sunnuntai 10. helmikuuta 2019

A New MS-DOS Game Is Coming Out... Maybe

Hi, readers!

Now that I know 6502 Assembly, Z80 Assembly and even x86 Assembly, I thought it would be quite fun to make use of my x86 knowledge by making some silly MS-DOS games! :)

One such game could be this silly game that I've planned which uses ASCII text mode characters for graphics and beeper sounds.

The working title for this game is Joonas's Mega Crazy Adventure! :D

The game would use my own adventure game interpreter which I call JAAGI. It stands for: Joonas's ASCII Adventure Game Interpreter.

There was this silly game in 1991 called ZZT which also used ASCII characters for graphics and PC Speaker sounds. The good thing with the default text mode is that it is pretty easy to program in Assembly, or C, or C++, or whatever.

The inspiration for JAAGI is, of course, Sierra's classic AGI (Adventure Game Interpreter), which Sierra used for their 16-colour adventure games. In those games, you progressed by telling the main character what to do by typing a command with the game's parser interface. For example, if you wished to pick up a rock, you would type "GET ROCK". The protagonist would then pick up the rock if it was allowed. If it wasn't, the game would show you some kind of an error message.

Below are some screenshots which show what the final game might look like. I'm not sure if I'll actually have time to finish even a simple DOS game, but if I do, this game will be first on my list. Be sure to download it from my website www.joonaslindberg.fi if it comes out.

Be seeing ya!