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Post by Der Luchs on Mar 25, 2014 6:34:53 GMT -5
You're right.
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Post by spikesshadow on Apr 6, 2014 5:16:23 GMT -5
These look awesome guys NOX & Deathrace. Put me down for a cart for sure when its released.
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Post by gauze on Apr 8, 2014 12:41:21 GMT -5
Man I love killing innocent vector graphics, looks good!
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Post by solderguy on Apr 14, 2014 6:56:13 GMT -5
Congratulations! And thank you! I like what you have done! Ten years ago I had a small car driving around on the Vectrex screen .. But that is as far as I got to try to program my own version of DeathRace.
As you may know, using the Atari Driving Controller with the Foot pedal controller with your games would reproduce the 1970's top down driving experience which I remember playing when I was a kid. (Yes I did play a lot of Exidy's DeathRace in the arcade in 1976-77 as well as the Atari Indy game.)
As you also know, the original DR game had a horizontal tube orientation .. I guess for more two player gameplay viewing .. Not a concern for a one player Vectrex game experience.
Your scream is spot on! Your crosses look great but could have been simple and smaller like the original (12 v 5 vectors). Your gameplay is true to the original .. with the exception of the disappearing crosses. Might you consider offering another option selection at the beginning which does replicate the exact game field of the arcade version? (Meaning full field gameplay and scaling all the game objects smaller?)
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Post by Der Luchs on Apr 14, 2014 14:59:59 GMT -5
Waiting for that release is really hard
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Post by binarystar on Apr 15, 2014 8:13:15 GMT -5
Rob - I'm planning a 'Death Race Deluxe' cart at a later date, I may add the Horizontal option to that. The crosses disappear as I'm trying to avoid slowdown wherever possible. I did originally have skinny crosses but I didn't like the way it looked so I went for the chunky ones. I feel the playfield is confined enough at the moment to get away with having fewer crosses on screen. I could simplify the graphics for the horizontal mode though.
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Post by VectorX on Apr 15, 2014 9:03:40 GMT -5
I feel the playfield is confined enough at the moment to get away with having fewer crosses on screen. Yeah, that's one problem with the Vectrex, is the small (at times, depending on the game) screen, as the playfield for Space Wars and Star Hawk is smaller than their arcade counterparts. Space Wars is still fine on the Vectrex though, but S. Hawk I thought was too easy.
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Post by cNp on Mar 13, 2015 4:33:54 GMT -5
*casually bumps into this thread* Hey you guuuuuyyyyyyyyys.... can you release NOX please?! I do love a top down racer... was gonna be a game genre I would have done but happy to play yours! *totally appreciates the irony of the fact I'm massively dragging my feet on finishing and releasing Big Blue* cNp
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Post by 50tbrd on Mar 13, 2015 12:22:14 GMT -5
That is pretty ironic. Martijn might just release his top down racer, MVR this year, but I'd like to see a Spy Hunter for Vectrex or maybe a Bump N Jump type racer.
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Post by binarystar on Mar 16, 2015 5:48:53 GMT -5
It'll be out soon enough. The delays are with the printer right now (waiting on the right coloured inks). Overlays will be printed very soon though.
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Post by cNp on Mar 16, 2015 8:18:29 GMT -5
I might be in touch some time about your experiences getting overlays done! cNp
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Post by Michele on Mar 31, 2015 8:08:58 GMT -5
It'll be out soon enough. The delays are with the printer right now (waiting on the right coloured inks). Overlays will be printed very soon though. Great Chris! remember to insert me in the what to buy list ^_^ I definitively want to try your and Jim work ^_^; take me updated... Michele
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Post by TrekMD on Mar 31, 2015 17:22:14 GMT -5
Thanks for the update. I'm also in line for this one.
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Post by Mayhem on Apr 1, 2015 4:46:36 GMT -5
Needless to say, so will I
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Post by darrin9999 on Apr 1, 2015 5:31:09 GMT -5
Of Course! I`m in for 1
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