Think about how you want the completed project to look and how you can get there. Also, learn something new and think of how you may apply that knowledge to your program.

Might release a demo tomorrow... keep your eyes out

*formal announcement of my contest entry* Alright y'all, in the game for the flight contest entry, you pilot a plane to dodge unending waves of birds. Score is determined by how long you go without hitting a bird. The core of the game is completed, but I'm gonna add unlockables and stuff because the contest still has a way to go...

youtube tutorials by petitprofessor will help you get started with the basics

woop woop I've successfully used DATA strings to place sprites wherever I want! It was actually pretty easy to do and more practical than trying to randomize location like I did before

well... that wasn't what I was going for

Randomly spawning clouds across the x axis in -y axis and having them scroll down was way more trouble than it needed to be

I now have a moving plane and background. Now I need randomly generated birds and clouds, and a scoring system and my contest entry is basically complete lol

Go for it! This sprite sheet will also be available for anyone's use once it is complete.

smilebasicsource(.com) has programming contests every so often. This time around, the theme is "flight." Deadline is the end of May.

off to a good start lol

I'm better at drawing sprites than I give myself credit for... anyways, I'm taking a break from my rpg to try the programming contest.

I'd say start by recoloring the default sprites. That way you get a sense for how it is done.

ps ignore the annotation lol

I do mine real simple, with print characters. Basically this shows a full HP bar and whenever HP is reduced, call this function and it will LOCATE where the current HP bar stands and print blank spaces over the lost HP. This is a real simple example and you can use math to have more HP in relation to LOCATE parameters so you don't get an error if you have like 100 HP

Malbody

sneek peek at boss sprites

sorry I took a break to learn DEFs, and my old plan was to put out a demo ASAP, but now I'm creating the full battle system to give me a headstart. Demo release TBA thanks for your interest

does it look like an open book?

its getting there...