SEUCK Title Screen Maker V1.7+ [Commodore 64]

Are you a creative Commodore 64 user who likes to make games using the Shoot Em Up Construction Kit (SEUCK) or Sideways Scrolling SEUCK. Perhaps you still have some old games you made with SEUCK stored away somewhere. Are you bored with the old front end and want something more fancy? Would you like to make your presentation stand out but you cannot code? 

Transform this:

into this:

The New Dimension is very proud to present to you the SEUCK Title Screen Maker. A fun tool which can help you make cool new front ends and link them to your very own standalone games, created with the Shoot Em Up Construction Kit or the Sideways Scrolling SEUCK on the Commodore 64. 

The editor requires no coding knowledge, but in order to link the title screen to your game you will need a reset/freezer cartridge or plugin, such as the Action Replay/Retro Replay cartridge - or Super Snapshot (Or just use soft reset and the VICE Monitor, and a cross-platform cruncher like Exomizer. using $6580 as jump address).  

The S.E.U.C.K Title screen maker consists of the following features:

• Easy to handle editor. Simply place the cursor into the screen area and type in characters and text. 
• *New* Dot grid mode  (To help position text more accurately where possible)
• *New* Swap between CBM and Custom Char mode for editing text.
• Create your own credits page
• Create your own optional hi score table and flashing colour table
• Write your own scrolltext for instructions, or waffle (approx 1 screen page) and assign a colour table over it.
• Create your own optional get ready and game over 1-liner messages.
• *New* Create your own end screen
• Supports multicolour logos saved in Koala Paint format, or hi-res logos saved in OCP Art Studio format (Dimensions: Width: 40 chars x Height: 8 chars, positioned at the very top of the screen ). 
• Supports 1x1, 1x2 or 2x1 character sets. Single colour or multicolour (raw binary or native C64 program format).
• Supports separate title music ($8000-$8fff) and in game music ($9000-$9fff)
• *New* Also supports large music (loaded as title music at $8000-$9fff) with sub tunes (multi-tracks) and also allows assigning these in order of music composed (inside settings menu)
• Three initialize/play spare subroutines for adding additional in game enhancements (code snippets on side 2 of the D64)
• Complete with a user manual
• Compatible with games made with Right-Left version of Sideways Scrolling SEUCK.
• Contains an exclusive sideways scrolling SEUCK game called Ceti 22.
  
  *** For compatibility reasons, please do not load title screens that were made in previous versions of SEUCK Title Screen Maker into V1.7 ***

Credits:

Programming, design and music by Richard Bayliss
Ceti 22 by Alf Yngve and Richard Bayliss
Enhanced Stormbird by Eleanor Burns

(C )2024 The New Dimension 

This production, and its content is classed as free digital software. TND Games consents copying, sharing, modification/improvements and respectable broadcast of this production. However TND Games does not consent this production to be released/re-produced for sales or marketing without permission.  Misuse of this software is NOT permitted.

You are welcome  to use this production to create new front ends for your SEUCK game creations and get them published onto web sites, C64 community based covermounts for fan based C64 magazines. It is your game after all.

The purpose for development this production is having fun and sharing with the C64 community.


Tutorial videos

Part 1/3: Example of SEUCK games and making a new front end for CETI 22

Part 2/3: Linking the new front end to CETI 22.

Please take note: When you decide to use method 2 or method 3. Make sure you follow the process of loading in the game and the new title screen, then save from memory. Otherwise if you run the front end, there is a chance you might get unwanted sprites appear at the top border.

Part 3/3: Adding in game enhancements to CETI 22.

Other SEUCK Title Screen Maker tutorial videos and experiments will appear in my YouTube channel in the future in my channel playlist here.