Posted By
MMS
on 2011-02-01
15:41:17
 |  Re: "Project Nova", what a game!!!
I've never heard about this game before.
It is really nice one, with a good starfield effect.
But it is even more interesting, that this programmer (Moore, Mark J.), who made such a gems, like Magician's Curse and Escape from Zylon, how actively used a nice sprite emulation in his games.
I think even today (except some very recent releases from active and smart guys here), M's Curse is one of the best sprite sw-emulation, had foreground/background view, nice collision detection, and almost no color changes during movement. I suppose the 2-colored sprite is background and 3rd color, and all the rest (even the black background) is drawn with foremost color (1 or 2).
(In fact in Zylon he also demontrated sprite usage at the very beginning, but later only the nice collision detection was used out of that package).
About Project Nova: nice concept, good realization (especially in 16K), though the hunting and movement of the enemy is kind of annoying, not a real simulation. Music was also not the strenght of Mr.Moore. But all together 8/10.
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