As we are currently catching up on game news, we are going through recently released programs. Two weeks ago, Squidgetx released a puzzle game called The Psyche, which features grayscale, challenging levels and something rare for a puzzle game: a storyline. The storyline was added in the game to meet the criterias for the Cage Match contest this game as well as two others were submitted in. Here is a screenshot:



The game also won Cage Match #4. The other games can be found here.

If you haven't tried it already, The Psyche can be downloaded in Omnimaga staff archives.

In addition to that, Xeda112358 has released a new version of her parser hook-based BASIC extender BatLib.



Like Doors CS7 and its ancestors, when installed, new TI-BASIC commands are added in the TI-OS, running at faster speed than their Asm(prgmNAME) equivalent. With BatLib you can use custom fonts like Omnicalc's, but they can now be archived and can be larger than the regular 6 pixels font width. In other words, you can pretty much use actual tile-maps made of sprites directly on the home screen. It also comes with various other functions that cannot normally be accessed in TI-BASIC. Be sure to read the readme before using this, though, and report bugs in the BatLib sub-forum created earlier.

Oh my, I remember playing Pokémon Gold/Silver just to get to the ice caves! Psyche looks AWESOME! Must download...

Wait, there is a level editor!? o.O

Oh, AWESOME! I'm playing right now

Eh, be careful... I added some error handlers, but for some reason that I still cannot figure out, it occasionally crashes even during BASIC code execution... Maybe I should post in the subforum a request for help. By the way, I am working on adding those functions!

The errors seem to be random for the most part, but I recently found one that came back with command 41. It seems to crash when you try to get the stats of an archived variable. I have no clue why, but literally I can add something completely unrelated and it can cause a bug in another command or remove the bug. I think it is my computer messing up when it compiles it or something

Yeah, I am pretty sure the problem is right in the very beginning where the parser intercepts. That is the most likely place. I posted a topic over on Cemetech, too about it.

Weird, there might be something somewhere, maybe even earlier in the code, that causes it. In BASIC, sometimes a missing End will mess things up elsewhere in the program and errors may appear out of nowhere later in development.

That reminds me that whenever I had BLOCK errors I just added a 'End' in the end of the code, Hahahaha