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My popular times are here! (Fun with Micropaint)

Here is a slightly updated version, after taking a little optimization advice which allowed me to improve the drowning animation. Key: 5D7X33N4

Shh, we can't talk about that

Here is the code. Though since the levels were encoded in unicode strings, it's not possible to transliterate from this screenshot alone, haha.

This is my OSP contest entry, Frog Guy. Get to the lily pads as fast as you can without getting squashed or drowning! There are 4 levels, with increasing difficulty. Key: 1RC4EKKV; source code in the comments.

Are you using a constant home position? If so, you can make it part of the sprite definitions themselves by using SPDEF. One variant of SPDEF allows you to create a definition based on an existing definition, but changing only certain attributes (in this case, the origin position).

Oh yeah, gyroscope could be interesting, I'll look into that (as well as touchscreen because why not, I did that back on Petit Computer...)

People have told me before that they don't like the controls, and I've also heard the opposite. So I might add some different control options (including Circle Pad Pro). I guess moving with the left stick and looking with the right buttons (or vice versa for lefties) and right trigger for bombs would work?

You mean moving the camera up so you can look over walls? That wouldn't really be possible with this engine. It might be possible to make taller walls, but you still wouldn't be able to look over them.

I'm also planning to mess with the gameplay itself a bit. For example, making the objects in the world more dynamic by making bomb blasts throw them around. This includes other bombs, so you might be able to come up with fancy techniques to bomb around corners!

While I'm at it, I might as well add ceilings too. It's only fair!

Could this maze possibly be getting... spookier? A quick peek at the graphical upgrade I've been working on, which is textured floors! Note that the way this is designed, there can only be one repeated texture, but that limitation means I can retain a solid framerate, as well as the 3D and lighting effects. Not sure when I'll be releasing this, but I'll keep you posted!

Unfortunately I don't know of a fast, simple way to texture the ground given the tools we have in SmileBASIC. It could be rendered manually but that would take a lot of processing power.

Depending on how many images you want to keep loaded, you could for example load sprite graphics into GRP3, then display them using SPPAGE 3. You can also use GSAVE and GLOAD to save graphics into an array, which may be more effective than a program slot.

Sorry for the late reply, but I don't think it would. Besides, the Z coordinate is also used for draw order so skeletons can hide behind walls.

Hey, it's me! You can check my Play Journal to find my new raycaster. I included a lot of new features, such as stereoscopic 3D!

Actually, even when passed as parameters they are pointers (which is very useful because then you can modify the original array in a command/function). You have to explicitly use COPY if you want to make a full copy of an array.

Yeah, just check out Tile World, nobody's bothered that for copyright issues.

The key is QK4N3PZF. Have fun!