Find the Wordy Gems - Homebrew

Game for Master System

Version	Date	By	Download
1.2	27 Mar 2024	Z80ASMprogrammer2022	FindTheWordyGems-SMS-1.2.zip (18KB)

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Competition Entry

This was a competition entry in 2024

Old Versions

file name	size (bytes)
total 2 files	36K
FindTheWordyGems-SMS-1.00.zip	18K
FindTheWordyGems-SMS-1.1.zip	18K

About

The game is an entry into the SMSPower! coding competiton 2024. The game is a demo made from a WIP.

This game can be a bit roughly compared to a traditional (pen and paper) word search game where the hidden words are found horizontally only, and where the gems take the place of letters (i.e. a gem sequence). But it different from a traditional word search game because it uses at least the following two ideas: firstly a skip sequence, secondly the sequence of gems can continue from the right hand side of the game board to the left like words or letters in a sentence of the page of a book. So one part of a word can be on one line and the other part of a word can be on the immediate next line li ke this. Hence the title of the game. A gem sequence is read from left to right (while considering above).

In the game (to the left of the screen in between the big gems-see fig. 2) a gem sequence of three gems will be displayed, for you to find, with a given skip sequence (in words).A gem sequence is read from left to right the game board. So what is a skip sequence? The skip sequence, used in the sequence of 3 gems hidden in the game board, is the distance (or the number of gems skipped over) between the second and first gem , and the third and second gem. For example a skip sequence of "TWO,TWO" means from the first gem (of the displayed gem sequence) skip over two gems to get to the second gem in the displayed gem sequence, then from the second gem skip over two gems to get to the third gem in the sequence. Also a skip sequence is considered with the game rule: a skip sequence and its gem sequence may start in some line of 7 gems and continue to in the immediate line of 7 gems below.

Gameplay

Find as many gems sequences,displayed with their skip sequences, in the time limit to beat the high score.Enter you guess, of where you think the first gem in some gem sequence starts by placing the red cursor on the first gem of the gem sequence. The right and down keys moves the red cursor and button 1 resets the cursor back to the top left of the game board, button 2 enters your guess. At least one point is awarded for every three correct gem sequences that are found.

Controls

Button 2 starts the game from the title screen.

In game control are as follows.

Button 1 resets the cursor to the top left.
Right key moves the cursor right.
Down key moves the cursor down.
Button 2 enters your guess.

Credits

All game code was created by Z8AP except for the compressor code and the compressor code used is the ZXO compressor library from

https://github.com/einar-saukas

All graphics by Z8AP except for the font which is by damineng see

https://www.smspower.org/forums/17694-8x8PixelFont

https://youtu.be/wWguS9hi5hM