Oooh, yes. This definitely has promise. Monitoring this thread.

You're doing a Portal Clone in 3D with Axe !? Are you sure that it's possible ?

Yeah, I was thinking of this one, but still I'm not sure it'll be possible, excepting maybe with a hell-optimized ASM raycaster. I'm pretty sure that polygon- or vertices-based engines can only be too slow for a game like that on handhelds like the z80 ones.

Looking nice, but does that different looking tile do anything by now?

Nice project, but do you plan to use more varied tiles instead of just black, like in a mockup that someone suggested earlier? It would make the game look more attractive.

Also the frame rate seems surpringsly slow considering that there's no scrolling and enemy in the screenshot. Are you refreshing the entire tilemap every frame? Because it's usually better to just refresh the necessary parts of the screen to speed things up.

That said, good luck!

Looking nice, but does that different looking tile do anything by now?

It's a checkpoint... I have the other tiles ready, but I'm just testing overworld creation and saving right now.

I'll test once I get my calculator.  I'm not sure if the guy has shipped it yet.

Thanks! Need to level design first, but that shouldn't take long...

Nice project, but do you plan to use more varied tiles instead of just black, like in a mockup that someone suggested earlier? It would make the game look more attractive.

Also the frame rate seems surpringsly slow considering that there's no scrolling and enemy in the screenshot. Are you refreshing the entire tilemap every frame? Because it's usually better to just refresh the necessary parts of the screen to speed things up.

That said, good luck!

The current tiles are just my testing tiles. I'll redraw all my sprites once I make all the levels. Gameplay before Graphics, in my opinion.

Good idea on the refreshing... I do refresh every loop, and now I won't.

Draw the tilemap to the back buffer and only redraw the front buffer every loop.

I don't know if this will work, but I'll try!

Cool to hear. As for the map storage I think the best thing is if you could only redraw parts of the back buffer when needed (the area surrounding your character). It would be even faster. Of course that might be harder to implement, though.

And good to hear about the graphics. I was just wondering in case you planned to keep those graphics for the final version

Looking nice, now you need to add spikes