Aah ok. I will probably eventually check some Youtube vids to see, before buying it, in case it is not my favorite type of adventure 3D game

Ah ok good to hear you're still planning to continue it

At first I thought somebody was necroposting, but then I realized your avatar was different. I'M glad you still have plans to finish this, I was sad to see this die

Awesome I remember building the first scrolling Graviter using your engine ^^
Just a note, the way you did it in the source code you released was kind of inefficient, because it drew every single tile instead of just those that would be shown in the frame, so I used squidgetx's method later on.

Thanks. I do realize, looking in retrospect, that my engine was inefficient. If I remember correctly, though, I did that to keep a more stable framerate, though it probably just unnecessarily slowed things down. But, that's one of the reasons I'm rewriting it.

On another note, I'm making very good progress on my level editor. I'd say it's about halfway done!

Hmmm... I seem to have missed this when it was initially posted. The screenies look quite nice I must say. Good luck with the re-write! =)

If anybody did not read the edit in the first post, I am keeping the same thread as last year's entry due to the fact that I am using the sprites from it. However, it is being completely recoded from the ground up. Just picture it as a much more successful version of last year's game (which happens to be called Axle).

Moving on then, I've finally finished my level editor! Levels are saved as text files, which I then convert into 8xp files using a program from ticalc (found here: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/425/42541.html). The level editor asks for a room width and height when it is first opened. The rooms can have one of the following dimensions (in tiles):

12 x 8
12  x 32
16 x 24
24 x 16
32 x 12

I'm using the level editor for personal uses, and I don't think that I'll include it with the game, but let me know what you think of it. Also, remember to decompress the .zip file before running it... apparently the JVM has some problems with images inside of .zip files.

Alright, just a small update here. I've found and fixed some small bugs in my level editor, along with adding a new tileset to it. The download link to the updated version is below.

Anyway, the level editor is working beautifully and you can see it in the gif below in action. I've got a new, more efficient tilemapper set up and I've got gravity working now. Horizontal and upward collisions will come soon, though. Oh, and now I've gotten enemies to be displayed, which is what that little box with wheels is on the platform. And, like previous screenshots, this is running at 6mhz.

I've seen what people are planning for the contest, and I'm impressed, especially by all the physics-based games. My game (for the most part) has no physics, but I intend to make up for that with artwork and level design. Good luck everybody!

Oh, and in case anybody was wondering, at the end I'm running on top of random sections of RAM.