The Outhouse

[erico]

Hello chaps, I´m putting some final touches on a new game for PC win and would like to share it with you.

Some of you might remember the trs-80 and the trs-80 color computers. They had some cool games.
One of them was Outhouse, a game you are an UFO and have to protect an outhouse and its toilet papers.
It is a single screen 8 way shot em up. Here is how it looked like on the original machines:

As you can see, the original runs on semi graphics mode on the trs-80 while the coco version runs on high resolution with artifact colors.
The coco also sports a semi graphics mode and my plan is to use that exact restriction to make the game.

I´m adding a bunch of extras like 2 players mode and so on, here is the latest video.
The game is pretty much complete but lacking sound and fine tuning of elements and gameplay.

If you are interested, here is a more complete development blog:

The Outhouse

The Outhouse

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[λ the β-Redex Reducer]

That's predictive programming! How did they know that in the future a bunch of zombies would fight to get loads of toilet paper?

 

[erico]

I kind of thought the same. But then again, a lot of games and movies have that prediction hint.

 

[Djoga'Ro]

Or, you identified the original cause of today's behaviour. ?

 

[erico]

Sure shot! ALIENS!!

 

[erico]

While working on the sounds, I compiled a list of samplers from real color computer games.
Just research but it could be useful to others, so here it goes:

 

[erico]

Here are the bats in orbit... me loves it.

Working out the sounds, some are final, others are placeholders and drop outs.

 

[levi]

Nice, I especially like how it built to a mechanical explosion at the end.

 

[erico]

Thanks @levi , the explosion was one of the first things done. I'm strugling a bit with sounds as I under estimated it. I hope it is done by this weekend

 

[erico]

Made a little pause on the game dev but am back into it now. In the meanwhile, I made an exploded view of a TRS-80 Color 2 in wireframe, similar to the illustration on its tech manual. Made it really huge for printing reasons.
Here is a work in progress with some work still left to do.

 

[erico]

Hello back chaps! Just finished the game.
It is available on itchio for $5 dollars and you also get that tech illustration bundled in.
Price should be at 2.99 in a couple of months and the image will be made free.
Here is the store for you to burn all your money:

The Outhouse by FUED

Secure the toilet paper and reach for the stars!

ericomont.itch.io

Here is a trailer:

And here a gameplay video, crappy one

And I should have a complete making of soon at this place:

THE_OUTHOUSE

Devlog / fuedhq@gmail.com / Twitter

sites.google.com

And finally, I should bring some keys for us soon.
Where is the Pyra?? I need to convert my games to it!!

 

[FBnil]

Remind me to buy it in a week. I need to receive the 2 factor authentication thingy from my bank to do internet payments.

 

[erico]

I will sure do, thanks @FBnil
In the meanwhile, I rendered another huge image for poster and added to the current one.
Here are both in preview:

 

[FBnil]

nice render.

 

[erico]

Tcharam! Free itchio keys!
Some friends also told me it runs fine on linux with vm.

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Let me know your score.

 

[pmprog]

24...
Though I don't think I understand the rules. I never seemed to get any points - only lose toilet paper. So to get the highest score, I had to kill myself as quickly as posstible

 

[erico]

Haha. Paper is your score. The white shirt blue jeans guy charges it up. It is possible to score up to 99pts.

 

[pmprog]

Thanks, I'll give it another go later. Might be worth a splash screen on the title telling you who do what?

 

[erico]

What? And spoil all those arcade secrets?
Yep I should. Fact is that that happens with all my games. I really should look into it.

 

[pmprog]

What? And spoil all those arcade secrets?

No, don't put them all on...Just enough to walk through the first 2 minutes of the game