new map screen. gives a good sense of what the size of the world will be. 🗺️

the unvisited tile looks a bit like Tetris blocks. may change it later...

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the minimap now shows room exits. so you can see the path you've traced. only for visited rooms, so it doesn't give away any secret exits. :)

this was a lot of work... the room exit directions are generated into some spare bits of the world data at compile time.

it's still very slow, but haven't looked at optimisations yet. maybe I'll keep it this way and create a scroll unroll effect instead? 📜

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let’s get PHYSICAL.

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a secret message. 🦊

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never had to think about compiler output before... really want to stick to that 32kb limit. :)

rewrote this lookup function to output 150 lines of assembly instead of 370.

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finally got some useful insight into ROM space thanks to @bbbbbr's romusage tool. 🔍

https://github.com/bbbbbr/romusage

41% free is a lot, since the world is a fixed size and already included. should be enough to make it a rich game!

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