Gateway to Apshai

[xot]

Yeah! I look forward to checking this out. Way to go, Pascal.

(a little later)

I feel a sudden giddy urge to start cobbling this game together into a modern version, like right now. You're bringing out the worst in me.

Again, fantastic work, man.

[xot]

The "blinking" bat: does the color of the bat turn black, or does it actually disappear from the play field. More to the point, do collisions happen while the bat is "invisible"?

[Kroah]

Thanks xot, glad to hear it. I'll answer all the questions you have. (PS: i don't have access to my mail box since a week, but i'll answer to your mail

The "blinking" bat: does the color of the bat turn black, or does it actually disappear from the play field. More to the point, do collisions happen while the bat is "invisible"?

Effectively, the bat dosen't turn black, but teleports (disappears and reappears immediately anywhere in the same room, maybe on the player ).

[xot]

Oh, ok. I guess I've ever gotten that far into Gateway, or at least I don't remember how the teleporting bat works. Thanks for the info.

[Kroah]

You can try the different monsters using the attached state file (.a8s).

Monsters type of the level are stored at memory address: $31D7 to $31E6.
The type is equal to the monster number (base 1), so 32 ($20) is the blinking bat, 15 ($f) the mummy, etc... (see the list of the monsters, they are listed in incrementing order, beginning at 1).

So if you type in the debug console:

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f 31d7 31e6 20

all the monsters of the level become blinking bats.

Tell me if you need more memory addresses.

[xot]

Thanks for that. I'll try it out if I can ever find some free time ... although, if I'm to be honest, the chances of me actually recreating this game verbatim are extremely low -- although it would be pretty easy -- hmmm -- evil thoughts are refusing to die.

What I really want to do is make a similar game I've had in mind for some time, mainly inspired by the action of Gateway to Apshai while adding the randomness of it's spiritual progenitor Rogue along with some Zelda-like improvements to gameplay depth. A straight remake of Gateway might actually be good for prototyping some of the concepts.