@kalan_vod: Sort of, except the real world didn't have Zombies and Slimes
@xlibman: Yep, I live in .nl. Good thing we have forums for communicating, since IRC meetings will be quite rare, I guess.

Today's progress. I redid the shop code, now it's a seperate program which is archived when not used. I also took the working title "Rebirth" for the game. I might end up using it, I might not, but it looks a whole lot better then no name at all!
Next up my list is making the switch to the String engine, since for ASCII graphcis it seems superior. I hope I'm able to convert the adjustments I made to the matrix engine, but it should be fine.

And, what you've all been waiting for, 3 screenshots:


This is the stat screen, where you are able to update your stats (if you have stat points) and view them.


On the left you see your character walking around on the first map (hooray for the awesome path you can walk on, you can leave it too), then being attacked by a Slime. On the screenshot I find 2 potions, which doesn't happen that often.

On the right screenie you see a short walk without encounters.

I don't want to give away too much at once, but more will probably be revealed later. Let me know what you think!

Edit: Added a third screenshort

I'll bend over the code and try to do it myself first, since this is still all my learning phase It's very kind of you to offer help, and I will let you know when I'm stuck.

Edit: Will look at the code, thanks.

sound nice so far, I was wondering if you were planning to add some kind of battle scene with ASCII monsters or maybe just some kind of animations for attacks? That would make it even cooler. Also if you ever need more space (since 24 KB of ram isnt really big) Resource might come handy, its in the archives there or at ticalc.org (it got updated yesterday i think)

anyway keep the good work on this project

I cant read O_O

cool it use strings now maps should be smaller, expect 60% decrease in map size maybe

hmm, myabe I should think at strings for mine, but a Matrix makes more sense to me (I could be really craxy though). Oh well, what can I really complaiin about though.

Welcome to Omnimaga

wait, *rivereye just got a crazy idea to convert to strings.
*rivereye hopes it works

Just plain downright awesome!!!

much better than anything I've done so far in ASM or C.

the title screen's font is real nice too.

It's a good idea to use 2nd/alpha/clear instead of enter, though I love the Pause function. Anykey sounds good.
I tried to make the "Press Any Key" text blink, I succeeded but there was a major lag between registering the key and going to the next screen because I used for loops (I think this caused it). Is there a fast way to do this? (So it's like Press Any Key....Blank... Press Any Key... Blank etc. until you press a key)

Thanks for the compliments, Liazon If you mean "Rebirth" with font, I drew it in paint. The version/key query is the default Text( command.
Edit: Good morning, kalan!

Edit 2: Here's the new title screen:


As you might've noticed there's no New Game option, that's because in order to save RAM during play I seperated the New Game option in a Setup file, which sets up all the lists for needed data. After you ran it you can archive it or delete it, but you'll need it again if you want to start over. Though I will work on 2 save slots at some point.