Poland: Upcoming Atari “Bubble Shooter” Game Announced
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MadTeam (Poland) has just released the first video of «Bubble Shooter», a dazzling logic game for Atari 8-bit computers.
Inspired by thefree app «Primitve Bubble Shooter»(Happy Dragon Inc., 2019) for devices with Android system, we must shoot bubbles in the indicated places; so that 3 or more bubbles of the same color touch.
Each level ends after all the objects are removed from the screen. At the beginning of the game, the stages are simple, one-screen. In later levels, the bubbles take up more than one visible screen.
The game has over 300 levels and 4 different "seasons", each with a different color and graphics. In each season, you can see levels marked in the form of houses: there are 15 "worlds" (levels) for the blooming spring, the hot summer, the grey autumn and the cold winter. After those 60 levels, you will move on to the next year.
According to Paweł "Pajero" Nowak (code)on the MadTeam website, the project dates back to early 2020. By the end of April last year, a preliminary version was already available. In July, Maciej "Rocky" Hauke joined the team and proposed changing the GTIA graphics mode from 10 to 11; which forced Nowak to write an editor for the Atari 15/11 mode.
Currently, Michal “Miker” Szpilowski is working on the music for the game. “Of course, there will be some corrections to the finished graphics, but more has been done than I wanted,” says Nowak, who reveals that “Bubble Shooter” will be presented at Lost Party 2021, taking place from July 8 to 11.
In the Atari Area forum, it is explained that the game will require - apart from the joystick and colour monitor - an Atari computer with 64 Kb of memory (XL/XE models); as well as a device such as SIO2SD, AVGcart or SIDE cartridge. The optimal configuration requires a memory of 256 Kb.
Finally, the version to be released at the demoparty will be in PAL mode; and will have a DataMatrix code generator forupload our scores to HiScoreCafe. By the way: the authors claim that any resemblance to thePuzzle Bobble characters(Taito, 1994) is pure coincidence...
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