Oblast: A better Blasto game for the Commodore 64

Posted by todsacerdoti 4 days ago

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Comment by jan_Sate 4 days ago

The game's name reminds me of the Russian word for state/district/region. I was right. It's an intended pun. The game's title screen on the screenshot in the article has Russian on it.

Comment by classichasclass 4 days ago

(author) Yes, I couldn't resist the obvious. :)

edit. I should also point out that it's the same word in Ukrainian, for the record.

Comment by necovek 4 days ago

And Serbian, so I'd guess it's proto-Slavic word.

Comment by __patchbit__ 4 days ago

My dictionary has 430 words beginning with ob.

Would be nice to have the AI visualize all those words to their pre-zodiacal origin on a landscape wireframe diagram with popup points of interest and water surface tension effects showing affinity and uses among various cultures.

Comment by eddywebs 3 days ago

Its good to see new games for old systems. I hope this trend continues .

Comment by Lerc 3 days ago

It's a rabbit hole that I have so far avoided.

If I were to embark upon a project like that I would want to get the most out of the system, and that's a whole lot of work. I'm glad others are doing it.

The unfinished c64 projects like My Day on the Highway or Spooky are I think where I would end up. Amazing but a final product never seeing the light of day.

That said, when it was too hot to sleep the other night I sketched out a tiled graphics system (16 and 23 written to $d016 on alternating scanlines) for the c64 because my brain will keep on working on things whether I like it or not.

Comment by imbusy111 4 days ago

Makes me want to make a modern version of this for Android.

Comment by classichasclass 3 days ago

(author) At one time I thought of doing a PalmOS port, and even did a little code to draw the tank, but never got farther than that. I'm not even sure where that went.

Comment by ekjhgkejhgk 3 days ago

Bomberman.