Api The Cat - Development Thread [4.5.9]

[latetera]

This is my last project update:

Level 8 Design - Monsters and animated background finished

View: https://youtu.be/YLcCtem2IkE

This is my game so far and to do list

To do list:

* Start screen artwork
* Start screen mechanics
* Music player or Sound test option on Start Screen

Stage 1 Arcade
* intro screen
* Level design
* Music
* Monsters characters
* Monsters moves

Stage 2 School
* intro screen
* Level design
* Music
* Monsters characters
* Monsters moves

Stage 3 Suburbs
* intro screen
* Level design
* Music
* Monsters characters
* Monsters moves

Stage 4 Power Lines
* intro screen
* Level design
* Music
* Monsters characters
* Monsters moves

Stage 5 Sewers
* intro screen
* Level design
* Music
* Monsters characters
* Monsters moves

Stage 6 Bus Station
* intro screen
* Level design
* Music
* Monsters characters
* Monsters moves

Stage 7 Jungle
* intro screen
* Level design
* Music
* Monsters characters
* Monsters moves

Stage 8 Party
* intro screen
* Level design
* Music
* Monsters characters
* Monsters moves

General
* Player jump animation
* Player damage death animation
* Lives system
* Score system and mechanics
* Sprite Hud GFX
* Hero jump sound
* Game Over Screen
* Endgame Screen


Cheers!

 

[dale_coop]

Very cool!

 

[Jonny]

Your list has inspired me to do my own. It's very easy to get into a habit of flitting about doing a bit of this and that.

 

[latetera]

Thank you @Jonny and @dale_coop for the reply on the post < 3

Yes, this will help me i hope to know where i am and what i have to do. Last night i finished the artwork for the start screen, now i have to make the menu works and know how to hide the HUD. I have ticked the box called "Hide Hud" but it doesn't works i think.

 

[Jonny]

That's an awesome looking title screen. Hide HUD doesn't work for sprite based HUDs.

 

[Jonny]

To hide the HUD you just need to put a check at the start of your doDrawSpriteHUD.asm so the script jumps past the part of the script which draws the sprites for the HUD. JMP skipAll goes to the skipAll: defined at the end so the HUD doesn't draw unless on game.

Something like this...

    LDA gameState         ;; CHECK GAMESTATES             ;;
    CMP #$00              ;;                              ;;
    BEQ onMainGame        ;; IS MAIN GAME                 ;;
    JMP skipAll
 
onMainGame:
 
;;;;;;;;;; YOUR SPRITE HUD SCRIPT GOES HERE ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

skipAll:

If you haven't already you would need to use a different gamestate for your startscreen. Maybe #$01 but any will do. This is set where you build screens underneath Tile Layout there's a drop down menu.

 

[latetera]

Thank you so much for your help @Jonny, now my HUD is hidden at start this is amazing

I would love to have a music player option on my main screen someday like the one @CutterCross have in his incredible "The Prying Eye" game < 3

 

[Jonny]

Thank you so much for your help @Jonny, now my HUD is hidden at start this is amazing

I would love to have a music player option on my main screen someday like the one @CutterCross have in his incredible "The Prying Eye" game < 3

Yeah its great and unfortunately out of my skill level.

 

[Logana]

First of al thanx @Jonny @Basty @Logana @kevin81 for the help in the development and recomendations <3

This is my last project update:
Start screen artwork

View: https://youtu.be/2wJlX2hVSnk

This is my game so far and to do list

To do list:

* Start screen artwork
* Start screen mechanics
* Music player or Sound test option on Start Screen

Stage 1 Arcade
* intro screen
* Level design
* Music
* Monsters characters
* Monsters moves

Stage 2 School
* intro screen
* Level design
* Music
* Monsters characters
* Monsters moves

Stage 3 Suburbs
* intro screen
* Level design
* Music
* Monsters characters
* Monsters moves

Stage 4 Power Lines
* intro screen
* Level design
* Music
* Monsters characters
* Monsters moves

Stage 5 Sewers
* intro screen
* Level design
* Music
* Monsters characters
* Monsters moves

Stage 6 Bus Station
* intro screen
* Level design
* Music
* Monsters characters
* Monsters moves

Stage 7 Jungle
* intro screen
* Level design
* Music
* Monsters characters
* Monsters moves

Stage 8 Party
* intro screen
* Level design
* Music
* Monsters characters
* Monsters moves

General
* Player jump animation
* Player damage death animation
* Lives system
* High Score table
* Sprite Hud GFX
* Character jump sound on DPCM
* Game Over Screen
* Endgame Screen


Cheers!

I really love how the light blue signifies what is a solid object or what you can walk on, also the title screen looks really good, the dithering is awsome

 

[latetera]

@Jonny i know we will find the way to get the music player working, maybe @CutterCross can give as a hand with it <3
@Logana It makes me very happy that you noticed the functionality of the blue color in the game because I had doubts as to whether it was understood or not. I have also re-created all the songs in my game based on your recommendations <3

 

[Jonny]

I don't think so, he's moved onto greener pastures and has a few big projects on going. It could be quite complicated, nesdev might be a better place to read about music channel visualisations.

 

[latetera]

oh! greener pastures sounds amazing <3
I would like to have a player of the songs of the game, for my game it is not necessary channel visualisations Do you know how to do that @Jonny ?

 

[Jonny]

oh right. That should be a lot easier but no sorry I don't know how to do that.

 

[latetera]

Can't we just use something like this @Jonny ? I don't know if there's a way to use code made by that tool on NesMaker

GitHub - bbbradsmith/eznsf: EZNSF is a tool for transforming NSF music files into NES ROMs

EZNSF is a tool for transforming NSF music files into NES ROMs - bbbradsmith/eznsf

github.com

it's a tool made by a guy called RainWarrior, i've seen many articles from this user on sound related NES stuff

 

[Jonny]

I think thats written in Python and from what I can gather for making music roms something like this... ? (not totally sure if its for chiptune music or sampled)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8xaPFk4DLc


Not for music in a game, just a dedicated music cart. Thank you though because I have a friend who might be interested in doing something like this. If you're a thrash metal fan, he's the drummer for Evile.

 

[Jonny]

oh! greener pastures sounds amazing <3
I would like to have a player of the songs of the game, for my game it is not necessary channel visualisations Do you know how to do that @Jonny ?

Mugi explained how to change tracks in discord. I haven't given it a go yet but will let you know when I do.

 

[latetera]

wow! that NES real audio album sounds weird, i like that @Jonny
for me the nsf player is enough hahahahah < 3

 

[latetera]

i have some issues with my monsters, i have watched the xmas tutorial about monsters but i think i need something different for this game.
I would love to have something like this:


But instead i have something like this:



can anyone help me with the monster movements? o know nothing more than what's in the tutorial about this.

thnx <3

 

[latetera]

My last update to the project is the intro screen or splash screen for level 1.
I don't know japanesse so some friends are helping me with translations, if you feel something weird about the translations please let me know < 3

 

[latetera]

I finished my level 6 design, is a Bus Station. Needs some fixes but is there