Catch Santa

[johnno1956]

Ok. I know. I know. It's February! "Why Santa?"

Trying to get a handle on N7 and I figured that I would give the old naalaa Santa game a bash...

Couple of things I have learned... I know. Unbelievable, right? lol   The game functions without including the speed and keycodes libraries...  That was by accident! I actually forgot to include them... Who knew? Not me... Took me a while to figure the change from arrays to tables... Thankfully the original arrays were 'single'... Other than that, there wasn't much else to convert...

I would appreciate it if someone could go over the game with a fine toothed comb... be gentle on listing any bugs? Nah. List them. I need to learn...


  santa.zip (Size: 4.59 KB / Downloads: 9)

Instructions: Move left or right using arrow keys. Collect the presents. Game speed starts off slow and picks up... Moo ha ha!!

[kcfb]

Runs fine with me Johnno - no glitches found at this time. I love the graphics - really retro.....
Personally, I found the pace a little tame, but changing the fwait value from 30 to 60 sorted that out - pretty manic at that pace.

[johnno1956]

I had it on 60 to start with... Yikes! My reaction times are not so fast... lol Switched to 30. A bit slow but it picked up as the game went on. Perhaps somewhere in between?

By the way... I found an old naalaa 5? listing of "1945". It took almost an hour to get it working. Again, I had to modify the 'arrays' and some of the "wait" commands needed tweaking. It ran SO fast with N7! Added simple retro sounds. Have not found a music track yet. (up for suggestions) I still need to add a "pause" and "game over" screen.

As well as scoring, the game includes an "accuracy" readout... The old naalaa used "set decimal 1" - N7 kicked up a fuss so I left it out... Now the accuracy readout displays up to about 6 decimal places. I could not find any reference to formatting numbers/text. I may have to resort to using integers...

Time for a cup of tea...

[kcfb]

Johnno - if you are just looking for a way to change a number with lots of decimal places to just two or three, this may help:

Code:

number = 1.22345678654
rounded_number =int(number *1000)/1000

The variable rounded_number will have the value 1.223. If you want it to 2 decimal places change the 1000 to 100, and so on....

[johnno1956]

Cool... Thanks for the tip..!

[johnno1956]

int(humber * 10) / 10 did the trick... Cool...

[Marcus]

Great work porting n6 games to n7!

Sorry, forgot all about the 'set decimal' command. If I remember correctly, it could also be used to format the integer part so that you could output 42 as 00042. But I think I'll just change the 'str' function so that it takes an optional parameter for the wanted (or ... max?) number of fractional digits:

str(value[, max_frac_digits])

a = 15.12345
pln str(a) ' outputs 15.12345
pln str(a, 2) ' outputs 15.12