I wrote a game and finally released it! (it's a bit like Qix)

[agent4125]

You can now play it online in your browser without having to dowload or install it.

Trappy Pixel by agent4125

Help Trappy retrieve all the stolen colour from his world!

agent4125.itch.io

Also added Mac version

 

[Hitesh]

Hello James (author)

Like I said in previous posts, this game is amazing. Prefer it to any of the actual arcade games of the same ilk (Qix, etc)

Can I request once change that should be (I think) dead easy. The Hiscores save data is an issue with Windows 7 Embedded as the C: drive is locked.
Could you do a version where the Hiscore and Logs are stored in the directory from where program was launched?

Either way, its going on my 2 Player cab but it would be super nice to have hiscore working.

Regards, Hitesh

PS - Have you done, doing any other games? You have programming talent by the looks of it

 

[agent4125]

Thanks Hitesh,

I can certainly have a look at making the save location configurable, but it would be by config file, not editable in the game. Might take me a while though as I have a lot of projects going on atm. Is there a specific reason why you're using an embedded version of Win7?

Not done any other games to note, but I have some ideas once I have finished current projects.

Thanks for the kind words. I tried to make the game as arcadey as I could. It's definitely best on a CRT running at 320x256@55Hz.
If anyone wants to get that working on a groovymame/arcade cab install, the command to run it correctly under switchres is:

switchres 320 256 55 -s -l ./TrappyPixel.x86_64

This works great for me on groovyarcade 2022.10 release.

 

[Hitesh]

I use Windows 7 Embedded (previously Windows XP) so that I can switch off cabinet/pc by cutting off the power and those two setups doNOT complain "Windows was not shutdown properly"

I would appreciate the adjustment to the save location as I play the game most days recently. Maybe a scanline overlay option would be good too.

 

[Hitesh]

SORTED!

So the high scores are stored under C:\USERS\......\ROAMING\....\

I was trying to move C:\USERS to D:\USERS but that was not allowed by Windows.

But moving the ROAMING FOLDERS LOCATION was allowed using the LOCATION OPTION.

So now have high scores for TRAPPYPIXEL and also all the PICO-8 games and also my replacement shell EMERGE DESKTOP setup files too.

If anyone wants help/info on this, just ask....

Hitesh