Nemesis generated map video is published

Thanks.

What I mean is that all other levels have a background plus enemies. The background is either just stars (which are probably generated with an algorithm, I didn't check) or built up from tiles of 4x4 characters. Note that I'm calling it background due to the way the screen is built up; the player can die from hitting the background characters, so it's not a background in that sense.

All levels except 3 and 6 start with a "stars" part, followed by a "tiles" part. Levels 3 and 6 have only a "stars" part, there are no (4x4 character) background tiles in those levels.

All levels have enemies, of course. Some of those enemies are also characters. You could call a cannon a 2x2 tile, but that's not what I called a tile in the video.

In level 3, the Moai statues are similar to the cannons: they are drawn on top of the background. However, the background in that level is always just stars.

In level 6, the "brain blobs" are also drawn on top of the star background, but there it's more obvious because they move.

As for the high score attempt: don't hold your breath. I expect it to be very hard, and I don't know if I'll make time for it soon. But if anyone else would try it, I'd also be very interested to see it.

Tiles in this context means 4x4 characters, so 32x32 pixels. It's a way of reducing the amount of data. A full screen only needs 8x6 of those tiles, which takes only 48 bytes.

Bas, the mechanism is complety clear. It's just the word 'tile' that confused Metalion. Usually, tile is used instead of character. Because when it represents graphical data, it's not a character, is it?

So when Metalion says he expects 8x8 tiles, he means 8x8 pixels. And he thought you meant 4x4 pixels and that would be really strange from a vdp perspective. That's all.