Legend of Daisy: A Diz to the Past (DEMO) v1.0 [DOWNLOADABLE]

My two main problems I'll need to address: 1. After the sanctuary, the scrolling screens seem to all shift a few pixels up! I have no idea why. It's most noticeable in the graveyard, although you can't see the difference because you can't access it beforehand. 2. Parallax scrolling seems to only work twice for me and then no more. Again, no idea why. {dizzy}:huh:

Hey Andy, I might just open up your game at some point and have a look at these for you. (if that's alright?)

I've been on a little run making my game the last few weeks so I'm pretty much thinking in gs9 anyway {yolkfolk}:crazy:

You're on your own with the journal though. {yolkfolk}:eek:

Thanks all for your feedback / kind words :smile: . Noggin, if you could have little look-see that would be great - but don't worry too much. I'm sure I just made a little mistake somewhere - so much of this was trial and error, and I'd often be so overjoyed when stuff finally worked that I'd forget to go back and delete all the extraneous stuff. So before I go back to it, I'll need to clean it up and maybe it will dawn on me then.

Does anyone know if it's possible to check for a key being entered so I can skip the title screen? I see Dizzy and Seymour has this. This is of course what I'd want to do - it got right on my own nerves after a while. And I always intended to add a second menu for play intro / start - to be honest, I hadn't even considered tht anyone might die, at least not many times.

The journal is still a work in progress. I only replaced the restart option with it because I was toying around testing things out, and it's not something I ever use myself. Maybe I'll position it somewhere else. Interesting idea to just move to a different screen - I'd have complete control over layout then. But I think I'd like to persevere with the dialog system :smile: . The idle collidle is interesting, I'll give it a go and see how it works!

Another thing - I was thinking of increasing the frame rate so Dizzy can move faster. I'd of course have to alter the whole code to accommodate this (and the delays on animated tiles), but it may be worth it as the game moves rather slow. Has anyone else tried this?

P.S - Yeah, Fantasy World! Silly me. Good luck with that, it drove me mad.
P.P.S - I only noticed the sprite sheets quite recently! By then I'd lifted most of it myself from emulators and screen caps. Anyone is welcome to use what I've done if it's not elsewhere! (Although there are quite a few original designs I'd rather no one use until after it's complete - assuming anyone wants the Ghost of Hendrix as a character, for example... {yolkfolk}:crazy: )

... Well wow, that was one huge post :surprise:

to be honest, I hadn't even considered tht anyone might die, at least not many times.

Oh right - trying to jump onto a moving platform above a load of spikes and not dying. Must only be me then {dizzy}:mad:

Key checks: the usual

if (GetKey(KEY_RIGHT))

etc is the usual method, but nothing says you can't use a status check in the HandlerGameUpdate as a means of doing one thing or another.

Colin used a journal system in A Pirates' Life (note the correct punctuation Frogman as not a specific pirate) and you could always check out my 'goblin ferry service' in Dizzy's Bad Dream.

I've used an item (scroll) to make Dizzy run faster when he's holding it (motorbike in Daisy's Odd Day) but again a status check could do the same. My problem is that Simon's scrollling code conflicts with the 'speed increase' I use as it's a custom move check that speeds up the x step to 8.

Agreed, I either 'borrow' tiles from another fan game or create my own from 'proper' games - Made all the tiles myself for Dizzy goes to Hollywood, by using screen shots from the original Seymour game and then playing with them in Corel Pro Photo paint shop.

I've checked out the movement on the rain in FWD and discovered it's only 4 pictures moving in a anti-clockwise circle, which gives the impression of driving rain. So, one tile created. Where should I mail it? I mean is your email address really 'whotoldmywife'? {yolkfolk}:puzzled:

My two main problems I'll need to address: 1. After the sanctuary, the scrolling screens seem to all shift a few pixels up! I have no idea why. It's most noticeable in the graveyard, although you can't see the difference because you can't access it beforehand. 2. Parallax scrolling seems to only work twice for me and then no more. Again, no idea why. {dizzy}:huh:

Hey Andy, I've had a little look your code. With the scrolling, the problem stems from the bit where you turn on the vertical scrolling when Dizzy falls down the shaft by Zaks' castle. The simplest way to fix it is to add this line to the AfterUpdate Handler:

if( GameGet(G_VIEWPORTMODE)==2 )
{
GameSet( G_VIEWPORTY, GameGet(G_ROOMY)*roomh - PlayerGet(P_Y) + roomh/2 );
}
[color="#FF0000"]else GameSet( G_VIEWPORTY,0);

With the parallax scrolling, I'm using a slightly different technique in my new game, which is less prone to bugs. This is how it works:

plx = PlayerGet(P_ X) ;
diffx = (plx - [color="#FF0000"]832)/4;
castx = diffx*3;

bgd = ObjFind(60);
xpos = ObjGet(cgd,O_ X) ;
ObjSet(bgd,O_X,[color="#FF0000"]608 + castx);
ObjPresent(bgd);

832 is the player's starting position, and 608 the position of the background tile on the map. You don't actually have to use the starting positions, the idea is just that when dizzy is at x = 832, the left side of the backdrop is at x = 608. The code then moves the backdrop relative to those positions.

The other thing I'd advise you to do, for simplicity's sake, is to have all the backdrops moving together. So don't try and turn their movement on and off using if(GameGet(G_ROOMY)... ) or whatever. Instead, disable or enable the objects when you move from area to area. So, when you enter the graveyard, enable the graveyard backdrop and disable all the others. That way, the scrolling code can just be a simple list like so:

plx = PlayerGet(P_ X) ;

diffx = (plx - 832)/4;
castx = diffx*3;
bgd = ObjFind(60);
xpos = ObjGet(cgd,O_ X) ;
ObjSet(bgd,O_X,608 + castx);
ObjPresent(bgd);

diffx = (plx - 1248)/4;
castx = diffx*3;
bgd = ObjFind(61);
xpos = ObjGet(cgd,O_ X) ;
ObjSet(bgd,O_X,1024 + castx);
ObjPresent(bgd);

etc. etc...

This will keep the code simple and it'll be easier to tell where you've made a mistake. Trust me, I found this out the hard way myself!

Guess I'm the only one stuck on this!
Items I have are Empty chest, cordless fan, empty lamp, and red soup used plenty of times(nice idea, was running out of life). Any help on my next move? {dizzy}:dizsmile:

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Guess I’m the only one stuck on this!
Items I have are Empty chest, cordless fan, empty lamp, and red soup used plenty of times(nice idea, was running out of life). Any help on my next move? {dizzy}:dizsmile:

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You need to think Treasure Island with the chest. once you've solved that you should be able to use the fan.

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You need to think Treasure Island with the chest. once you’ve solved that you should be able to use the fan.

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Yeah was thinking Treasure Island with the chest but have tried it everywhere (well obviously not everywhere). Was sure it would be used down Skull Falls. Will keep trying other places :smile:

If you want a further hint it's (inside the tree and to the right. You have to be brave though)

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If you want a further hint it’s (inside the tree and to the right. You have to be brave though)

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Thanks Sparkles :smile:

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Jmcf.. All the items in the tree are used in the tree. Maybe I’ll have the tree tell the player that, I hate to think of people wasting their time going all over the map :umm:

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Thanks Andy. Haha but wasting time going all over the map is what Dizzy is all about {yolkfolk}:tongue:

I agree with JMCF81 in that specifying certain areas for specific items is not very satisfying for the player.

Right, I've now had another go at this demo and managed to get past the circular blocks and got as far as 29 stars and a spare bag of sugar ...and it took me ages to work out the red soup as I was down to one heart and kept on saving and loading at the slightest bit of damage until I tried to drop the red soup and became 100% fit ....Must admit to calling you one of those 'words' that everybody in Game of Thrones uses to insult people (inc little Aria). {yolkfolk}:jawdrop:

1) Absolutely love the graphics, I am soooooooo jealous of the red sky background.

2) love the little extras (the rat eating the stale bread).

3) Peed myself when you used the hammer and chisel to get the 'door knocker'.

4) don't change the speed of the circular blocks - Once I got the hang of it, it was easy.

Thanks Grandad! Just seen this. To be honest I'm feeling a bit guilty for not playing other people's games these days - it's just that I'm horribly addicted to Pokemon Go for now (yes it's sad but I've lost over a stone and I'd like to lose more! Dizzy is my guilty pleasure for the 9 cold months of the year :teethy: ).

It's themed around Zelda, so the tree is one of the "dungeons" where you don't need any items to go in with and all the puzzles are self-contained. Finding the dungeons will mean exploring the whole map! Again, maybe I'll have the tree explain this or something. Ditto the red soup (I thought Denzil had explained this well enough - d'oh!) And I'm glad you came around to the circling platforms :teethy: but I think I'll need to put some food there or something - give people a chance to learn!

I'll have to get on the two new games before I continue my own, so maybe I'll shamelessly lift some more ideas too :tongue:

Great demo Andy, loved playing & can't (but have to) wait for the full version so hoping that mortgage saving is going well. The brass knocker was ace {yolkfolk}:clap: {yolkfolk}:clap: {yolkfolk}:clap:  

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Great demo Andy, loved playing & can’t (but have to) wait for the full version so hoping that mortgage saving is going well. The brass knocker was ace {yolkfolk}:clap: {yolkfolk}:clap: {yolkfolk}:clap:  

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Nice one :teethy: I'm actually itching to get back to it, but my body won't let me while the weather is no nice! Also, it's a terrible thing to admit to, but to draw the statue I merged the princess' face from POTY with a Google image search result for hentai Marge Simpson. {dizzy}:frown:   {yolkfolk}:scared: Glad that part of my life is over....