so it's basically a 1 layer ASCII map editor?

Quote from: {AP} on May 19, 2009, 08:39:55 pm

Busybusybusy..

Nyaar Raycaster edition

Now that would be sweet

not if they're free

Wow that's pretty insane. It's kind of like my game, except mine is pure Basic, so yeah...graphics AND speed pwn mine, but oh well. Lol now that I think about it, it isn't really like mine at all

But that looks awesome.

Quote from: trevmeister66 on May 19, 2009, 05:34:10 pm

When using If statements with only 1 line afterwards, it's faster to execute that line WITHOUT the Then:End, but when skipping that line (in cases where key presses aren't pushed often), it's faster to have Then:End because instead of reading what's inside, it skips. Not sure if what I said just made sense, but to sum it up, it's faster to skip code using Then:End, and it's faster to execute the code just using If by itself.

So, when the condition is false (the next line is skipped) it's faster to use If:Then:End.
When the condition is true (the code is executed) it's faster to just use If.

Is that right?  If that's the case, then whether to use the Then:End depends on if most of the time the condition will be true or false.

Yes, you put it in a much simpler way. That is correct.

And yes, if you're going to have multiple things going on at once, I think it would be better to have the If:Then:End, whereas if you're just having an enemy moving around and thats it, only having If shouldn't be a problem.

This should work:

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:While CONDITION
:CODE
:Repeat Ans
:getKey
:End
:Ans→VAR
:MORE CODE
:End

What I do for Chip's Challenge is along the lines of

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:While STUFF
:getKey→K
:If K
:prgmMOVE
:(some stuff that has to be executed every time)
:End
prgmMOVE contains all the code for if the player moved, so if they didn't move the (useless) code isn't executed.  There's stuff besides a key press that triggers movement (or at least the need to run the movement code), but that's the gist of it.

It would actually be faster to do:
:While STUFF
:getKey→K
:If K
:Then
:prgmMOVE
:End
:(some stuff that has to be executed every time)
:End

When using If statements with only 1 line afterwards, it's faster to execute that line WITHOUT the Then:End, but when skipping that line (in cases where key presses aren't pushed often), it's faster to have Then:End because instead of reading what's inside, it skips. Not sure if what I said just made sense, but to sum it up, it's faster to skip code using Then:End, and it's faster to execute the code just using If by itself.

ouch....