Trionoids - Columns Clone for the Falcon - RELEASED!

[LaceySnr]

First version has finally been released! See first post of thread for download or checkout the source on GitHub: https://github.com/mattlacey/columns/releases/tag/v1.0

[simonsunnyboy]

Looks good and works ok here.

I get sound effects with FPATCH2 installed when using TOS4.02. If you are using STE DMA for them, this patch is required for pre-4.04 TOSes to activate STE DMA sound support properly.

The game even starts from FreeMinT with XaAES here and it is playable, this is great!

I am only missing support for a Jagpad. Maybe this can be added later?

Overall thank you for this release! It is great to see fresh game coding for the Atari platform and the Falcon in particular! Well done

[Xerus]

Your game has really progressed over time.
It's an excellent clone of Columns, bravo.

It's party time for the Falcon at the moment!

[Anima]

Great, thanks! Will have to check it on the real Falcon soon.

[mjvans]

Works fantastic. very good feel to the gameplay.
Thank you and respect!

[lotek_style]

Plays nicely Good gfx and sound too
I have placed put it in my archive:

http://demozoo.org/productions/157644/

[Cooper]

Nice game ! Thanks for your efforts

[LaurentS]

Thanks a lot for your effort. I remember when you first asked for initial help. What a great job done since then.
Bravo.
(And you spread it the day of my birthday, that's a nice gift

So, the next game is ???

Best regards,
Thadoss

[CiH]

Looking forward to playing this one.

[LaceySnr]

Looks good and works ok here.
I get sound effects with FPATCH2 installed when using TOS4.02. If you are using STE DMA for them, this patch is required for pre-4.04 TOSes to activate STE DMA sound support properly.

Ah ok, that sounds like a good candidate then. It's a shame I can't play the MP2 and DMA sounds at the same time, but I do need to add better sound effects at a better sample rate (they were an evening's hacky work).

So, the next game is ???

Good question! I was going to make a shooter before this so I might try that again, but I'm rather keen to play around with DML's 8-way scroller code too

[Ragstaff]

Congrats on the release, can't wait to fire it up!

[dml]

Brilliant! Downloaded... will be giving it a shot this evening

[Marakatti]

Just tested it for a while. Plays great but maybe the music could loop? Otherwise an arcade perfect job! Many thanks for a new game

[dml]

Excellent - started getting addictive quite quickly Grr!

++points for getting a Falcon game out! It's a very small club! And extra points for it being addictive.

[Eero Tamminen]

Tested with Hatari.

I like the game (and animation on changing option), but I think more linear speed increase would make it nicer. Would it be possible to increase the speed more often, but by a smaller amount? Now the game starts IMHO a bit too easy, but after a while it quickly starts to have completely impossible speed.

[LaceySnr]

I like the game (and animation on changing option), but I think more linear speed increase would make it nicer. Would it be possible to increase the speed more often, but by a smaller amount? Now the game starts IMHO a bit too easy, but after a while it quickly starts to have completely impossible speed.

I think the only way to do this will result in some pretty choppy looking animation. It starts moving a pixel every four frames, that reduces by a pixel a time until it's doing a pixel a frame, and from there it can only go to 2 per frame, 3 per frame etc.

I thought of used fixed point to do the position and just render a rounded value but thought it could look a little lumpy on screen, maybe I'll give it a go!

Just tested it for a while. Plays great but maybe the music could loop? Otherwise an arcade perfect job! Many thanks for a new game

It is actually supposed to loop, and does a lot of the time but I think there's some scenario where if screws up on an interrupt or something and doesn't cause it to start again. Seems reliable on Hatari but not on HW. Will look into it!

[Eero Tamminen]

Please try!

At least for partly diagonal movements that works fine, I've used it in my own game:
http://tammat.mbnet.fi/hatari/programs.shtml#filler

[fidzen]

Tested on my Falcon 030 + CT63 at 90MHz + SuperVidel.
Works great and is a nice game indeed!

[MacFalcon]

Great game! I love it! Thanks for the release!

[Atari030]

It looks pretty impressive. Love the colours. Very Atari.

[LaceySnr]

Thanks guys — I need to get around to doing an update but I've been a bit too busy playing games and poking around with a Pentium machine I bought (boo, hiss etc.). Glad people are enjoying it though!

[kni]

childrens, wifes and Amiga/C64 fans play Trionoids on RetroKomp event in Gdansk ! retrokomp.org

be watchful, more great infos soon !

[LaceySnr]

Wow, it's great to see people playing it! And seeing it up on a projector too!

Pretty stoked that it took 3rd place in the compo

[calimero]

I somehow miss your game until now...
I just stumble on yours article at Medium.com: https://medium.com/@LaceySnr/writing-a- ... .f3nd6tpl6

and than come here to download it

[LaceySnr]

Cool! Hope you enjoy it!

Definitely could be improved but I think it's time to work on something else