Very, very impressive!
Keep up the amazing work Iambian!

Maybe it's the spelling for ancient english?

I like the first one the most, but the other one is pretty cool, you can see it flash between greyscale and monochrome if you watch closely

Heheh. I'll be bouncing around between this topic and the new topic, I suppose.

With that, I'm announcing that the progress is ... well. Slow? I hadn't realized how complicated I made the inventory menu, but I'm sticking with that complexity because it was "good." I'm also making sure it makes more sense. So no being able to scroll through tons of empty space, not knowing exactly where you are. That omission in design is being fixed. Once I get the thing up and going the way I want to, I'll also consider adding in additional graphical niceness. What I'm thinking is moving the menu items in half-character increments to show a better "scroll".

Very impressive work  !! You done a great job , this game is beautiful !

Yeah it could be good for those who absolutely despise grayscale (although I don't get why ppl hate GS so much if it looks great on every calc)

Choosing to play the game in B/W will take a fair bit more work than what I've already shown. Going that route would require me to write a separate tile mapper for that option, but it shouldn't be too hard, since doing B/W will be much simpler and I wouldn't have to worry about grayscale quality at that point. It won't be purely B/W, since some of the layering effects would call for grayscale layering effects, which will be evident when they happen (also see the flashing effect in the "B/W" screenshot far above).

I just don't think the game would be very enjoyable in B/W, but I do respect that sort of option, now that I've got a proof of concept showing that it's indeed possible to do just that.

EDIT: When I get the 4LVGS Escheron: Shadow over Ragnoth done, I might just work on a B/W version that is compatible with the good ol' fashioned TI-83+ calculators. It shouldn't be *too* hard since all that would really call for is a reworking of the graphical assets. Since I have the source, all it would be is time consuming.

EDIT2: Urk. Now I realized something. I'd have to rework much of RAM to make it *really* compatible. Gotta have all your RAM free for this to work. That shouldn't be too hard if that's the case. Just collapse the rest of RAM into the $8000-$BFFF area and keep treating that stick of RAM that I have free'd up as the "extra page". See? I'm already thinking about how this is going to be made possible

EDIT3: And now... back to the inventory system. While I'm thinking about that, doing menus using a simple B/W overlay wouldn't take too much away from that.

A 83+ version might be cool. Hopefully graphic conversion isn't too hard. For now I think the focus should be on the GS version, though. Good luck whatever you decide.