bwinkel67 wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 10:45 pm
The switching of players is the variant I saw before. I think I like QStar 1 better. I made it through level 4 and that one took many tries. I also like how, once I make it through a level, if I come back to that level, even if it's only been a few days, it's still difficult to solve as there are so many variations.
Can you combine the two and just have the user choose an option. Btw, I dedicated an entire video to your game since a) it's the first new game for the QL in a while, and b) it seems to be the best visually for all the clones of DStar I've seen so far.
When I started to create the DStar clone my target was set to:
- pretend it's 1984: write all code from scratch (not port some version created for other machine)
- build a program that will run on a standard QL and on expanded QLs (Trump card, GoldCard, SuperGoldCard, any other QL clone or emulator that is configured to use the standard QL graphics)
- create a visually appealing game, as much as it is possible using the limited QL colors and my limited artistic capabilities (in fact deciding on the colours and graphics took me more than 75% of the time spent on developing the program)
- find out if some pleasing limited animation can be achieved using mostly SuperBasic
- make the game bilingual as a token of appeciation for the QL user-communities in UK and Spain
I thought about combining the two in a single program. My options were:
Option 1: Single program, 25 levels, with one type of movement
Pros: none that I can see
Cons: not all levels can be solved using the same movement type.
Option 2: Single program, 25 levels, with both types of movement, the player can select the movement type at start of a new level
Pros: All levels can be solved
Cons: The player has 50% chance of choosing a type of movement that makes it impossible to complete the level. The player will be frustrated and will soon loose interest in playing the game.
The game will not be a pure logical puzzle, but also a chance game.
Option 3: Single program, 25 levels, with both types of movement combined (can move blocker and can switch position with blocker)
Pros: All levels can be solved.
Cons: Most of levels became too easy to solve!
Option 4: 2 games, each one with a type of movement and different levels
Pros: All levels can be solved. Level difficulty is preserved.
This is the option I decided to use.
Please let me know when you will post the video on your channel. Thank you!
