This is a pico-8 port of Klax, mainly based on the Atari Lynx version, featuring:
-100 levels
-5 different backgrounds
-warps
-full klax combos and scoring system.
updated to v1.1
-Fixed early game over condition when last free tile would create a klax
Thanks to @dan9er finding
-added additional perspective tile graphics for tiles on external lines
-added brief tutorial before level one,like lynx version
-added one sample of digitized speech... It's all i could fit without
compression but i wanted to test how this new secret functionality
I needed a warm up project after taking some time off since finishing Masters of the Universe and I was thinking how Lynx screen resolution is not that far off from pico-8's and it gave me the idea of trying to port some games.
I played a lot of this on my lynx and it seemed like the easiest one to start with.
I found 2 other klax carts for pico. One by @GiovanH and one by @troske007. I used the last klax2d as a starting point and then I just "stitched" on all the missing features
and change after change the result is a bit of a Frankenstein monster code-wise, and ended up almost reaching the token limit.
I was already planning a future update with cleaner code and just before posting this I saw @carlc27843 's amazing discover of sfx samples so I will try to add a couple of sfx from the lynx version too soon.
Major thanks to @NiVZ for his feedback!
Hope you'll enjoy this.
Klax is a puzzle video game released in arcades in 1990 by Atari Games. It was designed by Dave Akers and Mark Stephen Pierce. The object is to catch colored blocks tumbling down a machine and arrange them in colored rows and patterns to make them disappear. Klax was originally published as a coin-op follow-up to Tetris, about which Atari Games were tangled in a legal dispute at the time.
Great port! I played the Lynx version all the time! The first thing I tried was something I figured wouldn't be in the game, which is the secret warp at stage 5, but it's in there! SWEET!
I enjoyed this on my TurboGrafx-16. Nice work on this. Love how the title screen says "It is 2021 and there is still time for Flax", which is a great homage to the original "It is the nineties and there is time for Klax"
Great job @TheRoboZ! Nice version among all other versions of different systems : https://youtu.be/c4CL2RgBNLg
I found a logic bug:
In my playthough I had the board like this on a diagonal wave:
XG X XXYOX XYXXO XXXXX XXXXX |
I got some bad blocks and thought I was about to lose, when two green blocks start comming up, which would allow me to open up my 2 diagonals. So I place the blocks like this:
XGGGX XXYOX XYXXO XXXXX XXXXX |
This gave me a game over, even though I made a klax which would open up my board again.
In psuedocode, this:
If board is full:
Game over
If there is a klax:
Clear matching blocks |
should be changed to:
If there is a klax:
Clear matching blocks
If board is full:
Game over |
Thank you @dan9er, I realized I haven't tested this case and your solution is correct. I will update it soon
well done, excellent look (as usual ;).
good luck with pcm/code size and compression...
updated to v1.1
-Fixed early game over condition when last free tile would create a klax
Thanks to @dan9er finding
-added additional perspective tile graphics for tiles on external lines
-added brief tutorial before level one,like lynx version
-added one sample of digitized speech... It's all i could fit without
compression but i wanted to test how this new secret functionality
Very generous to mention my doodle here at all. Very nice work here!
Here's a patch to future-proof the game :-)
Replace the line that says
print_s(" it is 2021,",0,16,7) |
with
print_s(" it is " .. stat(80) ..",",0,16,7) |
Thanks a lot. While this is the least played of my games, I feel it's the most complete and re-playable one, so I am always glad when someone enjoys it!
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