MASAMI Sushi Ace - Columns clone

[FBG_JS]

This is one of my previously completed PC games that became the candidate for stepping foot into 6502 ASM with CA65, and homebrewing in general. Lot of frightening new territory

Title on the completed PC game, fun TV filter

gamesplash_masamisushiace_1.png (95.09 KiB) Viewed 2759 times

Current Title running in Mesen

masami_title.png (5.06 KiB) Viewed 2764 times

So this is obviously my effort to take the game to home plate. The PC game is free and should be pretty telling of the project: https://www.foxyboxygames.com/games_mas ... i_ace.html

Let's see if we make it out alive

[FBG_JS]

It's been a rough first few weeks of development, crash coursing the architecture and ASM as a language and concept simultaneously. We're not in Python Kansas anymore, or even C Kansas. The discussions here aided tremendously to get the wheels rolling

Some functioning screens in Mesen. No game yet, but these screens play out accurate to my PC game. There were graphical trimmings to honor 8kb tile data

[FBG_JS]

Week 3 went a lot better

The background for the action screen was adjusted to be attribute table friendly (again). Blocks will drop, rotate, copy to grid, with a leniency timer that allows input for a moment before copy, and give the player another block

Next to do:
Modify attribute table when blocks copy to grid.
Randomize blocks given to player.
Define an area on top of screen where sprites hopefully will not render.

And of course lots more to do after that

masami_week3.gif (205.36 KiB) Viewed 2662 times

[Goose2k]

Wow very nice work for just 3 weeks! Can't wait to see how it all turns out.

(I've shared it on the new channel here: https://discord.gg/NHwCb2yuyF)

[FBG_JS]

Thank you for the share Goose2k!

Smooth and productive week 4

No score-keeping or much "magic" happening yet, but game will process matches. "Hid" sprites just above the grid, using a simple "dummy sprites" method. Holding dpad will make the falling block shift or drop faster. Blocks are properly randomized now, using a timer and inputs to poke the seed. Sushi appears on the plates after matching, which is one step in a bigger animation sequence to do. Lost the battle with the attribute table, when trying to color the original blocks to the grid. So I followed the example of Tetris and Dr Mario and gave all the blocks just 1 palette. Lastly, made the game text brighter in general for all game screens

Next to do:
Finish animating the magic when player makes a match.
Randomize customers and what sushi they're thinking of.
Score-keeping and processing.

And lots more

masami_week4.gif (191.48 KiB) Viewed 2415 times

[FBG_JS]

Week 5! Juggled a birthday, anniversary, and playing that awesome new game Bravely Default II

Finished out the animations when the player makes a match: palette-swapping numbers appear on the grid when score made, hands give the sushi to the customer, and next customer is randomized. Implemented a simple sprite flickering with reverse indexing, which will happen depending where the digits on the grid are vertically and how many. Most of the score-keeping and processing is done. The sushi plates now disappear more gracefully, modifying the BG tiles by an amount that doesn't look as "patchy". I didn't finish writing the sushi that the customer is thinking about, so that will be pushed into the new week

Next to do:
Finish writing for what sushi customers are thinking of.
'Maneki Neko' block.
Increment levels and modify drop speed.

And more


Animations

masami_week5a.gif (316.8 KiB) Viewed 2045 times

Grid Full -> Statistics

masami_week5b.gif (1.05 MiB) Viewed 2045 times

[dink]

Looking good

[FBG_JS]

Thanks dink!

Hit some walls in week 6 that ate time, but got important things done

The sushi the customer is thinking about randomizes after you match it, and serves to double the score made which is called an 'ace'. The 'Maneki Neko' block is functional and appears after making at least one of each type of sushi. Will clear all of the type it lands on, or awards some points if it lands on nothing. I'm not satisfied with how slowly the grid blocks blink to indicate they will disappear- especially bigger combos, so I'd like to improve those vram writes, or do something that looks better or goes faster

Next to do:
Increment levels and modify drop speed.
Finish scoring related to 'Maneki Neko' and aces.
Wrap up Arcade Mode, improve various code parts of before working on Story Mode.

And more


Maneki Neko block

masami_week6.gif (371.93 KiB) Viewed 1510 times

[FBG_JS]

Swapping this project with another that was on backburner- PC game built very similarly to this game's PC version

Will update more when I come back to this one