New game: The Shining

alchemist

Hi everyone.
This is my third game, based on Stephen King's horror novel and Stanley Kubrick's film.



You can find it here:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/36149/ZX-Spectrum/The_Shining

I hope you like it. Enjoy yourselves ;)

Alessandro Grussu

Congratulazioni per il tuo nuovo gioco e grazie per avermi inserito nei ringraziamenti! :D
(Congratulations for your new game and thank you for including me in the acknowledgments!)

A couple of suggestions:

- Did you consider creating an up/down sprite for the main character?

- Energy drain is very fast and there is no way to replenish your energy, so I'd suggest you to make it less severe by linking it to a variable. E.g.:

IF COLLISION (sprite number)
IF A = 0
SUBTRACT 1 TO ENERGY
ENDIF
ENDIF

and then put the cycling variable in the Main Loop, like this:

IF A = 4
LET A = 0
ELSE
ADD 1 TO A
ENDIF

Experiment with various maximum values of A in the first line to see how fast/slow the drain can be. The higher the value, the slower the energy loss.

alchemist

Hi Alessandro, thanks for your suggestions.
I chose to not supply energy to make the game more difficult, but i'll reflect about your suggestions.

p.s. Sophia and Sophia II are very great games, i hope for a sequel...

alchemist

Crisis wrote: »

Hi,
a 1 second drain time out after a drain migth be nice.
do i see it correct that the map of the maze is part of the first part ??