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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How do I handle moving platforms in a platform game?
I don't want to use box2d or anything, I just want simple moving platforms (up-down, left-right, diagonal and circular paths). My question is to handle the update order / control hierarchy so that the ...
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Mega Man-style screen scrolling design
The NES classic Mega Man series uses a very specific scrolling technique that I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around implementing. Essentially, the level is divided into "screens" which are ...
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Wall Jump for 2D Platformer
I've been looking for a way to implement wall-jump in my xna game, but I can't find any information about it, can someone could someone please help me out ?
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2D Procedural Terrain Generation - Guaranteeing connectedness?
I'm working on a 2D platformer in XNA. One of things I'd like to be a main design characteristic is procedural content generation. The first step of that is to procedurally generate the terrain. So, ...
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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 ...
