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Sounds exciting. Any screenshots to show?

Commodore wrote: Also from a guy who did a faithful remake of the 8-bit computer game Saboteur, there's a Dizzy GCS.

Excellent, I'll check the Saboteur remake out. I loved that game. Possibly the biggest sprites I saw on the spectrum.

Sounds good. Just out and out shooting can get a bit boring, so I hope there are environment kills like a furnace, bench drill, car crusher etc.; lure the bad guys into the kill zone then run out and hit the button.

Zenith Nadir wrote: also i finally played spelunky, rules

I've been playing this over the weekend. Brilliant game; taking two quite standard ideas (roguelikes and platformers) and combining the best bits of both = something surprisingly original.

I've sorted the problem now. Having looked at it carefully, I still couldn't determine why the lock was occurring, but I did see where. I realised, however, that the bit of code where the lock was occurring was (conveniently) one of only two bits that weren't affected by the problem that required th...

I hope in the inevitable influx of new ZZTers that this brings I won't be lost in the flood and will be remembered as the last n00b before the rampaging hordes of slashdotters arrived.

I have managed to fix a fairly major and commonly occurring bug in a game I am making through the use of #lock. This is good, but in certain (consistent, known, repeatable) circumstances, it leaves the player-controlled object that serves as the game's main character locked and frozen to the spot, e...

Thanks for that Robert. The game will have 23 boards. I am doing 2 phases of beta-testing; one next week of the engine and another a month or so after of the actual levels. The engine stuff is pretty much in hand, but if you could PM me your email address it'd be great to have you on board for the s...

Thanks for that. I think I will just change the existing solids to normals and use solids to denote something else where this won't matter. I'll check out blinkx anyway as I'm sure I'll come across things in future where this is useful.

I was just wondering if anyone knew whether or not it was possible to make walls which look the same as the (default/original shade of) blue solid walls, but function just like fake walls (or empty spaces in general) for the purposes of #if blocked detection from adjacent squares. I've checked sever...

Minefall Update: Work on the engine is nearly complete; having to now be very disciplined not to just launch into full blown level design until last couple of bugs sorted. Commodore on board for beta testing. Slightly ahead of schedule in terms of completion... :D Moomin Update: Have collected 5 Moo...

Commodore wrote: Maybe Ceri JC would contribute a board?

Yep, I'm up for that. Nupanick, or whoever is running this now, please allocate me a room.

I've not read the whole thread yet, which page are the actual final rules/theme being used (as opposed to the theoretical ones which were being touted early on)?

Today's checklist:

1. Emailed parents to dig out Moomin books for me to borrow. - Done
2. Change avatar to mate's cat, Chip. - Done
3. Fire up ZZT and continue work on Minefall - Pending.

sometimes i just can't help myself i actually only read the moomin books for the first time a couple of christmases ago, although i always liked them in other media. they've aged fantastically and i enjoyed them a lot (i will seriously fight anyone who tries to make fun of me for reading and enjoyi...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WngyCVpiFWo
http://ascii.classicgaming.gamespy.com/ ... anity.html

In a word: Bonkers.