AdventureWalrus! [CSE] [xlibC]

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Intersting. I guess an RPG or resources manager game would be cool. I wondered if this game was still alive.

[Unicorn]

Yeah, I kinda had gotten stuck on sprite collision, then decided that this game wouldn't be as fun as it could have.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

It would still have been interesting, but perhaps more appropriate for the HP Prime due to its touchscreen. ANd yeah sprite collision in xLIBC can be a nightmare. >.< (I tried) But again I am so used to taking the pxl-test route

[Unicorn]

Yeah, the lists were to much for me

Anyways, I never thought about using a touchscreen for this....

[Unicorn]

So, I decided to go with a 32 color BG pic as my background. I have that in, along with my walrus sprite. But, I can no longer erase the way I used to. I used to use the DrawPicSection command to erase the sprite, and I want to do the same here, but it appears that it doesn't work. When running the code, it displays some weird static-like images where the background would be, and all movement becomes slowed. The getkey updates very slowly.
I have checked that the appvar names are the same, but it still happens.

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real(0,1,1
real(8,1,0
"MNYBG
real(5,7,0
"MNYSPRT
real(5,0,0
DelVar K
Repeat K=15
real(2,0,0)->K
If K=2
P-16->P
If K=3
P+16->P
"MNYBG
real(5,6
real(5,3,P-16,104,16,16,0,0
real(5,3,P+16,104,16,16,0,0
real(4,0,P,104,2,2,0,0,4,0,0,0,1,8,9
End


Any suggestions @tr1p1ea ?

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Sadly I don't think DrawPicSection will work with 32 colors backgrounds. You absolutely have to use the 80x60 ones IIRC.

You should instead take your background, split it into 8x8 tiles, store those tiles into a tilesheet then reconstruct that background with a 20x15 tilemap. That might take a while but it would allow you to only draw parts of the background at once and it would be 160x120.

[Unicorn]

ugh. If there is no other way, I think I'm going to have to use a regular bg.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

It might sadly be the best option. A tilemap would also work, although it takes much more work.

[Unicorn]

Ok, so I converted over to a regular BG, and I now have the walrus sprite displaying and moving around, and it simuates changing rooms. I think I'm going to use  a matrix to map out the rooms and things, so thats circling in my head right now. Screenshots coming!

here's a Screenshot! The bottom black box will be for stats, and I need to add some sort of animation for entering rooms...

[Dream of Omnimaga]

This looks kinda cool so far. You should make the bottom box a different color than green, though, unless it's an energy bar, else it kinda looks a bit strange with the grass being green. Also it reminds me of Intellivision games for some reasons

[Unicorn]

Good idea, should I make the box purple?

EDIT: I also need a way of transitioning form room to room. How should I do that?

[Dream of Omnimaga]

I was thinking about dark purple for the inside and white for the border.

As for room transitions you need to display the picture of both rooms at once, but only display parts of each, depending of which direction you scroll in.

[Unicorn]

I'll add the information changes, and I am using a screen invert to change rooms, it looks good enough

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Do you mean the screen colors are just inverted while the other map is loading? That might make people think they are taking damage.

[Unicorn]

Naa... and that reminds me, I promised some screenshots today. They ARE coming.