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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2-bit sparkle. ✨

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got a bit carried away with this one... 🍃🐱✨📜

toggling the leaves at certain y-values makes it seem like they go behind the popup. the animation adds to the effect. :)

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I want to improve the room draw time.

because of the limited ROM size only the bump map is stored and the room is decorated when switching rooms.

however this has a noticable delay (~20 frames). found this interrupt snippet so I can print how many frames were dropped and I can measure progress. 👍

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also... did you know that the #GameBoyColor has a CPU that's twice as fast? ⚡

you can make use of it like this:

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