I Added a sword on the ground in the first room that the player must pick up before he/she is able to attack anything
I Added two new item drops. A chicken leg that will restore health to 100% and a Mario like mushroom that will give the player an extra life
I Added more monster types (graphics). Two scorpions (red and blue), two “beasts” (brown and purple), two more “mummies” (now there is blue, green, and black). This has filled that bank full. I may change some of these monsters later, I don’t really like the beast graphics. Might turn them into bats. I would also like to add a dragon that actually chases the player if there is enough space later. Was thinking about using bank 2 (which holds the sound effects and title screens) for more monster graphics if there is any space in there left over.
Right now I need to work on monster speeds. Whenever I increase the speed of the monster movement (for deeper levels in the dungeon) they will sometimes overlap a wall by a couple pixels. They don’t get stuck or anything, it just looks kind of ugly to me. I need to adjust the collision detection to match the movement speed. Which is a bit confusing with fixed point integers. But that’s where I’m going to try to throw most of my effort at next.
I have so many plans for feature I want to add, like all Atari programmers, but am struggling for free space and variables at every turn. I am really hoping there will be enough room for multiple (with palette switching) end bosses or at least one. I would also like to add a random treasure room. But have a feeling that will be a little much. I think I am going to have to make a list of priorities of features and start working my way down because I know a lot of them will not make the cut. The most important on that list will be a princess to save. So once I figure out the monster speed/collision problem, I should really make sure to add a princess at the bottom floor to win the game.