[Game]Matti's Nightmare

Check the video. Still need to do sound support, though.

I have at least 4-5 SD cards of various sizes lying around.
I’d be very surprised to encounter someone who doesn’t own a single SD card (be it micro SD or regular).

I don’t use Discord, so this is the first I’ve heard of this.

Phew! Finally!

I have now changed the room definition format to use less ram. Before, five rooms took about 10 KB, including list of sprites, tiles, etc. Now it takes about 3 KB :slight_smile: It was an exhausting task first to figure out how to save ram, and then change the room definitions and room “loading” logic accordingly.

This is what I did:

  • Used tuples instead of lists
  • Reduced the number levels in the tuple-tree
  • Packed all 8-bit values to one bytes literal

Now, one room definition looks like this:

    ( # *** room5
        
        "Nightmare begins",
        
        # Tile definitions
        (
            # id  bitmap               flags
            0x0, data.backgroundSurf0, 0,
            0x1, data.wallSurf1,      glob.TILE_FLAG_BLOCKING,
            0x7, data.backgroundSurf1, 0,
            0xC, data.floorSurf0,      glob.TILE_FLAG_BLOCKING | glob.TILE_FLAG_PLATFORM,
        ),

        # Exit triggers
        (
            # id, newRoom,   newX,                   newY 
            0xf,  3,    8,  -999,
        ),
        
        # Sprites
        (           
            # Scissors
            # Bitmaps
            (
                # bitmap         offset
                data.scissorsSurf0, (-2,0), 
                data.scissorsSurf1, (2,0),
                data.scissorsSurf2, (0,0), 
                data.scissorsSurf1, (0,0),
            ),
            # wx, wy,  bx1,   by1,      bx2,   by2
            60,   10,  -999,     0,   999,  14*8,
            #   id trg  vx  vy adu dir del bTy hfl vfl coi
            b'\x00\xff\x00\x01\x01\x03\x02\x00\x00\x00\x00',

            # Clock
            # Bitmaps
            (
                # bitmap         offset
                data.clockSurf0, (0,0), 
                data.clockSurf1, (0,0),
                data.clockSurf2, (0,0), 
                data.clockSurf1, (0,0),
            ),
            # wx, wy,  bx1,   by1,      bx2,   by2
            20,  17,  20,  -999,    90,   999,
            #   id trg  vx  vy adu dir del bTy hfl vfl coi
            b'\x01\xff\x01\x00\x01\x02\x03\x00\x00\x00\x00',

            # Juice
            # Bitmaps
            (
                # bitmap         offset
                data.juiceSurf0, (0,0), 
                data.juiceSurf1, (0,0),
            ),
            # wx, wy,  bx1,   by1,      bx2,   by2
            9,  44,  -999,  -999,   999,   999,
            #   id trg  vx  vy adu dir del bTy hfl vfl coi
            b'\x02\xff\x00\x00\x01\x02\x01\x00\x00\x00\x01',
        ),
    ),

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Release v0.2
image

  • The boss fight is there, “The giant feet fleet”
  • The game can now be played to the end :slight_smile: Who will be the first?

Before i can call it a game, there are some missing things to do like the ending fanfare, but I want to give this to early testers already :slight_smile:

Here: https://haviital.itch.io/mattis-nightmare

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I’m pretty sure I beat it:

Summary

I woke up! The nightmare is over!

However, I don’t think I played it the right way. I went back and forth between the “Nightmare begins” and “The worst mare!” screens and grabbed the cup in the first screen over and over until I had enough points to go down though the door requiring 4 coins. Maybe things that give coins shouldn’t respawn? I could only find 3 places that had a coin item (aside from the secret room), so I guessed that I needed to get one of them at least twice.

Whenever I press B, the sound cuts out for a second, not sure why. Also, how do I avoid getting hit right at the entrance to “The worst mare”? an enemy is right on top of me right when I enter the room.

I like the boss room, that was cool. All the room themes and music go well together. I like the secret room as well :wink:.

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You were the first to solve it :slight_smile: Thanks for the comments too.

Yes, I need to fix this.

Good catch. I have left some test code there. Fixed.

Yes, I changed the timing now.

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The game has now been released (v0.3) !

Here: https://haviital.itch.io/mattis-nightmare

Matti-anim

Changes, v0.2-0.3:

  • The animated startup screen
  • The info screen
  • Adjustments to the gameplay
  • “Game finished” music
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Great! Would still like to see a way to restart after a Gameover other then resetting the Pokitto tho…

I thought it is not a big deal. Thought, it is not necessarily very hard to fix.
Btw. How do you like the startup screen? It just goes on and on :wink: There are some pretty nice fg/bg combinations further on.

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I really like what you did. And I know it’s an easy fix about the after gameover issue, it’s just making it so that it goes back to the title screen by pressing a button. Just feels more complete if you can do it. Either way, great job!

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Yes, I think I will do it like that.

A small update (v0.4):

  • No more need to reset the device after game lost
  • Small fixes

Download: https://haviital.itch.io/mattis-nightmare

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Could someone test if this works in Windows? It is the Pokitto Simulator running Matti’s Nightmare. It supports audio also.

Unzip the zip file and execute the MattisNightmare\run.cmd file.
MattisNightmare_v04.zip (2.5 MB)

Edit: It works for me but I want to be sure that needed dlls etc. are in the packet.

Works for me on Linux with Wine.

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works great here on windows 10.
you can jump over the walls and glitch out.
Untitled

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There is now a windows version of the game, using Pokitto Simulator, in https://haviital.itch.io/mattis-nightmare

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Great game!
Imho the music adds so much to the game!

Small remark/bug maybe: whe I die in the worst mare room and restart the game, the music from that room keeps playing…

ps I also suck at it, I only find 3 rooms…

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Added the “Matti.pop” file to Itch. That is for loading from the SD card.

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@Hanski : resized gif to same size as other games

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