Hey, so uh...Youtube's blocked here, cause it classifies under K9 "protection" as an open media search engine...do you think you could upload the video to somewhere where I could download it?
K, I spent some time during school today getting a tilemap up and running, polishing up the physics engine, and making a new sprite - a little jumping bean looking thing.
This level is seriously ugly - expect better graphics, this is just a demo.
Okay, so for gravity, all you need is two variables: Y_Position and Y_Velocity. Y_Position is just where on the screen the character is displayed, the Y coordinate. Y_Velocity is the speed the character moves per frame. So, to move the character upward, all you need is a negative velocity. Since Y_Velocity is added to Y_Position every frame automatically, if you simply set the Y_Velocity to a negative number, you will go upwards (adding a negative number to Y_Position = subtracting from Y_Position = making the character go up). To simulate realistic gravity, we need to define exactly what gravity is. Gravity is downward acceleration, that's all. Implementing this is fairly trivial - just add a constant number to the Y_Velocity every frame.
For Cemetech's contest #8, I'm going to make a platform game. It'll be 8*8, with a scrolling tilemap, and I have a whole bunch of ideas (none of which are yet implemented). So it's still in more of the brainstorming phase, but I wrote the collisions and movement engine the other day.
For those of you who recognized it, it's the same engine I posted in saintrunner's Seeker thread I loved it so much I decided I'm going to make a game out of it! I'll try and get a tilemapping/scrolling example set up during physics tommorrow, and hopefully get a screenie posted.
Spoiler For Previous Update, with screenshot:
UPDATE:
Revamped the graphics, and threw out that weird jumping bean looking character. I think I like the new look
UPDATE:
I've changed the focus / vision for the game to a Survival type of game. Basically, the goal is to survive as long as you can through different conditions, as things get progressively harder. I have five different modes working, I might be able to get a new screenie later. Also, I've officially changed the title.
UPDATE(a):
Screenshot, featuring different modes - next up to do is set up the obstacles. The way the obstacles are going to work is that it's going to have a classic arcade game (like pong) playing in the background automatically, and you have to avoid the ball and paddle. Stuff like that.
FINAL UPDATE:
I finished this game the other night. Not much explaining I'm afraid, but I'm working on a fairly in-depth Readme.txt for when I'm allowed to release this. I made a few screenies for your viewing pleasure.
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is that what you're referring to?
Update in the first post!
