That ain't 8-bit. That's just crappy graphics ala 1995 Mac OS Classic games. Looks alot like the old shareware Escape Velocity games.
It is '8-bit style'
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like how you're using standard HTML elements for the important bits outside of the game's main display. That is a great idea and seems like an efficient way (in terms of level of effort, not reinventing the wheel) to build a UI and tools for a game like this.
It's also making canvas window smaller, so it runs faster :) At least when it's using canvas software renderer, 20% of screen size is making a big difference in fps (on my old PC 30 versus 37 fps). But it would be worth it just for much simpler ui programming.
And not just simpler, but way simpler, and way easier to get nice results. Think of all the stuff you get "for free" by using HTML in a modern browser. You'd have to write all this stuff by hand or lean on a game library to implement: text input, input focus, buttons, UI events, styled text (bold, italic, etc.), text shadows, box shadows, skinned UI (CSS).
In fact, I bet big name games will increasingly embed things like WebKit and use HTML5 and CSS for their UIs in the future.
Re: 8-bit style, old-school adventure game released for Linux, Mac and Windows
#13That ain't 8-bit. That's just crappy graphics ala 1995 Mac OS Classic games. Looks alot like the old shareware Escape Velocity games.
It is '8-bit style'
No, it _isn't_. It has many things that NO 8-bit system was capable of, like smooth gradients in multiple colors, and rotated sprites.
16-bit I'd maybe grant you, but no way is it 8-bit.
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#14That ain't 8-bit. That's just crappy graphics ala 1995 Mac OS Classic games. Looks alot like the old shareware Escape Velocity games.
It is '8-bit style'
I think we should beWhat about it is 8-bit style? What is 8-bit style?
If it means that it resembles games on 8-bit computers or game consoles, then no, it doesn't really look like 8-bit style. It looks more like early 1990s computer gaming, when things were fully 32-bit all around if you had to reduce it to those terms.
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#15No demo?
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#16That ain't 8-bit. That's just crappy graphics ala 1995 Mac OS Classic games. Looks alot like the old shareware Escape Velocity games.
I wasn't going to nitpick but yeah. This is an adventure game running on an 8-bit computer (Apple II): http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/42948-king-s-quest-a...
Exactly. The labeling of anything with low resolution sprites/graphics as 8-bit drives me up the wall. The atari 2600 was 8-bit. The NES, 8-bit. They have very different aesthetics. "Low resolution" (lo-rez if you're nasty) would be a much better term as it doesn't tie the graphics to any type of hardware.
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#17Disappointing. I thought it was going to be a text adventure game, real old school. Instead it was one of those new-fangled graphics adventures. Bah!
Those are still getting made as well: http://ifdb.tads.org/search?sortby=rcu&newSortBy.x=0&...
Interestingly, the IF scene is some ten years older than the current indie game boom, and they're pretty much entirely non-commercial. There are some serious quality games there for free.
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#18That ain't 8-bit. That's just crappy graphics ala 1995 Mac OS Classic games. Looks alot like the old shareware Escape Velocity games.
The screenshot do look a tiny bit like EV, though it's hard to tell. But apart from that, it seems totally different, what with being (ostensibly) a point-and-click adventure.
Incidently, if anyone has a hankering for something like Escape Velocity, which ranks up there as one of my favorite games of all time, I've wasted the entire last weekend playing Space, Pirates and Zombies, which is similar to EV. Still not as good (in terms of setting and overall gameplay; the combat mechanics are far better) but the closest I have been able to find in, what, 10 years now?
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#19so.. why is an unplayed/unreviewed/undocumented game on here? is there something special about it?
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#20stationEry. it's "E for Envelopes" (stationAry means not moving - it's an Adjective).