yeah it's basically a bit like Mario style but with guns instead of jumping on enemies to kill them



Megaman is similar, except you can only shoot left and right.

Something like this woudl have been cool, too, but it only works well with a mouse (or having the gun cursor be moved with numpad acting like arrows)

Lol, it looks like BuilderBoy is excited for this so let's address his questions:
A) Half Life 2 is the best game ever made.  Agreed.
B) I'm still debating smooth scrolling or static maps, some feedback would be nice.
C) Gravity gun will probably find the nearest object in its path, and apply gravity towards it to make it come, then once it has arrived it will negate gravity on the item in question and tether it to the player.
D) Full(ish) physics, yes.  I plan on using the two "safe" areas available to manage a physics stack, and every frame I will pop it off of one and push it onto another, proccessing the whole way through.
E) Enemies will follow the same laws.  However, ragdoll physics seems pretty outrageous for a calculator, way too slow.
F) Control sceme: Arrow keys to move.  Numpad to shoot.  2nd to reload.  Alpha to sprint.  Function keys for weapons.

I'm using 7x7 sprites to make my sprite rotation algorithm (that's right ) work better.  Also, thanks about the control scheme.  Physics will probably freeze if they are a certain distance off-screen so they won't look weird, assuming I do smooth-scroll.

That's cool.  I like the 7*7 size idea.  Keep up the cool work.

Wow, I really like the 16x16 smooth scrolling routine. That is pretty sweet

Wow really nice, I wonder how fast would it be with collision detection and stuff? This might come handy for some people who want to work on tilemap-based RPGs and the like.

And Quigibo, do you mean like how in BASIC we can have sub-programs? Would we be able to keep them archived?

aaah sounds nice