Why did you decide to go with a original/static instead of a more dynamic clone? For instance, animating the movement bewteen the tiles in order to loosen things up.
The Boulder Dash physics allow hundreds of items moving around at the same time. It is just impossible to animate that with smooth movements on a limited platform like the C64. One of the biggest limitations of the VIC-II is the inability to define a virtual screen, so you have to do the scrolling in software, taking up quite a lot of the CPU time already.
If you want a modern clone with smooth graphics, yet keeping the original physics (not 100%, but still far better than most other clones), try Boulder Remake.
I think you could do it and adapt the game accordingly. It’s another question how much effort it’s worth to you. You might better invest the time into the game on advanced specs.
Boulder looks neat, the smoothness adds life to the scene.
Your first level is a nice introduction, the second one feels too hard.
Samantha Fox!!! Ahem. I don’t feel very -hm- comfortable at the moment, because that game came immediately up into my mind. I’m not sure what does that mean…
Ehrm… Do I have to answer this question? No, seriously: I never owned that game. I played it on the computer of a friend. And I can’t remember if he bought it (I guess he pirated the game.) But I never got very “far”: I was young and didn’t know how to play poker. So the game wasn’t interesting to me at all.
Oh, yes! I haven’t played the game but liked the music. I have the remix(?) on one of my music CDs …
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No, seriously: I never owned that game. I played it on the computer of a friend. And I can’t remember if he bought it (I guess he pirated the game.) But I never got very “far”: I was young and didn’t know how to play poker. So the game wasn’t interesting to me at all.