The screen gets redrawn every frame which makes it as slow as it is, unfortunately. The objects that you see are actually tiles that are 1 level higher than the floor. The masking is pretty simple, transparent all around except the actual block. Except the transparent blocks that I made that are, well, transparent haha. The tiles are drawn from the top left corner to the bottom right corner, starting at the lowest depth level and progressing to the highest.

I believe lookitsan00b already made an isometric engine with Axe, actually, although I can't find it atm...

No, you are right, he is falling through the floor. I have to fix that.

This runs decently at 15mhz, but I can't really figure out what I want to do with it. It's too slow to handle any kind of enemies or anything, as well as any extra physics to play with. I might actually move on to another, more traditional 2d entry if I can't speed it up/think of something...

So this is my contest entry, maybe. It depends on how much more I can optimize it...The screenshot is at 6mhz, but you can see its pretty slow atm.

Isometric 3d ftw. Gravity/jumping/collision detection all kind of work so far. atm I'm not really sure what the actual point of the game will be..have to think about that one..But for now, enjoy a screenie.

Hahaha, thanks everyone

Is there any way to get rid of the discord when you press keys? The sound is perfectly good once you let go of the key, but it sounds a little off while you press the key. Is it a limitation of the language?

I'm assuming you're talking about continuous mode here. I've tried a lot of different things but I can't seem to fix this issue unfortunately...

So I've finally gotten around to uploading AxeSynth, a music-synthesizer written in Axe. The key mappings are like a guitar's; MATH is E2, x^-1 is F2, etc. The base-note is displayed above the key column on the screen. You have access to 8.125 octaves, from the note C0 through C8



Features/Controls:
2nd: Activate Continuous note mode; hold down keys to play a note for as long as the key is held down
MODE: Fixed length mode
DEL: Major chord mode (root, major third, fifth, octave)
ALPHA: Power chord mode (root, fifth, octave)
XT0N: Minor chord mode (root, minor third, fifth, octave)
STAT: Custom chord mode; press ZOOM/F3 to set the chord structure
Up: shift all notes down 1 half step; equivalent of moving a capo down the fingerboard
Down: shift all notes up a half step; equivalent of moving a capo up the fingerboard
Left: set the five columns of keys to E/A/D/G/B (can be shifted up-down with Up/Down keys though)
Right: Set the five columns of keys to A/D/G/B/E
Y=: Decrease the note length. The different note lengths available are 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, 21576, 32768, 49152, and 65535
WINDOW: Increase the note length. Note that you can change the note length in continuous mode to achieve varying levels of sound quality.
On+CLEAR: quit

Since this is a sound program, I've also put together a little video to show the full effect:



Download Link: http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=671

I actually had edited it in about 5 minutes after you had posted it, but then my browser crashed for some reason while it was saving

Added Hot_Dog's interrupts tutorial and sorted by categories

Who stickied this? It's already listed in the tutorials thread

with the latest demo, I had a few 'small' problems(one of them made me have to delete my save )
1) after fights, the character is replaced by pixels static. This persists until you flee a battle.
2) When pixelated, if you change area, the coordinates are messed up permanently . this caused me to delete a file after I got trapped OUTSIDE the city

This has been fixed

3) this one's minor, but I would be happy if you could change your weapon after you make your choice

You'll be able to procure additional weapons and skills later on in the game