He's Back, Kicking Bottom

One of the challenges with a game like this is I need to juggle all the logistics of [life stuff] and all the stuff that goes into a game with game assets, levels and maps, etc.

With PETFrog it was for one system, and there is only ever really one level, with minor variations (speed, mostly.)

I want this to first work on PET, Vic 20, C64, then all 6502, then Z80, and even 16 bit systems. 

Even though I am using TRSE (and my cross-platform libraries that I am developing in parallel to the game), and TRSE is helping a *great deal*, I ended up building a bunch of tools. TRSE does have level/screen design tools built in, but they are not really suited to this.

And, besides, it gave me a chance to try out QB64 - an IDE and compiler I had checked out in 2021 but not really tried.

So I built a tile editor that loads in my custom C64 character set and allows you to make meta tiles.

Then I built a map editor  that loads in those tiles and allows you to place them on the map grid.

And THEN I changed my TRSE code to load in those tiles and the level.

It did mean that right now I only have one map/level and the positions of baddies, assets, and stuff are hard coded, but the logic works which is the main thing :)