thanks to everyone who responded and said hello (and sorry it took so long to respond... i joined just before going out of town) yes, they are 8*8, and yes, i am aware of the 8kb limit but im not too worried. the current walking engine(which albeit does leave out a couple of things like ledges and those arrow ground tiles) is about 2k including data for some tile sprites and a small map, which will be stored in an appvar, leaving quite a bit of space for text handling, intro, etc. it will be close, but i think i can make it.
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i still have no peanuts

hullo
i first tried to join omnimaga about a year ago, but the version of xp im running is very... eccentric and simply refused to display the bottom half of the join page. i just remembered recently that i had never actually gotten around to joining so i booted up a linux livecd and joined that way. i've been writing code and such for about two years though(although not at all regularly) and am currently working on two projects: a pokémon clone with personalized graphics and story elements(im rewriting the entire thing in axe with a more authentic walking engine and larger pkmn sprites atm, but here are some pics from the old celtic version: http://s833.photobucket.com/albums/zz254/shmibs/pkmn%20grey/ ), and another which shall remain unnamed for the axe comp. not much else to say besides hi, i guess