/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8924180
Only with Zniggy 2: Dungeon Quest.

>>8924308
pure vaporware
noone has even decided on a system

>>8924320
It's not already for Speccy? Would suggest Amigar as the next most infamous option, but it should be on a non-American computer to keep the meme consistent. Amstrad or Acorn being discussed?

im a niggy

>>8924336
damn all of those systems look like garbage, even worse than thespeccy
i'd much rather do an american one

Don't forget to make a version for the American's Speccy.

>>8924320
It's literally a playable Spectrum game, you can download it from OP's link.
>>8924336
Click the link fren, you can get a TAP ready to go.

>>8924180
A /vr/ MASTERPIECE!

OI M8 HERE COMES ZNIGGY!

>>8924180
The sequel needs to be on the Amstrad CPC.

>Big Znig is some anons vore fetish turned into a game screen
Expected nothing less.

>>8924448
The American Spectrum would be like the TRS-80 CoCo except nobody really used those.

>>8924638
>Shit console
>Eye and ear raping graphics and sound
>Library filled with throwaway shovelwares
>Americans unceasingly defend it as though it's a "classic"
It's the American's Speccy.

>>8924646
The 2600 is a console not a computer so it wouldn't count in this context.

Used to luv playin’ Zniggy back when I lived in Manchester, was the only thing keepin’ me sane after Maggie shut down the mines.

>>8924652
Kek.

the fuck is a Zniggy

>mit loicense

>>8924180
I'm curious as to whether anyone has actually beat the game or not, with or without save states. I think you need to collect 350(?) gems to make it to the last room.
>>8924308
Anyone have any ideas for this? I was imagining we keep the ZX Spectrum as our platform and make a wizardry clone, that should be easy enough right?

>>8924508
It unironically has substantially better movement / jumping mechanics than any game of its nature I've tried on the Speccy.

>>8924708
A name intentionally chosen to sound like a poorly named ZX Spectrum game.

>>8924782
I'm very much into the idea of a Zniggy dungeon crawler
>>8924708
picrel

>>8924919
>It unironically has substantially better movement / jumping mechanics than any game of its nature I've tried on the Speccy.
Do you have any idea how much better programming and debugging tools we have today than in the 80s?

>code in Z80 asm on your PC with a cross assembler
>can use an emulator for step-by-step execution and debugging none of which was possible back then

Back then, at worst you might literally have to write your code on paper, calculate jump offsets in your head, and enter it into the Spectrum as hex numbers (usually by writing a BASIC program and having a table of hex values POKEed into memory). Best case you worked for Ocean and might have access to a cross assembler on a workstation, but still nowhere near as sophisticated or easy to use as modern tools.

>>8924782
The tape format makes the Spectrum not super-well cut out for RPGs (although some exist) but an RPG is also not easy to develop and I've almost never seen a homebrew one; homebrews are just about always platformers or shmups.

>>8924935
I'm aware; I was just talking about subjective "Game Feel", not making a statement about anything.

>>8924943
I feel like the 48kb of tape is plenty for a simple RPG. Might be able to save memory by doing vector graphics similar to Mystery House. You could do something similar to the original Zniggy development where you have a big map of rooms that anons can add stuff to, along with a list of enemies and such. Could even make a simple sort of scripting language for encounters and spells.

>>8924448
Really forcing that meme, aren't you?

>>8924943
RPGs are hard even for professional programmers. A lot of them even the classics are prone to bugs or features not working the way they're supposed to.

Looks like a Jet Set Willy romhack. I'm guessing whoever made this was like 15 years old.

>>8925575
well you guessed wrong

>>8925575
you haven't been here long have you?

>>8924448
Not equivalent, since VCS/2600 was powerful in the 70s, but do want and would play this nonetheless.

>>8924475
Thanks mang, but what about Zniggy 2?

>>8924708
a russian

bump

Zniggy needs a loose NES adaptation ala Boulderdash or Monty Doki Doki no Daidassou, the game that's extremely loosely based on Monty on the Run. Since it's a flip screen game and NESmaker only makes flip screen games, that would be the ideal means of creating the game, only issue is that it outputs as UNROM512 games. I believe even 128kb UNROM would be too much for a Zniggy port.

LUV ME SUM ZNIGGY. SIMPLE AS

>>8924638
Yeah this
Though the Tandy CoCo is how I learned programming. I started by copying examples from the back of the manual.

>>8928584
Wasn't someone making an NES port some time ago?

Zniggy 1 was only completed because some kind and useful anon made tools that let other less useful anons easily bang out some maps and sprites within parameters. These projects always need someone with brains leading it.

>>8932339
>These projects always need someone with brains leading it.
Well, duh.

>>8924180
where is the PC port bros?

>>8932339
>projects need capable leaders
He smart.

>>8932339
Well yeah, I think everyone is all too familiar with 4chan projects dying due to nonexistent leadership.

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