As a sort of introductory project for myself, I've been making a platformer that runs entirely in ASCII on the homescreen. I have three levels completed so far, and working on a fourth (the fourth level is drastically different from the rest [because I discovered xLIBC around then], so the code is pretty messy as of now. I'll fix it when I finish making the level work)

(note: health does nothing as of now)

Download here

Screenshots:

Level 1


Level 2


Level 3


Level 4 (in progress - uses xLIBC's GetKey command, which is wayy more efficient than TIOS's)


The platforms in every level are randomly generated to an extent.
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BUGS/GLITCHES

- Sometimes, Level 1's top platform will show up too far to the right and throw an ERR: INVALID DIM. This is easy to fix, but I'm too lazy to do it so for now you'll have to quit and reenter the program.
- Level 2's bottom platform will sometimes not appear. Again, an easy fix that I'm putting off for later.
- In a similar vein, when Level 2's bottom platform appears as it did in the screenshot above, it's sometimes possible to just jump up through the platform on the left and get to the ° immediately.
- Jumping up while on the top row (row 1) of the screen on any level will result in an ERR: INVALID DIM. I know why this happens, but any attempts to fix it completely screw up jumping so I'll have to leave it alone for now.
- [minor] If a platform is at just the right height, sometimes you'll be able to jump through but not over it and make an I disappear from the platform without actually landing on it. This is demonstrated in Level 2's screenshot gif above.

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(If you're wondering, the name came from me messing around with making a sprite move: first came MOVE1 [used the graph screen+the Draw() command], then MOVE2 [four-direction homescreen movement], and the platformer ended up being named MOVE3.)

Progress on Level 4!



(that's not me moving the square- it moves automatically if it's touching the platform!)

Update- Level 4 is now finished!


I'll refrain from posting to the archives for now, because a) the last update to it was stupid as level 4 wasn't actually finished, and b) the code is still a huge mess, and I want to fix it.
It'll probably be up in a day or two, though!

Oh, that is neat! So the little block moves with you; you just have to control moving it upwards? Nice gameplay idea!

Is there any way to avoid having to re-copy the code for moving the square every single time I have a loop?

This is an example (written in sort-of-pseudocode to save time, sorry if it's hard to understand)

Code:


Simple enough, right? Let's say, though, that I want to add a platform on row 6 that moves, like in level 4 of this game. That simple code becomes this:


Code:


It's obviously huge, and I honestly doubt that it's necessary... is there any shortcut to doing something like this that I'm unaware of?
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Pretty much, yeah. Thanks!
I'm now working on the final level, actually, so that's cool

Super-secret final level sneak peek!

Haha, that last level is just fun to watch. How goes progress with this? It is a pretty nifty idea; how did you come about it?

I've sorta started procrastinating it (as you can see by [url=http://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11360]my other projects[/url) but I do have a plan in mind for what I want to do with the boss level.

Speaking of which, here's a new screenie:


(the w's are vines)

There's going to be at least five rooms (one of which you'll be able to access by climbing the vines), and you'll have to go through each of them, then get to the boss's tail to do... something. I haven't quite figured that out yet, to be honest. But yeah, that'll be it!

Not sure if by 'how did you come about it' you mean the game as a whole or the boss level, but the game was mostly an introductory thing for me (I started it like two days after I first learned about TI-BASIC, with pretty much no tutorials) and as such, the code is pretty unoptimized.
The boss level, on the other hand, was started on a whim because i felt like I had to wrap up the project and I was bored in math class, so I had time to draw the boss. I'll hopefully be done with the game soonishly.