pogo575 2016-08-29 03:47
Made me smile. A wonderful tribute. Any chance of adding more artifacts to the technology ? Man of pac perhaps?
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD36 → Ancient Technologies
By csanyk
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Made me smile. A wonderful tribute. Any chance of adding more artifacts to the technology ? Man of pac perhaps?
Well this takes me back - good fun. I'm impressed wit h the faithfulness of the Asteroids clone.
Got 8925. Not bad. Really recreated the feel of the 2600 rather well.
Reached 4850! the feel very ancient... Not because of the Atari (which is nice). Because You have to plug in a the console and turn it on... That's like so... Ancient :)
Ha yep this is how I remember it! Really nice job
@pogo575: Thank you! I'd love to add more games to the room, but managing it all gets really complicated quickly. Just thinking about it makes my head swim. But yes, it's possible to implement other simulated games, probably would be best to do some refactoring first.
@SamuelSousa, you should try again -- you'll get an extra life at 5000 points! :-)
@csanyk I remember playing this in the arcade in "laundry stores".
Uploaded a bugfix version ahead of the Jam deadline, which includes a working TV Type switch, and tweaks a few things to further refine the play experience. There's now a death animation in the game, and some bugfixes in the console plug/unplug behavior.
In-ter-estingg. Cool arcade style gameplay. Love the retro feel
Really cool :)
Now I want to play Ataray, but I'd rather play Dare. (stupid rhyme is stupid)
I found that it slowed down after I left the game open, so there may be a memory leak of some sort.
@TerraCottaFrog Thanks for confirming... I suspected so after playing the HTML5 version for a few minutes. It seems to go away if you hit "R" (to restart the room). I'm not sure where the problem might be, but I'll keep trying to find it.
@TerraCottaFrog latest build fixes the memory leak. Thanks again:)
@csanyk No problem. I'll give it another play when I can :)
Great entry. I was secretly hoping to have to figure out how to change it to channel 3. I would love to see more puzzles to get the game on.
This is awesome!
@mooncalf Channel 3/4 was a feature I had wanted to include, but had to drop due to time... perhaps in a post-deadline build, it'll become a reality:)
Great idea and realisation!
I think it was difficult to start the main game for all the youngsters out there :-)
As Atari-fanboy (go home Amiga! ;) ) from the very beginning, I really appreciate your entry - all those memories... So I'm a bit picky and miss a working b/w-button. And why are there 6 buttons instead of 4?
Anyway, really a nice game!
Ok my fault, there was a version with 6 buttons. now I even learned something from your game - amazing! ;-)
Nice concept with the start setup. :) Liked it !
Awesome game, i love the idea!!
Ah good old times. Thanks for making me feel ancient :D
Amazing concept and the asteroids game is pretty fun too.
I loved the graphics, it felt very authentic and I was able to play using Chrome on my Mac with no problem.
The only bug that I found was that the music continued after I unplugged the power from the game while it was on. Other than that it played really well. Great job!
Very creative startup! I liked the astroids game too! Great job!
@brookzerker thanks for the bug report... I thought I had taken care of that one already. I'll re-check.
Unplug doesn't kill game bug fixed in 1.1.2.0.
Haha, it's pretty funny ) I bet not every child can make this system work nowadays )
@facelesstheone that was the idea. i wanted to recreate that experience so future generations could see how we did it back in ancient times.
nice recreation of Asteriods. I hated that game as a kid on the C64 and I remember why now ;) nicely done :)
Very cool game! I played the HTML5 version and didn't have any issues connecting the parts but I wasn't able to control the Asteroids game when it started.
You don't know how many memories this game has brought to me. Thanks for this game, and the other "game" that started asteroids :D.
The only thing that bugged me was on the console: guessing the purpose of the buttons was hard...
@GamerJenn did you plug in the joystick?
This is a pretty good spin on theme. Not only is it Asteroids but, you also have to set everything thing up like you were physical there.
Nice work mate! I like the fact that you can interact with the console! ;]
Nice work... playing a game where you have to plug in a game console to play a game..."game game simulator"?
Ahh the memories... Thanks man.
Nice game I love it how you have to plug in the controller and start the TV so you can start playing the real game! I also liked the music it kind of remembered me of the game Pony Island :D Good job!
Really nice game. immersive, simple and overall awesome.
I like this interpretation of ancient :P. Solid asteroids game, and the sequence at the beginning is fun and clean. I think it gave me infinite lives instead of 1 life when I hit 5000 (though it only displayed 9, I stopped losing any) (HTML5 version).
@BMacIntosh thanks for the bug report... I've seen that behavior as well, but haven't looked into it yet as I've been travelling on vacation and generally busy. Enjoy the free infinite lives! :)
Love how you designed the full experience. As someone who never owned an Atari it was pretty neat to push the buttons to see what happens.
Very authentic feel to the game itself too, and right on with the theme. Really great job all around.
Good idea!
It really reminds me of setting up these very old game consoles :). That means the experience is working!
I honestly think the most interesting part of the game is this "set up" part. In my opinion you could go much further with this idea, like "level 1: set up an atari console", then "level 2: set up an old nintendo but you need to plug it with an adapter to make it work with your grand mother TV", it gets harder and more complex at each level etc...
Really cool!
Neat :D The setup is more interesting than the game itself (obviously, that's the point), it's conceptually awesome and I like your interpretation of the theme
Short but very sweet, obviously the game itself isn't yours, but something about plugging it all in was good fun
Interesting concept, nice retro feel.
I did encounter one odd thing though, halfway through the game all sound was replaced with a high-pitch whistle. Even "unplugging" the console had no effect. I'm not sure if it's a bug or if it was some kind of fire alarm easter egg.
@quadtree, I've seen some audio glitches, particularly in html5 builds. I think it's a problem with the engine or the platform it's running on top of, not something that I can fix, unfortunately.
Clever take on the theme. I like what you did. For some reason it was very slow for me (the game itself) but most others didn't have this problem so I assume it's my computer. Not much to say aside from that it was a cool idea executed well. Good job!
Score: (because I like scores)
Overall 4/5
Innovation 4/5
Fun 3/5
Theme 4/5
Graphics 4/5
Audio 3/5
Humor 4/5
Mood 4/5
Thanks to everyone who played and rated my game!