SHIFT Game

[GloryMXE7]

yea thats what i was thinking too

[DarkerLine]

On the other hand, you could use assembly instead of Basic with libraries, and then you could do cool tricks such as a rotating animation for flipping the screen. Plus you'd have an entirely self-contained program.

[GloryMXE7]

well shift tile maps for the secound two shifts were 12 by 12 and the max tiles on the graphscreen at once is 8 high and 12 wide
I got the spike tiles and door tiles done,
i have the person standing still and running/jumping sprites
i have the rough drafts for the three tutorial levels
have to figure hit detection(either by pixel test but that would make it hard to exit a room)
have to figure out jumping process and the shifting process
probaly going to add gravity tiles but only vertical not horizontal

[darkstone knight]

[GloryMXE7]

im doing it with xlib

[darkstone knight]

ahaa...

[SonicBoom95]

Working on xLIB version. I can already see the pseuedocode in my head.

[GloryMXE7]

[simplethinker]

[bananaman]

So, is it short term memory loss, or schizophrenia?

[ticalcnoah]

I think he might be referring to sonic or he could be crazy.

[GloryMXE7]

i think its both
by the way anyideas for the jumping mechanism

[darkstone knight]

increase the X position by B each turn, then decrease it by 1 (hit detect here)

during jumping, the B variable is 2, otherwise 1
X - 1*[[A]](Y,X-1) + max(min(F,2),1 -> X, if i recall correctly
F is force, to jumy, you set the variable to the amount of pixels you want to jump (like 10)

[GloryMXE7]

thanks
ok im going to work on drawing the flipped map and the shift mechanincs
when i finish the engine(Hopefully before christmas) i may ask for level ideas but only after the engine is finished (got to set priorities)

[DigiTan]

Can I jump in and make a quick title suggestion?... "Holy SHIFT!"

[darkstone knight]

[GloryMXE7]

i try

[SonicBoom95]

I'm doing a simple Mario 2.0-like physics engine. I'm only worrying about the player being one pixel, so the levels can be as large and as epic as possible.

xLIB gets my vote because of key detection. I couldn't take having to slam on one key at a time in this kind of game.

Currently working on the minor bugs in shifting, spikes, and gravity flip tiles (ouch).

[GloryMXE7]

[DarkerLine]

I suggest a 3x5 pixel size for the player. That still lets you draw fairly large levels, but without visibility problems. If you need larger levels, since you're using xLib already, it should be fairly easy to implement scrolling.