You can get button input with the BUTTON() command. You can compare the value of BUTTON() with predefined button constants like this... IF (BUTTON() AND #A) THEN 'DO SOMETHING ...so the program does something if the user presses A. You should check the help entry for the BUTTON() command for more info.

The official SmileBASIC e-manual contains a lot of useful infromation. You should read it. Sprites: http://smilebasic.com/en/e-manual/34.php Background: http://smilebasic.com/en/e-manual/33.php

Wouldn't that be 24 times better?

There was a serious lack of serifed fonts on SmileBASIC, so I made my own! Most of it is modified from the default font, but I also took inspiration from the ITC Lubalin Graph typeface family. Only alphanumerical characters have been replaced so far, but maybe I'll finish up the rest of the font. As always, any feedback/suggestion is appreciated. Also, feel free to use it for whatever you want!

The game itself doesn't even have winning or losing conditions. You can't lose lives, and once all enemies die nothing happens. I'd wager this game was left incomplete at a very early stage of development, maybe because of its mostly unreadable, unintelligible code.

I've been studying this example code for a while... I can safely say this is an example on how NOT to code properly. No true significance in variable identifiers, a serious case of spaghetti code due to so many branching GOTOs (Using one GOTO/GOSUB is already a bad programming practice), and many other little things that worsen the quality of the code...

It's not really Mario Maker... And I'd avoid calling it so if you don't want it to be taken down.

Type MML in the editor and press the help button. (The one that looks like [ ? ] ) It'll show you a basic tutorial on MML, which is the main music-making format for SmileBASIC.

Engrish is best English.

If you're not familiar with programming you should take things slowly... step by step, probably not starting with a game already. You should start by reading the manual here: http://smilebasic.com/en/e-manual/15.php

187 bytes doesn't seem like much progress... Good luck, anyways.

@Zee I was actually going to post that method instead of mine, but I figured the array method may be a bit easier to understand and manipulate.

Also, the RANDOMIZE command only initializes the RND command series with a specified seed. You don't really need to use it or worry about it.

If you mean to pick a random letter from a batch of predetermined letters, you can make a one-dimensional array with as many and whichever letters you want, then pick a random element from the array with the RND command. Example: DIM LETTERS[0] PUSH LETTERS,"A" PUSH LETTERS,"B" PUSH LETTERS,"C" PRINT LETTERS[RND(LEN(LETTERS))]

It depends on what program you are drawing it in. If you're making a sprite or background sheet in the SMILETOOL, there's a save button near the lower right corner of the touchscreen, I think.

I'm pretty sure that's not the right way to use LOAD... I don't remember the exact way to use it. Try looking at its help entry!

Write #SPREVH in the field where attributes must go. If you want to put more than one attribute separate them with an AND.

Use the color on the top left. The one that's crossed out.

Try SPSET 0, 073 instead.

Look up the DEF command in the help menu.