You are standing outside a yellow castle. It is a fine summer day.
This is a PICO-8 homage to Atari 2600 Adventure. It's not just a nostalgia trip; I tried to make it a fun game in its own right.
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This is so great! I have missed you, arrow sword! Amazing job on this.
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If only the dang Curse ghosts don't teleport your items away!
Other than that, great game!
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If you play on hardcore mode it's not a problem :D
Edit: less cheekily, yes the skeletons are easily the biggest jerks in the game. The swamp isn't so awful once you find the second exit--that can save you one or more trips through the skeleton room. And the whole purpose of the ship is to give you a one-time bypass that you decide when to use. And, while the sword doesn't kill them, it can affect them.
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DUCK! Haha oh my god giant duck! This is incredible. Simply amazing.
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The sword can push them away, yes, but they'll end up behind you and banishing your sword to oblivion, making the game harder for you.
Also: GET THIS FREAKING DUCK OFF MY CHALICE!!
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Harvested some tokens and put on some polish.
- Clouds and cutscenes for the ship and duck teleports.
- An effect for the healing spring.
- Utilized spare room. Maybe not as well as I'd liked to, but:
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It turns out since the last time I released this, some token calculation changes were made that freed up about 2000 tokens! I was able to add a lot of little things that I had wanted to do but just didn't have the tokens for.
My favorite addition is a purely cosmetic one inside the blue castle though.
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WOW ! I didn't know there was an update to this. I love the SNOW sequence with the hidden ice monsters. There's a lot of creativity flowing from this game cart and it shows in every play !
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What's the red key for? I can't find a red fortress.
Also the chalice is for the duck??
Very cool game. Perfect example for good design.
Looking at the tilemap, there is no use for the red key right?
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Yes the chalice is for the yellow dragon (I'm not sure why people call it a duck???) Aka your mom. (Edit: I mean literally as in, the duck is yellow, you are yellow, your castle is yellow; you're on the same team.)
The red key is something of a red herring, but its uselessness has a use, if you understand the forest altar.
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very nice take on Adventure with so many creative additions.. I will have to play through this one!
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cheepicus, I have yet to beat this but I REALLY like it! My dad showed me "dungeons and dragons" on his intellivision, which I believe was a knock off the original Adventure.
I had trouble running this on my PocketCHIP. I eventually got it running, but it seems like, for some reason, PocketCHIP does not like conditionals being in Parentheses AND using THEN. For example
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IF (NOT S) THEN -- causes error on PocketCHIP
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This happens maybe 3 or 4 times in your code. I removed them and then it runs fine (besides some slowdown in the snow)
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Thanks for the heads up paloblancogames. I went through cleaning up the IF statements. I don't have a PocketCHIP, so I can't test the changes I made. Let me know if the new version is still broken. And I hope I didn't mess anything else up.
As for Intellivision AD&D, to me it seems pretty directly inspired by Hunt the Wumpus. Exploring a cave by sound and blind-firing bouncy arrows is totally some wumpus huntin action. I wouldn't be surprised if Colossal Caves and Adventure's bat were inspired by Hunt the Wumpus, too.
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damn that blue maze and its attacking blue things and the white things in the white castle! It was hard, but I finally won!
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Lines 35, 76, and 1431 all still give the pocketCHIP some trouble for the same reason:
IF (NOT XXX) OR...
needs to be:
IF NOT XXX OR...
after those three lines it is pocketCHIP safe.
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Hey ! Finally won the game. There's quite a bit of Legend Of Zelda in here too if you look. WOW ! What a big chalice, and ... nice big duck sits in it. I'm not cleaning up after that. Owell. :)
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Hey, I created an account in Pico-8 just to tell you that I fucking love this fucking game, man.
Keep it up!
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Thanks! Yes I do need to complete more games.
I wish I had more tokens for this one just so I could add some achievements like:
- You killed the Nommer
- You killed the white knights before you entered the white castle.
- You stole the chalice without entering the white castle
- You stunned all the ghosts
- You used the red key
- You opened a castle without a key
- You won the game without using a key
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It's supposed to be there but it is also supposed to go somewhere else!
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Fun game, although I would like a list that shows each item and explains their use, I.E the magnet.
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There's not that many items!
KEY - Opens gate of corresponding castle.
YELLOW SWORD - Kills weak enemies, stuns medium enemies.
MAGNET - Pulls closest item frome same screen.
SHIELD - Proof against arrows, at least.
MAGIC FOREST ALTAR - Enchants anything, once!
MAGIC SWORD - Kills anything! Once...
MAGIC MAGNET - Pulls closest item.
MAGIC KEY - Opens any gate.
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That duck was camping the blue key I accidently dropped and I had so much stress trying to get it back o_ o
Even though I didn't get very far it's certainly a unique game
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How do I open the yellow castle without a key? I tried getting the duck to smash it down but the duck respects it too much.
Bonus Tip:
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How to open the yellow castle without the key? give me a hint, it's not working
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Edit: looks like it doesn't work with the blue door on the web version. Not sure if it was it always like that.
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(Aieee. I have made it possible again with an update.)
It requires powerful magic to heal the duck's feet.
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I DID IT!
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Edit:I WENT FURTHER BEYOND, TELL ME, IS THERE MORE STUFF LIKE THIS?
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Wow, well done! If you can do a hardcore keyless run in 7 minutes (and with a time like that, probably swordless too, which I thought about adding) there's probably no more challenges for you. Maybe I made the game too easy. :/c The only thing you might not have found is the Easter egg but that's not difficult, just secret.
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The altar is locked behind a key, how do I get keyless with that
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Lookie here
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So, how do I get keyless with the new castle?
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Hola me gustaría saber para que sirve la llave roja?? me encanta el juego y ese es el único misterio
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Se que debe ser difícil pero esta genial que puedas hacer una segunda versión o secuela del juego porque es muy bueno!!
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