The tilemap is at 6mhz. I am redrawing the frames every time the program loops but I draw only a 8*12 square where the character is. I'll try to see if I can implement partial screen updates.

You can still redraw the full map every frame, i just think the method for drawing is a bit slow. Rather than draw each sprite individually and having to recalculate the address in the gbuf you can look into inlining the sprite routine into your tilemap so you don't have to recalculate the gbuf position for each sprite. Actually, i think giving the character a bit of acceleration (being able to move 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, etc. pixels per frame) would help quite a bit. I really like the smoothness of it all, though

You can't use floating points in Axe, what are you talking about ? >_> You can only really load them and store them. Unless he uses the axiom, but I doubt it.

Slight update: I added hanging on the wall until two blocks above the floor(you have to be against the wall and hold the arrows in that direction to hang). you can punch the enemy with holding mode but it doesn't do anything yet. There is a bug that the enemy collision detection bugs out at the top stair (it turns from 104 to 1034). The numbers are there for testing purposes.

I am now working on the health bar but as you can see in the gif, there is a exp that is currently linked up to when you kill an enemy. Exp will probably used in a skill tree but can anyone draw a better exp bar for me because I think my current version is to plain.

I'm impressed, is this really your first game? It's got really nice graphics and it looks pretty advanced so far. Keep it up!

This

it's looking quite awesome, especially for your first game o.O

The character sprites are made by Deep Thought. They were meant for blast labs but it got discontinued so I decided to use those sprites. Also, how can you save 30 different character values into one appvar? Like {L2},{L2+1},etc... because I am now trying to implement saving into the game.

It depends. Are coordinates important enough to save that you want to spend the time? How much longer does saving coords take? It would seem nice, esp. if levels were very big.