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What I'm working on for the various consoles I can program for.

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Odyssey 2

ZipZap (f.k.a. Xybort)

So I changed the name of the Xybort game to ZipZap. And I worked on levels 3 and 4. I can't really think of anything else to do, so it may be finished. So I'm not releasing the final ROM because of piracy concerns (although I would be very flattered if someone were to pirate my games). Level 3 has a yellow ball bouncing around a purple background (along with the usual UFOs) and level 4 has a desert theme with robots following your ship trying to get it. It is really hard to not crash into t
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Odyssey 2

I'm back working on a new (actually old) Odyssey 2 game. I have a new intro for my games. The screen that says "Cedar Games" and displays the tree. Well now it still does, but with different noises. I worked for a long time trying to integrate it into ZipZap (all night in fact), but I gave up. So that ended with me going to bed at about 10 a.m. When I got up at 7 p.m., I went back to work trying to make it actually work. It was hard, but I eventually did it. Not only that, I put it int
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Jack and the beanstalk (part 2)

So, level 1 is completed. I made a few changes. one bird is now 2 bats. bat collision sends you 5 screens back instead of the beginning. 21 screens to climb up. I tested this on a real Odyssey 2 and it works fine. Making change number 2 was very difficult. I had to go and figure out where the screen's stalk x position starting place was and then figure out where to put Jack so he's on the stalk (what to make his x position be), and then make the program put Jac
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Jack and the beanstalk (part 3)

Work on this has been going good. I started work on the Giant's castle a week or so ago. Here are some screenshots of inside the castle. The triangles are stairs. If they lean right (like in the picture), they are stairs up. Leaning the other way means they're stairs going down. To use the stairs, all you need to do is touch them. Right now I have 3 floors of the castle in. I want to have a total of four floors and still have room in the code for the key hiding. I think I will. In
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Jack and the beanstalk (part 7)

I've been having internet connection issues lately, to the point where I had to get a new modem. I'm hoping this will fix it, because I plugged in a phone in the phone jack I'm using internet for and got a dial tone. Between verious spurts of it working, I have worked on trying to fix bugs in the game. When the internet would come back on, I'd upload the game and my playtester would test it and report any bugs he'd seen back. Well, yesterday, he reported not seeing any bugs! So this means I need
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Canoeing fixed

It took at least a couple of hours straight of coding and rearranging code, but I finally got it working again. I never did figure out what the problem was though, I just knew it had something to do with one of the variables. I don't know the problem with the variable, so I was really flying blind here. So now with the problem fixed, the next step is to test it on a real Odyssey². That will have to wait until later today because it's 3 a.m. and my eye hurts and I'm sleepy. It's bedtime
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Battlewizard

The TV on the 11 o'clock news and the occasional hoots of a nearby owl keep me company as I work on a new game. I am working on a new Odyssey 2 game. It is a port of Wizard of Wor. So as not to get in trouble with CBS, I have changed the name of it. What would a game about a wizard in a war be called? Why of course: Battlewizard! I made sure to put my custom sound making code in the game so I don't have to work it in with horrid results later. The only sound in the game now is a thud in case you
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Those Quirky Q's (part 2)

As it turned out, I can't add anything to this bank. It took a ridiculous amount of time just trying to get the game to pause upon a death so it doesn't go directly back to the title screen where the score isn't displayed. It took lots of time just trying to fit tiny additions in. So I've used up 1,400 bytes. I have plenty of room to add my "Cedar Games" intro...except it won't work right. So I guess this game won't have it. Oh well. At least now this minigame is done for the most part. Now
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Q!

So I was looking through my website that has tons of stuff I worked on and backed up in case my computer dies, which it did in 2016. There was stuff in there pre-2016. Like this interesting project entitled Q. It was interesting and I wondered why I gave up on it. So I made a few changes to it, adding and changing some stuff. I don't know what I'll do to it next though, probably start a new bank of stuff because I left off with only 500 bytes left in it. It looks to be like a game where you
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Q version 16

So I added a few more screens to Q. I think what I want to do is have a password to enter when the player enters a new area. I have about 400 bytes left in the first bank I've been working on. So what I will do is start work on the second bank so I can have the password code in the rest of the area in the first bank. I wanted to have a tree AND a P on the same screen at the same time. This caused the game to go crazy and I had to work for several hours to try to counteract its craziness. It
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Merging

So I found some more bugs from the first floor of my game. The game not exiting room problem came back. I wonder what causes this. Anyway, I put two ghosts per room in the second floor. I also merged the game's banks hoping the bankswitching plan I had put into place would work. It did. So then I put in new rooms in the second floor. Next in my plan is to find out their x and y positions for entering and exiting them. That giant plus sign is the cursor from a grid drawing program I fou
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Robot Ron in 2084: February 22, 2023 update

So the game is beginning to take a better shape. I added a new type of enemy which goes really fast (pictured.) This enemy moves straight and when it reaches the other side, a new enemy comes. The enemy that chases you will not disappear until you shoot it. I changed Ron's missile to be more of a ring shape. My plan: four enemy types total. each wave between waves 1-4 will be introducing the enemies (with the zoomer being in wave 4 because it's really hard to hit.)
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Robot Ron in 2084: February 23, 2023 update

I decided to change the characters to sprites. The characters looked really lame, so I decided since I had two available why not use one? Since I don't have any awesome ship sprites designed (that's where you come in), I used boxes as place holders. Unfortunately, I had to change my really cool border to a plain one since my game was showing signs that it was thinking too much. When there's too much code, the top of the screen goes crazy and blinks a lot. So this is what the game looks like now:
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Testing.

I spent most of last night finishing up my Robot Ron game. It's come to the point where I think it's finished. Now comes the testing/feedback part. I have a few testers to test the game for me and tell me how I did. The changes I made: each enemy is introduced in each wave until all four enemies are in. Then the game becomes a fight for survival as (with most Odyssey 2 games) you only have one life. added a game over screen. changed the numbered box enemies to more alien-look
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