maybe you could be a little more specific about what you want. It really depends because some engines will perform fast but poorly with animations and some will be good with animations and maybe bad on moving. So like there are tradeoffs for stuff. So what are you going to add after you get the engine?

I'm just using the BASIC that the TI-84 comes with, plus the hidden characters and some assembly programs to archive and unarchive subroutines. I was planning on the world to be made up of all characters, because its simple. I had a really simple one set up on the homescreen thats just made up of 9 screens worth of map that remains stationary while you move(screen doesnt follow you), but because i havent been programming too long i dont think its the most efficient. The only things i need to be able to do are random encounters, interacting w/ characters, walking of course, and a menu when you press 2nd. I can do all that, im just looking for suggestions on the best way of doing it. I'll try out xLIB.

ty necro  That works well. The way I had it stored the entire map into one string.

Umm necro its not that hard I made my four way scrolling engine with that in like 10 mins

If you want some code misirlou then just say so and I will post some four way scolling code with hit detection also and explain it in-depth

Another bonus to doing it my way is it makes everything smooth with map loading so everything seems like an ASCII assembly game. Necro's way shows the loading and takes 15 secs approx. to load than storing the world into a string and switching worlds into strings. If you think about it. Say you wanted to stream 6 worlds all 40x40 then you would store that into a string which would only be 1600 bytes. But with 6 worlds it would be 9600 bytes in all. So now when you stream them so there is no loading times then you just have the player move through one world and when he reaches the end then store the other world into the string and stuff like that. It's actually a pretty easy concept. Has anyone ever streamed worlds before? because I have thought about doing it cause then it an endless 240x240 world for the player to explore which would really add to gameplay. I would make some dev tools though because it would be unwieldy to hardcode the levels o.o

Hmm sorry I don't have four way scrolling but I do have vertical scrolling with horizontal map shifting. srry it still looks good.

(main program)
c1-->

CODE

ec1 1->B:9->C:1->A:1->L:->M While 1 Output(1,1,sub(Str1,A,128 Output(B,C,"X Repeat K fetkey->K 16B+C-16+(A-1)->D If K=31:Then prgmRECHK:1->A End 16B+C-16+(A-1)->D If K=34 or (K>=24 and K<=26) Output(B,C," B+(K=34 and sub(Str1,D+16(D<145),1)=" ")-(K=25 and sub(Str1,D-16(D>16),1)=" "->B C+(K=26 and sub(Str1,D+1,1)=" ")-(K=24 and sub(Str1,D-1,1)=" "->C If B=7 and A!=S:Then A+16->A:B-1->B End If B=2 and A!=T:Then A-16->A:B+1->B End If C=16:Then 2-C L+1->L prgmRECHG End If C=1 and L>1:Then 15->C L-1->L prgmRECHG End End c2

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CODE

ec1 If L=1:Then 33->S:1->T "9x16 MAP"->Str1 End If L=2:Then 33->S:1->T "9x16 MAP"->Str1 End c2

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ec1 If L=1:Then If D=1:Then 33->S:1->T "map 1"Str1 If D>51 and D<54:Then 1->S:1->T:101->M "8x16 dungeon"->Str1 End If D=123:Then 1->S:1->T:101->M "8x16 dungeon"->Str1 End c2

M has nothing to do with the while command and also four way scrolling is complicated. The vertical scrolling isn't but horizontal is. Think about it this is your string

"//11//11//11//11
 11//11//11//11//"->Str1

To scroll horizonatally you will have to cut off every row. Which means that you would have to use a sub( for every row you have. So if you have 10 rows you need 10 subs and that will slow it down cause it has to go like this
/11//11//11//11
1//11//11//11//

to ...
11//11//11//11
//11//11//11//

and so on...

so I haven't found a good way to do it but maybe other people have

also another thing is putting it in its own statement will just slow it down. I have tested this through 100 iterations and If function has been proven to take 5 more seconds to execute overall so your losing speed trust me

ok, im using xlib, and its a great program, but im having a problem. This seems to me like it should be really simple and i feel stupid, but is there a way to get the tile to replace itself after the character moves off of it without recalling the whole map? o wait. nvm hahaha as i was typing it i thought of how to do it. To keep this post w/ a purpose, often when I am looking at threads, the page messes up and all the text is squished to the side, and the footer overlaps it. why is that happening? it had never happened before a few days ago.