1. where is everybody?
Its been days since I've seen any messages from you guys on whet we're
doing? I need your feedback for OUR course project to be OUR course project.
Last Week I gave you 3 group participation assignments:
1) We need to choose our Project Codename. Any other Item or character
names are also up for grabs. I rather like Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and
clyde, but "Packy" could use a good name. (i.e. one that DOESN'T suck)
2) We need to come up with 5 more bonus objects and assign point values.
A bonus object appears somewhere in the maze and animates while it waits
for packy to eat it. The animations could be anything we can do and undo
in 5 frames or less, like blinking eyes, spinning in place, sticking its
tongue out, whatever.
3) We need to comu up with 10 "intermission" animation ideas. Every 2 or
3 mazes we'll have a 10 second animation starring Packy and the Ghosts.
They could be practically ANYTHING, but Packy MUST always escape unhurt.
In the orginal game, the first anim shows packy being chased by blinky
starting off the right side of the screen, across right to left then
offscreen, after a second we see blinky again running left to right being
chased by a HUGE Packy.
I want to do funny anims. If you guys want to play with some ideas,
download the pacman1.zip file and look how I draw the sprites. If you
have any questions, send em.
This week's lesson is postponed until I get some feedback and ideas for
the items above. I'm also recovering from a hell extended weekend
(thurs-tues) finishing up my book on slot machines. see
http://exo.com/~lgp/slots
for info on that.
Michael
Author, artist, programmer, and slot jockey.
2. where is everybody?
Michael Packard says:
> Its been days since I've seen any messages from you guys on whet we're
> doing? I need your feedback for OUR course project to be OUR course project.
Well, I for one have been on vacation for the past couple of weeks, out of
contact
with the Internet. I've just caught up on my e-mail - sorry for the delays some
of you
experienced in getting replies. I'm trying to get up to date on this course
project.
I think it's great that you are doing it. I've downloaded your code and tested
it.
Very impressive. I'm going to look at your code for things that can be speeded
up,
either by modifying your Euphoria code, or by improving the interpreter.
Keep up the good work!
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
3. Re: where is everybody?
> I think it's great that you are doing it. I've downloaded your code and tested
> it.
> Very impressive. I'm going to look at your code for things that can be speeded
> up,
> either by modifying your Euphoria code, or by improving the interpreter.
Thanx for the compliment and welcome back. I can bug you again!
yeah, I'm real impressed with what I've been able to DO in Euphoria.
Speeding up my code shouldn't be a problem for the GURU.
Michael
