Finished world map

Well, I'm still making a few tweaks (the most recent was based on feedback that the off-centered sword was annoying, so I made the sword centered by default, but let you use the difficulty switches to change it back to the old off-centered setting), but thought I'd share the final finished world map:

Beta Testing Time!

Ok, Anguna 2600 is ready for some testing!  I'm looking for testers to try playing the game (either in an emulator, or on an actual Atari with a Harmony cart or similar device), and let me know what bugs and issues you find!

The main features aren't likely to change at this point, but I'm looking to fix any bugs and possibly tweak the game difficulty.

You can download the instruction manual and current build from this post on AtariAge.  Please email me (nathantolbert at gmail) or leave comments if you find any bugs or issues.  If you find any problems that I fix, I'll also credit you in the instruction manual if you'd like, if so, let me know how I should credit you.


Next steps:

• My friend Tim Lapetino, author of the upcoming Art of Atari book, is designing art for the cartridge label (hopefully to be re-used on the manual as well).
• I'll be updating the game and manual to fix any issues found during the beta test
• Hopefully later this fall, if all goes well, everything will be finished, and I'll do a cartridge release through the AtariAge store.

First full playthrough finished!

When I get near the end of a video game release, I have this phase. Where I play through the game, fix all the bugs I found, play through it again, fix all the bugs I found, play through it again....and so on....until I finally play through and don't find any new bugs.  (I've done this before)

It's somewhat miserable. But here we go again.

I finished the first full-playthrough tonight. Fixed a ton of bugs. Tomorrow I need to do another full playthrough, and then attempt a full playthrough on the actual Atari (which I'm not sure if I'll pull off, because my Atari controller is in poor enough shape that it will be really painful to go through the whole game!)

For anyone that wants to try the always-newest build and help me test, you can grab it from my jenkins server, which I'll be happy to email you the address to.....

Tons O Bugs

Well, my friend Daniel (AmishHack3r on Twitch) decided to give my game a try. And let me tell you folks, this guy is an amazing tester.

He found ALL SORTS of bugs for me. And diligently recorded video of each one, made drawings on a map of areas with glitches, and so on.  I couldn't ask for a better tester, thanks Daniel!

That being said, I have a lot to fix!