Contra

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As some of you may know, I'm working on a clone (or something close) of Contra in Axe. Pretty far from being complete right now, but demo's up at http://clrhome.co.cc/projects/contra/screenshots/. I'll post more info tomorrow.

EDIT: Finally got around to posting this.



Bryan Thomas's Contra game is impressive as a BASIC program, but the fact is that TI-BASIC is too slow of a language to handle much more than that. So when I found out about [url="www.omnimaga.org/index.php?board=71.0"]Axe[/url], I thought: since this language is so much faster than BASIC and still makes it very easy to make graphical games, why not try it again? The original NES game was one of my favorite games ever made for that platform. If we could have something like that for the calculator, wouldn't that be awesome?

I'm still only starting on this thing, and there's a lot left to be done before I can release it as the final version I wanted to make, so it's going to take a while. I want to make this as close of a port as possible, if not a clone (some stuff might get left out, like the vertical and "3D" Contra levels). Right now it's planned as a single-player game (no Lance, sorry) with as many of the enemies, powerups, and other parts of the original gameplay as possible.

So far, you can run, jump, and fire as Bill. Swimming is implemented partially, but sprites haven't been changed to match (in the demo, you "walk" on the water). Rifle box enemies can fire at you but don't take damage yet, thought I've reserved data space for their health. Soldiers can spawn, run, and jump all right, but I managed to glitch up the soldier-spawning engine right before the demo was released, so you won't see it here. Sorry.

Level engine is also pretty complete, at least in tilemapping. I'm planning to have this support external level packs so I can keep the actual game as small as possible. External level support is still at nil because I'm planning to add that after I finish more important parts of the engine. In the demo you can see a sort of mock-up of the classic Contra level 1, minus soldiers, powerups, bosses, and some other stuff. When you get to the end of the level it just glitches. Still got a lot of work to do.

No idea when the final version's gonna be released. Sometime this year or the next.

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Pre-alpha demo 1

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Hmm....

Nobody's interested in this?

[Xeda112358]

Hmm, was the screeny in the original post? The screeny looks quite awesome, by the way

[Madskillz]

No it's a great project and the demo is good for well a demo. Once DT gets the sprite masked and changes the bullets a bit this is gonna be really cool. I like how the game tells you that you suck when you die ha. I know that wont be in the final version, but still good for a laugh.

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