In order to fix the monster spawning code I decided to draw out the dungeon room on graph paper to make it a lot easier for me to visualize and know the exact pixels of where a monster should and shouldn’t appear randomly in any given room.
Seeing my dungeon drawn out on graph paper really brings me back…
Now the monsters shouldn’t ever spawn on a wall at all anymore. I changed the way the spawning was handled completely so now the Atari checks which room type the player has entered and calls a corresponding spawning subroutine for that specific type of room.
I also added code to allow the player to kill all the monsters in the room, it was quick and sloppy code for now that I will probably come back to next time and clean it up a bit to save some space. But just to test it out, it’s actually starting to feel a bit more game like and is really fun running through all the rooms and killing all the monsters.
I’ve been running out of space in many banks at once and am worried how I am going to pull off creating more than one monster with different behaviours. Things are getting tight and I am hoping I can come up with a way of rearranging things in separate banks yet again.