Its a good thing that Nintendo have started pumping out some good games, the WiiU i actually picking up in sales, its ahead of the xbone at least.

16. You spend more money on calculators then on her.

damn straight !

The * is because some people might not think that 12kb is a low size for an image .

Yeah they are just quick image tests, if you were actually designing an image with 32 colours in mind it would look much better.

That is slow due to the way the test is ... its really bad lol:

each frame:
draw sprite
draw fullscreen rectangle with rotated colours
draw fullscreen black rectangle to destroy previous frame

Here is one with just the sprite:

Not to hijack this thread but 3D games are possible on calc. I have a few demos of my own that have a fair bit of stuff in them like basic AI and collisions etc:





Not sure if you can tell whats going on, but it just flying around shooting the objects. Only the xwing moves in the interactive demo, but thats just because the others are being told to stay still.

Aether3D was possibly the best engine performance wise, it could render complex objects at very good frame rates.

But ben is right, you need to be considerate with level design. Thats why i chose a spacesim since you dont need an environment beside some stars and planet sprites. Not saying that i will guarantee that ill finish, but i planned on having a max of 6 objects (like a broken freighter to protect, 1 wingman and waves of 3 enemies to destroy for example).

How dare they ...

How many 8x8 sprites does it take to change a lightbulb?

Since 8x8=64 pixels, its 1 bit per pixel and there are 8-bits in 1 byte, 64/8 = 8bytes for an 8x8 sprite.

There are compression techniques that can be used however?