Tiled backgrounds from images and map stored on the FX
it looks like itās time for me to port the fx library )
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Yes, yes, yes. The ideal resolution would be 120x86 ā¦ can you come near that?
any of 128x128 and less
could be more 320x240 but with additional attached display )
i think in the port of FX lib Iāll change W25Q128 access to EPS8266 PROGMEM or LittleFS or attach W25Q128 module
Nov 15, 2022: Cut Scene 1
One of the things that I love about Karateka and Prince of Persia is the extra effort Mechner took to create a story. I wanted to reproduce the cut scenes from and have completed the first ā¦
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Meh ā¦ two periods, three periods, who cares?
For some people, ellipsis are used to indicate missing words whereas a ā..ā indicates a longer than normal pause. Please do not point me to any āofficialā site that tells me that the double-period is not an official punctuation mark as I am much more progressive than these academics.
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Perhaps itās just my grammar OCDā¦ 
(A few computer languages use .. for concatenation and/or ranges, which adds to the confusion.)
Whatās you grandma got to do with this?
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I know its not an Arduboy, but Mechner himself has commented on PPOTās Karateka.
Cannot wait to show him this PoP remake!
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Itās a good guy. The fact he lives in France now prove it ā¦ 
(Sorry a little out of subject) but yes, i think that he could find it amazing to make the game runing on so few ressourcesā¦ and a comment from him would be amazing.
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LOL ā¦ I wonder if he has a French background. The wiki page says he āwas born in New York City in 1964, into a family of European Jewish immigrants.ā not overly helpful in pinpointing a location.
Try going a step up the tree, to Francis Mechner:
Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1931, Mechner came to the United States in 1944 after having spent three years in France and over two years in Cuba. By age 19 he was an accomplished classical concert pianist, portrait painter, and USCF-rated chess master. In the late 1980s he composed the soundtracks for the original versions of Karateka and Prince of Persia (video games) both developed by his oldest son Jordan Mechner.
Right ā¦ I am not a Mechner stalker!
The concert pianist is interesting as I was already aware that he wrote the soundtracks for the two games. A quick skim if the linked page shows he was very accomplished in a number of areas. Amazing family!
Curious about the statement āoldest sonā ā¦ I wonder if any other sons or daughters did anything famous. Or were they classic āshit siblingsā?
I have to say Iām really impressed with how youāve managed to capture the spirit of Prince of Persia and make it fit for the 128x64 monochrome display. I had previously wondered if a PoP Arduboy port was possible now with the FX chip.
PoP was one of my favourite games growing up so Iāll be keeping a close eye on this!
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Thanks ā¦ a lot of the feel within the levels comes from the graphics that @clintonium-119 put together. The titles sequences and other graphics was done by @Vampirics ā¦ the bad graphics were done by me 
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The Wikipedia contributors who dig up the personal details might be though.
Often exceptional parents produce exceptional children, be it through inherited resources, instilled values, shared lifestyle, or, if one is feeling sceptical, nepotism.
(Much as Iām tempted to start rambling about other famous families, I doubt anyone wants to read it, so I shallnāt.)
Meanwhile we peasants have to make do with mediocre relatives.
I thought you said you werenāt a Mechner stalker?
So no progress for a few weeks - I have started the fight scenes but have not made much progress.
I found an article called Persia and its Controversial Prince: How the series has influenced Iranian developers, which is an interesting read. However, I find the criticism of the game hard to read without laughing ā¦
ā[In the game], you are forced to destroy jars and other precious Persian artifacts to gain points and become stronger.ā
and
āPersia in these games is shown to be an incoherent mix of pre-Islamic Persia, India, the Islamic caliphates, seleucid Iran, and more. It is sort of like a One Thousand and One Nights story, and while interesting by itself, I think the series could have been more beautiful and coherent if it was about a particular period in Persian history.ā
I am pretty sure the author of the above comment does not understand the technical limitations of the platforms these games were written for. Its hard to do justice to the subtleties of a culture in glorious monochrome. Even the ports to coloured platforms in the '90s would still had serious limitations.
But there is a valid point there ā¦ if it was not called Prince of Persia, where would people think it was supposed to be set? And wat time period??
But there are some interesting facts:
Prince of Persia is widely known in Iran as Ų“Ų§ŁŲ²Ų§ŲÆŁāŪ Ų§ŪŲ±Ų§Ł, which translates to the āPrince of Iran.ā
Now thatās frigging amazing! Who would have thought.
Sorry if I have offended any site members. I am only joking
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Dec 4, 2022: Start of the Sword Fight Sequence
First steps underway! Once I have all the images working properly, I will need to figure out how to replicate the images and make them into an enemy. As part of the fighting sequence, the player and enemy can clash and swap positions on the spot thus I need to make the enemy clearly different so the player knows who is who.
I do not think we will have the scene where the prince fights a skeleton. I just cannot see how I can represent a skeleton with so few pixels.
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How many pixels you have? Maybe it will work something that just resembles a skeleton vagely
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