The Golden Q Quest

[Chris!]

"An intrepid explorer named Illinois Smith is on a mission to get the Golden Q. He'll have to go through rooms of the ancient Q Pyramid to get to it. Along the way, he'll find other amazing artifacts like the Jade J and the Zirconia Z. Avoid the evil ghosts of the mummified pharaohs along the way, as they are guarding the treasures."

I don't know how far along I can get in programming this, but I just thought I'd share the beginnings of a game I have begun work on. I only have around 500 bytes left in the bank which should be enough room for a simple enemy or two or three.

To get a feel for what I am trying to do, I played the Atari 2600 version of Venture. Man it stinks! It's just too HARD. I can't get past the second level. I'm attempting to make a fair-er port of this.

[cjherr]

Nice start! Very Venture-y

-Chris

[Chris!]

I am testing the YouTube part of this forum.

[Janzl]

I am testing the YouTube part of this forum.

Looks like it works

I loved Venture on the ColecoVision (the best one, even better than the arcade imho) so it would be nice to have a vpac/o2 port.
Looking forward to see how this one goes.

[Chris!]

Floor 1 of the pyramid is finished. Please let me know if there are any bugs. I worked on this all day long and it's way past my bedtime so I'm going to sleep.

[Chris!]

Made a new YouTube video of the game.

[Chris!]

Worked on this all weekend. Let me know what you think of the blue level (level 2.)

[Chris!]

Fixed a couple of things from yesterday's build. It looks like I'm not going to be able to fit three ghosts in the game. The floor with two ghosts is hard enough anyway, so I think that's all I'll need.

[Chris!]

I was able to fit three ghosts in the game. In order to get the score not blinking when a treasure is touched though, I had to move it to the bottom of the screen. I need some testers with a way to get it on a real Odyssey 2 to see if all the score shows up on the screen or if it's cut off. I tested it myself and on my flat screen tv it barely gets it all on screen.

I will not put the full version of the game so pirates can't make cartridges out of it.

[lucifershalo]

it looks promising
between this and Robot Ron, nice projects !

[RayXambeR]

+1, looks promising. I love original Venture so a game inspired by could be great to see on Videopac!