Q*Bert

warning: SDCC 4.1.0 is buggy, use newer compiler version.

TODO:

• "Pyramid" boundary check;
• Frenemies
  • green ball (green, pickable, freezes enemies)
  • red balls (jumps down randomly until end of screen starting from any of the blocks from the second tier)
  • Coily (purple, homing, snake)
  • Sam (green, change colors back, talks gibberish, pickable)
  • Slick (green, shades, change colors back, talks gibberish, pickable)
  • Wrong Way (purple, side runner, talks gibberish)
  • Ugg (purple, horny dragon type, side runner, talks gibberish)
• Escape disk
• New level introduction screen
• Original music
• Detect enemy hit
• Q*Bert when it hits enemy: talks gibberish with text baloon
• Possible extra game modes
  • Competitive/Collaborative two players mode?
  • never-ending scrollable mode?
  • Story mode?

External tools

• Tiled was used to edit the game map, via JSON export (see map.json)
• All the graphics were drawn with GIMP
• The music engine is the lvgm player modified to work with Ubox