I don't think I heard about it, but I know Gradius and such shooters. It would be interesting to see how the Prime can handle them. Hopefully the scrolling background won't slow the game down too much (although my concern is more if the game is Touhou/IkarugaX-like and there are too many bullets on the screen).

Sounds awesome Han! It'll be interesting indeed to see how well the Prime handles this sort of game.

Oh I remember that and it looked pretty good. I wonder how this could be adapted for the 320x240 screen. Of course, nothing stops anyone from using a smaller resolution, though, since the images on the HP Prime can be scaled up/down.

Can't wait! (It'll be interesting to see how you'll handle the bullet sprites.)

Can't wait! (It'll be interesting to see how you'll handle the bullet sprites.)

I have come up with several techniques; the real question will be which one is the fastest. I will probably put a soft limit on the total number of movable objects on the screen and see how the machine handles everything. So far, I'm pretty impressed with what this machine can do. The current main loop even requires a delay in between frames in order to slow it down since no delays means the scrolling goes by too fast (even if it's single pixel scrolling). We'll see what happens when more stuff is added.

Han: Are all those dots live-rendered bullets? If so, sweet!

Looks really cool!