Endurion

And thus this create a game series ends...We fix the last few bugs (score was not properly reset on replay, music was stuck on saving the scores). Now the game is complete and can be enjoyed as it was meant to be! Oh joy, Smila (the graphician) actually touched up the game even more for a retail release. It has been out for a few weeks now, but if you did...

And of course lots of little bugs were found and fixed http://public.gamedev5.net//public/style_emoticons/default/smile.png -Live number display was off on a new level.-Beams would sometimes not be removed on the final boss-Disable screen output when saving scores (IRQs go nuts if using kernal save routine)-Cleaned up "extro" textHave fun!Previous Step...

And here's the final bit, the extro part. Never have the player play through your whole game and put "Game Over" there. At the minimum a nice message is required http://public.gamedev5.net//public/style_emoticons/default/smile.png And yes, it's symbolic at 98, since there's always some bugs left to fix. The last two steps will be mostly bug fixes.Since it...

And here's a little gameplay update, the bats. The diagonal movement was too predictable, so now there's more randomness to it. The bat will move in curves. On every end of a curve the new direction will be decided randomly. Two tables are enough, however due to the C64 using two bit complement negative values are annoying to handle. Therefor I went the n...

And a nice little update, Richard Bayliss added sounds effects. Now there's a SFX mode, toggle in the title screen with left/right. The effects are integrated in the player code as separate "songs". So we add a variable SFX_MODE and check it's value when we want to play an effect or start the music:No music in title when SFX mode enabled: ;initialise mu...