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Oh my, and I thought last night was bad. Things start off okay, I manage to implement the ghosts changing into just eyes when you eat them. Simple enough, just hide the appropriate sprite leaving just the eyes. The problem started when I began programming them to go back to the hut when eaten and …
I would like to get the Power Pills working tonight. They have have a different code from standard pills in the array so I know when one has been eaten. Changing the ghost sprites to the blue edible ones is a little tricky, but not too bad. I change the collision routines so that you …
My main task for this evening is to add some Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the ghosts. At the moment they’re just picking random directions and they’re not even doing that very well. My plan is to let them know the coordinates of Wobman so they have a ‘target’ to head for. I have to rewrite …
Pills, pills…I need some pills! Well, at least for my game anyway. As I discovered earlier, the best method is to have the pills in the with the maze bitmap. I edit it in paint ( I will order PSP, I’m just too busy at the moment). Ok, load it in. Looks ok. Now to …
Found a problem with the maze collision. Pac-Man…err…I mean Wobman is able to turn a corner when he isn’t fully in the corridor. After some investigation I discover this is due to the calculations being in done purely in Integers – thus, positions like 17.5 are rounded to 17. This is what is making the …
I spend some time screen dumping from M.A.M.E. to capture all the animations for Pac-Man and the ghosts. Pac-Man has 15 different poses. At first I’m fooled into thinking the ghosts are a complete sprite, then I realize that the eyes are actually a separate sprite overlayed onto the ghosts. an and the ghosts. Pac-Man has 15 …
Today is collision detection day. Mmmm…my favourite. I use the term ‘day’ loosely, as it’s actually 10pm. I have to go to work you see, and this takes up all my day when I could be doing….anyway, I digress. Suddenly, I have a remarkable brain wave – why not create a second bitmap of the …
I’m not sure why, but I’ve decided to keep a diary of my development of a clone of Namco’s original Pac-Man using DarkBasic (this later changed to BlitzPlus – CG). Who knows, maybe someone will find it interesting or useful! Ok, first things first. I ran the original Namco Pac-Man (or is it Puckman?) in M.A.M.E and took a screenshot so …