'm planning.
1) The gold castle is bright, like the sprite screenshot above.
2) The back castle is dark and evil
3) The white castle is an ice castle
4) The gold castle and black castle have throne rooms. The black castle's throne is destroyed showing a hole to the dungeon catabombs behind it.
5) The orange maze before the white castle is a dark, haunted forest.
6) Both the black castle catacombs and the white castle maze (orange mazes) are dark. You can't see anything except what lights up within the immediate area of the hero. (Like zelda:LttP, when all the torches were out). This is taken from the original game.
7) The "blue" maze is still undecided, but I'm leaning towards walls/hedges.
The game is GPL, and the art will be released under a Create Commons License
That's all I can think of for now.
I never asked for this!
I never asked for this!
Throw some bevel and emboss on it :winky:
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I love the idea of remaking old games to look more modern but keeping them the same gameplay. Especially when Nintendo gave us All-Stars.
I have an old Atari 2600 game I've wanted to remake for years, and I did in 1998 on QBASIC, but I forgot the floppy at church and never went back. A friend I rarely see said he has it and keeps forgetting to bring it. But it's not a bid deal since it's so simple to recreate. I might redo it some time. Someone else remade it in a way a while ago but added and removed ideas so it's not the same. So I still feel I can do it. I won't mention the name though but it's a classic and my first memory of gaming ever.
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...on level one. The priority changes on the different levels.
If you like it, I'll send you the .PCX with the #FF00FF transparency via PM, since Photobucket doesn't allow me to upload .PCX for some esoteric reason. And furthermore, if you decide to write a help file for the game, I can also touch up the sword sketch, so you can possibly add it to the item description.
Then bump map it. Bump map the HELL out of it.
Back on topic: I am very excited to see this progress.
Specular and normal maps!
Oh baby, you're getting me so hot... makes me want to bust out the hardware T&L.
edit: updated castles on following page(s)
I dunno. I feel like it needs more stuff going on. Maybe. And possibly more yellow. Also, I dunno if it's "too detailed" in terms of colors and detail in the tiles I used.
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You guys, seriously.
Make this work.
Good point.
I was thinking about adding some little minor touches though. Like maybe a few patches of dirt, a few tufts of grass, maybe the occasional flower. Some pebbles here and there. Something to make the grassy field look less empty.
But maybe it would indeed be more true to the spirit of the original to keep it minimalist.
Anyway, I'm going to take a crack at the "black castle" now I think.
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Nah, do your thing. Add that stuff. Unless you go absolutely nuts, it's going to be minimalist no matter what. I really dig the screenshot above. Keep going!
edit: updated castles on following page(s)
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But give it more gray and brown, and if there's no bloom then just give up right now.
This map that Halkun linked.
Is that the entire game area?
That's only 30 screens. Many of them that would probably use repeatable art assets.
If that's the case, doing all of the world art for the game really wouldn't take too long. Even for one person.
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