Climby Skies - development thread

[Tsak]

Very cool, well done!

Are the enemies/character gfx just placeholders or original? They look pretty lovely!

*edit: I'd suggest to implement scolling the screen down when you press 'down', so you can safely track your route when you want to move that way. Blind jumps are unfair when it involves moving characters and hazards in those platforms.

[alpine9000]

Originally Posted by Tsak

Very cool, well done!

Are the enemies/character gfx just placeholders or original? They look pretty lovely!

*edit: I'd suggest to implement scolling the screen down when you press 'down', so you can safely track your route when you want to move that way. Blind jumps are unfair when it involves moving characters and hazards in those platforms.

All of the graphics are placeholders - the humanoid character are arcade rips which is why they look so good. The dragon is stock game art that I pixelised.

And yeah, the blind drops are unfair, the scrolling system is still evolving. It's a bit of a challenge because I want the character to move really quickly and that can make it difficult to keep the character on the screen without jerky scrolling.

[warfalcon]

Damn, this already looks totally awesome. Can not wait to see the final version. Blocky Skies was already an excellent game, very innovatine and fun! Good work man!

[alpine9000]

I made a small video as I tested out adding a small game optimisation. It shows me working out the FS-UAE visual DMA debugger and also highlights some debug features in my game that make it easy to measure optimisation speed.

Something a bit different from your average "work in progress" game demo.

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[Leffmann]

Good video it's always interesting to see how people go about these things.

[alpine9000]

Probably the #1 bit of feedback from Blocky Skies, resolved for the new game:



Works for both the trackloader and HD versions.

Not sure about CD32, is there any non volatile storage on it at all ?

[attle]

The CD32 has a few kB of NVRAM, yes.

[hooverphonique]

Originally Posted by alpine9000

Not sure about CD32, is there any non volatile storage on it at all ?

Yes, the CD32 has nv storage.. easiest way to access it is through nonvolatile.library, but it uses dos, so you must enable multitasking, iirc.

[alpine9000]

Originally Posted by attle

The CD32 has a few kB of NVRAM, yes.

If it's only a few KB I'm assuming it's considered poor form to use it for your games high scores :-)

[alpine9000]

Originally Posted by hooverphonique

Yes, the CD32 has nv storage.. easiest way to access it is through nonvolatile.library, but it uses dos, so you must enable multitasking, iirc.

For the HD version I save the hi scores using dos after the OS has been resurrected (on quit).

[attle]

Originally Posted by alpine9000

If it's only a few KB I'm assuming it's considered poor form to use it for your games high scores :-)

Not at all, that's what Pinball Fantasies does for instance. But the storage capacity is tiny IIRC.

[alpine9000]

Originally Posted by attle

Not at all, that's what Pinball Fantasies does for instance. But the storage capacity is tiny IIRC.

Ok cool - something to look into.

[hooverphonique]

Originally Posted by alpine9000

For the HD version I save the hi scores using dos after the OS has been resurrected (on quit).

ok, then nonvolatile.lib may be the way to go.. it will save to envarc: if nv-mem is not available, thus transparently also work on non-CD32. Also, there's a trick to redirect it to disk on CD32 as well, if one so desires.
There's a thread about all of that right here on the forum, iirc.

[alpine9000]

I have been side tracked a little bit the past few weeks as I adapted the Climby Skies engine to do a little game demo for the Amiga Wave guys.

Sneak peek:

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[saimon69]

If they fancy some tune for the high score i autorize them to use this tune, strongly inspired by the firemen choir scene that i did like ten years ago... let me know and will send you the mod file

[Tigerskunk]

Originally Posted by alpine9000

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Nice to have the DMA Debugger, but do you or anybody else have any idea to turn it off again?

Greets,
Michael

[Ozzyboshi]

tried to compile climby skies from github sources, no luck, did anyone successully compiled the whole project and help me doing it on a ubuntu 14.04 laptop?

[alpine9000]

Originally Posted by Ozzyboshi

tried to compile climby skies from github sources, no luck, did anyone successully compiled the whole project and help me doing it on a ubuntu 14.04 laptop?

I'll email you. I built it under ubuntu when I was helping bebbo find bugs in the gcc port.

[Ozzyboshi]

after a few troubled days and with some help from alpine9000 I managed to compile and produce a valid adf file out of the sources, I followed the instructions but it was not so easy, I stumbled upon some code errors caused by updated libraries, files not longer available and more but at the end I succeeded.
To prevent losing the compile environment and to port it to other machine I decided to write a Docker image, so, if you have Docker installed on your system and you want to compile this game it's very easy and can me done with 2 instructions

1. git clone https://github.com/alpine9000/climbyskies.git
2. docker run --rm -it -v #CLONEDGAMEDIR#:/project/repos/climbyskies ozzyboshi/climbyskies

The image is quite big (about 3 gigs) because of bebbo's gcc compiler that is mandatory to compile.

You will probably encounter a compilation error saying that the P61 files are missing, you can use your own music files to build this project or ask help from alpine9000 directly.
Don't look for them inside the alpine9000's github repository, he won't publish it due to copyright issues.

[alpine9000]

Originally Posted by Ozzyboshi

after a few troubled days and with some help from alpine9000 I managed to compile and produce a valid adf file out of the sources, I followed the instructions but it was not so easy, I stumbled upon some code errors caused by updated libraries, files not longer available and more but at the end I succeeded.
To prevent losing the compile environment and to port it to other machine I decided to write a Docker image, so, if you have Docker installed on your system and you want to compile this game it's very easy and can me done with 2 instructions

1. git clone https://github.com/alpine9000/climbyskies.git
2. docker run --rm -it -v #CLONEDGAMEDIR#:/project/repos/climbyskies ozzyboshi/climbyskies

The image is quite big (about 3 gigs) because of bebbo's gcc compiler that is mandatory to compile.

You will probably encounter a compilation error saying that the P61 files are missing, you can use your own music files to build this project or ask help from alpine9000 directly.
Don't look for them inside the alpine9000's github repository, he won't publish it due to copyright issues.

You could delete the gcc git repo and build folders once gcc is installed if you wanted to make the image smaller.