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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Auto-tiling with Yoshi's Island style tiles

I'm creating a 2D platformer and I'd like to implement an auto-tiling system. Normally, this wouldn't be particularly difficult. However, I'd like to have tiles like in Yoshi's Island, where the ...
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Vertical Scrolling In Tile Based XNA Platformer

I'm making a 2D platformer in XNA 4.0. I have created a working tile engine, which works well for my purposes, and Horizontal Scrolling works flawlessly, however I am having great trouble with ...
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Pixel perfect collisions for platforms

i'm trying to do a pixel perfect collision but i don't know how to handle collisions when there is a jump . Here i have one image of a sample map: But maybe I've done a bad supposing all pixel like ...
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Why does my sprite shake while moving?

Player movement causes its sprite to shake a bit. I don't what is causing it or how to fix it. I recorded a video of the problem. In the recording, it looks like the world is shuddering, but only ...
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beginContact triggered more than once on some objects

Short version: It looks like beginContact is detecting continuous collisions. I'd like to avoid that. Long version : I use Box2Dweb to write a 2D platformer. It's my first game using this lib, and, ...
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SDL - Sprite “Ghosting”

I'm using SDL to create a 2D side-scrolling platformer, but I'm getting ghosting from the sprite. I'm not used to programming with graphics or SDL so excuse any stupid remarks I make. Here's the ...
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Cannot figure how to plan a Matryoshka themed game

Me and my partner are planning to write a Matryoshka themed game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll). It will be a side-scroller/platformer and the main idea is that the character will be ...
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2d platformer Tiles collision

I have a problem with detecting collision between my player and the tiles that makes the map. I have been looking all day for a solution but I can't seem to find one that suits my needs. Here is how ...