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General Discussion / Re: Such a nice game!

« Last post by clort on April 24, 2019, 04:04:23 am »

Hi clort!
Thank you for your post, sounds like you're an ASCII connoisseur!
It is great to hear you are working on ascii game project too. I'd love to see your progress!

I can give a hint!

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General Discussion / Re: Such a nice game!

« Last post by gumix on April 23, 2019, 07:31:44 pm »

Oh! That code is a mess ! Glad to hear it contains some useful parts for you.

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General Discussion / Re: Such a nice game!

« Last post by clort on April 23, 2019, 04:07:17 pm »

Well thank you so much for the github page.   spec_nix.cpp is a rich harvest for me.

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General Discussion / Re: Such a nice game!

« Last post by gumix on April 23, 2019, 03:34:33 pm »

Hi clort!
Thank you for your post, sounds like you're an ASCII connoisseur!
It is great to hear you are working on ascii game project too. I'd love to see your progress!
Regarding ncurses, yup drop it immediately! Simply stick to well adopted escape sequences, that's how AP works (on linux o/c).
Good luck 

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General Discussion / Re: Such a nice game!

« Last post by clort on April 23, 2019, 03:26:17 pm »

It's not just nice. 

This game takes a concept that others have tried (arcade game in terminal/console) and just completely blows them out of the water.

It does everyting so much better than everything that's been done before that it's a whole new class of thing.

Unfortunately, ascii-patrol is not very widely known.  I discovered ascii-patrol only after spending several hours searching all corners of web ascii/console arcade games.

I also want to write a (much more modest) arcade game for terminal: I'm more of the artist and less the programmer.  I've spent the past year and a half honing my chops with unicode block-25 graphics





After some initial tests it looks like i'll be able to make a simple game without ncurses - just ansi codes for refreshing screen and cursor positioning should do the trick for, at least, somewhat modern systems.  I'm a little shocked by how smoothly the animation of ascii-patrol runs even with urxvt, which has some serious issues with rendering speed on the raspberry pi.

I'll do what I can to spread awareness of this ... well... groundbreaking game.

Cheers!

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General Discussion / Re: Are we gamers or developers?

« Last post by gumix on January 30, 2019, 11:39:31 am »

Oh, that's fantastic! collaboration behind the scenes

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General Discussion / Re: Are we gamers or developers?

« Last post by cmatsuoka on January 30, 2019, 01:27:23 am »

Thank you @gumix! The sound fix is already on the snap package! (In fact it was the snap package maintainer who mentioned to me that he was getting sound only after changing the volume, so I tried to investigate it and submit a patch!)

Great game, congratulations!

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General Discussion / Re: Are we gamers or developers?

« Last post by gumix on January 29, 2019, 08:16:09 pm »

Hi there @cmatsuoka
Thank you for adding Makefile & fixing that initial audio gain bug
Recently AP appeared also on snapcraft, I hope creator of AP's snap will pull your changes soon.

Welcome aboard!

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General Discussion / Re: Are we gamers or developers?

« Last post by cmatsuoka on January 29, 2019, 08:09:06 pm »

Right now I guess I'm 95% developer, so 100% is the closest answer I guess 

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General Discussion / Re: Such a nice game!

« Last post by CarsonHod on August 29, 2018, 02:36:41 pm »

Thank you for suggesting Zippyloan to people and such a nice feedback!
Welcome aboard!

I agree. I just love the art style that was accomplished in this game. It feels so well thought out.