After the detection, the next milestone was to make the game start. But the problem was, the UI icons used in ibass are 32-bit images but our sky engine was 8-bit. So, what I did to solve this mismatch was turning the engine into a 32-bit one, keeping the game screen separately at 8-bit and clapped them together before the output.<\/p>\n
I have skipped the intro for now because it has a separate video for the intro(and for the outro too). I have saved it for later.<\/p>\n
The next natural step was to overlay the icons. To load the bitmaps, I ported the loadAnim() function from the ibass sources and wrote an icon renderer that we then call from our screen compositor<\/a>. And finally, we have the icons rendered on our screen-<\/p>\n Next step was to trigger the respective actions for those icons. Upon a click, it incorporates something called “_actionFlash”. When we click, the “_actionFlashTime” starts decrementing if _actionFlash is set. So, it gives a flickering effect to the icon until _actionFlashTime becomes zero. It happens like this<\/a>. As you can see, when _actionFlashTime is even, the icon is cleared and vice versa. In the game, it looks like this-<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/priyanshu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-from-2026-05-26-13-34-46-300x241.png\")
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