"Kaz's Knickers" (pol. "Gacie Kaza")

Silly Venture 2021 Atari VCS/A8 GAME COMPO ENTRY

The title is an arcade game (duh?). I wanted it to be very colourful and dynamic - but at the same time very simple. It is representative of the "endless runner" genre and my first production for the Atari 2600. I recommend the NTSC TV format - I liked this colour palette better, the PAL60 format after the colour mapping was more dimmed.

Let the history of the production's theme remain a secret. The title character - Kaz, is precisely the well-known Kaz from AtariOnline.pl. The title is to commemorate his contribution as a history researcher, the difficulties faced and even a particular event, in a humorous way, without mocking or ridiculing. Of course, everything took place with consent and even the clear and active objection of the main character (joke).

Game screenshots

Gameplay video (720p@60)

VIMEO link

ROMS

• NTSC Version
• PAL60 Version

Creditz

• GFX has been ripped from an Atari 2600 Pitfall game, but with adapted colour grading to my favour.
• MUSIC by Fragmare (drums track part from "Devils Crush" - sample from AtariAge forum link)
• IDEA and CODE by Michał "Misza" Kołodziejski/AOL

How to play?

• JPF (JUST PRESS FIRE)
• PLEASE BE EXCITED

Greetz

• Tomasz 'TDC' Cieślewicz, for not letting the 90s go out of our minds, and inspiration to "blink those colours professionally",
• Fragmare, for his excellent drums track,
• Marcin 'Whip' Łapiński, for challenging me with Atari 2600 programming,
• Kamil 'Gorgh' Trzaska, for inspiration and infinite imagination,
• Mono, for simply being there and letting us warm in the grace of your knowledge,
• Jakub 'QBA' Husak, for being the best musician, I happen to know (literally) :P
• Kaz, for everything else
• all the fellows Atarians and other retro freaks not mentioned here - keep up the good work!

Boring technical stuff

• the game should work on a stock console (I also checked on MIST core a2600_201121.rbf - it works without any problems),
• the game uses 4 banks of 4 kilobytes,
• the game does NOT use special banking schemes,
• the game does NOT use special chips (emulated or real placed in a cartridge) DPC type,
• the game draws 3 sprites (1 standard player 0 60Hz, two sprites interwoven pants and 30Hz trash cans),
• the game displays a lot of colours (some even as befits an Atari - simultaneously and practically in the same line),
• the game ONLY supports the joystick in port A,
• the game does not support paddles,
• the game does not have easter-eggs (it's not this holidays!),
• go from the GAME OVER screen to the title screen by executing WARM BOOT.

Software components used

• Batari Basic v1.5 by Fred "Batari" Quimby link
• TIATracker link
• Titlescreen mini kernel link
• IMG2CODE - part of VisualBB - unfortunately Windows ONLY ;( link

Even more boring technical stuff aka "How to build it up alltogether"

• install Visual Studio Code link
• install Atari Dev Studio VSCode extension link
• load and build KazKnickers.bas

History

2021-12-15

• Initial version.

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