Yeah, I wasn't thinking too seriously about dropping it altogether.  I got the first dozen or so levels so freakin' close to the original and then as I was working on the higher levels I realized I wouldn't be as accurate as the first ones, it kinda bummed me out (well, bummed me out a lot).

Thanks for the encouragement

The first few levels.  I don't have the enemies implemented yet (well, working decently yet).  I've posted screenies showing playing through levels 1 and 3.

Good news this time!  I fixed another really annoying (and another cause for being seriously bummed-out) problem.  The green switches toggle special walls on and off.  I was having trouble figuring out how I would do this.  I was thinking I would have to iterate over all of them, meaning I would have to keep track of them (meaning a whole lot more memory usage) and they usually come in groups of 20-30, thus really slow (cue jeopardy music...), then it hit me.  Why change the state of the tile when you can change the tile itself?  I just use another pic filled with the same tiles except the toggle walls are switched.  Whenever the button is pressed I can put that pic into Pic1 (the pic I use for sprites) and just set a variable so I know they're switched (and the I can undo it too ).  All of the walls appear switched, and since I'll be keeping track of the change there won't be a problem with movement routines!

This problem has been worrying me almost as much as the enemies were, so my morale is back up
(If you can't tell I'm reeeeeally happy about this )

[edit]   That makes 6 happy faces out of 5 (now 7/5...)

Nice

OOP language?

Thanks

OOP language?

Object oriented programming.

I removed the grid in the background (it may have been in the original, but with 8x8 sprites its a bit hard on the eyes ).  Some tiles still need tweaking (like the normal tiles right next to water, hard to see), but I think it looks better (thanks to metagross111 for pointing that out to me).

[edit]I just realized I messed up the "Chips" display, but I'm too lazy to record another screenie.

i like it better this way, but I think you should have something to separate the HUD from the rest like a bar or have it so the text is white on black

I forgot about that part (another missing smiley: slap head)

White on black might look good.... Too bad I have an 8 hour math competition today (it'll be soooo much fun!!!).  I might even get in the top 100 (which is a score of ~14%).

Hopefully my brain won't be hemorrhaging too much to prevent any progress tomorrow

When blocks are moved into water they turn to dirt, which turns to floor when you walk on it.