Well after playing Zoith a couple times (not sure why I played more than once, since it's really short), I thought it'd be fun/interesting to make a Zoith on steroids, or rather a game similar to Zoith, except with MUCH more.

Here's a screenie of what I have so far:


I have a bunch of bugs that I need to fix, but I'm still adding a bunch of stuff as well, and will get to the bugs later.

It's going to bet 8 'rooms' by 8 'rooms', and each room is 8 tiles by 12 tiles (8 high, 12 wide). The object of the game is to get to the dungeon exit, located at (8,8),  the farthest point from the starting point (1,1). Like Zoith, DUNGEON will have 'enemies' who just move around and deal damage to you if you run into them, and there will be bombs and spikes that you'll have to avoid; Unlike Zoith, however, DUNGEON will include Power Ups and  and Items that will aid you in getting to finish (For example, Super Jump in the screenie, which lets you jump 1 space higher). Currently I have 5 P-ups and 5 items planned, which could change based on how much space/speed is given up for each one.

Also, the number in the top right is your health.

Thanks Yeah I've been trying for a while to get some sort of decent game with duel layer ASCII going, and this is the first time I've actually gotten it to be somewhat fast and decent looking, although the spikes sprite doesn't look like a spike, and the bomb sprite I got from Zoith, so I can't take credit for it.

I have now coded in 1 more power up: Regenerate. You heal 5 HP every time you change rooms until you get to your max HP, which starts off at 100. I might switch it to 1 HP instead so that people don't abuse it by going between 2 "safe" rooms to boost up their HP to full.

I have about 1/4 of the total map designed (technically 12/64, but who's counting?). Designing the different rooms is definitely the hard part...I have to keep it somewhat simple to navigate through, make sure it's still a little difficult, but not TOO difficult, and still make it kind of like a puzzle as well so that you have to think a little.

I like the sound of this, but your SS died or is gone

It was down last night, now it works fine. Looks great! I would suggest one thing though:

:Text(-1,Y,X,"U    ;char your using
;it looks like thats what your doing (something similar) in the SS, as it makes the char flash
:Text(-1,oldY,oldX,"    ;space
:Text(-1,Y,X,"U
:Y->oldY:X->oldX  ;vars at your choice
Now when you move it will update your chars old position, and then your new. But making it not flash. Just a thought, I will go into detail if you wish (sorry if you already have this or something like it going on).

Hey, this looks really nice! I always love these type of games.

make the jump button second because that was really annoying me in zoith because i never could jump diagonally without trying like 3 times and by then i was dead
other than that, zoith was great

youre game looks better though, but not as good as metroid pi, which was like metroid pure + zoith + magnificence

wow so great looking and fast

What calc are you using to play it, because it seems to be loading the screens quite quickly compared to the best I can do with a TI-83+