Erik_
Ohhh.. I like that idea.
Tue May 31, 2022 1:10am

Maybe side scroll view could be haunted house themed or something "spooky".

QB has BSAVE/BLOAD which loads and saves raw data. There are ways to load in bitmaps easily in QB. They can only be 256 colors in screen 13 and are usually subject to some dithering.

There was a game back in the day "Lunatix: The Insanity Circle" that made excellent use of bitmaps to create an adventure game.
Example screenshot:
lunatix screen shot


    • NEMB Pumpkins - Puckdropper, Tue May 24 2022 4:33am
      Overhead maze with the occasional side-scroll "rooms"? Get the pumpkin from the front to the back, if you fail you get the rotten pumpkin from a random year? Does QB have a reasonable JPG display library available? Bonus level is pretty straightforward... Carve/decorate the pumpkin.
      • Ohhh.. I like that idea.- Erik_, Tue May 31 2022 1:10am
        • Pumpkin on the shelf. - Puckdropper, Sun Jun 05 2022 3:31am
          What if you inverted gravity? Maybe your character is a ghost and you have to avoid going up otherwise you'll float away? I'm just trying to think of halloweeny things that aren't the same old same old.
          • So, like if you float away that's like your ghost moving on? - Erik_, Mon Jun 13 2022 12:34pm
            That's a neat idea. There was a game Haunting starring Polterguy for Sega Genesis where if you got too low on ectoplasm, you were sent to a hell like place where you had to refill it in order to come back to the house to continue haunting. Maybe something like that if you float away? Hmm. I... more
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