For some bizarre reason I decided to look at at various projects I have in varying states of abandonment... Plus people wanted me to post more threads, so, I dunno, I wonder if any of these are a worthwhile use of my time and am curious if you guys have any interest, but you probably don't, and I suck at programming, so whatever.

All these names are placeholders, of course.


Not Particularly Responsive to Prayers - A clone of Touhou 1: The Highly Responsive to Prayers (placeholder title, of course_, with some differences in controls and the particular abilities of the player. Also, I started implementing a World Map system, which was supposed to be kind of like SMB3.


Gems of Netrevale - This actually got the furthest, with about 23 levels until I lost interest. A side-scroller implemented in the console, it was kind of the sort of game where most of the challenge comes from mastering the controls.

At one point I had bigger plans for the console side-scroller than a simple game with a linear progression of levels... but then I scaled it down dramatically to test my ability, and then I lost interest entirely.


Ashdifjickle - Obviously a working title... This was going to be a game somewhat similar to The Adventures of Lolo, but turn-based, and then there were going to be items and multiple characters; basically I kept expanding the design, whereas the engine itself is basically just a simple turn-based walking "game". (The engine was far better written than what came before, though, having such nonsense as say, animations...)


NNN - A somewhat graphical ZZT clone of sorts; I had implemented a pretty large subset of ZZT-OOP, some commands that weren't in ZZT (mostly dealing with graphics), probably the most finished of these projects, but also by far the worst coded.

Posted by Kawa

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I'm gonna go with "something else". I have a similar problem as far as "large amounts of unfinished projects" goes, and it might be a good idea to combine forces, as it were.

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Perhaps... the problem is finding something we're equally interested in, though...

Posted by Kawa

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Oh and Labyrinth of Zeux, Megazeux's predecessor, was an ASCII platformer. Like MZX, it had font manipulation, though.

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You know, I could never play Zeux- I had it on my old computer with Windows 95, and it would crash the entire thing when I opened it... I had always figured it was like a ZZT clone, I didn't know it was a platformer.

Posted by Kawa

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Megazeux isn't a platformer (though there are several engines available to make it one) but Labyrinth of Zeux was. Caverns of Zeux, the MZX pack-in game, was a direct sequel.

LoZ also has a fan remake in MZX.

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Yeah, though I prefer ZZT for its simplicity, I've used MZX and know it isn't a platformer (by default)

Writing a platformer engine in ZZT is kind of a pain, I remember I wrote one once and couldn't get jumping to work right (you could keep jumping in the air), so I made the sprite pink and called it a Kirby engine. (This was like, 11 years ago now)