A downloadable game

ABOUT MAINLY MONSTERS

A free roaming monster clearance experience with arcade and strategy elements.

WIP

Including this sentence, subject to change.

META

Uses previously released game X-A Eliminator as scaffold.

NAVIGATION

Walk N E S W using joystick left-right, where left instructs CCW and right CW. 

Choose to walk across countryside or use paths in any Realm.

A Realm is a grid location on the map (BW/Color Switch), differentiated by pattern and creatures. Structures exist at locations 2,2, linked by Paths.

UI

To use a path, note UI's LHS digit representing your X location and the RHS digit representing Y.  Between is the directional arrow.

PATHS

A path is struck when ...

  • walking North or South when X  is 2
  • walking East or West when Y is 2

MAP

BW/Color Switch brings up the map. 

It shows structures and where you are in relation, as represented by a dot. This exists on a two-by-four grid. Resolution is approximate and not an absolute measure to a structure when standing within a grid location, or as better described, the now 'merged plot.'

Using navigation cues from the UI, whenever you've travelled a distance of 5 (since 0 to 4 rolls to 0, or 4 to 0 rolls to 4),  either N_S or E_W, demarcates the next grid location.


Updated 15 hours ago
Published 5 days ago
StatusPrototype
Author:: Glenn Main
GenreRole Playing
Tags2600, 4k, atari, atari-2600

Download

Download
mainlyms_wip_04d.bin 4 kB

Install instructions

Use this file with an Atari emulator (available all platforms when accessed online). 

In most cases, when burned to ROM (i.e., a physical cartridge), the supplied binary will work with an original Atari 2600 and 2600+.

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