lol, yeah

lol, well I'll get to that sometime, right now I'm just trying to learn the basics of ASM. What do you think of the gameplay? and the source?

wow, I'll fix that

EDIT: there you go

lol oops, and yeah I noticed that, it's kind of wierd, I'll have to figure out a way to fix that

EDIT: fixed both, my random number thing wasn't going high enough, and I wasn't resetting the health

EDIT2: uploaded an even better version, harder settings give them more health as well as speed :p

EDIT3: added a build info menu item, so you can check the version that's all that was done in this update

hope you like it!
any more bug reports?
anything you want added?
I will be adding "trees" that you can't move on top of later

I wonder if in ASM, the dual layer ASCII BASIC trick could be easily applied without too much flickering...

The damage counter doesn't change til you move again. =)

I mean dual layer ascii in the style of Elmgon or Serenity. Not tilemaps but dual layer ASCII enemy/char sprites

Maybe we could explore some new effects in ASCII using ASM. One of the things could be using an custom font 4x4 or other size.
 I can't get other ideas right now...
PS: maybe something massive like lots of enemies moving around... There is an absurd amount of speed to spend on graphics. Maybe even ASCII grayscale? This is getting insane. Weregoose showed a curious picture of possible grayscale with TI font 8x8 font on UTI.

How do you think the calculator puts text on the screen?  It uses a special sprite drawing routine for a table of ASCII characters.  But since it uses extra ROM calls and redundant error checking, it is actually MUCH slower than the standard method of drawing sprites.  If you wanted to, you can use the home screen as the 8x16 "grid" and a standard 8x8 drawing routine for your 8x6 "characters" or whatever size for a much faster result.  But that's essentially what lots of assembly games do already.