whiskers picked up a power star. 🐱🌟

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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! :)

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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.

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