Woot for progress!! Glad to see this coming along so well. Nice screenies btw

This is gonna be great. I love that you can actually explore the towns in this one. The inventory system seems to have shaped up quite nicley as well. Keep up the good work!

Ok this desert took a lot longer than expected to add. Fortunately a lot of maps were similar so they didn't took long to create, but it still took an entire afternoon and evening as the desert is over 160 screens. The Earth Command Center, which I completed afterward (Maps+enemies/balancing+events), is located in the middle somewhere. I'll come to the northern mine later. For now I'm coding Geisis Village (2nd village in the game).

By the way, since the inventory is limited in size, this posed a problem figuring out what happens when you obtain key items from people/events. I didn't want to add an additional menu for you to select a slot for the item. What I did is that when you are to get an item, your inventory is scanned from 1 to 100 and it puts the item in the first avaliable slot. If you are out of space, the NPC will simply tells you your inventory is full and to trash/sell stuff then come to see him again to get the item. In the cases where you get an item from a boss fight, the item will simply be dropped on the floor after the fight and you need to grab it. After boss fights, your HP will be restored to maximum, except fights where the story won't allow to win them, then your HP will often restart to 1 so you must heal yourself.

At this point in the game, the game will be less linear for a while. Sure, you'll have a story to follow, but there will be side quests that will open right away early in the game and the 5 elemental dungeons you are forced to beat soon can be done in any order. The only problem is that you will most likely not be able to beat the monsters in certain areas right away so you might still go through a certain order if your lvs are low. However, if you manage to level up the shit out of your character, you may even have some luck going through some optional dungeons... but again, at LV 20-25 good luck, especially since you still got to raise your stats by upgrading them at a shop or by finding better rings and leveling up your magic

About magic, I finally decided to add a new screen in the status section of the game menu, because I found it annoying to not be able to view my magic level if I didn,t have a copy of that magic spell (magic is consumable like in the Reign Of Legends series or Final Fantasy 8 so yeah ). Before, you could only see the level in the item description in your inventory. Now after the first status screen appeared, it will scroll up and you'll see a listing of your experience for all 6 magic and their level (from 1 to 9, magic animation slightly or greatly changing every level)

Game is 48827 bytes huge so far with 21 sub-programs.

Most of the is data right? Sounds like this will be a fun, long game!

There may be a delay in game progress for now, as I may try to attempt to starting a Casio FX-9860G version now to see if it's feasible.

well...

TI calculators are much better in overall than Casio calculators, but for the communities, it's another story (by far)

Since Casio now got a calc model that is up par with the TI-83+, I began to consider community quality over calculator quality

If I change my mind tonight and continue working on the game right away, this may not affect the fact Illusiat 13 may be my last game ever for the TI brand

I am sorry to hear that... I've never even seen a casio calculator... even after your TI programming is over, you will still be an inspiration to many programmers, from your past TI games and your future Casio games, we will never forget the legendary DJ Omnimaga...

Glad to see this continue with the TIs, Long Live TI!