Mutant Monty: Amstrad CPC to Windows conversion

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steve_ancell	Created : 17 April 2013 System : Mac Mutant Monty: Amstrad CPC to Windows conversion
I've been working on a conversion project over the past few weeks, I neglected this project a couple of times before and am now begining to understand why there doesn't seem to be any current clones or remakes of Mutant Monty, converting this from the Amstrad CPC to BlitzBasic is a proper pain in the arse. I so far have the level-loader and sprite loader working, the level maps are done and I have now painstakingly ripped all the tiles and sprites into PNG files, and I bloomin' well made sure that I backed it up on GoogleDrive too. Next step... Well I see what needs doing when I wake up next, I've been up all night ripping sprites and I am really fucking knackered!, time for a few hours sleep now me thinks. Watch this space!.

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Saturday, 20 April 2013, 07:16
steve_ancell	Contrary to my belief that Mutant Monty is a mole, he is actually a roundish man with a seriously big nose, according to the tape cover shot in the CPCWiki I have linked to below. I had Mutant Monty as part of a pack so never really got to see the single cover. cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Mutant_Monty With that bit aside, I now have the level showing on screen and done the bit that loads and positions the player, on screen at the start of the level. I have also done the bit that scales up/down the sprite and tile sizes to suit across multiple resolutions.
Saturday, 20 April 2013, 13:02
rockford	Mutant Monty is of no relation to Monty Mole. There is no connection, other than the name Monty and both starred in 8bit platform adventure games. Anyway, screenies or it never happened!
Saturday, 20 April 2013, 13:25
steve_ancell	I will get the first screenie up a bit later but it's still not a playable game at this stage, still got loads to do.
Saturday, 20 April 2013, 13:34
steve_ancell	OK, here's a very early screenie of what it looks like so far, no animations or movement yet but that will happen pretty damn soon.
Sunday, 21 April 2013, 03:19
rockford	That brings back memories
Sunday, 21 April 2013, 03:54
Jayenkai	That definitely explains why my recent "Monty Mole Remix" search on Youtube was so useless! I, too, had always assumed he was "Monty Mole"... ... So where the hell did that name come from then!?! .. Nintendo, apparently. Hmmm.. Odd.. To be fair, I always assumed Miner Willy was a cute little white teddy bear, with a little tuft of hair sticking up, until the GBA remake showed him in full colour.. Turns out that was a miner's lantern. Who knew!!
Sunday, 21 April 2013, 04:48
Afr0	Hey Steve, seems you're also remaking your favourite game! Welcome to the club!
Monday, 22 April 2013, 16:10
steve_ancell	Got the animation tables working and Monty now does the full Monty in response to the arrow keys.
Tuesday, 23 April 2013, 06:55
steve_ancell	Got the pickups loader working, Monty can now go around collecting gold like a greedy little bugger.
Tuesday, 23 April 2013, 07:03
Jayenkai	Hurray for collectathons!!
Tuesday, 23 April 2013, 07:12
steve_ancell	Colectathons is what will be running in my head tonight, that gold only applies to the first level, I still need to place the loot in the other 39 levels. All the levels are done in Notepad, no level editors on this one. Looks in mirror to see if any more hair has fallen out
Tuesday, 23 April 2013, 09:00
Jayenkai	en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanted:_Monty_Mole The baffling world of Monty! Spectaculator on the AppStore has recently been given a bunch of Monty games, if you're willing to put up with the shitty onscreen controls.
Tuesday, 23 April 2013, 19:29
steve_ancell	First video footage, still not a complete game yet, but getting there. View on YouTube
Tuesday, 23 April 2013, 19:36
steve_ancell	As mentioned somewhere further up, I opted out of making a level editor and used Notepad instead, here is what the first level data looks like, I had plenty of nighmares from making a loader for that. //Size or the level map. ColumnCount 16 RowCount 10 //The guts of the level. LevelStart 01022021222324220020252422260304 00010404040404050001040404040500 00000000000000000000000000000000 00070007070402000000000000000000 00060000070001080800080808080800 00060000070000060000000000000600 00060000070003050000000000000600 00060000070001040404040404040500 00010404050000000000000000000000 00000000000009090909090009090900 LevelEnd //Where to put the player and set its direction, move speed and animation speed. //The X-Y position corresponds to columns, not pixels. PlayerStart AnimSequence MontyRight X 240 Y 160 Direction 2 Speed 0.50 AnimTimer 0 PlayerEnd BaddieStart AnimSequence BugMonster1 X 260 Y 64 Direction 4 StopPointX1 40 StopPointY1 64 Direction1 2 StopPointX2 440 StopPointY2 64 Direction2 4 BaddieEnd BaddieStart AnimSequence BugMonster1 X 360 Y 192 Direction 2 StopPointX1 320 StopPointY1 192 Direction1 2 StopPointX2 480 StopPointY2 192 Direction2 4 BaddieEnd BaddieStart AnimSequence BugMonster1 X 520 Y 256 Direction 4 StopPointX1 200 StopPointY1 256 Direction1 2 StopPointX2 560 StopPointY2 256 Direction2 4 BaddieEnd BaddieStart X 600 Y 176 Direction 1 StopPointX1 600 StopPointY1 32 Direction1 3 StopPointX2 600 StopPointY2 256 Direction2 1 BaddieEnd PickUpStart AnimSequence Gold X 320 Y 0 PickUpEnd PickUpStart AnimSequence Gold X 480 Y 64 PickUpEnd PickUpStart AnimSequence Gold X 120 Y 128 PickUpEnd PickUpStart AnimSequence Gold X 520 Y 192 PickUpEnd PickUpStart AnimSequence Gold X 440 Y 288 PickUpEnd End --v
Tuesday, 23 April 2013, 22:20
steve_ancell	Been up most of the night, doing the baddie movement bits. I'm gonna go get some sleep now, but in the meantime, here's some more video footage. View on YouTube
Wednesday, 24 April 2013, 03:56
Afr0	Steve, check out Tiled Map Editor
Wednesday, 24 April 2013, 04:29
steve_ancell	Might try that editor at a later date, this one really needs to be text editor based due to the way I'm parsing the directives etc...
Thursday, 25 April 2013, 03:25
Dabz	Cool video! Dabz
Thursday, 25 April 2013, 05:23
steve_ancell	Thanx for the feedback, I've done a bit more since then so be expecting more videos soon.
Thursday, 02 May 2013, 16:50
steve_ancell	Been busy bashing out more code, got 9 of the levels working. No sound yet but at least it's playable now. View on YouTube
Thursday, 02 May 2013, 16:59
Jayenkai	\o/yeay\o/!
Friday, 03 May 2013, 03:16
Afr0	Steve, you should really apply a bloom filter to your code. I'm not really a fan of retro graphics, but the way your camera makes it look now is AWESOME!
Friday, 03 May 2013, 04:25
steve_ancell	It turns out that bloom was due to the lens needing a cleaning.
Friday, 03 May 2013, 04:29
Jayenkai	Bring out the Vaseline!!!
Friday, 03 May 2013, 05:43
steve_ancell	Jayenkai Bring out the Vaseline!!! Shhh!, people might get the wrong idea.
Friday, 03 May 2013, 08:49
Afr0	It turns out that bloom was due to the lens needing a cleaning. I figured as much - you should add the effect to your code though!!
Friday, 03 May 2013, 11:24
steve_ancell	I agree Mats, it would be a good thing to add the bloom but this games is using the 2D command set in Blitz3D and I can't be arsed to convert it to 3D-Sprites.
Monday, 06 May 2013, 19:13
steve_ancell	All levels done now, just need to add sounds and a title screen, it goes straight into game mode as soon as it's loaded at the moment.
Friday, 10 May 2013, 14:14
rockford	Completely missed the new posts and vids. Nice one. Keep up the good work
Friday, 07 June 2013, 17:48
steve_ancell	The game is almost ready for release, just need to do some tweaks first.
Saturday, 08 June 2013, 20:12
steve_ancell	Finally released. Mutant Monty Remake

Mutant Monty: Amstrad CPC to Windows conversion

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