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New game - All Present and Correct

bobsbobs
edited January 2010 in Games
New game available from my site or the link below, quickly beaten together with help from Mister Beep, Fikee, Graz & Andrew Owen.

http://www.bobs-stuff.co.uk/extras/allpresentandcorrect.zip


And on that note I'm off away from the Spectrum and over to try and write some games for the ZX81...
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited December 2009
    bobs wrote: »
    New game available from my site or the link below, quickly beaten together with help from Mister Beep, Fikee, Graz & Andrew Owen.

    http://www.bobs-stuff.co.uk/extras/allpresentandcorrect.zip

    Nice one Bob, will be grabbing this post haste :)

    Interesting name btw.
    bobs wrote: »
    And on that note I'm off away from the Spectrum and over to try and write some games for the ZX81...

    Hmmmm an interesting development indeed? Do keep us informed :D
    Every night is curry night!
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited December 2009
    Excellent stuff Bob, Mister Beep, Fikee, Graz & Andrew Owen!

    Nice puzzle game quite remniscent of Chu-Chu Rocket, but different enough to not be a direct clone :)

    ....and a level editor too, this is the gift that keeps on giving.

    Thank you very much indeed! :)
    Every night is curry night!
  • chevchev
    edited December 2009
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    Excellent stuff Bob, Mister Beep, Fikee, Graz & Andrew Owen!

    Aw shucks! :)
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  • Lebowsk1Lebowsk1
    edited December 2009
    Hey, I'm playing it right now (up to 'What a Tangled Web We Weave') and just wanted to say I'm loving it!

    Presentation is up there with any professionally released title from back in the day, and the gameplay concept is excellent. It does strike me as being a little similar to the online Dreamcast title 'Chu Chu Rocket', but that's no bad thing, and the festive theme (plus the festive timing) is rather nice.

    Thanks a lot, amazing to see high quality Spectrum titles still being released in the run-up to 2010!
  • GrazGraz
    edited December 2009
    It's great to see it all come together. Have just finished playing the first Six levels :)
  • freddyhardfreddyhard
    edited December 2009
    it takes a bit of thinking, which luckily is one of my strong points. no wait that's farting.
  • RalfRalf
    edited December 2009
    Nice logical game.

    The graphics is a bit simple but it's smooth and really entertaining.

    Shame that I am sleepy now and won't be able to play it more now.
  • Shaun.BebbingtonShaun.Bebbington
    edited December 2009
    Great game - and Merry zXmas all :-)

    Regards,

    Shaun.
  • chevchev
    edited December 2009
    Graz wrote: »
    It's great to see it all come together. Have just finished playing the first Six levels :)

    Yeah, wait until you get to level 13. It's worth noting they don't have to be played in order.
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  • Big Angry DogBig Angry Dog
    edited December 2009
    Took me a little while to figure out how I was suppose to play it. But then I got it!

    What a neat little game!
  • MetalbrainMetalbrain
    edited December 2009
    Very nice.

    Already finished all 40 levels, it took me around 70 minutes.
  • Tom-CatTom-Cat
    edited December 2009
    The requested URL /extras/allpresentandcorrect.zip was not found on this server.

    Crap :( It seems whole bobs page is down at the moment. Can someone put the file somewhere else for us late commers ? :)
  • jpjp
    edited December 2009
    Sure. By the way, very nice game! - many thanks to all involved.
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  • FikeeFikee
    edited December 2009
    like it. defininitely candidate for my NDS "shit, i have to travel" collection
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited December 2009
    Great work Bobs, very playable game, another great xmas present !

    Cheers
  • joefishjoefish
    edited December 2009
    Fikee wrote: »
    ... my ... "shit, i have to travel" collection
    I've got one of those. It's called the Buzzsaw+ source code. Now if someone would just pay for me to fly to Colorado and back, or maybe fund a week in Corfu, I might get it finished as that's the only time it seems to get worked on.
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  • RoseCottonRoseCotton
    edited December 2009
    How do I place arrows onto the levels? I assumed it would be done by pressing the 'Fire' key, but, once a level has begun, the 'Fire' key doesn't seem to do anything... :-?

    I must be missing the obvious because others are merrily playing it! :oops:

    EDIT: It's okay -- I've worked out that I have to press the direction key at the same time as the 'Fire' key. Nothing to see here, move along! ;)
  • chop983chop983
    edited December 2009
    Big Angry Dog wrote: »
    Took me a little while to figure out how I was suppose to play it. But then I got it!

    What a neat little game!
    RoseCotton wrote: »
    How do I place arrows onto the levels? I assumed it would be done by pressing the 'Fire' key, but, once a level has begun, the 'Fire' key doesn't seem to do anything... :-?

    I must be missing the obvious because others are merrily playing it! :oops:

    EDIT: It's okay -- I've worked out that I have to press the direction key at the same time as the 'Fire' key. Nothing to see here, move along! ;)

    I'm not the only one who ignored the instructions first time round then, he he.
  • RoseCottonRoseCotton
    edited December 2009
    chop983 wrote: »
    I'm not the only one who ignored the instructions first time round then, he he.

    At the risk of protesting too much, I did read the instructions first! I'm afraid I'm wired up funny like that... but, unless I missed it, they didn't mention how to place arrows...

    Er, did they? :-? :smile:
  • Big Angry DogBig Angry Dog
    edited December 2009
    To position the arrow, press the "fire" key and then press the direction key at the same time. When all the arrows are placed, move the cursor down and select PLAY.
  • RoseCottonRoseCotton
    edited December 2009
    Big Angry Dog wrote: »
    To position the arrow, press the "fire" key and then press the direction key at the same time. When all the arrows are placed, move the cursor down and select PLAY.

    Thanks for the instructions, although (as I mentioned in the edit to my post) I did work it out! :smile:
  • bobsbobs
    edited December 2009
    RoseCotton wrote: »
    At the risk of protesting too much, I did read the instructions first! I'm afraid I'm wired up funny like that... but, unless I missed it, they didn't mention how to place arrows...

    Er, did they? :-? :smile:

    Sorry, my mistake. I've updated the inlay text accordingly.
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  • ccowleyccowley
    edited December 2009
    Very nice, polished game, that. Thanks very much!

    As a matter of interest, what tools did you use to create it? Is it a z88dk + SpritePack game, or did you do it all in asm?

    Looking forward very much to any zx81 stuff you produce in the future too...
  • JmkJmk
    edited December 2009
    I claim fin too. Very nice.
    Spoiler:
  • RoseCottonRoseCotton
    edited December 2009
    bobs wrote: »
    Sorry, my mistake. I've updated the inlay text accordingly.

    Thanks for taking the trouble to do so.

    It's a fun game... In addition to the 'taking a look at it' play, I returned to it a couple of times yesterday because I felt like doing another couple of levels! So, that's a pretty good sign! :-)

    I got stuck on... erm, level 17 I think it is. Who was responsible for coming up with that one? ;)
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited December 2009
    Make sure you check out Bob's other games. W*H*B is a great game, the Stranded games are very good as well.

    My personal favourites are the Farmer Jack games which are based on some classic arcade games.
  • bobsbobs
    edited December 2009
    ccowley wrote: »
    As a matter of interest, what tools did you use to create it? Is it a z88dk + SpritePack game, or did you do it all in asm?

    All written in assembly - I'm not a fan of using libraries. I've nothing against the Z88DK, but I prefer to be in as much control of my code as possible, and know everything about it. That's half the challenge for me - to write all the code to make these games, the only caveat to which are the music routines, which in this case is the Orfeus player.

    So a full-list of the tools used for this game would be...

    PASMO (assembler).
    ZX-Paintbrush (for trying out screen layouts)
    Tommy-Gun (all the sprites & font)
    Crimson Editor (for editing the files)
    Orfeus (music routine)
    TXTTOBAS (I think that's what it's called? Used to create the BASIC loader).
    SPIN (for testing)
    ZXDS (for testing)
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  • GrazGraz
    edited December 2009
    RoseCotton wrote: »
    I got stuck on... erm, level 17 I think it is. Who was responsible for coming up with that one? ;)

    No idea ;)
  • jonathanjonathan
    edited December 2009
    Nice one, Bob. Took me a minute or two to figure out what to do at first, but figured it out once I got my brain in gear. :)
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  • IvanzxIvanzx
    edited December 2009
    Will we see it as a release in Cronosoft?? :)
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