3 Layers of Parallex Scrolling and 3D road in AMOS!? Santas Present Drop 3 - how it’s made!

Its crazy, a long long time ago I wanted to create a game a little like Lotus Turbo Challenge.
Back then I was only able to program in AMOS, and so I created a small demo as a kind of proof of concept.
However it wasn't very good, and not very practical and so I moved on.

Some 30ish years later I started creating these Santas Present Drop games.
In Santas Present Drop 1, you helped Santa drop the presents down chimneys as he flew over numerous rooftops.
In Santas Present Drop 2, Santa was unhappy that presents were being delivered to the wrong people, so he installed the Gift-o-Matic 5000.

So what about the third game? Well, "Whilst flying over the Alps, the contraption exploded scattering presents all over the mountains. Luckly however, Santa had his skis with him. Your job is to guide Santa to collect as many presents as possible within the time allowed."

I wanted to create a 1st person driving style game, in AMOS again. Knowing a lot more now and armed with a load of tricks and hacks, in this video I'll show you how I not only managed four layers of background scrolling parallex, but also ended up with a fairly fast road-like experience whilst running fairly smoothly on a standard Amiga 500.

This game is available for download, and includes the full AMOS source code. You will need the AMCAF and Turbo Plus extensions in order to run them.

🎮 The Games:
💾 Santas Present Drop 1: https://robsmith-dev.itch.io/santas-p...
💾 Santas Present Drop 2: https://robsmith-dev.itch.io/present-...
💾 Santas Present Drop 3: https://robsmith-dev.itch.io/present-...

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📹 Other AMOS Tutorials covering Hardware Sprites, Dual Playfield and other things:
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🔗 Santas Present Drop 2:    • Lets Code "Santas Present Drop 2" in AMOS ...  
🔗 Trick or Treat:    • Build a Spooky Puzzle Game in AMOS! Trick ...  
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🔗 Hop to the Top - Bunnys Revenge:    • Hop to the Top – Bunny’s Revenge - How it ...  

📖 Chapters
(00:00) Introduction
(00:18) Lets See The Game
(01:27) The Plot Thickens
(02:21) Original 30 Year Old Concept
(03:05) Breaking Down the Game Areas
(03:44) I Can Move, Move, Move Any Mountain
(05:57) The Road to...
(08:57) Amiga Hardware Sprites
(10:48) AMOS Bugs (NOT The Compiler!)
(11:48) Displaying the Sprites
(12:31) Keeping Pace and Improvements
(13:12) Weird Compile Bugs
(13:38) Summary

🎧 Music Used
• "Oh Xmas" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "Christmas Rap" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "The Snow Queen" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "Oh, Christmas Tree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "Divertimento K131" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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• Holly Dazed - RKVC
• Prizefighter - Norma Rockwell
• Christmas Village - Aaron Kenny
• Corndogs in Santa Monica - The Great North Sound Society

• Winter Ride by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Source: http://www.twinmusicom.org/song/308/w...
Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org


🎨 Graphics Used in the Game:
🔗 Original Santa Image: https://www.deviantart.com/yohane-ryu...
🔗 Snow Background on End Screen: https://www.deviantart.com/silentnois...
🔗 Santa holding Present: https://www.pngegg.com/en/png-bdtuv


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