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A platform game (or platformer) is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles.
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AS3 Internal preloader (one swf) for flash game with Embeded() images?
So I am using the Flash IDE.
And I am trying to make a preloader on Frame 1 so that it displays and loads progress before anything else is exported/loaded. So all my assets from the Library are on ...
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Why is my character not moving when applying an acceleration to it?
I'm having issues with my character in terms of gravity and the character bouncing up and down. You can find more information about it in the link below.
Character bouncing off ground due to gravity
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Platformer collision detection problems
I'm having a few problems with collision detection in my game (written in C# with SDL.Net). Detecting the floor and roof is fine, as does detecting sides of tiles when not jumping/falling. My problem ...
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3d platformer with 2d point of view
I made my first 2d platformer game using java + swing.
Now I want to achieve the same gameplay adding 1 dimension. I think this will require opengl knowledge.
I know the basics but i don't ...
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Hero/Character sprite size in comparison to tile size?
So I'm making this simple platformer where the Hero is 16x16 in size, but also, the tile size is 16x16. Which sounds fine right? But my game window/world is 800x416, which makes the Hero is really ...
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Actionscript 3.0 - Enemies do not move right in my platformer game
I am making a side-scrolling platformer game in Flash (Actionscript 3.0). I have made lots of progress lately, but I have come across a new problem.
I will give some background first. My game level's ...
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How to make a platformer character go DOWN a 315 degree slope?
Alright, so I got this code I'm trying to write, but the player won't go down the slope, it goes down and up perfectly on the 45 degree slope, but the 315 degree one is a mess. it goes "up" the ...
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Should I go with SpriteBatch or just 3D with Z component always zero?
I'm designing a platformer and beginning to code the viewing engine of the game. Now, I have to make a key decision: Should I just use SpriteBatch to draw all the 2D stuff, as there is no 3D, or ...
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objective-c iphone sdk side scrolling
I was making a game and I did the side scrolling like this: if the player get past 150, the player stops moving and the background starts moving. But thats very annoying with placing objects in the ...
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Detecting right/left collisions with a bounding box
I'm building a platformer in cocos2d, my first game project. I'm working on movement and collision detection. I'm using a tilemap with a "meta" layer of invisible blocks that are designated ...
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Box2D Platform body not moving player body along with it
I am creating a game using Box2D (Javascript implementation) - and I added the ability to have a static platform, that is moved along an axis as a function of a sine.
My problem is when the player ...
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What is involved in creating a real-time multiplayer platformer game?
I'm creating a platformer game that has a "co-operative" feature which I'd like to work over networks / the internet.
Now I've read up on network game programming including articles like What every ...
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2D Platformer AABB collision problems
I have a problem with AABB collision resolution.
I resolve AABB intersection by resolving the X axis first, then the Y axis.
This is done to prevent this bug: http://i.stack.imgur.com/NLg4j.png
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Recreating retro/NES style physics with intentional imprecision
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I'm having a problem getting the jump curve correct for a retro platformer remake project of mine. The original game is for the NES, and the player's velocity is stored in two separate ...
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A way to store potentially infinite 2D map data?
I have a 2D platformer that currently can handle chunks with 100 by 100 tiles, with the chunk coordinates are stored as longs, so this is the only limit of maps (maxlong*maxlong).
All entity positions ...
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Getting 2D Platformer entity collision Response Correct (side-to-side + jumping/landing on heads)
I've been working on a 2D (tile based) 2D platformer for iOS and I've got basic entity collision detection working, but there's just something not right about it and I can't quite figure out how to ...
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Starting Java 2D Platformer using LWJGL
Getting started on a 2d platforming project in java. I've decided on using LWJGL and OpenGL, but I don't quite know where to start. What is typically the first thing one would work on with a ...
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The Decline of 3D Platformers
What contributed to the decline of sales of 3D platformers over the past decade? (Other than Microsoft's acquisition of Rareware.) Would it be a mistake for a developer other than Nintendo (or indie ...
