Example Platform Engine

[nodtveidt]

mrhaboobi was asking about this, so I figured I would just release it to the general public. This is a relatively simplistic platform engine that presently supports idle state, moving around, jumping, standing attack, and jump-down-from-platform capabilities. Other states are included but unfinished. It doesn't have any entity handling (no pickups or enemies), as that's a whole different subject and differs from game to game depending on need.

I put up two packages: a complete ready-to-run package, and a source-only package. The complete package is 33.2MB because it contains three audio tracks, the other is about 48KB... add your own WAV files.

http://www.frozenutopia.com/platformengine-ready.7z   Ready-to-run version
http://www.frozenutopia.com/platformengine.7z   Add-your-own-WAVs version

I commented it as best I could, and some parts are not optimal, but it works, and quite well too. Feel free to use and abuse as you see fit. All flames will be redirected to /dev/null.

[Arkhan]

Hehe, NeutopiaChirpy.

Sounds familiar.

[nodtveidt]

I swiped it from Squirrel. hehe

[Arkhan]

Yeah, I figured lol.  Noone around these parts uses "chirpy" very often,

[KingDrool]

Very cool of you to do this, Rover.

Excuse my ignorance, but would it be useful - to encourage people into the PC Engine homebrew scene - to write up some sort of "Here's what you need to know and do to program a PC Engine game" guide? I'm not sure what would be involved in that, nor how long it would take as I have no coding/programming knowledge whatsoever. I'm just curious.

[Arkhan]

It might help.  There was a guide similar to that at some point on the internet, but like most things in the PCE homebrew scene, it never got finished

I myself thought about doing a series of video tutorials about how to make chiptunes with Squirrel quickly and effectively.  It's something else that the scene could use as far as how-tos.

The only thing holding me back is I can't stand doing video editing/doodling, so I immediately get discouraged.  I may try it again using my girlfriend as a film slave.  She does cameras/video stuff and enjoys it, lol.

[mrhaboobi]

Awesome Rover.  Thanks alot for that

[touko]

It might help.  There was a guide similar to that at some point on the internet, but like most things in the PCE homebrew scene, it never got finished

I myself thought about doing a series of video tutorials about how to make chiptunes with Squirrel quickly and effectively.  It's something else that the scene could use as far as how-tos.

Yes, it's trilinear's "echo's quest" i think..

[Arkhan]

It might help.  There was a guide similar to that at some point on the internet, but like most things in the PCE homebrew scene, it never got finished

I myself thought about doing a series of video tutorials about how to make chiptunes with Squirrel quickly and effectively.  It's something else that the scene could use as far as how-tos.

Yes, it's trilinear's "echo's quest" i think..

It might have been.  I don't seem to recall it being Trilinear though.

Too bad that person isn't around anymore.  They were doing some neat things

[touko]

Yes, trilinear, eagan, jycet, and many others have stopped everything.

[Arkhan]

Jycet's stuff was the first PCE code I ever looked at. 

Any idea why they bailed?  They're before my time.

[nodtveidt]

Trilinear's "Echos Quest" was a basic platformer with parallax scrolling. The only problem is that he used sprites to do the background layer, which worked fine in Magic Engine but obviously on real hardware or a proper emulator, it looked like crap. And I think they all bailed for two reasons:

-None of them were serious
-Zeograd abandoned HuC

Of course, not everyone has to be a serious developer. It's fine to just tinker with stuff and learn.

[Arkhan]

which worked fine in Magic Engine but obviously on real hardware or a proper emulator, it looked like crap.

What do you mean thurrrrr

[dudule]

the link don't work 

[nodtveidt]

What do you mean thurrrrr

Magic Engine normally doesn't respect the 16-sprite-blocks-per-line limit, so the sprite-based parallax layer works fine. However, on the real machine, or in a proper emulator like Mednafen, the last sprites are clipped due to sprite buffer overflow.

the link don't work 

Works fine for me...