ArtPazz, nuovo giochino per Amiga AGA Opzioni

[saimo]

Ciao a tutti,

vi scrivo solo per farvi sapere che ho appena rilasciato un nuovo giochino per Amiga AGA. E' un puzzle game intenzionalmente semplicissimo. Si tratta di uno sfizio che mi sono tolto dopo decenni: rifare un mio vecchissimo gioco (usando questa libreria grafica per AMOS Professional che ho rilasciato non molto tempo fa).
Il gioco è scaricabile gratuitamente da https://www.retream.com/ArtPazz.



Seguono delle informazioni di contorno prese direttamente dal manuale.


BACKSTORY

In 1995 I made Puzzly, my third little game for Amiga (while, instead, I should have studied for the high school exit exam). It did not look good (although my eyes could not see that back then) and it had a very annoying feature that was even totally superfluous, but it was fun enough and I actually enjoyed it with some friends in a few of occasions. The game was written with AMOS Professional.
11 years later (2006), I worked on a project for the local department of the Ministry of Heritage. I had a technical role and I was surrounded by art experts. The project was called ART-PAST. It was so badly planned, the resources were so scarce, the salaries were so low and the demands on my colleagues were so huge that we soon ended up calling the project ART-PAZZ ("pazzo" means "mad"/"crazy" in Italian, and "pazz'" is the way it is spoken in our dialect), as those people were being driven mad and the overall atmosphere was totally crazy.
Now, 15 additional years later (2021), during a break from the writing of a novel, I found the perfect time for a small project like this. I rewrote the game from scratch using ALS, a graphics engine for AMOS Professional I released in October 2020 (rewriting the game using CSS, the ALS predecessor, is something I had been wanting to do for ages), keeping it as simple as I could.
I chose the name ArtPazz because the game might actually drive crazy, because "Pazz" (in Italian) sounds similar to "puzz" in "Puzzly"/"puzzle", because I threw some paintings in the mix and because it gave me one more reason to have a good laugh with some of the old friends involved in the ART-PAZZ... erm... ART-PAST project.


TECHNICAL NOTES

ArtPazz has been written in AMOS Professional 2.00, without third-party add-ons. However, thanks to the self-produced ALS engine (www.retream.com/ALS), it is a proper AGA game - in fact, it:
· uses 8 bitplanes;
· uses 24-bit colors;
· allows 6-bit images under a 2-bit overlay with translucent colors.

The overlay colors are white, gray and black: that is not due to technical limitations, but to ensure that the overlay looks fine regardless of the hues of the underlying images.

Messaggio modificato da saimo il 11 Jul 2021, 18:55

[saimo]

Nei giorni scorsi ho rilasciato un paio di piccoli aggiornamenti.

v1.2 (18.07.2021)
* Fixed writes to POTGO: OUTLX and DATLX were set instead of OUTLY and DATLY; POTGO is now managed properly by means of potgo.resource.
* Fixed bug that could cause a graphical glitch in the menus.
* Made a tiny optimization.
* Made minor changes to the directories/files tree.
* Improved manual.

v1.1 (09.07.2021)
* Changed keyboard handling so that the system keyboard speed is not altered after quitting the game.
* Improved font handling.
* Recompiled against ALS v2.0.
* Touched up music (in particular, removed the A#3 and B3 notes crackling, and lots of pops).
* Improved icons.
* Revised manual.

https://www.retream.com/ArtPazz

Messaggio modificato da saimo il 19 Jul 2021, 10:15

[Festuceto]

Davvero molto carino Saimo! Ottima la scelta dei dipinti. La modalità 64x64 di default mi sembra la più equilibrata, ho anche provato la 32x32 su un dipinto che conoscevo meglio, ma è di una difficoltà ferocissima
Comunque ho notato che seguire la prospettiva (il più delle volte) riduce la probabilità di errore, almeno nel mio caso.
Insomma, semplice nell'idea, ma appassionante. Simpatica anche la storia dello sviluppo

[saimo]

Davvero molto carino Saimo! Ottima la scelta dei dipinti. La modalità 64x64 di default mi sembra la più equilibrata, ho anche provato la 32x32 su un dipinto che conoscevo meglio, ma è di una difficoltà ferocissima
Comunque ho notato che seguire la prospettiva (il più delle volte) riduce la probabilità di errore, almeno nel mio caso.
Insomma, semplice nell'idea, ma appassionante. Simpatica anche la storia dello sviluppo

Grazie mille! Sono molto contento che un giochino del genere distribuisca un po' di divertimento in giro ;) E grazie pure per esserti letto il manuale!
Sì, la prospettiva aiuta. Ma aiuta qualunque altro elemento delle immagini. La chiave di tutto, comunque, è memorizzare bene queste ultime e allenarsi.

[saimo]

Una nota veloce per farvi sapere che ho rilasciato un paio di piccoli aggiornamenti.

v1.4 (20.02.2023)
* Changed the conditions of many If, Until and While statements and turned For ... Next loops into Repeat ... Until loops to have the AMOS Professional Compiler produce shorter and faster code.
* Recompiled against ALS v2.3.

v1.3 (19.02.2023)
* Fixed endless floppy drive motor spinning
* Recompiled against ALS v2.2.
* Optimized executable with custom tool.
* Touched up manual.

https://www.retream.com/ArtPazz
https://retream.itch.io/artpazz

[saimo]

Nuova versione di ArtPazz rilasciata. Beneficia dei recenti miglioramenti apportati ad ALS e all'ottimizzatore di eseguibili AMOS originalmente sviluppato per Ring around the World.

v1.7 (18.03.2023)
* Fixed 'I' and ']' of big font.
* Removed involuntary dependency on AMCAF (the cleanup code included an Open Workbench command).
* Saved some memory by tweaking the AMOS Professional Interpreter configuration.
* Recompiled against ALS v2.4 (which eliminates the dependency on mathtrans.library).
* Reprocessed executable with improved optimizer tool that optimizes also Exit If ... and While ... Wend.
* Embedded version string in executable.

v1.6 (02.03.2023)
* Fixed 24 bytes memory leak due to the AMOS function Dir First$() by replacing it (and Dir Next$()) with direct calls to dos.library.
* Fixed 24 bytes memory leak due to the new font handling code.

v1.5 (28.02.2023)
* Changed font handling so that diskfont.library is no longer needed.
* Made minimal changes to the startup and cleanup code.