PlanetX1 for Vic-20 ready for testers
David Murray
Download game map: http://galaxy22.dyndns.org/vic20/MAP.P00
Remember, game requires a VIC-20 with 24K of RAM!
Some keys to know:
CURSOR KEYS - Move tanks
SPACE - Fire
G - Toggle GPS display
Q - Quit and return to main menu
F1 / F3 - Change between tanks
Some keys to try, that are left over from debugging...
1 - plot a map object
2 - cycle through objects to be plotted
3 - toggle allowing tanks to move through walls
S - save map (warning, will also save random generated bases too!)
Things originally planned to do, that may or may not happen:
-Joystick support
-Better random maps with lakes, lava, trees, rocks, etc..
-Lay mines (you can already do this with the plot keys, but it is
cheating)
-Game ends when player dies or wins (currently it just sits there and
keeps going)
Cato
first of all thanks for writing this new game for the vic20.
I had much fun playing a round PlanetX1 :)
I had some ideas in mind how to improve the game, take this just as a proposal of an propestive PlanetX1 gamer.
Tomorrow I'll tell my collegues of it:
'...sure Call of Duty is not bad, but have you already played the new PlanetX1?'
Here are my thoughts:
- increase the displayed information by not drawing a frame on each display.
current
1234567890123456789012
1 +------------++------+
2 |............||......|
+|- = frame
. = map area
new proposal
1234567890123456789012
1 .............|........
2 .............|........
- expanded screen size, i.e. 26x30
poke 36866,128+26
poke 36864,8
poke 36867,1+30
poke 36865,25
or even more, I think width 28 should also be possible
new proposal
12345678901234567890123456
1 .................|........
2 .................|........
- autopilot drive to homebase
- switch display to show a hugh main map of the whole terrain.
I'm kind of lost by seeing just a microsopic part of the world
Maybe the new survey-map can show only the so far discovered areas for a short amount of time?
- the three panel display is quite confusing to me. Maybe you should expand the Base-Display?
and reduce the Tank1 and Tank2 displays showing the same as now but in reduced scale
- change the tanks to show an indicator in which direction they will shoot (muzzle)
- lock the shoot direction when moving around (on/off)
- switch between tanks by using only one key (toggle between tank1 and tank2)
Best Regards from Germany
Joerg