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Depth Charge - Creative Computing 1976
🎞️ · 11.05.2012 · 21:03:25 ··· Freitag ⭐ 0 🎬 0
📺 Mark Miller
🎬 · 11.05.2012 · 21:03:25 ··· Freitag
😎 · 03.07.2024 · 15:40:29 ··· MiTTwoch
I received a request to do a port and a play-through of a game from the magazine Creative Computing, called "Depth Charge." I got it out of the "The Best of Creative Computing Volume 1," published in 1976.
http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc1/showpage.php?page=251
I adapted it to Atari Basic, and added some sound effects. It's a "guess my number" game in 3 dimensions.
At the start, I select the size of the "playfield." It's a "cube" of water, and the submarine is somewhere within it. All the dimensions are the same. To launch a depth charge I enter 3 coordinates for where I want it to blow up. The 1st number is East-West (lower numbers go West, higher numbers East), 2nd number is North-South (lower numbers South, higher numbers North), and the 3rd number is depth (lower numbers shallower, higher numbers deeper). As I play the game it's difficult for me to keep this straight!
In the first version I play through, the submarine stays in the same location throughout the game, and the game sets how many tries I get, based on the size of the playfield. Part of the article challenged the reader to modify the game so that the sub is able to move one grid point in any direction after each depth charge. To make the game fair, it said to let the player choose how many tries they get. I do this in the second version I load, called "depthch2."
I do two play-throughs for each version, one where the playfield is 10x10x10. The second run I do is 100x100x100.
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