Yeahh... And what sucks is that when we all signed up, we were only supposed to have practices at night on wendsdays and fridays.  But now its every day at this ridiculous time He even wanted one girl to reschedual her SAT's so she could make it to a competition.  She refused.

Heh i feel your pain, getting up at 5:00 every day for band is killing me X.x

Yeah, i must say that a lot of credit needs to go to Quigibo for writing such an epic compiler.  Axe is simply amazing.  ^^

I just halted progress on Serenity, and a lot of people have been looking forward to it with the same enthusiasm as we are looking forward to Black Mesa

I always had massive trouble with detecting collision when going out of the screen. In the past, I would make my matrices 10x18 instead of 8x16 but that wastes a lot of RAM

Thats exactly what i did for Shift Maybe it wastes a but of mem, but it sure makes the engine a hell of a lot faster I guess it depends on what kind of game your writing.  I had non tile-by-tile movement so I needed all the speed i could get

I'm not much of a Halo fan myself.  Its all about Half Life

You guys know i never halt progress on one project without creating another!    I have 2 anouncments to make.  

1) I have been working on a Portal Gold edition!
The engine is being completely remodeled for faster speed and better portal handling
More levels will be added, for even more Portal Madness
More levels means more GlaDOS! So get ready for a deeper storyline and interesting twists
All the original puzzles will be included, plus some new ones!

2) I have recently started working on PortalX.  An Axe version of the portal game.
PortalX will serve as the prequel to Portal, with a whole new storyline, and full Portal Physics!  Get ready to use new portal concepts like momentum and velocity to solve puzzles like never before!  New obstacles will be added as well, so you will need to be extra careful Are you thinking with Portals yet??

Here are some screenshots of the engine i have set up right now.  Full portal physics are already supported, as well as a crude portal gun.

Demonstrating the portal physics


Demonstrating how the new engine is (completely) different than the old.


About the Engine:
I am using Axe 0.0.06 to do my compiling (i didn't upgrade to 0.1.0 yet ) and the source is about 2000 bytes, and it compiles to about double that.  I'm sure there are many many places i could optimize however.  All collision detection is done via memory access, not pixel testing.  I wrote a pointTest sub to test whether or not a point in the world is solid or not.  Portals can warp this data Warping through portals actually takes up about 1/2 of the engine code right now, as i have to account for momentum change as well as the multiple sprites needed to complete the warping effect.

I definitely will release the source if it dies (which it wont )

But yeah, i was reluctant to officially halt progress on this since i know how much everybody has been looking forward to it