BBC Pooyan

[Snuggsy187]

Someone mentioned "Pooyan"

I'd never heard of it, but now I'm hooked on the arcade version on MAME.

Having started many games in the past and never completing any of them, I thought I'd give this some thought with a view to actually finishing something......

Still pondering design (and colours for that matter !!), but here is a screenshot as a teaser.
I've animated Pooyan firing, the carriage is movable, and the cogs animate too, but that's about it at the moment.

Next, animate Buuyan and the house folk, and define the large tree.......

Hopefully it'll become something.........

[Naomasa298]

Oo, awesome! See it through to the end.

This has made me think about trying my hand at an arcade style game during breaks from the RPG. I have one in mind.

[tricky]

Great start Snuggsy and do tell Naomasa.

[Naomasa298]

Great start Snuggsy and do tell Naomasa.

I don't want to hijack this thread, but I was thinking of a conversion of the NES game Binary Land. Nice and straightforwards for my first arcade game. No complicated sprite masking or scrolling.

Pooyan has pigs, Binary Land has penguins.

[drfloyd]

Fabulous !

It was on my wish list !

Pooyan is a perfect idea for the BBC computer ! And it is one of the best arcade scoring game from period 1980-1983

[RobC]

This looks excellent

[Iapetus]

Looking great!!

[Snuggsy187]

Thanks all, and drfloyd for the idea !

Nothing much going on, but here's the first sampler.
Got some more animation done, Pooyan now fires arrows, and there's also version one of the large tree !

* moves Pooyan up
? moves Pooyan down
Shift fires arrows

I now expect progress to slow down somewhat !

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[drfloyd]

It's because of my recent idea ? Dam's, i have an impact on BBC Micro Communauty !????

You code very fast !!!!!!! Incredible !!!!!

I hope received soon my BBC and impatient to test ! Your screenshots are about arcade perfect.

[lurkio]

Nothing much going on, but here's the first sampler.

I don't know the original game, but this is very nice, very smooth!

[drfloyd]

I want the physical box edition of this game !!!!!!

[Arcadian]

I want the physical box edition of this game !!!!!!

That could be arranged!

(Snuggsy, check your email inbox!)

P.S. Just tried the demo, it's wonderfully smooth, you're making great progress (top choice of game to convert as well!)

[drfloyd]

i am still a newbie here. But it is possible to imagine that your great arcade games (like Centipede, Frogger... Pooyan soon) are distribute on a ARCADE CARTRIDGE ??? (with a nice cover illustration)

So BBC Computer will become like a MSX with cartridge games

[Naomasa298]

i am still a newbie here. But it is possible to imagine that your great arcade games (like Centipede, Frogger... Pooyan soon) are distribute on a ARCADE CARTRIDGE ??? (with a nice cover illustration)

So BBC Computer will become like a MSX with cartridge games

The Model B did not have cartridge slots, neither did the Master Compact. Cartridge cases would be expensive to produce.

[Arcadian]

It's possible, yes - obviously for the BBC Master only, not BBC B or Compact (which didn't have cartridge slots).

I've actually had a run of rom boards made up (that fit inside original Acorn cartridge cases or 3D printed cartridge cases) which I intend to use with my BBC Masters / Electrons at gaming events, so games can be changed by physically swapping cartridges around (whether I allow visitors to do this would be another matter; because hot swapping cartridges without power cycling the machine could potentially fry the cartridge!).

I do intend to get cartridges made up for some of the homebrew games/conversions, such as Tricky's stunning versions of Frogger/Carnival/Centipede etc, however with regards to producing a 'run' of them; I really don't know how much demand there would be (if any) as the cost of producing a game on ROM Cartridge would be comparatively expensive: there'd be a cost for the rom board, the rom, the cartridge case, packaging (if folks want a fancy 'box'), shipping etc. I haven't even looked at costings yet but the price of a single game on cartridge could easily retail at £20+ i.e. roughly the same price as buying an MMC-based product, which would contain the /entire/ BBC software library, not just one game!

It would be much easier (and cheaper) to package them on 5.25" floppy discs in nice, authentic wallets ...

Anyway, I don't wish to derail Snuggsy's Pooyan thread, but feel free to PM me or start another thread if you'd like more info about packaging games on physical media, as that's one area I have some expertise in ...

[Naomasa298]

Ooh, ooh, do me a mockup Dave!

[Arcadian]

Ooh, ooh, do me a mockup Dave!

Ah, I've got an idea for a totally different design for 'Legend' but it might take me a couple of days to mock it up as I'm away tomorrow ... but drop me a PM at the weekend if you haven't heard anything!

Anyway, now very conscious we may totally be hijacking the Pooyan thread, hence I'll leave this quick conversion of the C64 Pooyan loader screen here to get things back on track ... !

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[Naomasa298]

Yes, my apologies to Snuggsy as well.

To make up for it, Snuggsy if you need any help with graphics, give me a shout.

[RobC]

I don't know how faithful to the original the game logic is but there's a version in BASIC for the Thomson MO6 here which might be of use.

It looks like it's using the MO6's 320x200 16-colour attribute mode. If you wanted to do a VideoNuLA version, it will mimic this mode and you'd be the first person to use it in anger

[drfloyd]

yes it is the mode 160*200 16 couleurs of the M06/TO8, like mode 0 Amstrad CPC

But it cannot be in basic langage (???)

[RobC]

yes it is the mode 160*200 16 couleurs of the M06/TO8, like mode 0 Amstrad CPC

I think it's using the attribute mode so 320 x 200 with 16 colours but only two colours in any 8 x 1 pixel block.

But it cannot be in basic langage (???)

I think MO6 BASIC has block copy commands (GET and PUT) which act like software sprite routines (a bit like GXR/Spriter ROM in the BBC Master). I have the MO6 user guide but my french isn't good enough to be certain!

Also, it's not terribly smooth - nothing like Snuggsy's version (but still impressive for BASIC).

[drfloyd]

i know the thomson basic (very very very slow!) and it is impossible to do that without assembler

[RobC]

i know the thomson basic (very very very slow!) and it is impossible to do that without assembler

So I should have said that the PUT and GET commands that handle the sprites are effectively assembler but you are right it's still slow!

[Snuggsy187]

Wow, where to start ?!!
Many thanks for all your comments !

Thanks for the heads up on the Thomson MO6 version - I'll have a trawl through the source to see what's going on.

Thanks to Naomasa298 for the offer of graphics assistance, I'll bear that in mind when I get stuck.....!

Really don't mind about the thread hijacking, I'm surprised this has attracted so much attention !

Who else...... thanks Arcadian for the Title Screen, although I couldn't live with that yellow background ! .....

[Naomasa298]

Thanks to Naomasa298 for the offer of graphics assistance, I'll bear that in mind when I get stuck.....!

I meant drawing graphics, of course, not programming them, I'd be absolutely no use with that.

[Arcadian]

Ooh, that's much nicer!

[Naomasa298]

I think the white fuzzy thing behind the wolf is supposed to be the tree though, not a cloud?

[Snuggsy187]

Hmmmm..... maybe, just looks a bit odd in green I'm thinking......

[Arcadian]

[Edit - you beat me to it Neil! ] Ahh ... hmm, if you make the trees green they don't show up too well against the cyan sky:

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Perhaps make the Sky dark blue? Though this would mean we're not making much use of cyan ...

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Perhaps make the balloons Cyan instead of Magenta??

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[Snuggsy187]

.....or multicoloured balloons like in the game ?

...... hmmmm, the choices !