Hi All, sorry for the late response, I've been mega busy with work, and a side project, that took more priority sorry, "PacManicMinerMan" ;) I've always wanted to write an arcade game, and an opportunity arose, so now I have! Manic Miner for PacMan hardware.
Just seen a video of it on youtube - that looks excellent !
Thanks all ;) It was quite an enjoyable project, I was going to call it PacManicMiner, but decided on PacManicMinerMan, because it is ManicMiner inside PacMan :)
sorry about all this confusion, youtube keeps deleting my videos during the "processing" stage and i dont know why. anyway, it's working now. if you have any difficulty finding any of my videos they can always be searched through my channel - the link is in my sig :smile:
Hopefully, as I'm thinking of doing it as a +3 game, so we can load graphics off the disc, so we should have enough room to do the shutter animation too, as well as all the rest of the animations.
Hopefully, as I'm thinking of doing it as a +3 game, so we can load graphics off the disc, so we should have enough room to do the shutter animation too, as well as all the rest of the animations.
Hopefully, as I'm thinking of doing it as a +3 game, so we can load graphics off the disc, so we should have enough room to do the shutter animation too, as well as all the rest of the animations.
Well I've emailed Jim and he is very busy with work (remember, coding is his bread & butter) so that comes first. So for the moment it's just a case of wait and see :)
Hi, I'm not sure it'll be ready for Replay/Play Expo, as there's now the summer hols, so kids are off school, and my wife also has an event coming up that we need to prepare for at end of August, so we will be taking a break after that, and my workload is in full tilt, with porting i3 to Android, and Blackberry Playbook, and then there's my paid work, but I will get back to it, soon.
I'm not sorry that I had to pause this to do PacManicMinerMan, as that was too good an opportunity to pass! but I will get back to DD soon as.
development on this does seem to have worryingly quite !!??!!
Jim has been busy with his Manic Miner arcade project and other things. Hopefully I'll be catching up with Jim at Play Expo this Saturday, so I'll let you know what the outcome is once I know what is going on.
I think it's just a matter of free time on Jim's part. Fingers crossed!!!
Jim has been busy with his Manic Miner arcade project and other things. Hopefully I'll be catching up with Jim at Play Expo this Saturday, so I'll let you know what the outcome is once I know what is going on.
I think it's just a matter of free time on Jim's part. Fingers crossed!!!
No worries! Its taken this long to get here so why worry 8-) The fact that its being developed is excellent news alone, so I'm more than happy to wait 8-)
Ok, I managed to have a quick word with Jim and as I thought, the project is still on guys. We've just got to give him some time whilst he works on other projects. Manic PAC Miner Man looked superb by the way!
Due to a complete laptop failure, I'm having to get my Abobo graphics from the old animated GIFS and redo the rest of the moves from scratch. They'll look better but.
It's still on guys, but an opportunity for doing an arcade game came up, and as I've always wanted to write one, but never got the opportunity back in the day, when this came up, I just had to do it, as it turns out, I've had a custom cab built for it too! and it looks awesome even if I do say so myself :D anyway, I'll get back to DD soon, just have a few things to sort work wise, then back onto DD. :)
Due to a complete laptop failure, I'm having to get my Abobo graphics from the old animated GIFS and redo the rest of the moves from scratch. They'll look better but.
It's still on guys, but an opportunity for doing an arcade game came up, and as I've always wanted to write one, but never got the opportunity back in the day, when this came up, I just had to do it, as it turns out, I've had a custom cab built for it too! and it looks awesome even if I do say so myself :D anyway, I'll get back to DD soon, just have a few things to sort work wise, then back onto DD. :)
I used to be an arcade junky, If I had the oppotunity I would have done the same.
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Just seen a video of it on youtube - that looks excellent !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF1Ne9qBmSo
That's just crazy! Looks pixel perfect too?
PacManicMinerMan? Surely, PacManicMiner is better? ;)
Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
When/if the ROM is released, I look forward to running it under obo's Pac-Man Emulator. :D
i hope everyone is as excited about this game as i am !
http://youtu.be/wiORDQz_oZY
i think you'll all agree this is all very exciting so far !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiORDQz_oZY&
finally, a proper +3 game!
How complete is the game at this stage?
Will it be ready for the Replay expo?
Hi, I'm not sure it'll be ready for Replay/Play Expo, as there's now the summer hols, so kids are off school, and my wife also has an event coming up that we need to prepare for at end of August, so we will be taking a break after that, and my workload is in full tilt, with porting i3 to Android, and Blackberry Playbook, and then there's my paid work, but I will get back to it, soon.
I'm not sorry that I had to pause this to do PacManicMinerMan, as that was too good an opportunity to pass! but I will get back to DD soon as.
Jim has been busy with his Manic Miner arcade project and other things. Hopefully I'll be catching up with Jim at Play Expo this Saturday, so I'll let you know what the outcome is once I know what is going on.
I think it's just a matter of free time on Jim's part. Fingers crossed!!!
No worries! Its taken this long to get here so why worry 8-) The fact that its being developed is excellent news alone, so I'm more than happy to wait 8-)
doh! I bet that pi$$ed you off !
I used to be an arcade junky, If I had the oppotunity I would have done the same.