Posted By
Csabo
on 2025-08-12
08:38:17
|  Re: Zodiac Deluxe
Thanks guys  I thought of a couple of more things to add after I made the post/video:
A few of the testers said "this is like a new game", TBH, that's not far from the truth What BSz mentioned about the music, I did want to elaborate on that. Something new here, an interesting experiment: the music doesn't use any drums, and I made the step function as the hihat and the shots function as snares. The player steps every 10 frames, and at first I wanted to keep that temp, but I found it too fast, so I slowed it down to 15 frames. So the step sounds you hear don't actually match up to the frames, but it doesn't seem to matter: it "works". And it's always on beat, just like the snares. (What's especially cool is when you turn the music down, and you hear it fade out, while the sounds remain at the same volume.)
Another thing related to the music, I tried finding songs that use the same chord progression (v sus4 add7, IV sus4, I sus4 add9, I add9) but couldn't find any. So... I guess it's a chord progression never used before? (Not that writing something like that is a big achievement, just curious, I guess). Seems like sus4 chords are pretty rare nowadays While working on the tune, on a whim I turned on Shazam, and to my surprise, it (mis)identified my song as "Hush" by "Devoted Symbols"; which appears on a 2007 compilation album. Looks like a completely unknown band. Ever since then I've been very curious about this, I want to hear what that song sounds like. I can't find it anywhere though; it's not on Spotify, or YouTube, or iTunes, or Bandcamp, or anywhere really. If anyone finds it, let me know!
One more thing; the game ends at $3F57 compressed (in other words, only 167 bytes are free when loaded into a C16). This might be the most densely packed C16 game ever :-)
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