HardHatHarryBBCMicroElectronDiary - simondotm/stardot-wiki GitHub Wiki

by Tom Walker

Unlike my other games, this is a 'quickie' - the planned finishing date is the 26th January 2011. Made a start! Got a title screen... and that's about it.

After a break due to the primary gifting season, some sprites are done! Harry looks okay, but some of the animals are really pathetic. Also got a start on the level drawing code.

Now draws the level correctly. Harry is now drawn on screen, but he doesn't do anything yet.

Harry now runs and bounces round the screen correctly.

Ladders and conveyor belts now work correctly.

Game now keeps track of lives, time, and is linked into the title screen properly now.

Lunches are now implemented - though as my attempts at drawing lunchboxes looked more like handbags (and it's not that kind of building site!), they're mugs instead. Score now works.

First enemy implemented - Big Kong. He's sort of recurring throughout the game and he lobs barrels at you. The speed at which he does this means this is probably a later level...


More enemies added, plus you can die now. Kong's level is definitely being put back, it's _lethal_! Only have 294 bytes left at the moment, so some crunching will have to happen tomorrow.


Levels now compressed, plus code size reduced a little - 655 bytes left now, with 4 levels in. 16 more to go!

4 more levels, 206 bytes left.

Playtesting has shown that the controls are quite frustrating, so I've done some work to improve that. Also added another 2 levels, though now there's under 70 bytes left so more crunching is needed!

Two more levels, plus working hi-score table and sound effects. Unfortunately some stripping back has been necessary in the light of memory limits, hence there's now 16 levels instead of 20, and the lion is gone (though the Peter The Panda has finally been implemented).

Added final two levels, fixed some sprite flickering. Added joystick support. HHH is now feature complete, and just awaits some possible fine tuning.

Tweaked sound, and released!

Electron version completed in a matter of hours - also released.