Good progress made.

First work on a proper dungeon tileset.

RE: https://tooot.im/@eladhen/116216995974352671

Anyone want to hear some original SID music that's headed for my game?

My emotions about Rowan are complex. It's going to be a good game, I know that now. There's a solid core gameplay loop (the thing you do moment-to-moment, specifically the combat and puzzles), a comprehensible goal (save your family!), bright colourful (for C64) graphics, decent controls (I hate Atari joysticks!), etc.

I'm frustrated by the things I couldn't put in, but so, so proud of what I've packed into just < 38KB of program code.

Added a convenience: Press F1 to immediately game over.

Why would you do this? To save the game without having to go through the trouble of dying.

Consolation prize: My micro optimizations freed enough memory to make entity spawns conditional on global flags, which makes a lot of things a lot simpler to implement without using more memory.

Ooof. This is generating more bugs than I can fix.

Fuck it. Overlay experiment over, I'm pulling the plug.

I will just have to accept that there are some limits I can't break.