Nice, I would have seen some desert structures, but I have played too much Minecraft.

Wow, indeed nice an huge !

Looking nice!

Thanks guys

With the new mViewer GX and ClassPad picture support, along with the new SourceCoder 3 feature to convert images for the PRIZM, I decided to do a mockup of what Illusiat 1 could look like if it was ported to the fx-CP400 and fx-CG10 models. All graphics are from RPG Maker VX Ace:





It obviously misses the char stats and magic options at the top, but the HUD would be the same through the entire game. I changed the window borders so the inside is white, because I don't think ClassPad II BASIC text is transparent. The PRIZM version would obviously need to do very minimal redrawing in the HUD, else it would run incredibly slow. Both remakes would be based on the 2001 and TI-81 versions in the way that if you press an arrow, you move to a different room instantly rather than just a few steps away, and the character would always face the same direction.

The second PRIZM mockup uses 3 bit images. I think 3 bit images are transparent like CSE 8xi files, so maybe I could make the guy's face white by default so when he is poisoned (only the original version of the game has status aliments right now) I draw a rectangle over it then redraw a pic over it, making his face green.

Thanks. By the way the full color PRIZM pic is 22 KB on-calc. If I posterise it in an image software to reduce colors a little bit I get 12 KB. A 8 color pic version of the above saved as full color pic takes about 7-8 KB. The 3 bit image is 3-4 KB depending of the color patterns. If someone uses simple patterns and minimal color games should not be that big. The frame rate is also not too bad (1.3 FPS) considering the details.

Yeah tables would be a good option as well. I saw the Mario sprite a while ago. I would need to learn how to use them, though (although I guess it's not too hard if it's like 84+ Stat Plots, right?)


However, since this version of Illusiat would be based on the 2001 (original) and 2008 (TI-81) versions, this probably won't be needed, since in those versions the character would move an entire room at once.

On the other hand, I wish that 3 bit pics made in SourceCoder would have supported transparency and been drawn on top of everything else, so that I could have made the character face all 4 directions.


EDIT: Also the 3rd picture above doesn't look that bad on the calculator, because on the PRIZM crappy LCD, colors aren't as saturated, so your eyes won't bleed from it.

8x8 is a lot more challenging, especially monochrome. You have to focus less on details. More simplistic is usually better.

*Edit* Thoughts/Critiques: The well in the center of the town looks really good, as does the sign. Some of the houses look a bit cramped. Maybe try to make them larger or fool around with them a bit. The rocks look pretty good. The tops and bottom of the fences look ok, but the sides look a bit weird because they aren't the same as the top and bottom. Grass looks ok, not much to say there. Crops could be better, but not sure what to suggest. The sign post leaving town could be cleaned up a bit (mainly the bottom of it). The ledges at the top of the town could use some work too. Maybe fill them in or keep them empty (no pixels inside them). Just ideas you can try out maybe and see how it looks.