New Atari 2600 Homebrew - Draconian

[TrekMD]

[size=140]Atari Age member SpiceWare has released a demo for another excellent homebrew title for the Atari 2600:  Draconian.  He started work on this title in March and has just released it as a WIP.[/size]

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[size=140]Your goal is to destroy the space stations on each level.  Use the radar, located at the bottom of the screen between the score and lives remaining, to find the stations (green dots) in relation to yourself (white dot).  Destroy the stations by taking out all 6 pods.[/size]

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[size=140]Or by hitting the occasionally exposed Energy Field.[/size]

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[size=140]Be careful of asteroids and mines.  Also beware of the enemy ships.  They currently just fly around in formation and cannot yet be destroyed, but running into them is still deadly.[/size]

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[size=140]Menu Options:
Level = select from 1 of 6 test levels.
TV Type = Select NTSC, PAL or SECAM for proper colors based on your model 2600.
 
Controls:
Left Difficulty - A= Diagnostic Display (time remaining in Vertical Blank and OverScan)
Left Difficulty - B = Score Display
Right Difficulty - A = stationary ship (used for diagnostic purposes)
Right Difficulty - B = moving ship
SELECT = return to menu
START = start game
Joystick = move around in sector
Fire = shoot

If you're checking this out with Stella, be sure to turn on phosphor mode!
open Draconian in Stella
hit TAB for the in-game-menu
select Game Properties
Select the Display tab
change Use Phosphor to Yes
click OK
select Exit Menu
Reload the ROM (Control-R)[/size]

[align=center:2avr033u][size=140]Original thread:[/size]
[size=180]Draconian (2600)[/size][/align:2avr033u]

[align=center:2avr033u][size=80]Posted with permission from SpiceWare[/size][/align:2avr033u]

[TL]

A conversion of Bosconian on the 2600? Now we are talking!

This looks bloody excellent! 

[TrekMD]

Give it a spin. It is excellent!

[zapiy]

Looks awesome. Nice work by the AA member indeed.

[TrekMD]

I just modified the first post as his request as what has been released is still a work in progress.  It's not the final version yet.   

[TrekMD]

An update has been posted:

• Stations are now solid - this means the player's shots no longer pass thru it, so you must fly around the station to pick off all the pods (or hit the energy field)
• Flying into a station will destroy both the player's ship and the station
• Pods now explode when destroyed
• Station now explodes when destroyed - station explosion is not deadly to the player's ship

[TrekMD]

New update:

New menu options:
Quadrant: Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta
Sector: 1-x, depends on selected Quadrant.  This used to be Level
Level: Kids, Easy, Normal, Hard

Quadrants:
Alpha - Midway arcade levels (Nathan's mapped out 12 sectors so far)
Beta - will be Namco [new] arcade levels
Gamma - will be unique levels for Draconian.
Delta - will be AtariAge contest levels
Note: Beta, Gamma and Delta contain placeholder levels for now.
 
Level currently controls the number of space objects (asteroids and mines) that appear in each of the 32 horizontal zones.
 
 
1 Requires Stella ver 3.7.1 or later. 

[TrekMD]

Well, this game has bee finished and it will be released at PRGE this week.  Check out the video of the game action...

https://youtu.be/jLVipxZNKhs