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  • Your views on...Head Over Heels[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002259]Head Over Heels[/url] Alright! Come on 'en. What's the biggy about this one. Never pla…

    ... the instructions, but in the game it's only find an ... />
    -It has well programmed game engine, which doesn't slow down ... gengre, I'd love this game. But as I don'y ...
    Ralf Ralf July 2010 Games
  • Adventure of St BernardDid anyone ever play the goddam awful [URL="http://zxspectrumgames.blogspot.com/2010/07/spectrum-games-adventure-of-st-bernard.html"]Adventures Of St…

    I didn't mind it , but the game engine was awful..

    it was inspired by pitfall IMHO

    there were worse mastertronic games.. and thankfully more better ones :D
    fog fog July 2010 Games
  • Did the average Spectrum programmer really even try?I've been thinking about this recently, I'm always hearing Amstrad, and MSX users moaning about how unfair it was that they got "lazy Spectrum ports"…

    ... best compromise for each particular game, and colourful graphics should never ... 're that desperate for colour in a game play it on a ...
    jonathan jonathan July 2010 Games
  • Head over Heels vs. KnightloreIn the recent Head over Heels thread, several people said that they prefered Knightlore to HoH. This surprised me, so I thought I'd post a poll to s…

    ... to move faster, or the game-story doesn't move along ... . make sure both story and game-engine are compatible with each other).
    ZnorXman ZnorXman July 2010 Games
  • Did the average Spectrum programmer really even try?I've been thinking about this recently, I'm always hearing Amstrad, and MSX users moaning about how unfair it was that they got "lazy Spectrum ports"…

    ... certain things for the game.. doing the game engine and mocking up in ... .. wonder how much K the game engine itself takes.. and the tables ... /positions for the creatures in game, oh and then add the ...
    fog fog August 2010 Games
  • Head over Heels vs. KnightloreIn the recent Head over Heels thread, several people said that they prefered Knightlore to HoH. This surprised me, so I thought I'd post a poll to s…

    ... look like they improved the game engine much for Alien 8, nor ... possible to improve the 3D game technically on the Speccy, and ... if you put some inventive game design behind it too. It ...
    joefish joefish August 2010 Games
  • Head over Heels vs. KnightloreIn the recent Head over Heels thread, several people said that they prefered Knightlore to HoH. This surprised me, so I thought I'd post a poll to s…

    ... like they improved the game engine much for Alien 8, ... to improve the 3D game technically, and Head Over ... it was the same engine but with new graphics/ ... admit if someone built an engine (the filmation one) ... /HOH took the isometric game that bit further without ...
    psj3809 psj3809 August 2010 Games
  • Platform Game Designer 2Right, with Telly Heroes out of the way, I've decided to have a second attempt at this. I've ditched the old PGD2 source, and started again with the…

    ... was just thinking, if the game engine source code is to be ... t have to locate the game at 35800 but could move ... bytes of RAM for the game. Perhaps certain data could be ... number of changes to the game engine and build process over time ... I could make to the engine.
    jonathan jonathan August 2010 Development
  • Platform Game Designer 2Right, with Telly Heroes out of the way, I've decided to have a second attempt at this. I've ditched the old PGD2 source, and started again with the…

    ... just thinking, if the game engine source code is to be ... have to locate the game at 35800 but could ... bytes of RAM for the game. Perhaps certain data could ... of changes to the game engine and build process over ... I could make to the engine.[/QUOTE]

    ...
    BiNMaN BiNMaN August 2010 Development
  • Platform Game Designer 2Right, with Telly Heroes out of the way, I've decided to have a second attempt at this. I've ditched the old PGD2 source, and started again with the…

    ... few small changes to the game engine. We can do away with ...
    jonathan jonathan August 2010 Development
  • Platform Game Designer 2Right, with Telly Heroes out of the way, I've decided to have a second attempt at this. I've ditched the old PGD2 source, and started again with the…

    ... few small changes to the game engine. We can do away with ...
    BiNMaN BiNMaN August 2010 Development
  • Your views on...Mutant Monty[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003339]Mutant Monty[/url] I didn't realise when I did the last "Your views on..." topic, that…

    ... games based on the same game engine: [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org ... ]Jet Set Willy [/I]type game.
    Alarm Alarm August 2010 Games
  • Lightforce - a classic?Was [URL="http://zxspectrumgames.blogspot.com/2010/08/spectrum-games-light-force-classic-zx.html"]Lightforce [/URL](reviewed) a classic shmup? I rec…

    ... , with its in your face colour scrolling, was grab my attention and ... hadn't realised there was colour scrolling and came to expect it ... slowglass shows that too much colour can be a bad thing ...
    BiNMaN BiNMaN August 2010 Games
  • Football Management GamesCan anyone recommend a decent footy management game? Football Manager 1+2 are far too easy and Football Director 1+2 are slow and dull. Just wondered…

    ... intellectual rights to the database/game engine.

    So SI renamed ... " is a name only, different game engine underneath.

    [QUOTE=zx1 ... Albion Rovers in my last game, what an embarrasment!:smile:[/QUOTE ...
    STeaM STeaM August 2010 Games
  • Brand new Horace GameWe could think on how should the next Horace Game be, taking in account that the past three are mixtures of old, well established classic arcade game…

    ... has four levels from the game choosen by the original ... two are certainly difficult. The game engine has been updated somewhat from ... difficulty options from the original game (which control the speed of ... the first level of the game.

    Option 0 - ...
    bobs bobs August 2010 New game ideas
  • Favourite game across all formatsMine's a 3 way tie between Civilization, Swos and Chaos.

    ... 'm guessing refined his perspective game engine.. he went onto make powerdrift ...
    fog fog September 2010 Chit chat
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... things at lowest level of game engine and rewrite it to way ...
    Fikee Fikee September 2010 Development
  • Your views on...The Lords of Midnight[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006604]The Lords of Midnight[/url] Never, ever attempted to play this adventure game, didn't …

    ... .com/2009/07/zx-spectrum-game-lords-of-midnight-zx.html ... .com/2009/07/zx-spectrum-game-driller-zx-spectrum.html"]Driller ... there with them all. The game engine (landscaping) was amazing, the in ... -game characters, the open-endedness of ...
    Retrobrothers Retrobrothers October 2010 Games
  • Brand new Horace GameWe could think on how should the next Horace Game be, taking in account that the past three are mixtures of old, well established classic arcade game…

    ... it's not his "official" colour in the game!
    Hungry Horace Hungry Horace October 2010 New game ideas
  • Brand new Horace GameWe could think on how should the next Horace Game be, taking in account that the past three are mixtures of old, well established classic arcade game…

    ... 's not his "official" colour in the game![/QUOTE]

    ... point - there is no official colour for Horace!

    ... stay the same colour within the same single game!

    ... decide exactly what the "Official" colour of Horace should be?
    bobs bobs October 2010 New game ideas
  • Egghead +, help!I collected all the keys, but apparently nothing happened?? I didnt see any kind of door either to try to open...anyone knows??

    ... to test a new platform game engine with ULA+ support and some ...
    jonathan jonathan October 2010 Games
  • Help! Reverse engineering a Spectrum game[deleted]

    ... 3) To customise a game to your own requirements
    I think a game engine would be too complicated to ... use ones from another game to start with. You ... tips when reverse engineering a game:

    1) ... memory snapshot of the game from an emulator. Try ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Development
  • Help! Reverse engineering a Spectrum game[deleted]

    ... the entire engine before even starting on the game. I' ... don't bother with an engine, only write code that ... to produce the best game engine ever with amazing levels ... an inelegance in their engine design and start on ... a new engine and, you know what ...
    evilpaul evilpaul October 2010 Development
  • Tour Top 5 Spectrum Programmers.........And What 1 Game Should They Be Remembered For. 1. Costa Panayi - I just loved the evolution of his 3D and/or scrolling ideas you saw in his game…

    ... within the industry and his game design skills.
    < ... color, smooth clash free scrolling and game programming skills.
    Those fast game engines, sound programming and his ... /> Denton Designs:

    Game design, technical ability and overal ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Games
  • Beepola v1.01A new version of Beepoa, v1.01, is now available for download from:- [URL]http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/beepola/Beepola_v1.01.00.zip[/URL] (650KiB) …

    ... &postcount=19"]Using Phaser1 engine[/URL] - this uses an ... game you can play with in-game beeper music using the SpecialFX engine ... a single CALL to the game engine, surrounded by PUSHes and POPs ... present in the Special FX engine.

    Hope they' ...
    ccowley ccowley October 2010 Announcements
  • FairlightJust had a quick browse at the top 100... [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/bestgames.html[/url] (No i'm not moaning about whats on the list for …

    ... the extra capabilities of the game engine (mass and momentum) added a ... to work out how the game map data was packed, so ...
    mjwilson mjwilson October 2010 Games
  • FairlightJust had a quick browse at the top 100... [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/bestgames.html[/url] (No i'm not moaning about whats on the list for …

    ... the extra capabilities of the game engine (mass and momentum) added a ... to work out how the game map data was packed, so ...
    Alarm Alarm October 2010 Games
  • Medal of Honor, new low in unoriginalityJust tried out the new Medal of Honor for xbox360 and guess what? It's one of those run-on-a-track-and-shoot-people kind of games. I remember this w…

    ... didnt release a yearly game which would have the ... to milk the filmation engine for a few games, ... Commando II', use the same engine, just different maps etc. ... the lifetime of a game engine back then was a ... essentially used the same engine from start to finish ...
    Matt_B Matt_B October 2010 Chit chat
  • FairlightJust had a quick browse at the top 100... [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/bestgames.html[/url] (No i'm not moaning about whats on the list for …

    ... example of how a game can be played just ... exaggerating there) and the game went down to like one ... guards appeared and the game engine struggled to animate them ... I disappointed by the game it turned out to be ... , and then release the game anyway, but he didn' ...
    ewgf ewgf October 2010 Games
  • Worst gaming decisions ever?In a different thread, I mention what, to me, is probably the single greatest mistake in the history of computer/console games design ever. Here are …

    ... no right to critique the game because of your misunderstanding ... a fantasy.

    Game engine limitations can't accurately depict ... but more fluidity in the game experience, allowing you to move ... ruin the experience of the game by adding this ridiculous ...
    The Starglider The Starglider October 2010 Chit chat
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