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  • New platform game: Sid SpannersHi all, here is my Christmas present. A new platform game (well, more of a mini-game really). [url=http://java.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmspc…

    ... mentioned, it will be a flip-screen game.

    Through discussions ... simple tune for the intro screen.

    I'm allowing ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn January 2011 Brand new software
  • New platform game: Sid SpannersHi all, here is my Christmas present. A new platform game (well, more of a mini-game really). [url=http://java.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmspc…

    ... and as it's a flip-screen title I'm aiming for ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn January 2011 Brand new software
  • New platform game: Sid SpannersHi all, here is my Christmas present. A new platform game (well, more of a mini-game really). [url=http://java.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmspc…

    ... />
    As it's a flip-screen game, I'm now having ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn January 2011 Brand new software
  • Assembler intricaciesHi all, I've been looking at the internals of a game to see how it all works and I've found some things that I don't understand and can't find any i…

    ... .....the genre of "explore the flip screen map picking up keys in ...
    Turkwel Turkwel January 2011 Development
  • Assembler intricaciesHi all, I've been looking at the internals of a game to see how it all works and I've found some things that I don't understand and can't find any i…

    ... .....the genre of "explore the flip screen map picking up keys in ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler January 2011 Development
  • Assembler intricaciesHi all, I've been looking at the internals of a game to see how it all works and I've found some things that I don't understand and can't find any i…

    ... .....the genre of "explore the flip screen map picking up keys in ...
    Hikaru Hikaru January 2011 Development
  • Assembler intricaciesHi all, I've been looking at the internals of a game to see how it all works and I've found some things that I don't understand and can't find any i…

    ... .....the genre of "explore the flip screen map picking up keys in ...
    Fikee Fikee January 2011 Development
  • Where's it all going?[Rerouted from 'Assembler Intricacies' in Development Forum] [QUOTE=Timmy;506104]I don't think we're in disagreement here. As I've said it's a niche…

    ... sprites that appear on each screen, game. Content wise it's ... keep up with a simple flip-screen game written 27 years ago ...
    Turkwel Turkwel January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Where's it all going?[Rerouted from 'Assembler Intricacies' in Development Forum] [QUOTE=Timmy;506104]I don't think we're in disagreement here. As I've said it's a niche…

    ... sprites that appear on each screen, game. Content wise it's ... keep up with a simple flip-screen game written 27 years ago ... flicker free sprites moving on screen), 2) it makes it much ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Where's it all going?[Rerouted from 'Assembler Intricacies' in Development Forum] [QUOTE=Timmy;506104]I don't think we're in disagreement here. As I've said it's a niche…

    ... />
    - puzzle
    - single screen arcade
    - flip screen maze (like mentioned Sabrewulf ...
    Ralf Ralf January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Auf Weidersehen MontyBrilliant game, but how the heck do you complete it? I can't seem to get rid of the items I collect (mona Lisa) etc, eventually I collect so many I c…

    ... scrolling and weapons, instead of flip-screen pacifist (non-aggressive) gameplay?
    ewgf ewgf February 2011 Games
  • Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.

    ... always more a fan of flip screen, as you didn't know ... got out of each particular screen. In saying that, Moon Alert ... and run out of the screen.
    GeeKay GeeKay February 2011 Games
  • Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.

    Depends from a game. The feature of the flip screen that GeeKay have mentioned was actually used in some scrolling games - they had scrolling 'rooms', but with flip between the rooms (NES Metroid, for example).
    Shiru Shiru February 2011 Games
  • Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.

    As pretty much everybody else is saying, it really depends on the game.....

    I tend to prefer scrolling when it's done decently, but there's a lot of games on the Speccy that the programmers would have been better using flip-screen for....
    deadpan666 deadpan666 February 2011 Games
  • Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.

    Flip screen cos I can't think of a game that successfully implemented scrolling one screen at a time.
    lordsnooty lordsnooty February 2011 Games
  • Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.

    Yes, depends on the game. [B]Valhalla [/B]just wouldn't work if scrolling, and [B]Tir Na Nog[/B] would be awful as flip-screen.
    Graz Graz February 2011 Games
  • Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.

    The only game that flip screen scrolling done my head in ... to the edge of the screen to scroll onto the next ... . I'm sure that the flip screen scrolling was added at the ...
    Swainy Swainy February 2011 Games
  • Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.

    ... needs to be scrolling :-) But flip screen games for me are part ...
    EvilUncleBubba EvilUncleBubba February 2011 Games
  • Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.

    I can't imagine playing Uridium or Quazatron with flip screen action, or Highway Encounter, or TLL.
    MrCheese MrCheese February 2011 Games
  • Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.

    Umm. [I]Highway Encounter[/I] [U]was[/U] a flip-screen game.
    joefish joefish February 2011 Games
  • Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.

    [QUOTE=joefish;515917]Umm. [I]Highway Encounter[/I] [U]was[/U] a flip-screen game.[/QUOTE]

    Thats me told +1 Joefish.

    Memory is playing tricks on me again, maybe the +12v is wonky :eek:
    MrCheese MrCheese February 2011 Games
  • Motorbike stunt type gamesNot that I'm a motorbike enthusiast or anything but I was partial to the odd Kickstart type game back in the day. I recently got Joe Danger for the …

    I could only ever complete the BMX jump on Eddie Kidd. Once it got to the motorbike, I failed catastrophically :)

    Yeah, Wheelie is another ace game. And a good one to mention on the scrolling/flip screen topic ;)
    GeeKay GeeKay February 2011 Games
  • Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.

    Gyroscope was flip-screen game that worked very well - the screen scrolled down as ... /> Rambo was interesting , with the screen smoothly scrolling vertically , whilst horizontal ... movement made the screen shift as the player approached ...
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley February 2011 Games
  • Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.

    ... ]The only game that flip screen scrolling done my head ... the edge of the screen to scroll onto the ... hand side of the screen once you got close ... maze bit but uses flip screen for the platformy bits ... first wander into a new screen, would be interesting to ...
    Morkin Morkin February 2011 Games
  • Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.

    You know what annoys me sometimes on my Mega Drive? [B]Every single game scrolls[/B] with parallax backgrounds, mostly at 60 fps.. there's no good old flip screen anymore in those games. That's what makes ZX Spectrum games unique (among other features...).
    maiki maiki March 2011 Games
  • Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.

    ... .. there's no good old flip screen anymore in those games. That ... [/B]made use of both flip-screen and scrolling..

    I ...
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 March 2011 Games
  • New platform game: Sid SpannersHi all, here is my Christmas present. A new platform game (well, more of a mini-game really). [url=http://java.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmspc…

    ... ;504730]As it's a flip-screen game, I'm now having ...
    jonathan jonathan March 2011 Brand new software
  • New platform game: Sid SpannersHi all, here is my Christmas present. A new platform game (well, more of a mini-game really). [url=http://java.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmspc…

    ... the SS3 codebase and another flip-screen one, but with some modifications ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn April 2011 Brand new software
  • Games where you could explore outdoors, and also enter buildingsI love how you can explore the scrolling camp in [B]The Great Escape[/B], and then go inside various buildings that were presented as flick screen. …

    ... as such, more of a flip screen affair, but you could explore ...
    Mighty_Zol Mighty_Zol April 2011 Games
  • Games where you could explore outdoors, and also enter buildingsI love how you can explore the scrolling camp in [B]The Great Escape[/B], and then go inside various buildings that were presented as flick screen. …

    ... [/B], but that was flick/flip screen, as are most of these ...
    Mousey Mousey April 2011 Games
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