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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Calculate shadow map to overlay hidden line-of-sight things in 2d?
Given a 2D sideview with even-sized grid squares and our hero in a known center-ish position like this
... and imagining this hero's line of sight like this...
how could one get the point values ...
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How can I make different levels in a game?
Let's say I was working on a platform game. Each level has an exit. When the player reaches the exit, the game switches to the next level.
What would be the best way represent and switch to the next ...
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Scaling background without scaling foreground in platformer?
I'm currently developing a platform game and I've run into a problem with scaling resolutions.
I want a different resolution of the game to still display the foreground unscaled (characters, tiles, ...
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How can I reuse objects going off left side of screen, by putting them offscreen on the right side?
I have an array of roughly 10,000 tiles over a 2d grid. When a tile goes off screen, I'd like to recycle it by disabling the renderer, repositioning it just before it comes on screen again, then turn ...
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Camera movement and threshold not working
I have a platformer that is in progress, part of this has a camera which I only want to move when the character moves out of a certain threshold, to try to accomplish this I have the following if ...
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How can I implement jumping in a 2D game using bounding box collision?
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I'm trying to implement basic jumping to my 2D game engine, but have failed several times.
Basically what I've done so far is disabling gravity and using a separate function moving the player ...
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What's the most memory efficient way to load a tiled map?
Currently I am working on a simple 2D platformer and I want to load a tiled map.
What I've started working on is loading the tiles using a text file. My first question is simple: is a text file the ...
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Updating the jump in game
I am making a Java game and I want my game to run the same on any FPS so I'm using time delta between each update. This is the update method of the Player:
public void update(long timeDelta) {
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Game Logic Update Order
Is there a commonly-accepted general approach to the order of processing logic updates?
My current 2D platformer has objects that implement different concerns, including the following:
Notifiable - ...
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Allowing a player to walk up and down slopes without resistance
I am trying to implement a platformer where both the player and the level are made up of arbitary polygons. One requirement is that the player can stand still on slopes, and walk up and down them ...
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How to handle the top of a slope in a 2D tile-based platformer?
I'm working on a 2D tile-based platformer that supports 45-degree slope tiles.
There are several questions on the topic, but none seem to cover this precise problem that I have. This excellent ...
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Platform game: applying gravity and jumping [duplicate]
I am making a 2D platform game in Java but I don't know how to apply gravity and jumping on my player and other living creatures in game that it looks natural and that it is physical correct.
I have ...
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2D Contra style game - main character 360 degree gun aim
I'm about to make my first simple game.
I'd like to know some of the ways to achieve a 360 degree gun aim in a 2D contra-like shooter.
The thing is I want it to be 360 degrees, not just 8 direction ...
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Spritesheet vs single tiles
I am currently programming a 2d platformer and this is the first time I am coding a video game. Now I've downloaded the 'platformer art deluxe' package. In the tiles folder there are single tiles and ...
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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 ...
