Retro games

[Zoo]

With the limit of sprites, snake would be impossible in GM. I hope GM 4.0 doesn't have that limit.

[Silverwind]

Offhand I reckon snake would be moderately straightforward using IMAGEFILE and the V6 nav engine. I think the potential of the V6 nav engine is often overlooked due to it's almost isolated use in RPGs.

[Zoo]

yeah

[Zoo]

when I was a little kid, and I played tetris, I remeber being mad at the guy that dropped the peices  

[Zoo]

I thought of some more good ones: Pacman and donkey kong

[Connors]

Ok well here's what I was mulling over the other day:
That physics engine could prove invaluable for a few of these. For Asteroids we can possibly make the asteroids polygons and have a physics ship with a user-controlled rotation, eliminating the sprite problem. Same thing for Ship Lander, the levels could just have physics shapes that you collide with instead of a tile map.

[Gan]

That's a good idea...
I have some features I want to add that should make these easier.

[Zoo]

Yeah, but what about the art? A game can have great gameplay, but still be no fun if it has bad art. I don't think lunar lander would be very fun if the ship was just a triangle or something.

[Zoo]

I can make some ship sprites. how big do you want them?

[Gan]

True.
I'm going to add a create custom shape function where you can put multiple shapes into a single shape. You'd be able to make a ship that has triangles, boxes, and circles instead of it being a single triangle:
Single Polygon Space Ship

Custom Shape Space Ship


But it would be really nice if Sc got sprite rotation.

EDIT: If you guys want to make a lander with sprites, you can still use the physics engine. Just set the space ship's fixed rotation to true and draw the sprite where the space ship should be.

[Zoo]

Cool. in SC physics is there a way to change the gravity to be more like gravity on the moon?

[Gan]

Yeah, set gravity to 1.6 and that should be pretty close to moon gravity.

[Zoo]

I made snake sprites!
http://www.mediafire.com/?deb814hjx82i2qy

[Gan]

Awesome. Where's its tail?

[Zoo]

Lander music
http://www.mediafire.com/?q331v93j571je56