What about BlitzLicht for any laser, or very fast weapon?

Ok sweet love to see the progress

...3 days later I'm finally able to

I had a level made, but then lost it in a hardware-fault-related RAM clear* so I just threw together a sort of testing ground thingy.
The map now scrolls faster as you reach near the side.  It's possible to still exploit something to hit the side and bounce back, but I'm onto that so
If you watch the screenie long enough you'll be able to tell just how fast you can move.

Also new now: bullets can be a distance offscreen before they disappear.  They still interact with what's off-screen, bouncing and exploding and such.  This could be taken advantage of for a sort of tactical benefit...say, if you knew the timing well, you could shoot some plasma glob thingies to the side and tell by if/when the explosions come what terrain waits off-screen.  ofc this would have a risk (there might be unseen enemies as well etc etc) but it would work.
To fix problems caused by this, projectiles expire after a while, either just disappearing or exploding in the process.  That's been in for a while, it's how the flamethrower works

I don't remember anything else off the top of my head so yeah, stuffs attached as usual

EDIT: The screenie glitched somehow, leaving a phantom line, that's not there on the real calc so idk


*The part where the bottom screws screw in, something's broken.  It rattles when shaken..  Because of this the seam thingy on the bottom is loose, and some connection that supplies power is broken for a bit at a time, causing spontaneous power-downs and RAM clears and such.  I ended up taping it together but the tape comes loose X_x

Ooh, those look really nice. The white tiles could be a little prettier, though..whatever. I couldn't do any better

About that..I was thinking of, for different levels, there could be a different background and tile design.  I've been lobbing around ideas for them, but I'm not that far yet so yeah

For the time being I'm doing a re-write of Duel to test out some concepts that I (read: Builderboy) recently got working.  Among the planned things, auto-aiming is working in the test program, and I'm playing around with how to put it in Essence.  I'm guessing it'll take a week at most
Once I get finished with Duel I'll be able to put it in Essence, with better knowledge of how to use it

Great!!!

Currently looking into ways to store the AI.  I'm thinking one enemy per column, and every other byte a tile.
Are there any other methods that might work for this sort of thing?

Not sure what you mean by one enemy per column

In StickNinja I made an array to hold the enemies with the following characteristics:
Byte 0-1: Enemy Type (Determines sprite, speed, health, and/or movement pattern etc.)
Byte 2-3: Enemy X
Byte 4-5: Enemy Y
Byte 6: Enemy X speed
Byte 7: Enemy Y speed

Then loop through the array to adjust position accordingly, check for collisions, etc. You could probably also use the enemy type to determine a code address in another LUT to apply special effects now that we have direct address manipulation.

Finally got around to switching from GDBs to Appvars (the major GDBs anyway) and took off (10489-9066=)1423 bytes without causing any bugs

Wall jump seems to only happen when I ram into a wall too fast while falling. I seem to bounce back. It kinda reminds me SMB except in SMB I didn't bounce back.

I think I got this one figured out now, while I was looking at the sourse
For some reason I have the player bounce if it's downward velocity is greater than 16 (two pix/frame) so I'm guessing it happened when you were falling down pretty fast.
Also it bounces horizontally afaict, with S being the force it does S//-2→S so if |S|>8 it visibly bounces horizontally as well.

EDIT:

Quote from: Darl181 on November 15, 2011, 02:52:23 pm

Currently looking into ways to store the AI.  I'm thinking one enemy per column, and every other byte a tile.
Are there any other methods that might work for this sort of thing?

Not sure what you mean by one enemy per column

I was meaning in the actual map, not the coordinates etc the enemy have in-game but how to store the enemies in the level itself.


EDIT2: So max of 63 enemies at a time, with, say 150 bullets max tho that would be a huge slowdown if all the space for the bullets was filled up

POSTEDIT 3X COMBO: Switch complete, about to start putting the AI together
This is the part where it starts getting crazy...