A genre of action game whose focus is on platform-based movement. It is equally present in both the 2D and 3D game worlds.
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Tiling Challenge
I have a problem and I hope I am in good hands. I recently started using Gamemaker Studio and I intend to create a 2d game where a room can be tiled seamlessly from the wall to the floor with wall ...
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How should I make a jump-timing game's character static on screen?
I decided to learn Pygame and try to make a simple game inspired by Google's T-rex jump game. However, I stumbled upon a problem that I can not seem to figure out: How can I implement a scroller/...
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Platformer AI Jump Calculation
Thank you for taking the time to read my question, I will try to keep it as concise as I can.
I am making a 2D-platformer game. I am in the process of programming AI that can intelligently traverse ...
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Animating 2d character which can wear items?
In my game the player can control a character which can wear items.
Now it is not visible but I would like to make it visible like for example in Terraria, Starbound, etc.
In my game a player can ...
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Tile Map Collision in 2D Platformer (C# Monogame)
I am trying my hand at making a small 2D platformer. Currently I am trying to implement collision on a tile map. I have been trying to experiment with different ideas but can not find a way for the ...
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Sprite sizing for my game [closed]
I have recently started a new project with my SO (Significant other)and she is doing the art for my game (Pixel art) now i have always gone with 32x32, 64x64 and so on (Using 16x scale) but she thinks ...
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GameMaker: how to make one non-physical object collide with a fixture?
I've searched a lot and i couldn't find the answer. I'm developing a platformer game where i need the player to stay on ground but i don't want to use build-in physics to make him move. The ground is ...
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Limiting framerate with a fixed timestep
UPDATE:
I still need help determining how MAX_UPDATES works. I want my game to be designed in such a way that if the user can't run the game at full speed, it slows down so that no updates are ...
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How can I avoid “Moonwalking”
Let me explain my question:
I have a sprite sheet with the different frames of the animations. Each animation has 8 frames.
Based on the player's input, I modify the character's coordinates, thus I ...
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Simple 2D Platformer Collision Detection?
I'm relatively new to programming and I am attempting to write a 2d platformer in C++ using the SFML library.
The structure of my code is that I have a Stage class which contains a vector of sf::...
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Collision Detection between two instances of the same Prefab
I am a trying to recreate the first stage of Super Mario Brothers, but I am having a bit of trouble with the collision system between Koopa Shells.
I have written two different scripts in hopes to ...
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Need some advice on how to decide where to implement my enemy behaviours
I'm in the middle of writing a platformer game in Unity using C#. I have my character, if he presses the kick button his state switches to kicking. During this "kicking" state the character doesn't ...
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Coordinate code for moving the object from one side to others side
I'm trying to make a 2D games, like airplane in android. To play the airplane, the user must shake the phone and then the airplane will move from left side to right side. And I don't know how to move ...
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Jump-through & drop-down platform
I'm creating platforms in my game where the player can:
1) Jump through them from the bottom and land on top of them
2) While on top of them, drop down through them
I've been able to get #2 working ...
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Level data for Mario or similar platform game [closed]
It has become a widespread to implement a Mario-clone to practise writing platform games or in order to demonstrate how a game engine works.
For that reason I expected it to be easy to find level ...
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How to make the player glide after a jump in Unity?
I need a script that can make my player do an horizontal movement when he is in air (jumping)
Take my older script!
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class Player : MonoBehaviour {...
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Handling movement on sloped surfaces - clamping character to sloped surface
I've noticed that a lot of people seem to have this issue but I've yet to find an actual working solution - when a rigidbody-based character controller (I'm not using Unity's character controller) ...
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Unity 2D C# Enemy Attackng Ai issue
Ok to be specific, both of my enemies will continuously play their attack animation even when it is false. I don't understand what I am doing wrong here :(
void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other){
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2D Platformer: add ability to jump on top of other character
I want to add ability to jump onto a head of other character/player, but still be able to go through them horizontally.
There is one useful tutorial about one-way platforms, but that approach doesn't ...
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Libgdx game doesn't work correctly after game over screen
So, I am trying to create a platform game for Android. As part of the game, I have created ladders that the hero is climbing. When he hits the enemy he dies, there is a game over screen --> touch to ...
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Performance problem with BufferedImage and AlphaComposite
I'm currently making a 2D platformer game and now I want to implement Light using AlphaComposite. For creating the lights I first create a blank BufferedImage with ARGB format. After this, I create ...
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How to make a temporary collision?
I have a key and door system working, the character(ball) picks up the key and when it is within the collider it sets the text("press E to open") on the screen to active so that they can open the door....
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Java Libgdx Attaching Sprite to Box2D Body
So I am working on programming a java 2D platformer for fun on the side and I have a rendered TMX level and a box2d body (just a circle shape) that I am currently using as my player. All the controls ...
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C++ Platformer Collision
This is very simple, but I have spent nearly 6 months messing with this and it is always messed up.
This is a tile platformer, everything is "normal", x and y correspond to tile. Tiles are 32 x 32 ...
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c# adding object collision to multiple objects
I'm trying to make a mario, platformer type game, and from following a tutorial, they've done the collision like this, but im wondering if there is a simpler way to it since I want to have collision ...
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How can I adapt A* pathfinding to work with platformers?
I have an A* implementation that works in "top down" situations where gravity is not taken into account for pathfinding. But, I am looking to modify to work in a 2d platformer situation. I am using ...
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Java: problem with 2D corner collision
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It took me many days to create a working collision detection for a 2D java platformer... I am finally calculating the corners of my player but the system is still buggy and I hope that we can ...
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What is the advantage of pixel coordinates for a 2d game?
From the Godot feature list:
Work in pixels as your units, but scale to any screen size and ratio.
And reading the documentation they also use pixel coordinates to update the position of objects ...
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Character stuck on box collider 2.5D
I'm having trouble with my character on a 2.5D platformer. The character get stuck if it collides without reaching the platform's top. Here is a gif showing it: http://i.imgur.com/jmZ6O1K.gifv
Both ...
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Tile collision detection
Right. So I was making this simple game. The player is two tiles wide, and four tiles high. My current code is really buggy (it was better before my rewrite)
Here it is:
float newx = position.x +...
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Grapling hook in 2D platform game (C programing)
I'm new in the programming world and I'm studying programming for video games, and I'm trying to create a game for a class project.
I need my character to throw a grappling hook into a specific "rock"...
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How to decide whether to use a physics engine for a platformer
I'm planning on creating a 2D platformer and doing some research to make sure that when I get started, I avoid making some poor decisions. Something I've seen come up multiple times is that I should ...
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Libgdx Megaman Engine
This is my first time posting here. Through the tutorials and videos I can find regarding developing games using libgdx. I thought I would start with something that was relatively simplistic, a ...
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How would I handle collision to all instances of one object? (C# and monogame)
What I'm saying is, let's say I have a list. That list contains all the tiles in the game. I use this to update them all, draw them all, etc.
for (var i = 0; i < Tiles.Count; i++)
{
Tiles[i]....
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What's the best way to deal with platformer tile collisions?
I am starting with game development and creating a basic platformer game. I already have searched a lot and found some ways to implement the platformer aspect to the game, like apply a gravity, ...
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Sub pixel Sprite jitter on moving platform
I have written a simple 2D platform game in C++. Coordinates are stored as integers, not floats. To facilitate smooth acceleration, the positions and velocities of the game objects are stored in sub ...
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Make game camera stay inside of tiled map boundaries [LibGDX]
I am creating a little 2D platform game, with the LibGDX framework. So far I have created a simple prototype level in Tiled, and loaded this map into my LibGDX game. I can use mouse and keyboard ...
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Can someone help me with this Game Maker code
I want to make a little platformer. I watched Shaun Spalding's tutorial but nothing seems to work. Everything was fine until I put in the collision detection. But the player can't move while he's on ...
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How to test if procedurally generated level for infinite runner can be passed?
I have a 2D infinite runner platformer game built in Unity 5, where the level procedurally generates itself. I need to check if it is possible to pass the holes on the level.
How could I do that?
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How to parse a and displat TMX map object in SDL using tmxparser ?/How to make a platform game using tiled editor and SDL?
I am newbie in this field getting too much trouble in simple platform game for one of my project module if you guys could help or share some code. This is what I have done till now.
I could parse a ...
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What's the best way to make multiple objects of the same thing?
I am coding in C#. Due to limitations of the environment I will be working in, I cannot use any framework like the XNA Framework; only what is provided by default on Windows.
I want to create ...
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XNA Platformer - Where should tile collision handling be?
I've started using XNA and am working on a simple 2D platformer (single level). However, I am stuck as to where the collision detection should be handled. Here is my current project structure:
The ...
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Construct 2's Scroll-to too small?
I'm making a platformer that wants the screen to closely follow the player, and I know I need the Scroll TO behavior.
However, when I tried to make the screen move to the player, I get this:
As ...
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Libgdx box2d - what is the best approach to spawn an actor on a stage dynamically?
I'm currently building a 2d sprite infinite runner game, but everytime I spawn new enemy(actor) and platform, I noticed that there's a delay on it. Any idea of what would cause this behavior? I'm ...
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Spriter model not touching ground in?
I was attempting to make a game in Construct 2 by using my Spriter Models plugin. However, when I imported the model, rescaled it & changed a few things, I got this:
As seen in the picture, the ...
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How do I set the Jump distance and height of my sprite in C#
I have been able to make my sprite jump for a platformer I am making in unity. I can't seem to be able to make him jump a certain height or distance though, every time he jumps it's like he's jumping ...
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How to disable static friction in Box2D?
I'm making a 2D platformer. One of the issues is that when the character hits the ground, there's an initial pause and then the character finally slows down to a halt. I believe the initial pause is ...
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How do I make my foreground tiles stand out more from the background?
(the background implemented in the game)
In the game that I work on, the background and the map tiles are pretty indistinguishable for new players, probably because they have similar colors and theme....
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In Game Maker, how do I make invisible platforms the player can walk on, and reveal with an item?
I'm using Game Maker and looking for help with these:
I'd like to have invisible platforms and walkways for the player to move on. I want the platform to be slightly visible in this option so the ...
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How to create 2D cameras in swing?
What is the best way to create a camera for a 2D platformer using swing, and I want to create a camera that moves instead of moving the background. This is because I'm going to have objects rotated by ...
