Boulder Dash Infinity Part 1
3After playing so much Repton, it seems only natural that I should look at its "rival" Boulder Dash. Both games operate on the same premise (collecting diamonds, avoiding falling rocks, digging earth...) but are nonetheless very different in style. I find the original Boulder Dash very difficult to control, as Rockford (your character) moves so fast, so to get round this problem I recreated the game in Repton Infinity. It turns out that Boulder Dash is very well suited to this, since its major gameplay rules fit in with the Repton Infinity environment rather nicely:
* Rocks fall at the same speed you move, achieved in Reptol simply by setting the flag "One". The fact that you can run down under a rock and step aside without being killed is automatically taken care of, since Repton Infinity processes your movement before other characters'.
* Levels are completed by collecting a minimum number of diamonds. This is easily reproduced with the minimum score feature, since diamonds are the only thing that gives you points.
* Boulder Dash has a "pick up" key that allows you to clear a neighbouring square without moving to it. In Repton Infinity, the Infinity shuffle achieves this.
* Monsters and butterflies can't occupy the same square, so they act very much like spirits in the default Repton Infinity games.
In Boulder Dash, diamonds also fall (and can kill you). There are only two types of wall, with no visual indication that the brick wall is curved. Monsters (which look like Repton's transporters) move like spirits but are killed by dropping rocks on them.
This video contains the first four levels. The first three go over the basic features of the game: rocks, diamonds, earth and walls. The fourth introduces butterflies, a kind of monster that follows walls the other way and creates diamonds when hit by a rock. (Notice that it's important to be careful and not rush in to start collecting the diamonds as soon as they appear; that can lead to one hitting you on the head!)
The music for this video is the third Prelude and Fugue from J S Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier.
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