Yeah i was working on a physics library in Axe a while back, and the collisions are murder.  Since evry object needs to collide with every other object, you get nested for loops and it gets slow pretty quickly.  That is unless yo implement some alternative collision routine such as buffer driven, but then you lose a buffer and thats no fun   keep at it tho!

The hardest part is having to deal with object collision, right? Tiles are also hard. For someone who was used to handle tile by tile movement, like in most old RPGs is gonna have an hard time getting used to collision detection when their character can move a single pixel instead of moving every tile (even smooth tile by tile movement was easier).

I hope you can fix those issues. Good luck!

wow that's friggin fast considering the collision detection you have to check. It's cool how you can push objects like this and that they have good physics too. In Block dude when blocks are pushed at the bottom of a cliff, they only go straight downward regardless. For some reasons, the character jumping speed seems pretty fast, though. Are you planning to make jumps slower?

Yeah I know, I was just curious. In Super Mario 1.2, Mario jumps about that fast, so when jumping high, from the time you start going up until the time you touch the ground again (at the same level), only about 0.3 seconds will have elapsed. It makes jumping on enemies quite hard when you're used to the real mario games almost taking a second to do so.

Maybe some enemies moving around? (altough it may not be much unless you add the ability to shoot alerady)

I wonder if smooth scrolling would be fast? My little worry is about having a stationary HUD in front of the entire screen scrolling. You would need to redraw the entire HUD every frame, right? Else, I wonder if such thing could just be stored in the memory somewhere and recalled into L6 when the screen finished scrolling... I haven't messed around with scrolling yet.

Aaah ok, thanks for the info. MY worry was if the HUD had like 10 elements to display every frame. I guess one helpful thing would be to not use any text