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Heian-794 Red Paratroopa Since: 01-02-06 Last post: 6427 days Last view: 6462 days |
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My God, that's a beautiful idea you've got going!
How about using a Mario sprite normally, but then -- as a power-up -- making use of those little triangular blocks that let Pac-Mario (for this is what we must call him) sprint vertically up a wall? Then you could alternate between Mario-style platform jumping and Pac-Man-style "grab dots by turning in four directions" running. Of course you'd have to cleverly manipulate Mario and Pac-Mario to obtain all the dots. |
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Simon Red Paragoomba Since: 11-18-05 From: Lund - Sweden Last post: 6625 days Last view: 6625 days |
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Originally posted by Heian-794 I don't think I'd like that, power-ups are too far off from the original Pac Man feeling. Besides, wall-running means just going straight really fast and then we'd suddenly have more of a Sonic style that hardly needs any higher level of thinking. That's not what I'm going for, I want to keep the tactical element of the original Pac Man and add a lot of puzzling situations. |
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Glyphodon Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6467 days Last view: 6448 days |
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Uh, no. You can't even travel up ceilings and Mario is considerably slower with more hazards than Sonic, so going Sonic fast would be impossible. Using triangles to scale instead of ledges might give things a smoother, more Pac-manish feel to things. | |||
Simon Red Paragoomba Since: 11-18-05 From: Lund - Sweden Last post: 6625 days Last view: 6625 days |
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Originally posted by Roc Lettors Well, Sonic is of course much faster, but speed was never the real issue here. The thing is that all you do when running up a wall is running, and that's not really what I would call an interesting gaming experience. |
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BenSerwa Newcomer Since: 01-26-06 Last post: 6813 days Last view: 6813 days |
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What I think would match the theme you've got going, with the spikes and such, would be using Thwomps, and replacing their graphics with solid steel blocks. That would be another thing that would add interest and difficulty and yet be basic enough to fit the theme, along with those spikes. | |||
asdf Link's Awakening ಠ_ಠ Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6428 days Last view: 6426 days |
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Originally posted by Simon Two words. Power pellet. You could use those in the place of the starman item, I suppose. After all, those things were an important part of Pac Man. Fruit could also be thrown in somehow, although I don't see any practical use for them at the moment. (edited by asdf on 01-26-06 11:50 PM) |
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Koitenshin +∞ Moblin Since: 12-24-05 From: Misery Last post: 6429 days Last view: 6429 days |
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I see obvious use for the fruit, varying forms of extra lives. | |||
Kailieann Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6426 days Last view: 6426 days |
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Originally posted by asdfOriginally posted by Simon Originally posted by Simon |
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Simon Red Paragoomba Since: 11-18-05 From: Lund - Sweden Last post: 6625 days Last view: 6625 days |
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Originally posted by asdf Yes, of course there would be power pellets, they're in the very first picture in this thread . Though they would not replace the starman, they would instead (as Xeruss suggested) activate the silver pow. This way, the ghosts could change into scared ghosts (silver coins with new graphics) and Pac Man would still be hurt by environmental hazards. When I said that power-ups didn't fit the theme, I meant permanent power-ups that change the appearance of Pac Man (mushroom, flower, feather). |
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Cruel Justice I have better things to do. Since: 11-18-05 From: At my house! Last post: 6427 days Last view: 6426 days |
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You've just landed on a neo-classic goldmine Simon! I'm even more impressed that you aren't one of those people who screw it up. Although the background could use a tiny, minor adjustment, everything (especially the spikes, I mean, wow )looks fantastic! | |||
Simon Red Paragoomba Since: 11-18-05 From: Lund - Sweden Last post: 6625 days Last view: 6625 days |
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Originally posted by BenSerwa Something like that? I also made this, it's what I would use for a boss level: The ghost would replace big boo. Speaking of which, could anyone tell me if the big boo's only using one 8x8 tile for the whole white area on it's body, or does it use several different 8x8 tiles that looks exactly the same? Originally posted by Cruel Justice What kind of adjustment would that be? |
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Smallhacker Super Koopa I AM A Group Of Officially Frustrated Younglings, G.O.O.F.Y. MEMBER |
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It reuses tiles.
However, don't fear. 184F8 is the start of the Big Boo (Both normal and boss) tilemap. It's stored like this: (Please ignore the green palette) The frames are like this: Normal, Turning 1, Turning 2, Hiding The first three ones are stored like this: Eyes, Mouth, Arm 1, Body, Arm 2 The last one is like this: Arm 1, Arm 2, Eyes, Mouth, Body (Each byte controls a 16x16 block) The body is stored like this: AEIM BFJN CGKO DHLP Where A is the first body byte and P the last. (Note that the screenshot does not show the flipping, since it's stored somewhere else) (edited by Smallhacker on 01-27-06 01:35 PM) |
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BenSerwa Newcomer Since: 01-26-06 Last post: 6813 days Last view: 6813 days |
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Originally posted by SimonOriginally posted by BenSerwa Wow, awesome! Yes, indeed, that was what I was thinking of. |
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Cruel Justice I have better things to do. Since: 11-18-05 From: At my house! Last post: 6427 days Last view: 6426 days |
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The background could use a little cleaning up.
The monolithic rectangular prisms have a gritty pixelated gradation. Maybe if you changed that grainy area into a paralellogram with that dark green on there it would look better. But you don't have to take my word for it, the progress you're making is excellent. |
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Bloodstar 660 blue boar boobies Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 35 bytes) in /var/www/acmlm.org/board/profile.php on line 42 Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6427 days Last view: 6426 days |
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Originally posted by Smallhacker Eh...? What's this, an unreleased program? And the halves of Torpedo Ted... Pretty confusing. |
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Smallhacker Super Koopa I AM A Group Of Officially Frustrated Younglings, G.O.O.F.Y. MEMBER |
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Originally posted by Bloodstar It's a very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very early version of Sprite Paint 3. (No. It's not done. It's can't even edit anything. It have only got one palette. It haven't even got a GUI.) Originally posted by Bloodstar That's the crap stored after the tilemap. |
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