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What's the idea on the base of rendering camera on 2D platformers games? [closed]

I'm programming a 2D platformer game, and I am wondering about how the right to left scrolling of the camera is done in a game like this. There is a background that need to be updated. There are also ...
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How was traditional 2D collision detection/resolution being done? [closed]

Just out of pure curiosity, I'm wondering how classic 2D games of the 80s/90s (The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario, Warcraft, ...) approached collision detection/resolution. For some reason I can't ...
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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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How to do 2D Raycasting on a slope

I have a 2d platformer game where my slope can be set at any angle, so I've setup a middle raycast that points to the ground onto the player to handle the collision. This works perfectly fine on a ...
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Putting a 2d camera into a gamestatemanagement sample [closed]

Hello everyone i am new to xna and i am trying to implement a simple 2d camera that follows my sprite around the level i am using a gamestatemanagement so i have the basic platformer with screen ...
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Creating an update “Tick” on tiles for simulating growth of plants

In my 2D tile based platformer I have added plants to be able to farm such as the simplest, grass, to other things like corn. Now each of these speacial tiles must be updated to show how much it has ...
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UML Class Diagrams for 2D platformer Games? [closed]

I have to develop a small arcade game in C++ for a college assignment using a 2D Game Engine my teacher coded. What would be the best way to make a UML class diagram for it? It's very basic stuff but ...
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Making The Player Stop Bouncing And Stop Sinking In The Ground In A Platformer XNA

Heres a problem i've been having. I have a platformer, and whenever my player hits the ground he keeps bounding. Here's the falling code iceBoy.moveY++; iceBoy.position.Y += moveY; Now heres the ...
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Why is my collision resolution failing on the corners?

I'm tearing my hair out trying to work out how to handle my collision resolution at the corners of the rectangles that I'm colliding with. The code that I'm working with is: class Player(object): ...
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Managing shots of the player [closed]

I'm currently developing a 2D Jump'n'Run and the situation is the following: The player has different weapons he can collect and is then able to shoot the weapon's projectiles (laser, rockets, ...
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Storing large array of tiles, but allowing easy access to data

I've been thinking about this for a while. I have a 2D tile bases platformer in XNA with a large array of tile data, I've been running into memory problems with large maps. (I will add chunks soon!) ...
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Trouble with AABB collision response and physics

I have been racking my brain trying to figure out a problem I am having with physics and basic AABB collision response. I am fairly close as the physics are mostly right. Gravity feels good and ...
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Detecting a ledge in Box2D [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Detect Open Space in Farseer How do I detect ledges? I'm making a 2D platformer with Box2D. The player needs to be able to grab onto a ledge and pull him/herself up. ...
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One-way platform collision

I hate asking questions that are specific to my own code like this, but I've run into a pesky roadblock and could use some help getting around it. I'm coding floating platforms into my game that will ...
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Platformer Enemy AI

I'm currently developing a platformer shooter. The game is multiplayer and while my net code could use some real work I have put that off for the time, so currently I'm trying to implement the AI. ...
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Tile based platformer, using larger tiles?

So for my tile based platformer, It has a grid of tiles Occupying 1x1 block for each one. However, What if I want larger tiles? Maybe doors, tables, etc. They wouldnt fit in a 1x1 tile, so what I ...
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The Physics behind 2D Platformer Games?

Is there any good book or tutorial that explains the physics behind creating a 2D Platformer game? Such as tile rendering, tile map reading, collision detection, camera movement etc.?
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Big level objects collision system for 2d game

I read many variants today and get some knowledge in general, so here is a steps of mine thoughts in pictures (horrible paint.net ones). We need to develop grid system, so we check only thing near, ...
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How to cull liquids

I use culling on my Tiles in my 2D Platformer (XNA), so only ones needed are drawn on screen. Thats easy to do. However, My Liquid tiles (Water, lava, etc) require an Update Method aswell as the ...
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Handling hitboxes

So I have an issue that I'm laughing at myself about, because it really seems like it should be something that I should be able to figure out pretty quickly. I am designing a 2D action platformer; I ...
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Slopes in 2D Platformer

I'm dealing with Slopes in a 2D platformer game I'm developing in XNA Game Studio. I was really tired of trying without success, until I found this post: 45° Slopes in a Tile based 2D platformer, ...
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Collision with tile corners/seams in 2D platformer

There seems to be a lot of somewhat related questions answered already, but none I read answered my exact problem. I have a 2D platformer whose world is made entirely out of tiles that are in a ...
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How to do reflective collisions with particles hitting background tiles?

In my 2d pixel old-school platformer, I'm looking for methods for bouncing particles off of background tiles. Particles aren't affected by gravity and collisions are "reflective". By that I mean a ...
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2D side scroller - How to implement X/Y movement?

I'm currently writing a small 2D, side-scroller-ish kind of game. I have a simple camera that follows the player around and the physics are ready. I'm using 32x32 tiles that build out the world, ...
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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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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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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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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 ...