My Turing Platformer Game

[Warchamp7]

A big special thanks to Mazer for his jump system found here
http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=16790

Also in that thread, thanks to Michael516 for his explanation of platforms, as I had missed the velocity portion which through comparison of my code and his I was able to determine.

This version only contains 4 "Tutorial" levels that explain the gimmicks of the game. I have some other levels made in a version at home. If anyone has any ideas for some other gimmicks, I'm welcome to hear some of them.

I already have a level editor planned out in my head which I intend to do at a later date.

[Insectoid]

Not bad!

Did you use View.Update in it? It flickers a lot.
Next step- Replace boxes & circles with pictures/sprites. Upload the other levels, I beg you!

[Warchamp7]

insectoid @ Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:47 am wrote:

Not bad!

Did you use View.Update in it? It flickers a lot.
Next step- Replace boxes & circles with pictures/sprites. Upload the other levels, I beg you!

You know, I had never really tinkered with it. I would toss it in and everything would trail and not erase right. Now that I think about it, all I need to do is draw a white version of whatever is changing heh

Which I have just done and it looks great

The levels themselves I actually made very flexible. All the platforms get checks in the main loop. So every time the game loops (Exiting the game loop after each level) it sets level + 1 and then through a if, elsif statement, each level is just the variables for everything. If I'm not using a platform, I just place it offscreen. Coins have a boolean and only display if it's true, etc.

I'm rather proud of myself for the set up actually XD


For the heck of it, I'll post my level 1 code with some added comments signified by two %

code:

%%Number of Coins to be collected NumCoins := 0 %%Coins collected so far, set to 0 before even checking levels CoinsCol := 0 %Level definitions Here if level = 1 then %Player Start posx := 20 posy := 50 %Platform variables %%The platforms are actually drawn at ground level for level 1 as there are none Plat1x := 100 Plat1y := 0 Plat2x := 200 Plat2y := 0 Plat3x := 300 Plat3y := 0 Plat4x := 400 Plat4y := 0 %Win Box variables winx := 600 winy := 1 % ------------------- elsif level = 2 then %%Blah blah blah :P

Behold the complexity of level 1 lol

More comments on this please! All feedback is appreciated!

[Warchamp7]

Wow, you can't edit a post thats been replied to. That's a little lame

Anyway, here's a newer version with a few levels and a couple new updates to the system including a level drawing system that draws each individual piece of the level before starting

The game also now properly makes use of offscreenonly, no more flickering!

My next step is obviously more levels and adding a trail to the box you control using some arrays
DONE

COMMENTS ON THIS ARE APPRECIATED!!

PLEASE get the font in my first post, as some game text won't display properly without it


Edit: I made some more updates to the game, including allowing you to run around the main screen

[SNIPERDUDE]

pretty good.

A couple of things...

were you going for the blurred box effect?
for some reason you can't jump through the portal from directly underneath it.

Other than that, I think it was well laid out.

[gitoxa]

Is it just me, or is the file "batmfa__.zip" empty?

Game still works without it though, it's fairly good. I'd suggest maybe some more colour, there's a lot of white on screen.

And yes Sniperdude, he was going for the blurred box effect.

Warchamp7 wrote:

My next step is obviously more levels and adding a trail to the box you control using some arrays
DONE

[Insectoid]

Gah! I can't download it! I'll have to download from FireFox after my mom is done checking her E-mails.

[SNIPERDUDE]

gitoxa @ Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:38 pm wrote:

And yes Sniperdude, he was going for the blurred box effect.

my bad.

So the only other thing I had with it was jumping straight up into a portal

[Insectoid]

Downloaded, played, and loved! Next step- Ending screen showing time and a high score list.

[Warchamp7]

SNIPERDUDE @ Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:05 pm wrote:

gitoxa @ Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:38 pm wrote:

And yes Sniperdude, he was going for the blurred box effect.

my bad.

So the only other thing I had with it was jumping straight up into a portal

I don't understand what you mean. I can jump straight upwards into a portal, I even went through one end and then back through without moving left or right, works fine for me. Also, if that font file is empty, I'll put up a new one ><


Also, regarding the trails, do you guys like them or no?

[SNIPERDUDE]

the trails are pretty cool, I just didn't know if it was your plan to. Maybe have an option screen where you can turn it off or on (and other stuff like music later) for those other players.

Anywho what I mean about the portals is on some maps when I stand directly under the portal and jump without moving left or right, it will teleport me back to where I was.

EDIT: Hmmm, I think I know what it is...

It seems to be the placement of the teleports (how high off the ground), I noticed on one of the levels that it is placed higher than the rest in the game and doesn't cause this problem.

[Warchamp7]

SNIPERDUDE @ Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:46 am wrote:

the trails are pretty cool, I just didn't know if it was your plan to. Maybe have an option screen where you can turn it off or on (and other stuff like music later) for those other players.

Anywho what I mean about the portals is on some maps when I stand directly under the portal and jump without moving left or right, it will teleport me back to where I was.

EDIT: Hmmm, I think I know what it is...

It seems to be the placement of the teleports (how high off the ground), I noticed on one of the levels that it is placed higher than the rest in the game and doesn't cause this problem.

I added an option on the main screen to toggle the trails

Also, lemme clarify. You jump through the portal, teleport to the other portal and then get teleported back to the first one again?

The game has a 500 ms delay between going through a portal again, and I don't have this issue when I've tried to replicate the issue. The only thing I can think of is the system you're playing the game on is a little laggy

[SNIPERDUDE]

not laggy in the least.

Have you tried it on all levels?

[Warchamp7]

Yes, thoroughly. Any chance you could get a video of it happening?

[SNIPERDUDE]

hmm, I'll see.
Post it tommorow.