digger - 80's remake
 

I searched around and didnt find this already available so I cobbled this one up today...

Digger

A dig-dug like (but not a clone) game from 1983, mine for the gold and gems while keeping away from (or shooting) the monsters hunting you through the mine shafts...

Arrow keys - move
Center button - fires (I had this on N810 Return, but then remembered this doesnt work on the N800 and really you dont use it much)
Fullscreen - toggles fullscreen
+ - Accelerate (speeds up)
- - Brakes (slows down)
Esc - quits current game and from menu screen exits program

On the N810
M - toggles Music on and off
S - toggles Sound effects on and off
Space Bar - pauses
N - toggles 1 or 2 players


The original remake is located at http://www.digger.org/index.html

you can get the Maemo port from my website: http://www.n8ftl.com/maemo/digger.tar.gz
Untar from / and it installs to /home/user and shows up in extras.

If you have an N810 and HATE the center fire button, grab digger.bin and put it in /home/user/ (make it executable) and then the return key is fire...



http://www.n8ftl.com/maemo/images/digger/digger1.png

http://www.n8ftl.com/maemo/images/digger/digger2.png

Re: digger - 80's remake
 

Oh my yes, this should be fun. Thank you for the port! I'm off to download. :cool:

Re: digger - 80's remake
 

tobiasj, I could just hug you. :D (*does happy dance*)

I remember playing this game when I was a kid. I can't even tell you how many hundreds of dollars I spent in the arcades on the original digdug game!!

Re: digger - 80's remake
 

nice port but how BAD is the N810 dpad for gaming? :)
Now I want try to test some alternative control using the touch screen: directional arrows on the screen in portrait mode and hardware buttons for the rest

Re: digger - 80's remake
 

personally as long as I dont have to use dpad center for fire it isn't too bad. I like the N800 dpad better, but I just have never been able to wrap my head around touch controls for games like this. I have tried a couple of the emulators that use the touch screen for extra buttons and such but I just can NOT make it work..

Feel free to try anything you want, I will post the ported source to my website this weekend when I get a second.

-John

Re: digger - 80's remake
 

it seem can have some chance to be usefull for something:
Ill try to adapt the thing to some game ill found around and see how bad it work on the real deal :)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3435/...0189179a_o.jpg

it have a 50x50 active zone; I didnt set any limit around. There are some possible tweaks (bigger the distance faster the movements, decide to stop the movements when no pressure or a gesture interface active on the entire surface...)
https://garage.maemo.org/frs/downloa...touchstick.tgz
(I used the modules from another things im working on so there is a lot of garbage around, but the test should work on tablets and on pc).

Re: digger - 80's remake
 

could it be made so we N810 users can just assign whatever keyboard controls we want to use for the game?

Re: digger - 80's remake
 

Yeah, I'm with Munky261 on this one. Find a way to keymap if you can.

Re: digger - 80's remake
 

Would love to have this working in N900. Is that possible?

Re: digger - 80's remake
 

yeah that woud be really nice... love this game....