Hylke Bons 🥜looking up and loaf mode. 🐱🍞
whiskers picked up a power star. 🐱🌟
little fan goes brrrrrrr.
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is the core gameplay for a minimum viable product working? no.
but can you chill about enjoying falling autumn leaves? HELL YES.
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I thought I was being clever by passing around pointers to values, but a pointer is 16 bits, vs 8-bit for a value. so you gain nothing unless for structs/arrays.
in fact the generated assembly got a lot smaller by removing the excessive pointer use. recovered a good 1Kb! :)
also learnt you can align sprite tiles in memory to state enums, so you can do:
set_sprite(first_tile + player_state);
this saves a lof of space because no large switch/if statements needed.
lots of space savings with pointers to structs by using a local proxy variable:
a = thing->a;
b = thing->b;
// do stuff with a/b
thing->a = a;
thing->b = b;
I guess it's the same as storing the current struct globally? but it's not as nice...
oh also! group tiles of the same type together in VRAM so you can see if one is if a type. for example:
bool tile_is_solid(tile)
{
return (tile >= 12 && tile <= 24);
}
instead of
bool tile_is_solid(tile)
{
return tile == TILE_SOLID1 ||
tile == TILE_SOLID2 ||
tile == TILE_SOLID3 ||
// etc...;
}