The only problem I see of using 8x8 tiles is that it is a shooting game, and it might be difficult to see where the enemy is if you can't see far, which will be the case with 8x8 tiles.
What you could do is draw everything in an appvar and use Runer's Pixelmapping to have fast scrolling and pixel based detection. But good luck inserting Runer's code in yours

The only problem I see of using 8x8 tiles is that it is a shooting game, and it might be difficult to see where the enemy is if you can't see far, which will be the case with 8x8 tiles.
What you could do is draw everything in an appvar and use Runer's Pixelmapping to have fast scrolling and pixel based detection.

That's exactly what I need for this, thanks

I wouldn't do the tilemap thing anyways, since then I had to completely rewrite everything. But before I include something like this, I going for the AI first:

Rough AI Workflow:
1) pathfind to back of opposing player
2) if opponent turns around to face you, run away.
3) if opponent is in line of fire, shoot.

Makes sense. 2) and 3) quite are easy, but I might need help with pathfinding.

Quote from: Freyaday on August 22, 2012, 05:38:43 pm

Rough AI Workflow:
1) pathfind to back of opposing player
2) if opponent turns around to face you, run away.
3) if opponent is in line of fire, shoot.

Makes sense. 2) and 3) quite are easy, but I might need help with pathfinding.

I haven't really done pathfinding before, so I'm probably not gonna be able to help you there.

THe game's name is my idea! Great job! But when I was thinking about the name, iI thought about a totally other game genre ^^

If I were you, I'd check out Builderboy's recent contest entry. You might not understand the code, but there's a pathfinder that calculates the significance of nodes based on a dynamically generated tilemap. PM'ing him might be good if you want to go through with this, but it will be fairly challenging

Quote from: Eiyeron on August 24, 2012, 03:26:27 pm

THe game's name is my idea! Great job! But when I was thinking about the name, iI thought about a totally other game genre ^^

Lol - what were you thinking of?

I thought about a Contra-like.

Ok, to clear thinks up a bit, here is how the stuff works:

I have a 168 byte save file, which contains the data of the map (scaled down to 1/4 because of resolution with 2x2 pixels; 156b), the spawn points of the players (4b) and the key setup (8b). How the resizing works can be found here.

The data is extracted to L3, top and bottom lines are added with another Fill( function at the very beginning. The backbuffer is used for collisions. It isn't at all change during the game. The bullets, the players and the power-ups are displayed only on L6, but they check collisions only with the constant stuff on L3. That makes it possible to walk over grenades and pass other players, as well as shooting "through" power-ups. Bullets won't pxl-test whether they hit a player, that's done with a simple subtraction and a comparison to the threshold for both X and Y. Pxl-test is only used on the backbuffer. In every frame, L3 is copied to L6 and all the other stuff "ors" over that on L6. No ClrDraw / DispGraphClrDraw to avoid another bcall().

necro-update
Any chance of getting a screenie?