Stickman Dungeon Adventures (community project)

• Game
• Adventure
• Platform
• Music
• Sounds
• Gamepad

SP4CEBAR 2024-07-02 11:28 (Edited)

DAN

G9

LOWRESNX COMUNITY GAME PROJECT

started on June 5th 2021

ended on July 31th 2021

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* CODE BY:                       *
* DAN, SP4CEBAR, G9              *
*                                *
* MUSIC BY:                      *
* NINTENDO, PORTED BY G-9        *
*                                *
* SOUND BY:                      *
* SPACEB4R, G-9                  *
*                                *
* SPRITES BY:                    *
* DAN, SP4CEBAR                  *
*                                *
* LEVELS BY:                     *
* LEVELS DAN, G-9                *
*                                *
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Controls

• joystick to move
• A to attack
• B to jump or fly

Details

• amount of levels: 40

read the full history of this project here

　　　　　　　　Open In Editor

SP4CEBAR 2024-07-02 12:05 (Edited)

Update 1:

• PLAYTESTING has been turned off to remove the stickman's unfair advantage

SP4CEBAR 2024-07-02 12:24 (Edited)

Update 2:

• I added a speedrun timer that you can view by enabling NX's debugging mode

Good luck speedrunning!

SP4CEBAR 2024-07-02 13:31 (Edited)

Update 3

• the level, lives, and score are now saved to the persistent RAM so that you can play the game at your own pace
• you can reset it by pausing the game and returning to the main menu

Note: the speed running timer is not yet stored on persistent RAM

Timo 2024-07-02 15:56

This turned out really cool, but it's very hard :O

SP4CEBAR 2024-07-03 14:40 (Edited)

Update 4

• level 10 has been nerved (it was almost impossible to beat)
• the speedrun timer is now saved to persistent RAM so you always know how long you have been playing for

SP4CEBAR 2024-07-05 11:07

Extra stages aren't levels, so the completion of an extra stage isn't saved to persistent RAM

SP4CEBAR 2024-07-05 11:10

I just made it to level 27 with 16 lives left: the game is actually playable! And auto-save is working nicely

Dan 2024-07-05 11:40 (Edited)

Btw: the Playtesting variable was for the editor (which is used as an LNX tool). The editor is on the https://lowresnx.inutilis.com/topic.php?id=1932 (see the post from 2021-07-29 12:29 )

SP4CEBAR 2024-07-05 14:04 (Edited)

I noticed. It made the player invincible. There was also a test_level variable that would be loaded from the level file. After I updated level 10, I manually set this variable to zero because I didn't know how to turn it off.

SP4CEBAR 2024-07-05 14:38 (Edited)

There are a few loopholes in the game:

• A player can indefinitely gain hearts by dying or restarting the level after having collected multiple hearts, a player can do this in levels like level 35.
  This can be patched by making it so that when the player dies or restarts the level, the amount of hearts it has collected is reverted to the amount the player had upon entering the level for the first time.
• the game progress saving is convenient, but it allows a player to restart a level for free as well as being able to redo extra stages.
  To patch this, extra stages probably should be saved as well. Game saving currently occurs each time a level is (re)loaded. To keep the player from indefinitely gaining even more lives it maybe should only occur each time a level is loaded for the first time. Maybe the official level restart option should be free as well, so restarting the game through the save has no advantage.

What do you think?

SP4CEBAR 2024-07-05 14:59

Level 38 was missing a key

SP4CEBAR 2024-07-05 15:13 (Edited)

I beat the game in 1h 28m 33s 33f with a score of 38720 and 20 lives left!
I must admit, I have made use of free restarts through the game save
Anyway, the game is beatable!

SP4CEBAR 2024-07-05 15:22

Update 5

• level 38 has been updated: was missing its key to the exit. The key has been added and the level has also been made slightly harder.

Timo 2024-07-05 17:04

The game has more than 38 levels???!?
I didn’t finish the first one! :O
I guess I’m not good at playing games…

SP4CEBAR 2024-07-05 22:00

The dungeon is ruthless

Dan 2024-07-07 19:19

if i remember right to communicate between game and the tool, you have to use the game's banks.
i think the test_level variable is reading out a byte from a bank memory, which the editor sets to 1 or 0, to make the level testing easier.

SP4CEBAR 2024-07-07 20:02

Can the banks be set from within the tool? If so I didn't see the option

Dan 2024-07-08 20:39 (Edited)

This is the code (from the editor) which sets the testlevel variable into the rom banks:

IF TX=8 OR TX=9 THEN
REM RE/SET THE TESTING LEVEL
IF TESTLEVEL>0 AND LEVEL=TESTLEVEL THEN
TESTLEVEL=0
ELSE
TESTLEVEL=LEVEL
END IF
POKE (PALSTART+40),TESTLEVEL
WAIT 25
END IF


The idea was that the Game is put into testing mode, so that you do not need to play all the levels but the one Level that you have edited.

You would play that one level to find out how hard is it, or if it is possible to end the level, etc etc etc ...

SP4CEBAR 2024-07-08 21:10

Handy