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Lets necro this even further!
My most elaborate rickroll involved me sending a 7" vinyl single of Mr. Astley's greatest hit via snail mail!

Yars' Revenge on Atari 2600! have you ever played it?! I've always brimmed over with enthusiasm for that coloured noise. And yet it's such a simple idea. I think I've tried it in an emulator once. That noise is perfect though! IIRC it's actually the game's code. ...thinking of your music rmx and ju...

Yars' Revenge on Atari 2600!

The explanation is a little more basic. The game keeps track of the sprite Keen is 'riding' so that as its location is changed his is as well without any problems. It does this by simply storing the number of the sprite being used. Keen can ride his bullet like a platform due to a piece of code ins...

These are really wonderful. Are you intending to do similar work for Keen 6? I like Keen 5's music as well, but Keen 4 and 6 are my favorites. Thanks :] As for Keen 5&6: ...But compared to CK4, it's huge. So I don't promise anything. Maybe we could team up on this, anyone interested? Yes, if I ...

Although I've never actually released a game before, this will be the third or fourth game engine that I've written for games (that so far never come out, although you can play a version of my last engine here , it's just a small level to showcase the physics engine that I programmed in GM7, I thin...

I'm looking into a library for C++ called SDL, and placing my engine on top of that. Software rendering or OpenGL? I've successfully used OpenGL for a neat tile-based engine, sidestepping SDL completely. But I kinda wanted to do a project like that from scratch. Yeah, I thought that back when I had...

The explanation likely revolves around the fact that Keen's bullet has the collision property of the Gik or Goplat. The bug means that Keen can stand on his shots, but the only place this can occur is just after a bullet has hit a tile, when it has stopped moving but has not yet become a "zapp...

AGDQ! I love these! :]

The latest Keen 6 strats even involve double jumping off of the bullet in mid air! (27:15 here)

Also, with all the disassembling work that's been done on the engines, do we have any clue why bullets are platforms in K6?

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troublesomekeen wrote:This is the music I had in mind. I have yet to notate all the tracks, but this is basically how the tunes are:
https://youtu.be/SeZgZ1oWhYI
Spontaneous piano versions. I'll be making midi versions as soon as I can.

Damn, that's impressive! Great job!

I was gonna suggest yy-chr, but Tile Layer Pro looks like it can do similar stuff.

Yeah, as long as the color range is still competitive with modern computers and there's no dead pixels or burn in, there's really no reason to buy new monitors, especially if it's already full HD or better and >= 23" screen size, imo. I have two 23" 1080p monitors, and although one of the...

2048x1152 digging the extra space over full hd! Fascinating. That's a really non-standard pixel count. How much did yours cost over a standard full HD monitor? That's about a 20% increase in screen space over 1080p. I bought it about... wow, six years ago. It cost me the equivalent of about $200. T...

troublesomekeen wrote:I don't know if I'm really stupid or my tools are extremely primitive.

What tools are you using?

Is everything really small, or does the UI compensate for the super high resolution? I guess that's subjective, but I find everything looking just fine. The dpi is of course a bit higher compared to your standard 24" fullhd displays, but I still run everything at 100%. My laptop is an entirely...