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Homebrew: Island Adventure (HuCard)
« on: August 22, 2012, 09:29:54 PM »
Thought I should post this here--


Island Adventure (Neo Compo 2012).pce


It's a little action-adventure game I made over the past few weeks for Neo Team's annual homebrew competition. It's pretty lacking in a lot of ways but there are a few weapons to find and a some little quests to do with a sort of hazy storyline sprinkled in sporadically. I made it as an exercise in programming to get more comfortable with the PC-Engine, and I don't really expect to continue working on it (though there's certainly room for improvement)

Anyway it's a 4 megabit ROM that works fine in mednafen and on my neo team flash cart and JP Duo-R. I think it should work fine on other carts and emulators too--please let me know me if you find compatibility issues. Since there's no save function, you might want to play on an emulator and use save states to avoid frustration, hehe.

If you play through the whole thing, please send me a PM and let me know what you thought, and how long it took you to finish!

Thanks for reading and I hope you can get some enjoyment out of it should you choose to play it.

edit: Essential Walkthrough (obviously containing spoilers)
« Last Edit: August 24, 2012, 09:03:41 PM by cabbage »

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Re: Homebrew: Island Adventure (HuCard)
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2012, 10:08:39 PM »
Excellent,why you don't work Anymore on it ??

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Re: Homebrew: Island Adventure (HuCard)
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2012, 03:11:36 AM »
:D

Those graphics are awesome.


Did you do it all in C? :)

EDIT: Also, be sure to let us know how the contest goes.  I thought about entering something into that.


but then I remembered I have enough crap to do already, lol -_-;
« Last Edit: August 23, 2012, 03:22:32 AM by Arkhan »
[Fri 19:34]<nectarsis> been wanting to try that one for awhile now Ope
[Fri 19:33]<Opethian> l;ol huge dong

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Re: Homebrew: Island Adventure (HuCard)
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2012, 03:20:50 AM »
I'd like to check it out but I don't have a flash cart. Hopefully I can play it on my PSP with my PC Engine emulator.
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Re: Homebrew: Island Adventure (HuCard)
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2012, 03:28:47 AM »
looks brilliant man!!  Make moar!!

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Re: Homebrew: Island Adventure (HuCard)
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2012, 03:32:03 AM »
It should use Squirrel to have really cheesy DOS sound effects.  It looks like a DOS game, in a good way, IMO.

Post more screenshots!

I'm going to play it when I get home tonight.
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Re: Homebrew: Island Adventure (HuCard)
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2012, 03:47:06 AM »
Wow, you've been busy!

Great idea though, make a simple game first while you're feeling around, and then you won't get frustrated trying to make a game beyond your power.  Looks great, but I can't wait to see what you come up with next :)

My idea (which I've neglected shamefully) was to do TMNT, then a supersprint clone, though I dare say I'm not sure about the AI on that.

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Re: Homebrew: Island Adventure (HuCard)
« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2012, 03:59:02 AM »
Great idea though, make a simple game first while you're feeling around, and then you won't get frustrated trying to make a game beyond your power.  Looks great, but I can't wait to see what you come up with next :)

Exactly!

and heck, this is homebrew for an olllddddd console.   I'd be happy with anything from other people. Start making something, soop.

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Re: Homebrew: Island Adventure (HuCard)
« Reply #8 on: August 23, 2012, 04:11:24 AM »
Ooo, goody!  I'm looking forward to giving this a go tonight.  8)
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Re: Homebrew: Island Adventure (HuCard)
« Reply #9 on: August 23, 2012, 05:20:31 AM »
Pacifist Crab FTW!

highly enjoyable, WAY TO GO!!!  played on Ootake for PC and PCE.emu android

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Re: Homebrew: Island Adventure (HuCard)
« Reply #10 on: August 23, 2012, 08:03:21 AM »
Musics are pretty cool ..

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Re: Homebrew: Island Adventure (HuCard)
« Reply #11 on: August 23, 2012, 08:08:52 AM »
Musics are pretty cool ..

oh! oh!

It's using Squirrel!?/!/1
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Re: Homebrew: Island Adventure (HuCard)
« Reply #12 on: August 23, 2012, 08:35:07 AM »
Musics are pretty cool ..

'twas catchy and retrolicious.

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Re: Homebrew: Island Adventure (HuCard)
« Reply #13 on: August 23, 2012, 11:27:51 AM »
Thanks for your kind words, everyone. I'm not a good judge of my own work and with no team to work with or even beta testers, so I always appreciate feedback

touko--I guess I could work improve some things later... I think I need at least a short time off from this project, and I have some other ideas I want to explore.

Arkhan-- Yes, all in C, and with squirrel. I almost PM'ed you the night before the end of competition with a question about squirrel but I figured out how to get it to do what I needed. Unfortunately these are not my original musics--I just found some cute songs on vgmusic.com. The few sound effects are still very DOS-like. Squirrel 3.0 is excellent, by the way! I'm still intimidated by 'drums' though, hehe. I hope some more people try working with it soon... seems like a waste to have such a powerful tool just sitting, barely touched by hobbyists...

hoobs-- I guess it will work, if the PSP emulator is any good. You can always play on PC. I used mednafen personally.

joshua-- ah, thanks! PC-Engine is such interesting hardware and the homebrew tools have become quite use-able in recent years, so I'll try to keep it up and make something nice :)

soop-- I am bad at AI, too, hehe. Are you still studying HuC? I used the same code I showed you for printing text in this game, hehe

Necro-- It's a quite simple game, please try to keep your expectations low ;)

Nando-- Thanks, really, for playing and for your kind feedback! It's cool to hear it works on android phone emulator, too!

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Re: Homebrew: Island Adventure (HuCard)
« Reply #14 on: August 23, 2012, 11:29:57 AM »
Awww I love this little game you made! Best PCE demo ever! Very cute!
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