I had a bash at this the other day - the game has a bit of a strange addictive quality, although I have to confess to not really understanding what I'm doing or what I have to overcome in order to escape the jungle. Is it just finding a jungle exit screen? I think I found a blue key, tho couldn't see what to do with it - I didn't come across any doors. I kept picking up lots of things, though I wasn't quite sure what most of them did ...

I think having a key to what the objects are might help, though I don't know whether your intention is for people to discover such things for themselves?

Oh, and I like the loading screen ... reminded me a bit of the one for Superior Software's conversion of Barbarian too.

Looks really nice, good job! Was immediately reminded of Atic Atac, right down to the way the projectile weapon moves!

One comment - I think the disparity between the vertical and horizontal movement speed is a little odd. I reckon it'd feel more fluid if the vertical movement were sped up a little, e.g. 6 pixels at a time instead of 4.

And plenty of nice touches - I particularly loved the high score name entry mechanism... I need something similar for Blurp. The nice thing with the procedurally generated world is that it can be as much fun for the developer to explore as the player!

I didn't manage to find a key, or a door, by the way (but I refuse to cheat and look at the map you posted!).

Ahh, like Rich, I think it would be cheating a bit to look at a complete map - at least, producing such a thing is probably something which should be left for the player.

I think it's enough to know that the goal is to escape the level - and that there are, in fact, different levels! I do think a key to the available objects would be handy - they provided one of those in the instructions for Ravenskull and, I think, Repton too. Not sure about the Ultimate: Play The Game and other titles that inspired you - I never owned any of them.

As for the Barbarian loading screen, to be clear, I wasn't referring to the awful reproduction of the racy cover art. I meant the intermediary screen with the title on:

I was using Elkulator to play the UEF version.

I'm not using much of the memory from &1F00 downwards, and only after the game is loaded, to allow the game to run on high PAGE systems. On an unexpanded Electron, I could use a lot more memory for things like level data, though on balance I think I prefer the generated maps.

Did the sound come out OK? On my system it's a bit choppy, so I wondered how it would sound on other people's machines.

That's far too high! I don't know any reason why PAGE would be as high as &1F00 (ADFS on a regular Beeb perhaps?). On a DFS based Beeb, it should be safe to use from &1100 upwards, and even from &E00 if you load it higher in memory, select *TAPE, and relocate it down to &E00 before executing it.

Also remember that there are plenty of other bits you can use too (&400-&7FF, &900-&BFF, and &C00-&CFF if you don't use user defined characters).

That's far too high! I don't know any reason why PAGE would be as high as &1F00 (ADFS on a regular Beeb perhaps?). On a DFS based Beeb, it should be safe to use from &1100 upwards, and even from &E00 if you load it higher in memory, select *TAPE, and relocate it down to &E00 before executing it.

As you're targetting the Electron, tho, don't forget that the addons like the Plus 1 (for the use of joysticks etc.) have workspaces down in those ranges, unlike a beeb.

Finally had a chance to have a play of this game at long last. I like it, it's a great little game, fun to play and shows that a version of Sabre Wulf could of worked on the Acorn Electron.

I am playing the game under emulation on RISC OS using 6502em in the Electron mode and it seems to work fine, makes sounds and the character moves around well.

However my only complaint is the lack of instructions which i'm sure will come about later on, also what keys do what ? and what is the objective of the game?

Overall I think this is a great game, well worth playing and hope it gets a full release on completion. I will give it a mention in my next 8 bit column for Drag N Drop magazine.

I've managed to complete the first level now. I did find and collect a key, and found the exit which was a big door. But was the key needed to complete the level or has it some other significance for opening another door somewhere else ?