So over the past few months, I've been working on-and-off on a sidescroller (in fact I had originally planned to enter it into the summer coding competition but never got around to finishing it).  It uses an 8x8 tilemapper and a scrolling 64x96 splash background that scrolls half as fast as the tilemapper, creating a parallax effect.  I made a short screenshot to demonstrate:

As you can see, I'm not much of an artist nor very creative at level design, but I've at least got 80% of the code implemented, with enemies being the last thing i need to code.  If anybody would be willing to help me out with level design, that would be awesome.  I'm not much of an artist and I think this project would turn out much better if I teamed up with somebody who's really good at bitmaps.

EDIT:
Added Grayscale sorta.  But it doesn't look very good when you move.

Hi Jon,
I might be able to help out for the sprites, as I did some times before.
I have exams at school atm tho

Wow that's amazing! Is this done in basic or asm?

i think it is asm as he loads it from the app menu???

and wow i like if i get the time i might give a crack at making some levelss for it

I love the parralax scrolling in this. Very few have attempted it on the z80 calculators, especially in black and white.

Thinking about it, BW problem is that it can't have heavy graphics. You have to leave enough white space to make the parallax looks nice.

Grayscale solves the problem except speed concerns on TI-BASIC.

I am pretty sure he can get amazing graphics even without grayscale, while still preserving the parralax scrolling. The trick is to have a white outline for wall sprites if your background is very dark, same for your character

Lol

I am unsure if I can make very good levels, though

That reminds me a bit when Calc84maniac wanted to make Project M parralax scrolling grayscale, altough I was not sure if he was gonna keep it.