I like how this thread has turned into an argument about 15 vs 6 mhz. Personally, I think that 15mhz is OK in certain cases. I just don't think that it's a good practice to subsititute Full for inefficient coding =/ only when it is needed for high levels of calculation (complicated AI, 3D calculations, textures, raycasting, large amounts of particle physics, etc). Plus it opens the game to a wider platform!

Anyway, back on topic, we are all waiting for you to give us something awesome regardless of Full/Normal, leafy (no pressure of course, hahaha). But seriously, like Builder said, can we get more details on the game?

Hey guys,

Like squidgetx said, let's not get this off on a discussion about 6MHz vs 15MHz. They both have their merits. I'll try and keep it 6MHz if possible, but I've got a lot of cool features planned for this game that might not be possible at that kind of speed. I've had a few discussions with Runer, and what I might end up doing is making two versions in the final release - one will run at 6MHz but have no greyscale (which saves a lot of time in shifting buffers and DispGraphr and whatnot - it might also not include a lot of special effects) and the other will have all the features but will run at 15MHz. I personally don't like it when games sacrifice quality just for the sake of a wider audience; I see this happening a lot with iPhone games these days, and I think it's right to not force games to run on devices that can't run them. That being said, Tegra-only games are a total ripoff >

This game is going to be a fast-paced action platformer - The max level size will be 32x32, but I'm aiming for around 25-30 for both width/height for each level. It'll feature arcade-style platforming (think walljumping and soforth). The player will get a shotgun near the beginning of the game, and the objective of each level will be to kill all the enemies and grab three optional intel briefcases. The briefcases will be located in difficult-to get to places and will unlock new levels. Once all the enemies are killed, the level ends (I've got a cool bullet time effect planned out for this ). You'll also get a rating based on the time it takes you to beat the level, but I'm still working that out.

As for tilemapping, I'm using full-byte RLE but I might switch to half-byte if I don't need the extra tiles and I need the extra space. I have some ideas on how to use dynamic tilemapping to load more tiles into a single tile, and I'm really trying to get this to look nice.

That being said, does anyone want to help me sprite a player character? I might end up using the sprite from Graviter if I don't come up with something else and theme the entire game around that instead

Yeah, because it is such a awesome sprite ^^

Ok, and don't forget to make the most awesome animations EVER

There won't be any real AI; however, that doesn't mean the hazards will be static either ^^

Check out this awesome sprite made by our very own Deep Thought!

Glad it turned out like that—I hadn't actually seen it animated at actual size XD

The hands look a bit weird though.

(I'm also wondering what a ninja is doing in a laboratory...)

The delayed camera is really nice, but it's really abrupt when it changes direction, which seems a bit odd to me since normally it's so smooth.

Do I spot the "wall scaling"?
EDIT: by wall scaling, I mean that the player "crawls" up the wall. Is it intentional or is it a glitch from wall jumping?