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Work in Progress / Retro Gaming Entry : Cyberbowl!!

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Redmotion
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Posted: 1st Mar 2003 11:00
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Cyberbowl is a remake of Hyperbowl on Spectrum. I only feel the need announce this, (which has been in development since 21st February and on paper since Jan2003.) since I have seen someone else has been making a update of the same game!! Good luck guys!
The Alpha test will be availible for download in a few weeks hopefully...if I'm not to busy. Initially, I am hoping to enter the competition but if it's not ready by then it simply won't be entered.
Singleplayer Tornament and Multiplayer modes with customisable rules will be availible. I will also try do in-cockpit views (for amusement sake) and a radar... Features really need to be finalised though...Afraid I need to be a bit cagey about the whole thing!! It runs at 100FPS with SYNC set to 0 (which I might add as a mode for the comedy value!!) and averages around 60 FPS at proper speed. Only tested a few machines - if your G.card is old it won't manage much more than 10 FPS...which is what I got on an ATI Xpert 2000. There are 5 hardware lights for a start. Geforce 400MX ran it perfectly - so anything better should run at the optimum speed...

http://www.btinternet.com/~redmotion/cyberball/cyberball.html
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Posted: 1st Mar 2003 11:06
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http://www.btinternet.com/~redmotion/cyberball2/cyberball2.html

And heres another taster...

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Benjamin
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Posted: 1st Mar 2003 13:27
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*too

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Kohai of UWDesign
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Posted: 1st Mar 2003 13:29
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Wow ... Damn nice ...


Keep on posting screen-shots !

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Redmotion
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Posted: 1st Mar 2003 16:41
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Actually I think I might change the name of the game - cyberball? cyberbowl? psyberball? Hyperbowl? Lazerball?
Any ideas?
Won't dwell on it too long - the game itself needs the brainpower! Powerball? Powerbowl? Anyone remember Powerdrome? on Atari ST? That was class....

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Andy Igoe
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This looks very slick indeed. Although we are doing remakes of the same game I believe our approaches are very different to each other.

As for names, we have chosen to just call ours Hyperbowl Retro Remake - we almost went for the name Gravbowl and the name Deathbowl (which was the name of our original Amiga remake of this game that involved 3-a-side matches and player deaths).

I hope you finish it for the competition.

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 1st Mar 2003 19:57
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Looking cool! And sure I remember Powerdrome - doesn't look a thing like this though But it was a class game.

Cheers,

Rich

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Posted: 3rd Mar 2003 12:28
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Cheers! I only remembered Powerdrome while going through the names and got all nostalgic...Maybe I'll try a version of that next... But anyway, have added a sprite based radar (which needs tweaking a little) and used the timer() command to create a 2 minute long countdown for the first half. Once I've tweaked the A.I. a little (stopped the computer scoring own-goals!!) and added sound I might release a beta file for download...Maybe I will also add the cockpit view and multiplayer split screens before then too...

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Oh and it runs fine (60fps) on a Duron 800 with Geforce GTS graphics card. Will try it on a PII 400 with TNT2 next...

When I first started using DBPro I was quite frustrated that a lot of things were difficult to get working but now after managing to get a game this finished after a week I'm dead impressed....

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That looks great. There looks like there are a lot of really great entries out there. Gonna be some tough competition.
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Posted: 5th Mar 2003 02:07
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Here's the latest pic. With timer counting down and map for easier orientation working properly.

**** Beta test demo should be availible soon ****

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