This is a project that was inspired by Builderboy's Cellular Automata physics tutorial (hence the name). Ironically it currently does not have any kind of particle physics or cellular automata in it at all. For now I'm just working on the main character physics, and I've managed to produce something I thought was worthy enough to post and officially unveil this previously secret project

More details on gameplay will be unveiled later, as I think that if I succeed, I want it to be a surprise (because it will look really, really cool). For now you can just know that it will be some sort of platformer with as much physics as I can cram into it.

Currently all the character physics are done, including horizontal acceleration and deceleration due to friction, collision/momentum with walls, jumping (use 2nd) with real gravity and such.

Next up is the scrolling tilemapper... I'm planning to use the tilemapper only for drawing, and not for collision detection. Hooray for inefficiency

I added vertical impulses. See first post for new stuff, as I'm sure most people haven't even read the topic yet.

Sounds cool.  Good luck.

Scrolling+acceleration=pain .

Maybe I'll go with no scrolling, simply something similar to Zelda or Trio/Niko where you have 'rooms'....

Very worthy of a unveil indeed!

I will try for a couple days to get a tilemapper working. It will be inefficient though, and if it's too slow I'll have to scrap it in order to make room for the other stuff.

Basically (gathering my thoughts here) I'm going to need to keep track of the X offset and Y offsets. When you move, I'll have to check if you get too close to the side of the screen in which case I change the offset value instead of the real X and Y screen values. The tilemap will be drawn using the offset value divided by 8 and then shifted by the offsets modulus 8.

Does anyone have any better ideas?

So having the character be locked in the center? That's an idea I was considering before....hmmmm

edit; @happybobjr, yeah I'll add that later

i'm doing the 'locked' method for blaster master, although i'm still not convinced i've finished optimising the tilemapper, so it may not be the best reference.

if you're doing particle physics, though, i think rooms would be the best bet. maybe your character sprite could be slightly smaller to make it not feel so cramped? good luck with whatever this is, squidget!