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Richard Russell
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New game added to BBCSDL
« Thread started on: Mar 2nd, 2017, 8:07pm » |
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I've added another game to the BBCSDL distribution: a blast from the past, 'Dropperz' (there's no attribution in the source code but I'm sure it's one of David Williams' early productions).
The introduction is amusing and shows a degree of prescience: "It is the Year 2016, and the people of Britain are living in the clutches of an oppressive and intrusive fully-fledged Police State...".
The five editions (Windows, Linux 86, Mac OS, Android and Raspberry Pi) can be downloaded from the usual place.
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Re: New game added to BBCSDL
« Reply #1 on: Mar 3rd, 2017, 09:19am » |
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Here's a screen shot:
I have reason to suspect that the collision detection isn't working reliably on Android, because of the 16-bit colour depth. It doesn't seriously affect gameplay (at least, not at my level of expertise) and would probably require the attention of the original author to fix!
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Re: New game added to BBCSDL
« Reply #2 on: Mar 4th, 2017, 3:58pm » |
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on Mar 3rd, 2017, 09:19am, Richard Russell wrote:| I have reason to suspect that the collision detection isn't working reliably on Android |
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It was only collisions with the Grey Bombs that weren't being detected, but it's fixed in the latest update anyway.
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Re: New game added to BBCSDL
« Reply #3 on: Mar 6th, 2017, 09:07am » |
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I've fixed a couple of minor bugs in Dropperz:
Collecting a 'slow pill' caused the defender to display incorrectly (because of having a non-integer x-coordinate).
The LEVEL animation resulted in a crash on some Android devices, because of starting ridiculously small (1 pt!). Richard.
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