What do you mean exactly by hard-coded and such? I'm not quite following, sorry

Or do you mean is the map display program large because it uses two different kind of tile methods?

Ah ok. Well ya, there is sorta a different source code for each one but it's a pretty small change. The tricky part is just running through my string correctly, which I have done. The program that runs that map you saw is 134 bytes, that's without map switching and such though. I'm not sure if this answers your question though.

Ah ok. I can see that happening with line(/Pxl-On(/Pt-On( sprites. Luckily, not using any right now. Right now the only thing I see being the big part is the maps

Looks pretty nice right now. Even if the sprites are small you still managed to make everything look nice and display a lot of the map on the screen. Will the menu remains open all the time? When the walking loop occurs, I think for speed you should not put the options inside the walking loop, but have the game exit the loop when a key other than arrows is pressed or when an event is triggered.

I think numbers should be fine, if we can select any option directly from the walking engine. Also use that area for sub-menus as well.

Ok, I did a little tweaking to the menu half of the screen and am in need of feedback from as many people as possible.



A little information:

-The stats that it shows are at what I plan to be the max for each.
-The name are will have a eleven character limit, assuming I can figure out a good way to store it accurately. If not then I may just have to lower that limit. (I found one thread about it but I thought I remember Z had a letter compression thing or something, but couldn't find it Oh well.)
-The box surrounding the name will adapt to what ever the name is, how ever only uppercase will be accepted.

What I need your opinion on is things to change/tweak/remove/etc.

Couple things I'm not sure about and would especially like opinions on are:

-The menu numbers. I'm pretty satisfied with what four and five are, but the others not entirely. Map (I don't know how feasible this is, will have to mess around with it first) and magic are the two I'm on the edge about. I was thinking of having a stats page that will have some info detailing the magic stuff. Thoughts?
-Spacing of things, or does it look good?
-In the menu area there is a lot of white space to the right of the letters. Any suggestions on what to do with it? Fill it in, don't, patterns, etc.

Any other suggestions are greatly welcomed. I'm just trying to figure out what this part will look like before I start to much on the menu sub-program. Thanks everyone!

Edit:
I forgot to ask one other thing

I need help on a name for this. I was considering Survival Question or Survival, but I'm not to sure about them. Suggestions are greatly welcome

Your money display can save you some space. Rip out the colon and put the money amount and the dollar sign back to back in a joint Text() argument. Also, Magic should be 2. People are going to be diving into that more that the map. Actually, aesthetically, you be better off putting it at 4 because the player's thumb can slide to the MAP. It's awkward to put a used key far away.

I feel like I'm rambling. So, I'll stop now. Good job though.

Ok, I'll take that colon out and see how that looks. That way there should be two pixels between the level and amount of money. Is there any token that works better for money that people have found? I couldn't really find one but I didn't look to hard.

As for shrinking the right side menu part, I want to avoid that if I can just because depending on what the other screens look like I might need as much room as possible.

As for the F1-F5 thing, I don't really wanna do that, one, because it's been done a lot, two, it lowers the amount of room for words (and I'm not sure what I'd do for menus if I did) and, three, quite frankly I'm to lazy to reorganize it all

Ya, I agree with the Map thing. I will probably take it out since I don't think it is going to evolve into a big RPG like that. I also think I will will change Magic to Stats.

However, maybe instead of actually making you push one through four or five, depending, to open a menu I might just make it the F# buttons. That way they are closer. Thoughts?