Cat Trap

necro · Post by **necro** » Mon 28 Mar, 2005 1:53 am

Well...I'll tell you about my side project because it doesn't work in debbuger

. The game has you as a mouse, and cats, snakes (they dont work very well right know ): ) and other mouse eating animals. You are a rat and as such, killing cats/spiders/snakes is acomplished by trapping them in blocks (when trapped on four sides they die.) Im sorry I can't post screens, but here is my current progress:

-Full collision detection
-Pushable blocks
-Moving cats that can kill you intellegenty when your in their field of vesion
-Snakes that are buggy and are supposed to follow walls
-the cat and the snake can die
-sprite graphics (currently using xLib)

Spengo · Post by **Spengo** » Mon 28 Mar, 2005 2:11 am

It sounds good. Can you paste the source? (http://www.rafb.net/paste/) Or maybe host the .8xp or /zip file somewhere?

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Mon 28 Mar, 2005 2:26 am

here is the old screenshot you posted on EPS:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/ ... pmovie.gif

Spengo · Post by **Spengo** » Mon 28 Mar, 2005 3:11 am

It looks like an old game that came with windows 95 :) The one where you trapped all the cats and ate the cheese and pushed blocks around. You had to do it in a time limit too.

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Mon 28 Mar, 2005 3:18 am

I was thinking the same thing, Man i wish I still had that game.

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Mon 28 Mar, 2005 3:20 am

I wish it came with Windows XP. Now we only have pinball, but acelgoyobis beat it

Spengo · Post by **Spengo** » Mon 28 Mar, 2005 3:22 am

I know. really. Acelgoyobis pwns.
*spengo rolls eyes* Stupid microsoft :P

Maybe if you make this game cool enough, it will beat the old windows 95 cat and mouse game!

the_unknown_one · Post by **the_unknown_one** » Mon 28 Mar, 2005 10:08 am

Actually, it IS based on that windows 95 game, he said at EPS forum. Also, it uses my DI routine

Stickmanofdoom · Post by **Stickmanofdoom** » Mon 28 Mar, 2005 11:07 pm

The Win95 game came with the "Best of Entertainment" pack and was called "Rodent's Revenge".

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Mon 28 Mar, 2005 11:49 pm

Do you know if there is a free version or clone avaliable somewhere on the web?

ISUCK · Post by **ISUCK** » Tue 29 Mar, 2005 12:32 am

Oh my god, I remember playing this when I was wee small, then somehow oneday it mysteriousyl disappeared... Fun Fun days

necro · Post by **necro** » Tue 29 Mar, 2005 2:21 am

Is will be the old game as best I can make it in basic, but with sevral new enemy types such as a snake that follows around the walls and a spider that can shoot a web...I'm not sure how many cats/snakes/ect I can support at the same time (likely 2...maybe 3) as the old game could have multiple enemies at the same time.

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Tue 29 Mar, 2005 2:31 am

Maybe 3 enemies at time, but since it's mostly a puzzle game it should need to be incredibly fast. With Omnicalc you can have at least 5 monsters, but it add 16 kb of archive to your game size

And those sprite are great!

The blocks are looking a bit 3D-ish

Spengo · Post by **Spengo** » Tue 29 Mar, 2005 3:52 am

Yeah, seriously, those sprites are great. Except the rat. It kinda looks like a line with a tail. Is there a way to make it look more rat-ish? Other than that, this game sounds really good! :)

necro · Post by **necro** » Tue 29 Mar, 2005 6:29 pm

I think its a little better now