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New Entry for Contest MSX DEV '14,

BUSTER MYSTERY

Trailer demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLmZwQ65JWg

Announced on MSXBLUE-DEV :

http://msxdev.msxblue.com/?p=2342

New demo Trailer update for BUSTER MYSTERY version 2.8 beta

Link video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt2tkcqG4Wg

Best Regards......
(^_^)
AG.

Hello Dears Guys,

Update game BUSTER MYSTERY version 3.0
I would work all day, the schedules for nearly finish it .....

I studied his gamecontest, although it is not much,
because I have very little memory space on the basic!
In fact, I have advanced only about 1600 bytes with only 1.6 Kb ...

Now the Ninja 1UP, to finish and move on the next level,
should only take 5 golden keys, after which it appears a scale
in the top left corner on the current scene and is stored on the
VRAM, so if you later change of scene, the scale of salvation
is stored to the same point .....

I am committed to the very end of level BONUS.

Unfortunately there is always only one level of the game, and I should do the math
if return within the limits of dimezione ROM according to Regulation
DEV of '14, I can not exceed 48K of ROM.

All I need to design a beautiful presentation, the rest is almost
finished.

Trailer demo video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT3MhdmkGYw&feature=youtu.be

For now is all.....
Best Regards and good day
(^_^)
AG.

Ok, let's be constructive here (just my opinion):

- Stages are too long. Five minutes to complete one stage!? If there were a lot of different elements, that could be playable... but playing five minutes with a repetitive gameplay is simply boring. Try to make the stages smaller (fewer screens). Don't try to make a game big; try to make a game funny.
- Colors are confusing. Try to improve the contrast between background and sprites.
- Enemies are too slow. By looking at the video the game doesn't look too challenging.

It seems you took a look at the source code of Pérez the Mouse. I really hope you found it useful (beyond the PLAY"" jingles :P)

Andrea, this is getting quite annoying.

If you continue with this constant graphics (and music) ripping without asking permision, we will have to take matters into.
That could mean no MSXdev for you.

Andrea, please be more creative, innovative, and take more risks on trying to be more original - it's not that difficult... (if you're empty of ideas, perhaps following http://indiegames.com/index.html might help you somehow, and perhaps will push you into being more "creative" than them - what a challenge, you know...)

Andrea, i have an exercise for you, that you might find as interesting or useful:

1) choose any picture you may find from Eadweard Muybridge you think can be interesting for a game ( like from https://www.google.pt/search?tbm=isch&q=eadweard+muybridge ) - no problem using that, that is all public domain! ;) (and there are lots of original games that use them without any problem, like starting from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYxIJxqrv6U , and for pyweek i made http://pyweek.org/e/nitrofurano/ which i think doesn't look as plagiarism at all )
2) transform the "spritesheet" you might find into one that fits on msx sprite size configuration (for example, handtracing it in Inkscape, resizing and exporting as png (like what i done on "Plumas e Sardinhas" pygame i cited above), resizing and pushing some pixels on Gimp or GrafX2, etc. - it's not that complicated)
3) do some brainstorm about which kind of game can be interesting using them

so, i think you have no excuses! ;)

i don't know if this can help:
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aKkKZUBmek4/UcL3hfCukAI/AAAAAAAAAs4/4XauU9-eOG4/w346-h930/Creative.JPG)

GREAT! I love it, nitrofurano. Thanks for sharing!

you're welcome, konamito! :) (and yes, it's excellent!)

some books also help a bit: http://books.google.pt/books?id=6isWHHPii84C&pg=PT67&dq=pixel+art&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ei=UvmFUvvfH7Hg7Qal7YDIDg&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=pixel%20art&f=false

The game does not have been submitted to the MSXdev'14 contest, but is available on the Gamecast website :

http://www.gamecast.es/downloadmanager/bustermystery/index.php

Does someone have infos about the reasons why the game was not submitted to the contest ? I guess you will say that the problem is the 'originality' of the graphics/musics used in the game, but I want to know ...

No idea: he just did not submitted it here ;-)