Planet X1 documentary

This is a preview of a new game I've been working on for a while for the Commodore VIC-20. Originally I had planned on porting Flash Attack to the VIC-20, but later on I realized it would be better if I could find a way to convert it to a 1-player game. So this is the concept I've come up with. It is still not finished, obviously, but I thought it might be nice to show people a peek at the game without making them download something and try to play it on an emulator.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Commodore
• VIC-20
• Planet
• X1
• game
• new
• 2009

[Tapewormz]

Man, back in the day...Like 1981...You would have made a mint if you advertised this game in Compute's Gazette. Impressive work. How much work would it take to make bots and tanks move in smoother steps rather than 8x8?

[adric22]

@Tapewormz - That would be pretty hard on the VIC-20. Not impossible, though.

[marquis0r]

did you use cross-development tools on pc/mac?

[adric22]

Yes, I used the Acme compiler and VICE.

[macbookfan33]

looks cool... but does it work on a real system and if then how?

[adric22]

Don't know.. I haven't pulled my real VIC-20 out of the attic yet to try it.

[Tapewormz]

@adric22 Well, grats on your project. I just started learning assembly, and I'm applying it to a c64 emulator until my package arrives. It's something I wanted to do way back in the day, but I was only 10 and couldn't afford the books, or the assembler at the time.

[cymonsgames]

Wow, that's neat. I wanna look up flash attack now and I kinda want to write my own verison of this in Curses.

[RJLeffmann]

Looks great. I would've loved this way back when I had my VIC 20.

[davide1275]

Great! very nice game!

[Lykon7200]

fantastic job , i could listen to you all day. vic20 was my first computer but i couldn't afford the tape recorder for a long time, so i had to type in games from magazines then lose them when i turned it off, learnt basic that way. myriad was my favorite games and i loved messing about with pokes and little programmes even wrote a 3d graphic adventure in basic :)

[c64gyro]

Very cool. I'll add a link for you on some of the C= boards.