Posted By
onlineprof2010
on 2015-05-17
10:07:23
|  New Plus/4 Maze Game - Looter
Hello - Last year I made a PETSCII maze game for the c64 called Looter. It can be seen on youtube at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTVfDOk3xxc
I have never used the plus/4 before but was curious to see how portable c code can be. I was happy in that really all I needed to do was change some base addresses of char maps and color map. I tried it out and it works fine on the emulator (don't know about real hardware though). The game runs faster on the plus 4 as expected but I kept it that way to make it a more frantic game. It was an interesting experiment for me. The game is in PETSCII but hopefully some of you find it fun.
The download for plus/4 version is at:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxrxBhKJRIf2UVA1d3BVWmo5NHM&authuser=0
Currently it works only on the plus/4. The mazes themselves are stored in a raw format so they take up quite a lot of space. If I compressed them with a little work I could get this running on a Commodore 16.
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Posted By
MIK
on 2015-05-17
10:35:05
 | Re: New Plus/4 Maze Game - Looter
We have to request for access to download it...
Looking at the 64 version on YouTube it looks neat and I can imagine how much quicker it would run on a Plus/4 which I'm sure makes it slightly better for it.
If you don't mind of course.., you could upload it directly to Plus/4 World and the guys will gladly add it to the database as soon as possible.
On the left hand side use: Upload a file to Plus/4 World staff
Link: http://plus4world.powweb.com/features/SiteUploader#1
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Posted By
onlineprof2010
on 2015-05-17
14:27:11
| Re: New Plus/4 Maze Game - Looter
MIK - sorry about that. The file now should give access to all who use the link. I have also uploaded to the website like you suggested.
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Posted By
Luca
on 2015-05-17
14:47:49
 | Re: New Plus/4 Maze Game - Looter
...and I've got it 
I'll add here in the night 'coz I'm going to a spring gig, otherwise Csabo will add it for all of us Thank you onlineprof2010!
Meanwhile, for who wanna test it with no waiting, here it is!
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Posted By
MIK
on 2015-05-17
17:50:24
| Re: New Plus/4 Maze Game - Looter
Nice job of your first little game for C16+16k & Plus/4. 
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Posted By
onlineprof2010
on 2015-05-18
12:44:20
| Re: New Plus/4 Maze Game - Looter
Thanks. Perhaps the first of many.
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Posted By
MIK
on 2015-05-18
12:59:40
| Re: New Plus/4 Maze Game - Looter
Would be cool to see a rougelike dungeon game done like this.
Hopefully you caught the news on the homepage, one of the guys has now added Looter to the site: Looter
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Posted By
onlineprof2010
on 2015-05-18
17:34:36
| Re: New Plus/4 Maze Game - Looter
Yes I have thought about already to make this game more like an RPG. I could interconnect the mazes into one world and give attributes to the character and more items. Maybe in the future I will start updating this. Yes I saw the news on the homepage - thank you guys.
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2015-05-19
15:02:16
| Re: New Plus/4 Maze Game - Looter
Finally had a few minutes to check this out. Simple but playable, fun for a while. Thanks for porting it!
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Posted By
onlineprof2010
on 2015-05-20
12:26:25
| Re: New Plus/4 Maze Game - Looter
Sure. Always glad to share. Thanks for trying it out and letting me know.
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