Quote:
Originally Posted by Steril707
I always chuckle when I read that "Oh wow, I got my scrolling going, will release game next week" stuff.
That's like not even 2% of creating a whole game.
There is so much shit going on behind the screen that you won't even ever notice as a gamer. I got so much more respect now for the coders of back in the day.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by roondar
Yeah, the problem of getting the basics working (such a scrolling screen with some bobs on it) is not that much work and makes it look like you're very far along.
I suppose that's good for motivation... Until you realize how much is still left to do  |
These statements are very true. It's pretty straight forward from looking at early footage of a game which ones will actually make it through to becoming a game or end up as an Amiga show case, I hate to say it but I still consider SOTB to just be an Amiga Showcase game.... the game is a pile of shit after thought.
In my opinion the key to a game is getting a good sprite driver up and running, when I say good I mean plenty of them all working independent of each other with animation.
I can attest that scrolling is a very small percentage of a game, the biggest and most frustrating part is the debugging, sometimes I look at a bug I have and go 'I have no idea what is causing that'... sometimes it screws with my confidence which when that happens is best to walk away for a while.
Here's a look at the number of assembler lines in Rygar...
Code:
Graeme@HYPERSPIN MINGW64 /c/Development/Rygar/s
$ find . -name '*.asm' -exec wc -l {} \;
Lines File Percentage
0 0.00
3002 ./ptplayer.asm 8.39
1355 ./scroll_horizontal.asm 3.79
1353 ./round.asm 3.78
1070 ./sprite.asm 2.99
1013 ./enemy.asm 2.83
919 ./sanctuary.asm 2.57
904 ./hiscore.asm 2.53
895 ./copper.asm 2.50
889 ./round_events.asm 2.48
882 ./menu.asm 2.46
824 ./enemies/rider.asm 2.30
750 ./panels.asm 2.10
688 ./rygar.asm 1.92
650 ./macros.asm 1.82
623 ./enemies/lavaman.asm 1.74
601 ./background.asm 1.68
597 ./enemies/tribesman.asm 1.67
581 ./stone.asm 1.62
572 ./enemies/monkey.asm 1.60
538 ./intro.asm 1.50
538 ./item.asm 1.50
531 ./enemies/giantworm.asm 1.48
502 ./display.asm 1.40
466 ./enemies/griffin.asm 1.30
466 ./loader.asm 1.30
455 ./gamenotes.asm 1.27
446 ./enemies/rhino.asm 1.25
440 ./enemies/dragon.asm 1.23
422 ./enemies/ligar.asm 1.18
410 ./unpack.asm 1.15
408 ./enemies/drone.asm 1.14
405 ./enemies/bigrhino.asm 1.13
386 ./enemies/mutantfrog.asm 1.08
382 ./enemies/villager.asm 1.07
374 ./hwspr.asm 1.04
358 ./score.asm 1.00
351 ./enemies/giantdemon.asm 0.98
351 ./scroll_vertical.asm 0.98
344 ./enemies/evilcomes.asm 0.96
344 ./interupts.asm 0.96
333 ./endseq.asm 0.93
328 ./diskarm.asm 0.92
327 ./enemies/lizard.asm 0.91
322 ./loadinfo.asm 0.90
306 ./enemies/fireball.asm 0.85
305 ./round18_events.asm 0.85
288 ./enemies/cavebat.asm 0.80
287 ./enemies/lavaspit.asm 0.80
287 ./enemies/liztongue.asm 0.80
285 ./enemies/weapon.asm 0.80
277 ./enemies/fish.asm 0.77
264 ./ropeline.asm 0.74
261 ./enemies/special.asm 0.73
255 ./enemies/crab.asm 0.71
233 ./round17_events.asm 0.65
225 ./tile.asm 0.63
217 ./enemies/rock.asm 0.61
214 ./enemies/ape.asm 0.60
210 ./enemies/hammer.asm 0.59
203 ./const.asm 0.57
203 ./enemies/squirrel.asm 0.57
200 ./enemies/rocket.asm 0.56
199 ./bonus.asm 0.56
198 ./round6_events.asm 0.55
186 ./memory.asm 0.52
183 ./music.asm 0.51
182 ./setup.asm 0.51
158 ./colour.asm 0.44
153 ./system.asm 0.43
146 ./hitpoint.asm 0.41
144 ./enemies/skeleton.asm 0.40
138 ./enemies/testsprite.asm 0.39
130 ./caption.asm 0.36
127 ./input.asm 0.35
113 ./enemies/crowd.asm 0.32
109 ./round11_events.asm 0.30
107 ./enemies/reaper.asm 0.30
101 ./linedraw.asm 0.28
95 ./round23_events.asm 0.27
95 ./round9_events.asm 0.27
86 ./enemies/shield.asm 0.24
64 ./round24_events.asm 0.18
63 ./text.asm 0.18
50 ./round5_events.asm 0.14
39 ./tables.asm 0.11
15 ./round30_events.asm 0.04