Ann-Gong:
4KB minigame
by Stefano Tognon
(C) 2005 Ice Team
version 1.00

Well, this game is also dedicated to my "Ann-Gong friend"
This is my 10th game for C64

Music created and composed by Richard Bayliss

CONCEPT:
A kendo-like game placed somewhere in a desert of China

BACKGROUND:
I had the true ispiration for this game when my friend went in China for work.

INSTRUCTIONS:
Put Joystick in port 2
Movement:
 LEFT:       goes left
 RIGHT:      goes right
 UP:         jumps up
 DOWN:       goes down
 FIRE+RIGHT: strike up
 FIRE+LEFT:  strike down

A strike requires lots of power, so there is a reload time before you can do
another strike. Well, we are all humans...
The AI on enemy increases level by level, but maybe you will be able to pass
all the 9 levels.+
Note that only with energy below 0 you are killed: with energy 00 you have the 
last possibility!

TECNIQUES:
* An actor is made by 2 multicolor sprites: the upper part and the lower part.
* There are 4 lower parts and 2 upper parts for one actor, so 6 sprites
  are needed for the animations (2 sprites are used for enemy killed).
* The stick is made with a singlecolor x/y expanded sprite. There are 3
  different sprites for the stick.
* Sprites were painted as usual using the Andrew Colin's BASIC sprites program
  and Gimp
* Mountains and desert are made with 17 different multicolor chars. The yellow
  color is the better of the first 8 colors I could use without having to put
  lot of primary colors bytes into that part.
* Chars were created using my LSS2 map editor.


OPTIMIZATIONS:
Here are some steps taken:
* Sprites are defined for the left actor only. The ones for the right are
  calculated at runtime by mirroring the others. Note that we mirror multicolor
  sprites, not siglecolor ones. As stick is made by (expanded) singlecolor
  sprites, they are made to use only 00/11 bits combination to allow the
  same procedure to mirror even singlecolors
* Screen at $0400 and color at $D800 are precalculated and put as 2KB of data
  into the source. Belive or not, Exomizer compress them a lot as they are
  like all equal (unfortunately they have to be relocated to the right
  position as Exomizer actually doesn't manage that address directly)
* Redefined chars are already at the right place and are not to be relocated
* The music is processed by SIDld and the bytes of player never used are filled
  with 0 (306 bytes were obtained by this)


THANKS:
Thanks to all the authors of tools I used to make this game:
Vice, Exomizer, Dasm.
Another thanks to iAN CooG/HokutoForce for bugs removing and for having created
some time ago the "Italian Style Bar" that I use a lot in my game.

If you read Italian language you can look at all the developing of the game
here:
http://ready64.altervista.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=1065

Look for all the Ice Team release (always with source) at:
http://digilander.iol.it/ice00