Hi, welcome here.

When Axe programs are compiled, they are compiled into Asm programs.  The size is pretty close to what the size would be in Asm, except Axe is a little larger.  If your program ends up over 8000 bytes, you can compile it into an App with Axe and make it up to 16000 bytes.

Good luck with your game!  It sounds pretty neat.

/\maybe some day, but quigibo hasn't added support for apps larger than 16k yet
if you have problems with data storage you can just use appvars, though

Welcome, Aichi!
Just for a bit more info, an Axe-compiled prgm will be about 1.5-2 times larger than pure ASM (but you can get a lot less if you know how to optimize).

Size is definitely going to be larger for compiled Axe programs than pure ASM, but the speed will be about the same with an exception of highly math intensive programs like 3D graphics or particle systems in which case it would be a little bit slower.

I think the biggest disadvantage right now with Axe compared to assembly is not the size or speed of the program, but the difficulty of managing large projects.  Since its typed onto the calculator screen from a calculator generally, its fast and convenient to make a small program, but once you have like 5 include files and 20KB of source code, it can get pretty annoying to work with your code.  With assembly, you have an entire computer screen of code, its easy to type with the keyboard, you have no size considerations, no accidental loss of data, simultaneous editing, etc.  But currently, there aren't many good computer editors right now for BASIC/Axe.

So if this is going to be a really really big project, you might want to learn assembly.  But if you're new to assembly, you probably shouldn't work on such a big project as your first project anyway, and Axe will help transition from BASIC to assembly.  This is just my preference though.  Some people are able to manage and create incredibly huge games that basically take up the entire memory of the calculator <.<

Quote from: Quigibo on September 26, 2010, 12:25:19 am

Some people are able to manage and create incredibly huge games that basically take up the entire memory of the calculator <.<

Like me *points to ROL series, Zelda: Dark Link Quest and its 210 sub-programs/40 pics, Reuben series, Mana Force 2, Metroid II/expansion and Illusiat 13*

Did you just remember everything, or did you make a reference sheet of some kind?

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on September 26, 2010, 12:32:49 am

Quote from: Quigibo on September 26, 2010, 12:25:19 am

Some people are able to manage and create incredibly huge games that basically take up the entire memory of the calculator <.<

Like me *points to ROL series, Zelda: Dark Link Quest and its 210 sub-programs/40 pics, Reuben series, Mana Force 2, Metroid II/expansion and Illusiat 13*

Did you just remember everything, or did you make a reference sheet of some kind?

lol   It's funny that I thought my 2500 byte program was huge when I first made it (I was the largest program on my calc for about 4 months, before I even knew about ticalc).

In my case it was 18 KB. Illusiat 1 was so unoptimized back in the days