As a basic rule, there is no basic rule Things like storyline, graphics, music, physics all play a key role, but you can still make an amazingly inversive game and exclude some of those.  I dont think there is a catch all rule, and i personally dont try to make games by a formula, I think it just works better if you know what you want, and you just make it fun.

Welcome to Omnimaga its always nice to see some new faces!  Its cool that your into Axe parser, although its not technically a Basic to Asm compiler, more like a separate language, which is why you might be having trouble compiling programs.  But like you said such things are  for other topics, this one is just to say WELCOME

Great Actualy.  Its being worked on, just like evrything else, although right now Portal has the highest priority.  Haha im partitioning my time

haha you two sillys

Yay! This optimization makes me happy

I dont know, you should probably talk to Brandon Wilson, he knows lots of things

Thats some good information Although it seems that this might be more difficult than i first imagined.  Once (and if) i finish the program, would it be possible for the raw Asm file to be converted into an APplication using a computer or something?  That way you really would have all the RAM you needed.  I think i might start in Basic first so i can get all the interface and things down to where i want them, and so i can work on the cursor movement, to get it as close to the Basic editor as possible.

So i was playing around with the idea of writing my own Small Font Basic editor in Axe, but i got stumped when it came to the idea of how to realocate memory when you insert text into a large file.  Like if you had an 8000 bytes program, and you add an extra digit on the first line.  Would i have to shift everything else down by a couple bytes?  Is there any fast way to handle the dynamic memory needed for a text editor?  And how does the Ti OS manage to do it so well?