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This definitely looks a lot better. I think the gradient looks better this time than the line technique, but you'd have to test it out in the context of the actual game play to be sure which is more appropriate (I'm assuming this is for a game?).

Even if you took the first gradient example and made the bottom 2/3 of the sky solid, it would make it less distracting. Complex dithering patterns can be hard on the eyes. I like to keep it simple, keeping colors mostly solid with light dithering between them. Perhaps the example would also look be...

Can we Chuck WedNorrisDay's jokes over a cliff? That was funny to me for about 20 scanlines.

Personally I can't refrain to think most games that uses 8kb SRAM without saving could have been done without it if they were coded more carefully / a bit differently. <tepples wrote some stuff about terrain modification in RAM> <tokumaru wrote some stuff about consolidating it into a small amount ...

Not sure if you've resolved this yet, but I'll comment anyway. How are you storing your color information? It looks like you're working backwards through the color array. Not saying this is wrong or a bad idea, but the data would need to be in the right order. It's possible that the data you're grab...

I'm not sure I got the point of this post... You first talked about a game you're making, then you talked about games of 2 different styles you want to make, and I have no clue about which of them your question was! I'm making a game, I'm open to new styles, I don't know how to execute any ideas. B...

Luckily I've found a job in IT where I'm not on-call, and I don't take my work home with me. It's relatively stress-free. The only thing that really causes stress is the threat of being laid off when the company decides that to make more money this year, they'll cut down on payroll. But I suppose th...

I'm currently a developer of in-house software for a major retailer (I don't think I can say who it is). It's software for a specific division (so not the whole company), so the audience isn't thousands of people. It's mostly VB.Net programming and database stuff. I actually really enjoy my job. It'...

guitarzombie wrote:This is kind of a weird question.

I have a weird question about this statement. Do you mean the thread topic is a weird question, or the question which you asked after this statement is a weird question?

I believe in Metroid it allows you to use Missiles. I adopted this same functionality in my own platformer to switch to the player's special weapon (randomly picked up as an enemy drop, much like the ones in Castlevania). Final Fantasy allows you to switch party order from the world map by pressing ...

hee hee hee, is Cheetah Men 2 allowed? I don't think so; it's about game -breaking glitches, and it's debatable whether or not Cheetah Men 2 counts as a real game ;). I actually had something happen in Castlevania 1 once while playing it in an emulator where it froze and there were attribute glitch...

I have build a system which allows both flipping entiere metasprites (saving space) or storing left/right versions of them separatedly (allowing for details, such as weapons being always in the correct hand). Since I have 4 pointers for all 4 directions, and that they all points to a metasprite whi...

I'm personally not a fan of the pre-flipped sprite maps approach. It can waste a ton of ROM space, and also increase the complexity of other code. I imagine you have to have some conditional code that says "If this object is facing right, use sprite map X. Otherwise, use sprite map Y." You...

2k of RAM is enough to store about two screens worth of level data packed into a 2d byte array. That's the simplest solution and so the most widely used. Sometimes bit flags are used in those bytes for things like walkable/not walkable instead of being literal tile or metatile numbers. Games which ...

I think it would be great to get these threads into their own section. I don't know much about hardware, and quite little about specific boards, so I really can't contribute to these discussions. I usually browse through everything except the hardware and emulation sections, and I still run into a l...