Retro games

[Zoo]

I think we should redo some old games and make them really cool like supa pong.
Heres a list
Beginner:
-Space invaders
-Frogger

Intermediate:
-Lunar lander
-Snake

Hard:
-Tetris
-Asteroids

Asteroids would be the hardest to make because of the rotating of the ship. I'm pretty sure neither GM or SC can rotate sprites.

[Gan]

I think asteroids would be one of the easiest using the SCBox2D plugin. Make a no gravity level. Have a spaceship move using impulses, have circles as asteroids moving around...

[Charlo]

I've been thinking of trying to implement Tetris in SC.  The hardest part would be rotating the pieces I think, because each piece would be made out of four individual sprites.  At least there are only four directions, whereas asteroids has 360 degrees of movement.

[Zoo]

yeah, I think maybe there should be a "rotate sprite" command in GM 4.0

[Connors]

I always wondered how you would make the math for a Tetris game work...

Let's do that one first!!! (*Insane grin*)

[Zoo]

Are we gonna do it in SC or GM.
Either way, I Can make some art or something.

[Zoo]

I think you would use like a grid of some kind. like the origanal

[Connors]

Personally I think Lunar Lander sounds easier than Frogger but maybe not... As for the program it depends on who's involved here but of course I'd use SC.

I've been thinking of trying to implement Tetris in SC.  The hardest part would be rotating the pieces I think, because each piece would be made out of four individual sprites.  At least there are only four directions, whereas asteroids has 360 degrees of movement.

For asteroids maybe you could just have a bunch of different sprites and show the closest to the current angle. It would look more like the original anyways, because I think that's what they had to do.

[Zoo]

Well if SC was used, I couldn't really help with code, but I'm not a scripting expert in gm either.

[Zoo]

You would need at least 4 sprite of the ship if you were to do lunar lander.
(Plain, left booster, right booster, and up booster) But I would add two for if you were going up and to the side. I could do some art for most of these options.  

[Zoo]

We could do frogger, and have that kid from rogue frog driving every car and call it something like "rogue frog 2: Revenge" lol. We'd have to get silverwind's permission though.

[Connors]

I'm not familiar with Rogue Frog yet. Is it a game? CAN I PLAY IT!?

[Silverwind]

Rogue Frog is a simple arcade game from the early Roguesoft era: http://www.gamemakersgarage.com/include/download.php?download=http%3A%2F%2Fgamemakersgarage.com%2Fdownloads%2Froguefrog.zip

I should really get around to re-uploading the Roguesoft website. It was handy for keeping all of my stuff in one place.

EDIT:

lol! Just got to level 4 on ridiculously hard. It's so scary!

EDIT AGAIN:

My word! My old high score is 5274. I barely broke 3000 just now by reaching the last level, but that's hard enough!

[Connors]

OK so I just made a little test using old Shooter Game code to make a simple tile map program but I realized you can't make a fullscreen map in 800x600 mode with 32X32 tiles without going over the 100 tile limit.100 tiles clearly isn't enough for a good Ship Lander level, as it would probably be 10X10 tiles.
I say we try to use the Paint method and make it collide with lines we draw. We could try for polygons that fill in with a color but that would be even harder. Any ideas? (I like Ship Lander)

[Zoo]

If we do lunar lander we need to add different ships that have different speed/control. Maybe even make them unlockable. Oh and different difficulty levels, and powerups or something.