For the past two months @rek and I ported a game of ours for its 10th years anniversary since iOS updates broke it beyond repair.
It has been rewritten to target a virtual machine, which should(hopefully) help us keeping it playable. In the next few days I'll release a document that explains how to write an emulator to run the game.
This is a milestone for Uxn, partly because it's what it was designed to do, but until now I had only written projects too small to really test the idea of Uxn being even capable of driving games more complex than card games. I'm super happy to see that it delivered, but also I think it's the most fun I ever had programming a game.
"Another World VM defines 256 variables, 64 threads, 29 opcodes, and four framebuffers. That's it. If you build a VM host capable of handling these, you can run the game. If you are able to make the VM fast enough to run at 20 frames per seconds, you can actually play the game. "
i remember reading that article too and all the ideas and inspiration it ignited. I love your line of tools and use left every other day. Thanks to both of you for the inspiration you bring me and others.
@lukiss cheers for saying so! I'm trying to make little improvements to left every few days 😀
I wonder how many people's minds the article on Another World blew. With hindsight, after seeing other articles like it about virtual machines and similar topics, I think what's special about this one is that it's both visual and explained in simple terms so it's accessible to people like us sitting just outside of the edge of computer science
@dx It's oquonie redux, audio is so minimal now, it's basically chiptune(until I figure out how to write decent music on Uxn), and the assets are a 10th of the size of original version. But it has a charm of its own now 😀
congrats! I think I'm going to get through this game again. And yeah, only two months? It feels like half a year since I saw your first post about porting progress. I guess I stretching my lifetime a bit lately.
Thanks again for helping with the testing! I've fixed a couple of additional bugs since the last build.
I found out that you could transform into the bird character in the world with the shark, and get stuck there - So I had to add an extra warp. Taken pillars don't warp anymore.
awesome and congrats! I just started the game for the first time, with the UXN version. Complètement happé par le rythme et le concept ! I really enjoyed following both of your progress these past few months.
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Congratulation for the release, I’m really looking forward to discover the game as I never played the iOS version. The graphics are so delightful in the uxn version.
@flip Stack machines preceded that era by many years, so they must have known. But that approach is quite wasteful(slow) in terms of speed. The game Another World is a good example of a graphical game targeting a portable VM, but in the DOS era computers were much slower than today's, so the VM layer had to be pretty large to include almost any sort of CPU demanding logic and drawing pixels on the screen.
Uxn makes use of today's fast computers, but does pretty poorly on an actual 386.
@flip I think so too 😀 still learning about this stuff myself. We'll see if in 5 years we can still play the game, I'll let you know if it was a good idea or not ;)
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This is a milestone for Uxn, partly because it's what it was designed to do, but until now I had only written projects too small to really test the idea of Uxn being even capable of driving games more complex than card games. I'm super happy to see that it delivered, but also I think it's the most fun I ever had programming a game.
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The polygons of Another World
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Thanks again for helping with the testing! I've fixed a couple of additional bugs since the last build.
I found out that you could transform into the bird character in the world with the shark, and get stuck there - So I had to add an extra warp. Taken pillars don't warp anymore.
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Complètement happé par le rythme et le concept !
I really enjoyed following both of your progress these past few months.
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Congratulations on this release, it's an honor to orbit the ultraviolet sun
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