SHIFT Game

[Weregoose]

I figured that several people would like to try something that TI-Basic is capable of handling: SHIFT!

[GloryMXE7]

oh the puzzle platformer were you press shift to change from white ares to black areas and vice versa that would be cool to do and in basic if theirs anything requiring the home screen i can help with that

[ticalcnoah]

I don't see this in pure basic but I do see it in basic with a asm utility to flip the screen.
Edit:Wait what if you loaded by writing the flipped screen in advance and then using it when you needed to flip.

[GloryMXE7]

i agree with the latter but if there were to be a level editor an asm utilitie could flip external levels

[ZagorNBK]

xLIB should be perfect for that purpose...

[DigiTan]

* xLib questions split to What is xLib *

I think this thing is 100% doable with X, considering what it's done in the past. Pure BASIC, maybe not so much unless it's optimized to--say--Contra 83 quality or pretty darn close.

[simplethinker]

[DarkerLine]

I think that making this on the home screen would be terrible compared to what is possible, because it can be made so close to the real thing on the graph screen.

In Basic, that boils down to how quickly you can draw black rectangles.

[GloryMXE7]

i think from my small experiance with xlib that for the best quality xlib should be used

[simplethinker]

I don't think using xLIB would be able to improve the quality of graphics enough to justify requiring the user to having a 16kb app.

One way to get black boxes could be to use something like "Shade(y1,y2,x1,x2)" and then use Line( with zero for the last argument to erase the extra lines. The levels would have to be hard-coded into the game but they're small enough that it wouldn't be too slow/take up a ton of room.
Another way is overlapping the inverted '=' with the regular '='.

[Madskillz]

I think this could be done without the use of xlib too...however whether it's done with the enhancements of xlib or not I think it would be a neat game to see/play.

[darkstone knight]

dont bother whit inversing the screen, draw the char upside-down

[simplethinker]

[DarkerLine]

[Madskillz]

that seems like a simple and effective idea darkerline

[GloryMXE7]

I agree with that as well
so what have we decided xlib or pure basic

[simplethinker]

[GloryMXE7]

I gusess ill do it
lets see i still think it should use xlib so thats what im gunna do, but if any one wants to make a pure basic version they can do that to

[simplethinker]

Since all you need from xLIB would be drawing filled rectangles and possibly a single sprite, I would recommend using Codex instead. It's a program instead of an app so you can just include it with your program and you won't have to require the user to do any setup (like enabling xLIB).

[Mapar007]

Yeah but programs run with Asm( are SLOWWWW.... Xlib is an app, so it's faster. (In games, speed is important)

I'd use xLib