Good to hear about the progress! ^^ Did you manage to update the grayscale engine any in the process?

I'll take a look at the sprite thread and see if there is anything I can contribute. =)

Wow, that looks awesome!  Nice job!

Yeah, I'm working on some different water tiles too (for the forest set).
Map switching works as follows:
1) Check if tile you are standing on is value 3 or 4 (warp tile)
2) Go through a predefined 20x5 array. The first 2 bytes of each entry are the position of the tile. Check for any matches.
3) If we get a match, the 3rd byte is the map to switch to and the next 2 bytes are the X and Y output.
  4) Load these 3 bytes into current map and current X,Y
5) If no match, load the last area and x/y coords that you had warped from. (pretty much all the warp tiles in the houses for example, are not defined and will take you back to where you were before--which was outside the house--when you step on them)
6)Activate fade effect and reload map data

Edit: Also, I thought of a bunch of optimizations that I could do....and also, I'm going to work on compression too, to get down this insane filesize. Does anyone know a good (maybe RLE?) routine for sprites/tiles before I go off and write one myself?

Yeah, Shmibs said some of them were from Zelda.

Today I optimized off 140 bytes off the app and worked more on the map editor: among other things, the tile editor now displays 4 of the tiles you are editing so I can judge whether or not it looks good in a repeating pattern

Really nice, and I love your maps too.

*Bump*

Check out the sexiness. I owe you, Builderboy

I had to turn the title screen into its own external executable, which added about 1k to the overall game size. But on the bright side, it brought the app size under 16k again, which gives me room for some good compression routines.

  That's an awesome title screen!

Haha, thanks guys. I uploaded a screenie that shows the menu select animation better, for those that didn't want to watch the other screenie all the way through. It looks pretty hot (OK, I need to stop with these puns haha)