Well I got the scrolling working anyway. Some of the collision detection is a little glitchy; and there is absolutely no checking when you are moving upwards. Other than that it looks okay though. It's a little slow, but I know several places that could be heavily optimized (I'm running through a few loops about 8 times as much as necessary ), and I'm still at 6mhz.

Update!

After much optimizing, I think it now runs FASTER than the original without scrolling . Also, I have fixed the bad collision detection: sometimes you could fall through the floor and such. Additionally, if you get too close to the edge, you will now semi-realistically slip down If you fall really far down, the tiles will still randomly change because you have fallen past the limits of L1

Oh and yeah, I added the character animation. It actually helps me debug the program too

Thanks.

comicIDIOT over at Cemetech has given me some great ideas, so once I get Spoiler for Hidden done, I will begin to work on destructable blocks, blocks with more friction or bounce than others, and collectibles (I don't think it'll be able to manage enemies though)

edit: 911! haha

That looks wonderful!  Excellent job!

One thing though:  Make sure that the character can't go up and into the block above him - it looks kinda weird.

One thing though:  Make sure that the character can't go up and into the block above him - it looks kinda weird.

Are you just warning me, or did you actually see that (Because I *think*have collision detection working in all 4 directions)/

Anyway, I've run into a problem. The problem is that, well, the particle physics that I had planned is going to be practically impossible. Why? Because, well, you can't do pixel testing off screen. And even if you could, I won't make the tilemapper draw offscreen either. So now I think I'm going to have to scrap my original idea, making the name SandLand have nothing to do with the game lol. However, I would take this awesome tilemapper and run with it, adding loads of awesome stuff like special blocks, collectibles, maybe even enemies. I think it's OK though, because my old idea wasn't going to make a game, I don't think. I mean, it's like, "Ok, there's water/sand/acid. So what?" I don't know, maybe I'm just rambling right now

tl;dr: There will probably be no particle physics or cellular automata in this. Sorry. I'm going to make everything else moar awesomes to compensate.

If I had seen this post earlier, things might have been different:

True, with particle physics, it might be best to contain it to a single room, all those particles add up

But I think I like where this project is going too much to try and steer it back to where I originally wanted it to go

Quote from: ztrumpet on February 03, 2011, 10:19:09 pm

One thing though:  Make sure that the character can't go up and into the block above him - it looks kinda weird.

Are you just warning me, or did you actually see that (Because I *think*have collision detection working in all 4 directions)/

I see it happening when there's only 8 pixels of space (top to bottom) between blocks and you try and squeeze through there.  I fear this is also happening with left/right as well.

Sounds good.  It sure looks great!

It redraws the whole thing every frame. (I find horiz/vertical annoying to work with when you have a character in the middle of the screen as well as changing velocities )

I kinda see what you mean ztrumpet. I'll get to work on fixing that