Dragon Warrior for PCE

[ccovell]

Damn, Dave, that's pretty awesome.  I guess you never tried to get it published through Tandy then?

[elmer]

A game I wrote back then was actually published by Spectral Associates (big-name game publisher on CoCo back in the day).  My game was released *the very month* they decided to switch from full-page color ads to black-and-white 4-point text ads (still full-page, but uselsss due to TL;DR).

That's so cool! You beat me to getting a commercial game released by 3 years. 

I just watched a YouTube playthrough video that some poor fool made of that 1st game ... boy, we made things ridiculously hard on the player back in those days! 

[Arkhan]

It was the computer I had when I was a kid (CoCo 2 and CoCo 3). Though I couldn't afford OS-9.

Still got it?
I still have mine... a Coco 1 w/replacement keyboard.

I also had a CoCo, but by the time the CoCo 3 came out, there were other choices which were more attractive to games (Atari, Amiga), and other choices which were more attractive to business users (PC clones).  I still have it somewhere, as well as the Commodore 1701 monitor I used with it.

A game I wrote back then was actually published by Spectral Associates (big-name game publisher on CoCo back in the day).  My game was released *the very month* they decided to switch from full-page color ads to black-and-white 4-point text ads (still full-page, but uselsss due to TL;DR).

http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/starspores.html

IIRC, you ported some sort of version of this to PCE.

[NightWolve]

A game I wrote back then was actually published by Spectral Associates (big-name game publisher on CoCo back in the day).  My game was released *the very month* they decided to switch from full-page color ads to black-and-white 4-point text ads (still full-page, but uselsss due to TL;DR).

http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/starspores.html

Hey, cool stuff Dave!

[Black Tiger]

During my limited free time this week, I finished off the title screen I made for this years ago.







Here is everything as a single layer:






No logo:






The logo on its own. This can be a sprite layer or if you want to transition it in using a raster effect, the upper area of background could be sprites instead.






If you'd like to either not have bats or it's easier to just have them as a sprite, here's is a bat-less background and the bat layer:








Now I'm going to finish touching up that NES2PCE logo.

[CGQuarterly]

That looks awesome, BT.

[Dicer]

So awesome...

[esteban]

Magnificent.

[ParanoiaDragon]

Awesome BT!!

[Bonknuts]

I couldn't find the old WIP you did BT.

 That titlescreen image going to take me a bit. I've already run it through some preprocessing and it's a complex image to sort out without artifacts. Definitely going to need to use a sprite layer to make it appear lossless.

[ccovell]

I would take out the extravagance of the purple backdrop and make it a coppershade palette effect, put the hero (or dragon) and logo onscreen as sprites, and Roberta's your post-op aunt!

[shubibiman]

Nice looking stuff here, dudes !

[spenoza]

If the dragon and warrior are both sprites, you could scroll them in from opposite directions. Have them flash when they meet each other and the title appears in that flash.

[elmer]

I would take out the extravagance of the purple backdrop and make it a coppershade palette effect, put the hero (or dragon) and logo onscreen as sprites, and Roberta's your post-op aunt!

Now that's clever thinking! 

[TheClash603]

I would take out the extravagance of the purple backdrop and make it a coppershade palette effect, put the hero (or dragon) and logo onscreen as sprites, and Roberta's your post-op aunt!

Now that's clever thinking! 

Everyone is so afraid of color nowadays, keep that purple and display it with pride!