MMM rebooted

Finally!

Nice surprise!

This is amazing news. Can't wait for the game. Are you also gonna include a level editor for it?

The Incredible Micro Mirror Men is Lemmings for MSX! There is a demo from the 90s that you can play.

The game is not edited, but programmed.

The level editor is very different than the one used in 1996. The 2020 'editor' is a windows console app that reads a json config file containing all graphics elements, sprites, audio but it also compiles several .asm code files on demand (using the glass compiler after parsing some custom instructions) for each specific level. These .asm files are in fact small programs each running 'simultaneously' and control, monitor and manipulate the game. For example: each sprite is controlled by such program and interacts with its environment. It checks if its allowed to walk to left, right, determines if its must fall down, stand-up etc. If you would like to have a door that opens or closes, you must write a small program for it.

The 'July 20, 2020' example on our website contains such small program to control a text balloon above the mmm sprite.

Main game loop:

			
		; create mmm
		call	sprite_create_SP
		dw	sprite_lemming_walk
		ld	(ix+struct_sprite..x),240
		ld	(ix+struct_sprite..y),231
		ld	(ix+struct_sprite..mirrorBits),4
		push	hl
	
		; create text balloon
		call	sprite_create_SP
		dw	sprite_text
		pop	hl
		ld	(ix+struct_sprite..follow+0),l
		ld	(ix+struct_sprite..follow+1),h

mainLoop:
		call	game_draw
		jr	mainLoop

Text balloon program:

bios:
		jp	initialize
		jp	cleanup

initialize:				

mainLoop:	
		; get mmm to follow
		ld	e,(ix+struct_sprite..follow+0)
		ld	d,(ix+struct_sprite..follow+1)
		ld	iyl,e
		ld	iyh,d
		; use its coordinates
		ld	e,(iy+struct_sprite..x)
		ld	d,(iy+struct_sprite..y)				
			
		; check which text to draw above the mmm	
		ld	hl,textTable-5
		push	hl
.find:		pop	hl
		ld	bc,5
		add	hl,bc
		ld	a,(hl)
		cp	255
		ret	z
		push	hl
		cp	(iy+struct_sprite..mirrorBits)
		jr	nz,.find
		inc	hl
		ld	a,(iy+struct_sprite..x)
		cp	(hl)
		jr	c,.find
		inc	hl
		cp	(hl)
		jr	nc,.find
		inc	hl
		ld	a,(hl)
		inc	hl
		ld	h,(hl)
		ld	l,a
		pop	bc
		jp	(hl)			
				
drawText1:	call	sprite_draw("text.png",0,0,109,20,2,-54,false)
		jr	mainLoop
								
drawText2:	call	sprite_draw("text.png",0,25,68,35,6,-54,false)
		jr	mainLoop

textTable:	db	4,0,50
		dw	drawText1	; grass foreground (walking left)
		db	0,0,20
		dw	drawText1	; grass foreground (walking right)
		db	0,45,70
		dw	drawText2 ; cool (walking right)
		db	-1
				
cleanup:	ret