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LeoNicolas

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Posted: 11:05pm 23 Feb 2024

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Thank you for testing the game. Of course while I'm adding new features I'm also breaking existing ones

The stage 4 is not finished yet. I think the problem of crossing the river without a brige is becase I din't set that tiles as solid. It will be fixed when I finish the level 4 develpment. Let me know if you see the same problem on levels 1,2 and 3
Edited 2024-02-24 09:05 by LeoNicolas

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Posted: 02:50am 24 Feb 2024

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Quote Of course while I'm adding new features I'm also breaking existing ones

That's the way it normally works.

Another crash.

I have not been able to replicate the sprite like artefacts yet. Noticed that the arrows that those other knight things are firing are pointing the wrong way now, I don't think they were before.

MMBasic reporting that it has seen the controller is annoying because you have to restart the game. I'll report that to Peter in the other post. Maybe an MM.INFO flag may be better?

Bill

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Posted: 06:20am 24 Feb 2024

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I have seen the artefacts a few times but the action is too fast for me to notice how it happens.

The skeletons, when shot, don't scroll with the screen. Is that right?

I've finished for the day, my fingers have fallen off.

Example of the arrows pointing the wrong way:

Bill

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LeoNicolas

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Posted: 06:50am 24 Feb 2024

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I fixed the knight arrows' direction.

The skeletons, when shot, don't scroll. This is the original game behaviour.

I'm still investigating the artifacts issue.

LeoNicolas

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Posted: 04:48pm 26 Feb 2024

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Hello everyone

New video released: https://youtu.be/OcjvFrNt5Hg

News:
- Stage 4
- Support for gamepads
- Bug fixes

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Posted: 05:25pm 26 Feb 2024

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Very nice…
You are really good at this (or you are cheating)

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Posted: 06:52am 27 Feb 2024

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Yes, you are bloody good, I think you might have played the game before.

I find it hard to get to the later stages because I sometimes get caught by the scenery and cause a crash where normally I would die. A cheat to allow you to start at a chosen level would be handy.

Bill

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LeoNicolas

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Posted: 03:29pm 27 Feb 2024

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Bill

Add this code to line 27 in the km.bas file.

g_stage%=4 ' Stage number
g_player(3)=11 ' Best weapon
g_player(6)=20 ' Shield

homa

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Posted: 09:02pm 27 Feb 2024

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Hi Leo,

Just a quick question, is there a PicoMite VGA version planned or is it even technically possible?

Matthias

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Posted: 10:14pm 27 Feb 2024

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Yes. I bought a PicoMite VGA exactly for this purpose. I will adapt the game to the Pico as soon as I complete the game development.

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Posted: 05:35pm 29 Feb 2024

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Wow, that sounds great. I'm really looking forward to it.

LeoNicolas

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Posted: 07:12pm 02 Mar 2024

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Stage five is coming

Martin H.

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Posted: 09:21am 07 Mar 2024

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I know you didn't ask...
But if you want to realize the game for the Pico you have here the graphics in suitable PicoMite VGA RGB 121 format

Knight_pico.zip

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LeoNicolas

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Posted: 06:21am 08 Mar 2024

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Thank you Martin

Probably I will ask you in a near future to convert them again, because I'm still adding new tiles or adjusting the existing ones.

Today I pushed the stage 5 to the repo. I didn't have time to record the gameplay video. I think I can do it until Sunday.

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Posted: 09:47am 11 Mar 2024

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Stage 5 gameplay

there is a bug in the final boss implementation that I will fix today. It is not allowing to the defeat it.

https://youtu.be/in6Or0CSGJE

Edited 2024-03-11 20:09 by LeoNicolas

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Posted: 08:16pm 21 Mar 2024

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Hi Leo,

I tried the KnightMare github version on a real CMM2, and it complains about a gamepad.

What CMM2 software are you running. My CMM2 came with the stock V5.07.01 from Geoff's website (the last official release I guess).

I have a keyboard, mouse attached, and have a WII controller available.
Is this the set you need to play the game ? I would very much like to play it. IS there any description what buttons do what ?

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Turbo46

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Posted: 08:33pm 21 Mar 2024

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Leo is developing the game on MMB4W and will get it working on the CMM2 later. You can use the arrow keys to move and the space bar to fire. If you have an xbox controller you can use that too.

Bill

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LeoNicolas

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Posted: 04:53pm 22 Mar 2024

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As Bill explained, it much easier to develop the game on MMB4W then in the real machine. I will get it working on the CMM2 and the PicoVGA after completing the development.

Sorry for the lack of news these two last weeks, I'm super busy on my daily work.

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Posted: 10:29pm 22 Mar 2024

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hello LeoNicolas,

I tried out your game again. Status today from github. Because of error messages I had to comment out line 25 in init.inc for the specified MMBasic version:

' gamepad on handle_gamepad

and
in the file "km.bas" in line 157 directly after the

sub process_gamepad()

insert an "exit sub"

Today the keyboard control worked but unfortunately no collision. So unfortunately you are invulnerable.
Nevertheless the gameplay is fun!

However, I received the following error message for the final boss:

continued success!

Matthias

LeoNicolas

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Posted: 03:47am 23 Mar 2024

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Hello Matthias

Thank you for testing the game. You need to download the latest MMB4W version to get support for gamepads. Check out this post:

https://www.thebackshed.com/forum/ViewTopic.php?FID=16&TID=16531

I didn't implement the player collision against shots and enemies because it makes the game easier to test. I will try to do it for the next version and add a flag to disable the collision.

I will look at the error you reported. Sometimes, I introduce errors in the early stages when implementing new ones. This error is probably related to some update I did while implementing the stage 5 boss.

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