[DEVLOG] Cutielympics, a game jam entry

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Devlog #1

I am going to make a Decathlon or Track and Field demake for the game jam, in python.
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It can be considered as a demake as I am using a lower resolution, 110x88, as e.g. C64 version. The initial plan is to implement 4 sports: shotput, javelin, long jump and one more. The player is a cute animal or other unidentified creature.

Ps. I am not going to torture Pokitto with some button smashing sports :slightly_smiling_face:

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That sounds epic!

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Devlog #2

My first attempts to make a cute character :slight_smile: The latter is nearer to the final size in the game.

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With a different colors:
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With bigger eyes:
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Edit: Of course, there should be an eye blinking animation also :grin:

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Devlog #3

Ready to run!

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Small tweaks:
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Omg that’s lovely :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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Next I will make backgrounds and a scrolling track. At least 3 layers with different scrolling speeds for the pseudo 3d effect.

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Devlog #4. Starting to implement scrolling layers

Now I have two layers: “sky” and “track”. I needed to switch from the “TAS lowres” mode to the “normal lowres” mode, because simultaneous tilemaps were not supported in the TAS mode in Python.

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This already looks so amazingly cute!! :scream:

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Lemon 64 looks good but every time I try to create an account it says my email address is banned.

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Devlog #5

I have been away most of the week but now I got some progress with this.

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You have the cuteness points nailed down already

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Devlog #6

I can almost here people cheering in the stadium! :wink:

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Can you make the audience lift their arms also?

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And do little jumps! Hehe. Yeah I’m already seeing this one winning all the cute points. Dang!

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Devlog #7

Added the start menu screen, the jump measurement, the gauge and the cheering audience :slight_smile:
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Edit: I think I can move on to the next sport now: javelin

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Devlog #8

Started to implement Javelin.

Gosh, it is a hard work to make the rotated versions of the “spear” which look even semi-good! Maybe, I should use anti-aliasing to make it look better, but I have never done that by hand. It is especially challenging with a 16-color palette :wink: so maybe it is good enough as such. I also could have used Gimp rotate function for help, but I thought it would be “funnier” to do it by myself. It wasn’t, but maybe I Iearned something on the way.

If (or when) the ROM runs out I need to truncate the empty space away from the bitmaps, but right now it is easier when they are of the same size.

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For selecting the correct rotated image for the flying spear I would need an arctan()-function, but Pokitto MicroPython do not offer trigonometric functions. I have used sine and cosine tables before in MP, but looks like arctan() is a quite different thing and not easy to do.

Anyone know a simple implementation of arctan() for fixed point numbers?

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They look really good to me!

I don’t have an arctan function but I think you might be better off with a look up table rather than trying to compute the angles.

I assume you have these all rotated in the other directions? The shadows will make flipping awkward.

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Also the last two are interesting … if you threw a javelin at that angle it would not go far!

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Thanks! I used quite a much of time for those even if they look simple.

You are probably right.

I only need to mirror vertically to get bitmaps for the sencond half of the flight. I do not think the mirrored shading looks necessarily so bad, but lets see.

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You can chase UFOs maybe :wink:

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