Inspired by another game for Prizm, I decided to make a platforming game shell with jumping and falling and dying if you fall into a pit.

Being the stubborn girl I am, I am, yet again, using my own method for collision detection.

Jumping needs to be added, but falling works perfectly fine.

Sounds exciting! How many blocks can you fall without dying? Do some break away? I'm assuming certain tiles are spikes and kill you upon landing on them?

It'd be neat to incorporate a way to walk through spikes. If there are spikes on ground, your speed slows and you can't run/sprint. But if you fall on them, you either loose considerable health or die depending on the height of the fall when compared to normal tiles.

WHOA THERE BOY

I need to add jumping first..

Aren't you a little old for her, comicIDIOT?

/me does a find-replace to turn comic's original post into all future tense.

Can you tell us a bit more about this collision-detection method that you're imagining (or already built?), Sarah? I'm intrigued.

The one in my RPG adapted for this use. That's why I said I'm stubborn

Yeah, but I'm not sure how it works. Does it use matrix-based detection, pixel-checking detection, something else?

IIRC, it was based on detecting characters in a String format map, so I would assume this would be the same, Sarah?

I use a list-based system, where each space on a map is a value on a list of 147 variables. I get the values of X-1, Y-1, X+1, Y+1, and get the value of the variable List 1[Y*21-(21-X)]

It's alot simpler than it sounds.

Added jumping, have some bugs, but works.