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Currently porting my game Jurl across to DOS, quite a bit of progress (unsurprisingly, i've ported it to 30 odd platforms already so the logic is pretty portable), probably around 60% done, next steps:
working on a rhythm game similar to vivid/stasis for pc xt (cga/mda, pc speaker). not much game code is actually written yet but i have the engine mostly planned out and i have the graphics for the game screen displaying
so far most of the time i spent on this has been tracking down documentation, figuring out what i can do on the platform, putting together related tools and assets. just getting a readable font in this video mode took a very long time.
Nearly there... I just have to finish the manual cover image, then reduce it to a 4 colour CGA title screen. Then the game will be ready to send out to the beta testers. Here's progress on that image, it just needs some sci-fi buildings inserting between this little base in the foreground and those mountains in the background. I'm learning a lot about 3D rendering in povray here.
It's all scripting. Last time I looked at povray modellers for Linux, admittedly 20 years ago, I didn't get on with any of them. Last modeller I used was Moray for MS-DOS, but that's limited to a pretty old version of povray, and raytracing under DOSBox would slow everything down. But scripting allows me to use macros and procedural generation. So all those streets of buildings are generated from the same macro with random variations, and the trees and bushes also come from the same macro.
mad respect!! have you seen the guy on youtube who makes a tron lightcycle in povray. it takes about an hour and there is even an animated grid zooming by.
That's a cool video! I just realised "those streets of buildings" I mentioned aren't actually there in that unfinished render. You can see them in this completed manual cover image (a further progress pic just to stay on topic...) with a handful of actual game screenshots alongside. The title screen was hand-traced as you need a lot of artistic licence reducing this level of detail down to a 144x144 pixel image. 
Hi!
I've been pre-Jamming trying to figure out an art style for backgrounds! Both for myself and for potential use by others in conjunction with the character assets I've contributed to the Asset Pack. With that in mind, I want something simple, evocative and hopefully easy to reproduce/modify by non-artists. Low detail and flat colours, because it's quick and lets one add details in later if need be. Heavily shape based, to help the backgrounds feel simpler to "assemble" and as a way to *cheat* perspective. But I shouldn't ramble as I could go on forever, and this is a progress thread, so here's the progress:
These are very preliminary, lots to figure out, like scale and how much I want to stick to representational vs. abstract colours.
Wishing you all a Good Jam and Have Fun!
