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My last project for the GCW Zero is a port of Barbie Seahorse Adventures. It is a fun little platformer made by The Olde Battleaxe for the PyWeek 4 contest.




Plot

You're a seahorse, and you have to go to the Moon! There are enemies in your way, which you must defeat, and landscapes that will end up confusing you...

You shoot bubbles from your... face... and those bubbles destroy enemies and turn them into bubbles, which you can ride to raise yourself to new heights. Three bubbles from your face are enough to defeat most enemies, or one if you have hair, but there is one thing that your bubbles cannot defeat alone...

Controls

D-pad to move
A or Y to jump
B or X to shoot
Start to pause; Select while paused to quit the game

Notes about this port

There are two versions of Barbie Seahorse Adventures. There was the PyWeek 4 version, seen by the judges, and then there was a second release to fix some things that were wrong with the game. The GCW Zero port is based on the second release (v. 1.1), and has many optimisations and one fix for a crasher on top.

Both original versions worked out-of-the-box on the GCW Zero. However, optimisations were required due to the majority of the levels getting only 30 FPS, and Jungle-5 getting only 12 FPS. In the port, most levels are 60 FPS, with only a few areas with many collectible objects getting 30 FPS... that is, until you collect the objects!

Links

Download: http://www.gcw-zero.com/file.php?file=barbiesa-1.1.5.opk
Source: https://github.com/Nebuleon/barbie-seahorse-adventures

Entry on PyWeek 4: https://www.pyweek.org/e/toba4/
Team's Web site (for the second release): http://www.imitationpickles.org/barbie/

Thanks for the porting! A really funny platform-game... NES graphic style with the addition of some "special effect" in SNES style!

Awww... 404 on the download link

Seems to be working now, maybe there was an issue on dropbox's end

This game is so much fun. I got a video of it that I will upload soon. Nice job nebuleon

Awesome port Nebuleon.
It's games like these that make me love this little device.

This is written in the OP.

In short, PyGame is too slow for real use on the GCW, and this game proves it.

The big panda sprite is slowing the game down. Also I don't understand how collision to it is intended. Else it works really well especially that thing with the elevation on dead enemies souls. Level design is awesome. It's tricky without chasing the player to go back and forth. I think in the 90s they still analysed big enemies to have multiple sprites to avoid issues like that panda if it wasn't for Street Fighter or such.