Sam Coupé games by Black Jet | Dave Invaders | Lost Disks of SAM | Dave Infuriators | Retro game development

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The Story
You are Moebius.

Renowned collector of intergalactic tat. Realising no self-respecting tat-collector could be complete without a set of sam coupe games that never were released, you embark on a quest to pick up as many lost disks of sam as you can find.
Instructions
Guide Moebius around 12 levels gathering the disks he needs, to gain special suits and fulfill his lifelong dream.

Q/A: Up/Down. O/P: Left/Right.

I for more information in-game.

R to redefine keys.

Space to start and pause game.
Other Info
We would like to thank Dave Hughes of Stonechat Productions for allowing us to create a Sam Coupe version of his excellent ZX Spectrum game.
You can download that version here.

News: v1.5 of Lost Disks now available (12/07/2012)
Downloads:
Download the .dsk SimCoupé emulator file.
lost-disks-of-sam.dsk

Please note that by downloading this file you AGREE to NOT host this file ANYWHERE unofficial.
If you wish to provide this file for download, please link directly to the provided LINK SHARE link below.
Dev Tools used:
Code :: Pasmo, ConTEXT, SAM Coupe Diskimage Manager and in-house custom Delphi app.

Graphics :: Grafx2 (PC)

Music :: E-Tracker (Sam Coupe)

12th July 2012

Dev entry by: Andrew

OK Lost Disks of SAM v1.5: Underwear Edition is available for download now. Enjoy.

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10th July 2012

Dev entry by: Andrew

Not only new games, revisiting old. I'm putting together a v1.5 off Lost Disks of SAM to address some of the criticisms: 1. Cheap death at level start. Players will now have a couple of seconds of inulnarability at the start of each level. 2. Kamikaze snake attack. Snakes won't immediately take you unawares during the invulnaribily stage at level start, and you get a flashing red border warning prior to one being released. 3. Standard character suit. I'm looking at recolouring, or changing the order of the suits as it seems many players feel it is too dark. 4. Level difficulties. The above changes already change the balance of the levels, but I may have a look at the difficulty curve to get a better progression from easy through to insane. 5. Inter-level sequence skip. Bored of seeing the sequence over and over? skip it with a keypress. I think that is it.

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30th May 2012

Dev entry by: Andrew

Quick note to say v1.3 of Lost disks of SAM is on the site. A couple of bugs squashed and the new (well ok it's recycled code from Dave Invaders) key redefine is available from the Info screen.

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26th May 2012

Dev entry by: Andrew

A video of Lost Disks of Sam in action. (played by myself!)

Enjoy!

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13th May 2012

Dev entry by: Jaco

The Lost Disks of Sam

We've a little secret to tell you all..

This here, is a Sam Coup� conversion of an excellent ZX Spectrum game by Dave Hughes (download the speccy version at http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027587).

We've been working on this alongside Dave Infuriators 2 simply because this is such an excellent game that deserves a Sam edition. Many thanks to Dave for his support on this conversion and allowing us to put our own stamp on it.

There's no release date yet, but at the rate things are going, this will be finished very soon. (I hope!)

We will obviously make it available for download here, as well as announcing it at the various popular places such as the Sam Forums and World of Spectrum, etc.

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The Story
In 1978, Earth was invaded by a monochromatic race of aliens from the planet Potaito.

Taken to the brink of total destruction by the devastatingly predictable movement of the attacking force, a lone robotic alien commando, code-named Dave, was called upon to rescue our planet.

Unfortunately, during the fight, Dave's spaceship was destroyed.
Instructions
Guide Dave around 15 levels gathering bits he can use to build a new ship, so he may return home.

Keep an eye out for subtle hints and try to find the hidden parts of the game!

The "C" key redefines your keys in-game.
Downloads:
Download the .dsk SimCoupé emulator file.
dave-invaders.dsk

Please note that by downloading this file you AGREE to NOT host this file ANYWHERE unofficial.
If you wish to provide this file for download, please link directly to the provided LINK SHARE link below.
Dev Tools used:
Code :: Pasmo, ConTEXT, SAM Coupe Diskimage Manager and in-house custom Delphi app.

Graphics :: Grafx2 (PC)

Music :: E-Tracker (Sam Coupe)

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The Story
A malfunctioning Dave wakes up from a dream to find he is trapped in a world where he is in perpetual motion. He needs to find his way out of the 8 levels or else his infuriation will cause his head to explode.
Instructions
Guide Dave around the (up to) 4 flip-screen levels. Get to the exit as fast as possible. Avoid the hazards, while making use of the special blocks scattered around the level. Dave can never stop fully (with the exception of a pause block) and you only have two instructions

jump (space) and change direction (m)
Other Info
Available for download now.
Downloads:
Download the .dsk SimCoupé emulator file.
dave-infuriators.dsk

Please note that by downloading this file you AGREE to NOT host this file ANYWHERE unofficial.
If you wish to provide this file for download, please link directly to the provided LINK SHARE link below.

14th November 2012

Dev entry by: Andrew

Finally finished and uploaded Dave Infuriators. Wow, that took way longer than intended. Started off nice and well structured code wise and ended up a hickledypickledy mess!

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16th October 2012

Dev entry by: Andrew

Fixed a couple of bugs tonight. One purely cosmetic, one game crashing. Designed a level, placed in the slot for level 2. But it's too hard. More like a level 5 or 6 type of level I think. The way I've implemented the level saves is bollocks really and I have no easy way of swapping levels about so I'm going to code a little routine to enable the user to swap them around (in the editor, not the main game).

Pitching difficulty is hard. I always make levels way too hard. OR I make them too easy with no challenge. Quite frustrating.

Will this game be complete before the year is over, I hope so. It should have taken no more than two months originally!

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28th June 2012

Dev entry by: Andrew

Most of it done now I suppose. Need to design some levels, Jaco needs to write some music and effects, and some general bug fixing and other bits and bobs to complete before release. Perhaps.

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17th April 2012

Dev entry by: Jaco

Andrew has been trying out his hand at various screen effects. Here are three different examples he's done so far. I think we've agreed to use the third one as it has speed and looks good.
A bit slow? Not so pretty Perfect!
What do you think of it then?

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17th April 2012

Dev entry by: Jaco

I've had a good week last week and managed to complete the two main screens of the game. The main screen when the game is loaded and the information screen. No stage images unfortunately as I didn't think about that at the time.
Start Screen Info Screen
I hope you enjoy the look and feel of the graphics as much as I enjoyed making it.

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13th April 2012

Dev entry by: Andrew

Some progress, not much, but after a little break things are starting to happen. The video shows most of the tiles we've designed for the game: Speed up, slow down, small jumps, large jumps, pause tiles, reversal, solid tops, soft tops and death spikes. It also demostrates with good placement we can fully automate the testing of them ;-)

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11th March 2012

Dev entry by: Jaco

Following on from the 23rd Feb entry, here are the drawing stages of the Loading screen for Dave Infuriators. A few more screens for the game to go, but I'm pretty happy with this result. It's an abstract image of you as the player, getting "infuriated" by the game :)
As you can see, sometimes ideas and content change from the initial sketches/discussions.
Hope you enjoy.
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7th March 2012

Dev entry by: Andrew

This might give some more idea about the basic way Dave Infuriators will work. A simple demo of some of the tiles Dave might come accross during the game and how he reacts to them.

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1st March 2012

Dev entry by: Jaco

So I thought I'd show off a tiny sneak peek of Dave Infuriators as it is right now. This is still alpha stage, so a long way to go yet. There's more to it than meets the eye too. We'll mention more as and when things progress.

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23rd February 2012

Dev entry by: Jaco

Hi there! I thought I'd take some time to show you a small update: I've included here a screenshot of the sketch I did for the Dave Infuriators splash screen. I'm in the process of completing it on Grafx2, and will provide the WIP in another blog entry, so keep your eyes peeled for that! On a similar note, Andrew has made some great strides over the past few days with creating the new game character control, level platform detection and programmatically building our levels for the game. This opens the game up for us to make an almost infinite amount of levels based on various methods. More info on this in due course.

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