New project Prince of Persia (open source available)

Short video from Prince of Persia game? I am confused.

"EnTerr" wrote:
Short video from Prince of Persia game? I am confused.

Few years ago Jordan Mechner the original author of Prince of Persia released the source code of the original game for Apple II, and a lot of new ports were done afterwards.

in order to learn more about the Roku Draw2D I'm porting it for Roku from the original code and an Html5 port.

That's very ambitious, I'll be interested to see the final result!

"Komag" wrote:
That's very ambitious, I'll be interested to see the final result!

I already have the maps (all levels) and the kid (prince) engine working, and yesterday I finished all animated tiles (chopper, spikes, exit door, loose plate etc.)

What is missing: picking objects (potion, sword), the enemies (animation and AI) , the fight engine, and the cut scenes.

As I said I'm porting so, most of my work is focused on adapting to Brigscript solutions from the HTML5 (Phaser Framework) and 6502 Assembly, but the sprites, algorithms and decision trees are there so the port is going fast.

I created a quick video with the current state:

https://youtu.be/r6B0xgb8GSE

It would be a really neat thing indeed! But there would be an issue distributing the result, wouldn't there? I read that

"http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/04/original-apple-ii-prince-of-persia-source-code-published-by-creator/" wrote:
... Although the source code of the game is now available to study, modify, and run, it’s technically not open source software. Ubisoft still holds exclusive distribution rights for the franchise.

recolor and rebrand!

"EnTerr" wrote:
It would be a really neat thing indeed! But there would be an issue distributing the result, wouldn't there? I read that

"http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/04/original-apple-ii-prince-of-persia-source-code-published-by-creator/" wrote:
... Although the source code of the game is now available to study, modify, and run, it’s technically not open source software. Ubisoft still holds exclusive distribution rights for the franchise.

Well, I'm not planing to release it at the channel store or as a product, you can find several projects that re-implement PoP:

http://www.princed.org/downloads/

Including the one I'm porting from:

https://ultrabolido.wordpress.com/

My plan is to release it to github for the community, I hope Ubisoft will not complain, as did not in the other cases.

that sounds very reasonable to me

New version is ready (Alpha v0.6), see the changes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYzuH9f3ADU

If you have a Roku 3 or 4 and want to try it, send me a PM so I can send you the link for the private channel.

The changeset is below:
* Add: Intro screens and song
* Add: Start Menu with Screen Mode options
* Add: Allow use the remote control straight or sideways
* Add: Event to Open Gate and Exit Door
* Add: Event to move to next level when enter Exit Door
* Add: Change level with remote keys (REW and FF)
* Add: Bitmap font support for Status Bar
* Add: Event to pick Potion and drink
* Add: Event to Pick Sword
* Add: Flash background depending on the CMD_EFFECT
* Add: Status bar shows kid lives according to health and maxHealth properties
* Add: Status bar blinks when is the last kid's life
* Add: Healing Potion (red): increases 1 energy point
* Add: Life Extension Potion (big red): Extended energy in 1 point and restore all
* Add: Poison Potion (blue): decreases 1 energy point
* Add: Injury from medium fall: : decreases 1 energy point
* Add: Die from high fall
* Add: Sound Effects (Run, Bump, Gate, Suspense, Exit Door, Drink, Land, Loose, Spikes, Sword, Button)
* Add: Loose plate that fall over a button should press it (L4R16->R17) - Not on JS
* Add: Restart game with death

Plus several bug fixes.