Admittedly, I tend to post random updates on my Livejournal account far more often than on here. Which is questionable in preferences given probably more people browse this blog, even accidentally!

Anyway, it seems I've been swallowed up by 7800Basic. Started looking through it's sample programs and reading over RandomTerrain's online guide for it. Naturally my first instinct is to enable scrolling to it even though it doesn't support it natively.

Horizontal scrolling took a couple tries, but I got something to work. That attempt was pretty limited in itself however so I'm redoing it (About half done) to be more useful - fixed point movement and full range of movement over the map. The first attempt had, and depended on, a constant speed and the player being centered on the screen. By rights that would have been sufficient for what I wanted to do, but I figured I should make the procedure a bit more reusable.

Vertical scrolling didn't work at all. I wasn't really expecting it to but at least I confirmed it for myself. While it's not part of my goals for this week, I do have an idea on how to enable a coarse vertical screen scrolling that should be sufficient for this particular game idea I'm working on.

Basically my goal for this week, which is questionable right now since I've been half sick with a bad cough, is to get a sample program that'll do the following 3 things:

1. Have a horizontally scrolling map.

2. Have the map detect passable and non-passable blocks

3. Start dabbling with making tiles that can potentially be used in the final game. (Probably the hardest of the 3 for me, my art has gotten pretty crappy.)

If I forget to post my results on Sunday here then there's a good chance there will be an update on LiveJournal.

I've been trying to set myself goals to stay on track with learning and developing my skills with 7800Basic, so let's hope I can keep it up. Admittedly I may be setting too slow a pace with it for now.

In unrelated news, here's a crossfade of Ady S's new SoNiKa/vocaloid album on bandcamp.

Yeah, I've gotten onto some kinda Vocaloid kick for the last couple of years. It's the main thing I tend to listen to, apart from the occasional heavy metal.