[Question] Platform Game

[XverhelstX]

Hello everyone,

I wonder how u guys will make action platform games like mario, kirby, etc games. I am quite confident with programming itself, but I have never made a game with basic yet. so how would you guys:

- Control the views in the game (let the screen follow the character)
- Tile your game (with tilesets making the background)
- character movement (left, right, jump, etc)

I mostly programmed with Game Maker, but I left it because it was to easy.
for example, for moving you would do: obj_Character.x = -2 on left arrow button. So how would you do that using Basic4Android then?


Thanks

XverhelstX

 

[XverhelstX]

Wow, seems nice AB.
If you are intrested, you should take a look at Game Maker.
It's a game development software for Windows for "easy" programming.

It would be very handy to have some things over there as It's growing quick and their use easy logics to make games.
For example:

On Create event: Declare variables
On Left arrow: execute code etc

Including room customization and more

XverhelstX

 

[ssg]

great one alwaysbusy!!! looking forward to the library

any idea on date-of-availability? cant wait to test it out!

anyone doing box2d or any other physics library? hehe...

besides game maker, there is this one which also compiles to mobiles (no android yet though):

Game Editor

 

[thedesolatesoul]

nice work alwaysbusy
as ssg said, im also looking for collision detection/reaction so box2d or something like that would be cool
i was looking for something top-down rather than side-to-side...dont know how that would fit into your work

 

[ZJP]

@alwaysbusy
Any news?

JP

 

[alwaysbusy]

@ZJP: I think I'm going to restart from scratch after my holidays as a lot of code now is pure experimental and can be written a lot better. The code is not very manageble now and I would like it to be a true physics engine with collisions, friction, elasticity and gravity.

 

[magarcan]

I'm waiting for this... :sign0060:
Good luck!

 

[clx]

any updates?
Really looking forward to this!
Thanks.

 

[JonPM]

I'm guessing he's always busy...

 

[Jim]

Seems the ABPhysicsEngine is what he was probably discussing as it was released after this and encompasses animation, physics, etc.