A game that runs in FCEUX via Lua. It completely ignores whatever ROM you have loaded, but it works especially well with one I included (see below). It's very simple, and could theoretically run in pretty much anything; it just runs in FCEUX because it's an easy environment to use.
RULES:
You have 25 HP. Running into a bullet: -1HP. Your score increases over time, boosted slightly by not running into things (although the impact of your health on your score diminishes greatly over time, mostly due to how difficult it is to keep it up.)
After a while, it becomes fairly impossible to continue unless you cheat, so, um, don't do that, so we can keep things fair. 8D
CONTROLS:
Move with +D-Pad.
A: Start game.
Run into bullets: Die!
SCREENSHOTS:
Or you can just view a video...
Most of these are from older versions or just from when I was testing. They give you the general idea of the gamescreen, but aren't really current.
DOWNLOAD:
ROM* and Lua file. Technically, you can use other ROMs, but results won't be what you expect.
It requires the x_functions Lua library.
* The ROM is something I compiled myself that was modified from Acmlm's NSF player program. It contains the Batman NSF code, however, so you should base your judgement on if you mind NSFs being distributed, as that's all it really is.
My personal record so far:
Feel free to let me know of anything that could be improved. This is really just a prototype of something else I had planned, but it was too fun to not show off.
Oh, one last thing: If you can't see your health bar, set your drawing area to 0/239 in Configuration -> Video. Trust me, it makes things much better.
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
First result: 1,102,968 (1'56"53). There's definitely a room for the game to be improved. For instance, there can be less undodgeable garbage on the screen after ~1 mil point mark; it just leaves survival more to luck than to deliberate dodging from that point on.
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
What hurts the score more: running into several bullets within a small time frame, or just no-missing for as long as possible? For instance, I usually tend to not get hit even once until stage 6 or 7, and usually get killed from 1:58 to 2:05. My scores vary from 1.3 to 1.7 billion as a result.
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
As in, very easy.
The problem is striking a balance between predictable and hectic.
Predictable being moving left and right and getting the same thing, versus hectic where things just go wherever.
As it is, they try to home in on the player. Using randomness is a huge help, but as you probably noticed it quickly makes the game impossible to do well at beyond a certain point.Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
That's no-miss until stage 8, and pretty lucky stages 9-10.Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
As for the smaller-hitbox: It makes it too easy to sit in a corner and accumulate millions of points. Eh.
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Drama, too long, didn't read, lol.
Hehe, interesting. I think the difficulty in 0003 needs to be toned up a bit though ... Final time: 4'46''07 Final score: -2147483648pts ... negative score? No such fantastic score on 0002 version though.
How do you get this to work? as soon as the first red pixel reaches the bottom of the screen, I get the message: .\x_functions.lua:51: bad coordinates please help EDIT ignore this, just an old version of fceu I played smb3 at the same time (instead of bulletdodger.nes) and got past level 2 and my score for bulletdodger was 211k
