Thanks for the feedback! I am not actually upset that you are making a run and gun, (everybody is), I am upset because I recently learned that everybody is.

Really? Like who else? All I can think of is Darl181 and Deep Thought.

squidget? leafiness? I definitely wouldn't consider their current projects (Gravity Guy and Graviter) "run and gun". Also, Demolition is more of a puzzle game.

Do I detect a sense of contempt for physics platformers?

Still working on getting sidescrolling stuff to work, it's getting interesting
I'm trying to figure out how to do the hud..maybe have it in a separate partial buffer and copy it over every frame or something.

I've been thinking of that.  It'd have to be something like bit-for-bit so a stored level isn't freaking huge   The problem would be having to extract it to somewhere, so on average about 5000 extra bytes would be needed :\ (yes I can make an appvar and put stuff in it, but blarg)
I'm kind of rambling right now but the map size is limited by how the variables are inflated, tho I'm still getting things figured out 65536/32=2725 around 19 screenlengths/628 tiles width if I don't make it signed..

I think the most tricky part is going to be extracting the level, unless I made the levels only 8 tiles tall and had a big hud or something.

EDIT: ignore mistakes with the math, fsr omnicalc had me working in base 9 and not 10

I'm staying with 4*4 tiles, I was thinking of making the map 8 tiles tall.

...and a name change.  I wasn't able to come up with anything better so yeah
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