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Desolate's Speed

Posted: Thu 30 Dec, 2004 6:28 pm
by Shawshank87
Did you have to delay desolate at all, or is it running at full speed. I have been thinking about using duck's greyscale package on a new game, but i question the speed of it. I notice that in desolate you only have 1 gun and a couple of enemies on each screen. Is this the most you could do with it at once without risking lag?

Posted: Fri 31 Dec, 2004 2:36 am
by tr1p1ea
Well it depends on a few things, the game seems to run differently on every calculator so its hard to judge. Things like battery power influence the interrupt speed a bit ... plus there is the interrupt frequency that the user chooses.

The gun and enemy thing was because Desolate was the first game i coded ... so i didnt know how to do a few things. Plus i wanted to keep it simple, otherwise i probably never would have finished it :).

The only way to see if it would be fast enough is to experiment.

Posted: Mon 03 Jan, 2005 4:23 am
by Shawshank87
haha, ok. i thought that maybe that was because you had speed difficulties. a very inpressive first game, might i add. it has taken me about 3 years to get to the level that your first game was at! the best i have done is Catch22. don't know if you have seen it or not. i was thinking about making it greyscale and adding ai, but i wasnt sure about the speed. on a regular 83+ on the 4 interrupt speed, would you say that you had sufficient speed leftover?

Posted: Mon 03 Jan, 2005 5:10 am
by tr1p1ea
Catch 22 ... thats the Advance Wars type game? I havent played it but it does look good :).

It all depends on what exactly you want to do> Like i said the only way to really tell if it will be fast enough is to try it out :).

Posted: Mon 03 Jan, 2005 9:17 am
by DarkAuron
Hey tr1p, maybe when you're more experienced you could make another Desolate. With more than one gun. Hehe, maybe..

Posted: Wed 05 Jan, 2005 3:51 am
by Shawshank87
alright, thanks for your help tr1p. anytime you need help on anything (like programming more weapons haha) ill be sure to help you out. maybe you can help me with a bit of greyscale if i decide to get into it.