Cometball - New Atari Falcon game released

[MacFalcon]

Cometball - new Atari Falcon 030 game is ready for takeoff!

My Christmas present for the Atari community!

Features:
- unique gameplay using your mouse
- Arcade mode including powerups and surpises
- Story mode with 5 actionpacked levels and a bossfight
- about 17 minutes exclusive soundtrack composed and performed by award
winning composer Mark C. Wilson
- Highscore list to challenge your friends
- ...

Download: http://ofam.lima-city.de/comet.htm

Boxed version is soon available and can be preordered for 24.99 EUR (including worldwide shipping)

Boxed version will feature:
- soundtrack as an audio CD
- game on CD-Rom
- nice looking box
- some surprise
- first 25 will be "limited-edition"

Contact me at christian.hellmuth@gmx.de

Donations can be made of course: http://paypal.me/falcon030

Stay Atari!

Chris

[mpattonm]

Thank you!

[Atarieterno]

Amazing!
Thank you very much for that great job.

[Kroll]

Thanks a lot !

[MacFalcon]

You are very welcome! Hope you all enjoy it!
It's the first game I ever did and it was an interesting journey! Without the helpful people in the Atari community it would not have been possible at all!

[crashman]

Thanks for your work!
You got my support!
Waiting for #3!!!

[MacFalcon]

Thank you so much! Today I got the message that the boxes were shipped... Stay tuned

[dhedberg]

Well done! Keep it up!

[MacFalcon]

Thank you so much Daniel! And thanks for your cool Demo! I like it very much!

[Tomchi]

I don't own a falcon nor am I able to emulate one , so if someone could make some video capture ...

Anyway, congrats !!!

[MacFalcon]

Here's a bad video of the story mode. I hope to make a better one, soon.

https://youtu.be/bMfKNG8baMk

[MacFalcon]

New gameplay video:
https://youtu.be/bHo3x6uhf7M

Stay Atari!

Chris

[mrbombermillzy]

Hey, congratulations for making your first F030 game!

And a big thumbs up from me for making it work on the TT!

Its interesting that you chose not to make an action game in low res like the majority of them are. Good call.

All other computers fail due to cosmic radiation, but your Atari Falcon is still up and running.

I must have been really unlucky with all the Falcons Ive owned over the years then.

Depending on your PC hardware / emulator settings music or sfx may be delayed or not played correctly.

Use real hardware for the real fun.

Great lines. It makes me laugh how irate some people get because someone has made a game/app on REAL hardware and it wont work on their emulator.

Anyway, well done. I will try it on my TT later (my F030 unfortunately has succumbed to the cosmic radiation for now). All the best with the game!

[MacFalcon]

Thank you very much for your kind words

If there´s really a demand for a TT version I can do one with wav sounds instead of music. I am still investigating why sound routine is not working on TT, as it should work with any DMA... but I think I am not deep enough into coding at the moment But wav routine was working, so hopefully not a big deal... maybe switch between music and sfx... we will see...

Well low-res is nice and you can attract more people of course as you could focus on ST. But Falcon and TT deserve some more stuff and as they offer these nice gfx modes, why not use them. Next game project is a cartoonish game with a snake "called" Hero and some jump ´n´run elements.

Well the game Cometball runs well on Hatari (didn´t try the latest version,yet), but my PC is too slow, I think that causes the timing issues. It gives a bus error in Stemulator afaik.

I still don´t like PCs. Prefer sitting in front of a friendly machine.

Well, you should get your falcon fixed... mankind needs you

Stay Atari!

Chris

[dhedberg]

Oh, you already have another game in the pipeline! Sounds like you've discovered how much fun it is to program these old machines! Makes me happy!

[MacFalcon]

Well, I have to spend my time wisely until Willies Adventures will be released

Yes, it is big fun and I like to learn how stuff ist done

[MacFalcon]

Upgraded version 2.00 is available:

2 player arcade mode included

Stay Atari!

Chris

[viking272]

Whoa, that's awesome, great work!

It's a short scroll but the download link is still: https://ofam.lima-city.de/comet.htm

[MacFalcon]

I reworked the engine a little bit. Nothing serious, but now it's a little smoother. Both story and arcade mode.

[Eero Tamminen]

Well the game Cometball runs well on Hatari (didn´t try the latest version,yet), but my PC is too slow, I think that causes the timing issues.

If you don't need DSP, you get a large speed boost from disabling it. Hatari manual's performance section lists few other options: https://hatari.tuxfamily.org/doc/manual ... erformance

[MacFalcon]

Thanks, I will try this

[MacFalcon]

Arcade mode now for up to 2 players

http://ofam.lima-city.de/comet.htm

Stay Atari

Chris

[viking272]

Nice work Chris
The URL isn't quite right as its missing the .de, anyway just for clarity this is the one:

https://ofam.lima-city.de/comet.htm

[MacFalcon]

Thanks a lot changed my link.

Take care!

Chris

[MacFalcon]

Cometball 2.06 online:

- fixed video mode detection. Game will now definitely tell you if you did start in wrong res/color depth.

- little bit speed improvement.



Game still can be downloaded at http://ofam.lima-city.de/comet.htm

A few boxed versions are also left for sale, limited edition is sold out.



Stay Atari!



Chris