Gorillas.1k
ABOUT
Your mission is to hit your opponent with the exploding banana by varying the angle and power of your throw, taking into account wind speed*, gravity, and the city skyline.
GORILLAS.1K was an attempt to demake the classic QBASIC game GORILLA.BAS, using only 1,024 compressed bytes of code, for #Pico1k Jam 2024.
*(Alas, I ran out of code space to implement wind - instead u got fancy animations!)
FEATURES
- ️👥 2-Player Gameplay
- 🕹️ Endless Levels
- 🌚 Moon Collision
- 💯 Scoring
- 🔼 Simplified Controls *(Compared to orig)
CONTROLS
| ◀️/▶️ | Increase/Decrease Angle |
| 🔼/🔽 | Increase/Decrease Speed |
| X | Fire Banana 🍌 |
REFERENCES/LINKS
- Gorillas (video game) (Wikipedia)
- GORILLAS QBASIC (Archive.org)
- 🎞️ QBasic Gorillas (Gorilla.BAS) 1991 - IBM
- 🎞️ Gorillas (a.k.a. QBasic Gorillas or GORILLAS.BAS)
- GORILLA.BAS: How to Play the Secret MS-DOS Game From Your Childhood
SOURCE CODE (1024 Compressed Bytes)*
*(Before "safe" minification with Shrinko8)
Link to original source code (before "safe" minification with Shrinko8).
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Comments
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Bananas can fly through the gorillas...
Alas, while I made the update code twice the rate (60fps) of the draw code (30fps), it can still "miss" detecting the gorilla. 😇
If I had more space left (of the 1KB code!), I prob would've gone with a distance check, but I liked the idea (+potential pixel-perfect precision/fairness) of doing checking on screen colour.
My only suggestion when that happens would be to try to tweak the power/angle *fractionally* and hopefully it'll make contact 😉
Qbasic Gorillas was the first video game I ever played. Thank you for making this.