Ginger:
well... i would not clasify this as a 'learning exercise' ... hense i have been doing this to long ;-)
but i still think you are wrong as far as recreation goes, my goal was to recreate something that was so close to the original, that you could not tell them apart, to honor the old ways.
now... there are a bilion bad boulderdash clones on the net, evry one trying to 'add something new' ... most of them fail badly, and very few is lojal to the origial style and feeling.
I have always wanted to do a BoulderDash game, i dont know why i have not done it before in the 15 years i have been writing code... but when i finnaly did, i wanted it to be just like the game i so loved, and if i remove the graphics i associate with BoulderDash... the sentimental feeling is removed by 90% aswell.
personaly, i love being able to play my all-time favorit c64 game without the need to mess around with emulators.
and the best c64 emulator i have found, is not very good ether.
but i might look in to getting some skilled pixel artist to do some new sets of sprites, but only if it still looks and feels like the original.
well... i would not clasify this as a 'learning exercise' ... hense i have been doing this to long ;-)
but i still think you are wrong as far as recreation goes, my goal was to recreate something that was so close to the original, that you could not tell them apart, to honor the old ways.
now... there are a bilion bad boulderdash clones on the net, evry one trying to 'add something new' ... most of them fail badly, and very few is lojal to the origial style and feeling.
I have always wanted to do a BoulderDash game, i dont know why i have not done it before in the 15 years i have been writing code... but when i finnaly did, i wanted it to be just like the game i so loved, and if i remove the graphics i associate with BoulderDash... the sentimental feeling is removed by 90% aswell.
personaly, i love being able to play my all-time favorit c64 game without the need to mess around with emulators.
and the best c64 emulator i have found, is not very good ether.
but i might look in to getting some skilled pixel artist to do some new sets of sprites, but only if it still looks and feels like the original.