Yesterday I started making a game in asm using ion. Eventually I want it to be sorta like a game in C# from a book I have read (sorry for the size )

Here is my beginning representation:


And here is the code. (MIMAS syntax, btw)
It's not very optimized right now, but I should fix that eventually.

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I hope to complete this eventually. I will need to learn a lot more complex parts of asm before finishing it, though. (Note to self - finish reading "Learn Asm in 28 Days")

Despite not reading the entire tutorial, this looks really great for a beginner! I see barely optimizations

Great job!

Looks very nice indeed! A small suggestion though; this:


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Can simply be:


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Also note that 'sub 1' and 'add 1' can just be 'dec a' and 'inc a' respectively. They are smaller and faster

Thanks guys.
I added the optimization, Mateo, the code looks way better now
What should I use to keep track of the "Bees"? A list?

Is this how a list looks in asm: .db 1,1,1,1,1,1 ...

Great work so far!

A list or array would be suitable for the bees - depending on how many things you need to keep track of per bee. Eg. if you need to track x & y coordinates for each bee, and if there are 10 bees, then a 2-dimensional array of 20 bytes (2 bytes per bee, multiplied by 10 bees) would be suitable.

This section of the 28-days tutorials will probably explain things better than I could!

I need a list or array to keep track of which bees are shown or not. For example, a 1 would show the sprite, a 0 would hide it. I'll post the updated code later today.

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Here is the updated code. The bees are included and move back and forth, but the are always there, and you can't shoot them to make them disappear. Pretty much, the easy part is done. Now I will need to start asking questions and finishing reading the tutorial (I'm only half-way through week 2).
I wrote a comment in the code that draws the bees that tells what I need help with.


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Here is the gif:
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This is really coming along! Keep up the good work, can't wait to see this when its done

Thanks

Lookin' great!

At this rate you'll be a BrandonW within the year.

Could someone help me out with a routine that would only show a sprite if a corresponding value in a list was a 1?

If a list was like this:

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I would only want it to show a sprite if the corresponding value was 1.

Here is the code I want to modify:

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Something like this perhaps? It will draw the bees in the same order the list is, from left to right. Should be easily changeable if you want it to go the other direction


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Wow, that looks nice. Its way better than mine:


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I'm gonna totally use your code - I think. I changed a whole lot in the main code to use the drawing routine I made.

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Actually, maybe you could optimize mine instead.

Ok, here is a gif of SWARM! as of last night (I haven't done anything since than ).
It runs a little bit faster than this on my calculator.


Now I need to add projectiles bee-ing dropped by the bees.

Even at the speed the gif looks to be this is nice, imo. Nice work here, switch! Are you going to try and allow more than a single shot on the screen at a time? And what kinds of bonuses are you planning on?

Eventually I will probably try to. Right now I am working on allowing the bees to dropping "stingers", with multiple in the screen at once (probably four). I'm going to make a different variable for each x of each stinger, and each y of each stinger. As for bonuses... I'm not sure. Btw, if anyone thinks that it's unnecessary for the bees to drop stingers, I'll leave it like this and work other features.

Rather than make a variable for each stinger; just use an array of the x and y values. This will make it easy to modify the number in the future if you want to

Ok, I'll start over.
Like this?

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The value will change every frame in the game.

Yep exactly Then to get the particular bee data you can do this: (Assuming hl holds the bee data that you want)


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Which will store the bee's x value in c and the y value in b. Should be modifiable to suit your purposes