Pirate Ship Dizzy [PROGRESS THREAD]

yes yes yes, I know I know. I know I said it'd be unlikely I'd make any more games. But I never completely ruled it out.

And anyway, this is quite a different type of game.

It is based on an old Spectrum game called Booty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVmjRyqg8QY

The basic idea is that Dizzy is a cabin boy on a pirate ship, and has to collect pirate treasure from the different 'holds' (rooms) on the ship. You also collect keys to open sections in those holds, to gain access to new areas.

There are no 'puzzles' in this game, and the only actionable items are the doors between holds. Other common 'Dizzy' actions are disabled - you can't jump, there is no inventory, and large falls will kill you.

In addition, Pirates roaming the ship will kill you on contact, so you'll find yourself using the ladders and lifts quite often in order to avoid them!

The great thing about this game (for me anyway) is that there is absolutely no coding needed at all. Other developers may find that hard to believe, but I've managed to write the base code so that it takes care of moving all the different pirates and lifts, opening all the sections using keys, climbing ladders, and moving between holds using the doors. All I have to do is draw the map, knowing that I don't now have to code anything I draw in the map.

As you can imagine, this will cut down a lot on the time it will take to do the game, which really is just limited to how many 'holds' I want to draw.

So as it's only taken me about a day to write most of the 'base' code for it, it's not a game that will suck up all of my time. Which is why I'm able to do it. :smile:

anyway, here's a couple of screenshots:

https://i402.photobucket.com/albums/pp106/eqixx/psd1.png

https://i402.photobucket.com/albums/pp106/eqixx/psd2.png

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lol sounds interesting.
Don't like that blue backgrounds.

I knew you wouldn't be able to resist :tongue:

Anyway i don't know the original game but played a few similar, very old school. :cool:

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Don’t like that blue backgrounds.

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some holds have that blue background, some are black. It's a mix really.

yeah so happy you've come out of retirement {dizzy}:dizwink:

Great stuff, another from Jamie in the offering {yolkfolk}:delight:

Also as ive been so busy working on mine (it's very close to completion now) ive not had chance to play any of the new ones by Paul Tucker.

I'm fairly rattling through these screens! another 4 drawn tonight!

some are pretty easy, others will be very difficult. The one below isn't at the far end of the scale, but it's not far off:

https://i402.photobucket.com/albums/pp106/eqixx/psd3.png

Dizzy is holding key number 6 (shown in the top right). I've already collected 10 Treasure, and only have one life left {yolkfolk}:crazy:

also, I don't think I made it clear earlier that I'm not using ID numbers (except for the doors between holds, so that they 'target' each other). None of the pirates, numbered keys, numbered doors, or lifts have ID numbers at all; they're all controlled by the base code.

The numbered doors don't even have colliders next to them to trigger them :wink: They just magically open if you walk into them holding the correct key (and obviously stop you if you don't have the correct key).

I'm well pleased with the coding for it :teethy:

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As you can imagine, this will cut down a lot on the time it will take to do the game, which really is just limited to how many ‘holds’ I want to draw.

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:smile:
So, about 1,500 then? :tongue:
Seriously though, using that concept if people enjoy it you could release 'level packs', or do ten 'hardcore' screens in future, etc.

This looks like it could be a lot of fun. No wonder you're so pleased with the base code, and I'm pleased too because I actually understand what you mean when you say you don't need object ID's. And I'm the most illiterate DizzyAGE attemptee ever!

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So, about 1,500 then? :tongue:

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nope. there will be 4 'galleons', with probably 20 holds each, and each galleon will get progressively more difficult. There's no save game, but the game 'remembers' which galleons you've completed, so that if you get game over on the third galleon, you'll be able to choose galleons 1, 2, or 3 to start again on.

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Will this be apart of next years comp?

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No. There's no puzzles or items in it, so it doesn't meet the rules. But I knew that before I started it.

The good thing about that is that it will be released before xmas - probably sometime in November.

You are going to have to get a wriggle on then to release this and an entry to next years competition!! :tongue:

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right, that’s two galleons done (40 rooms), so it’s halfway there now. :smile:

Considering I only started this game a week ago, I don’t think that’s bad going!

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Incredible.. {yolkfolk}:rollseyes:

oi! what's with the rolling eyes?