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Gravity independent of game updates per second
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Just for clarification, my sprite's 'movement' isn't the problem. If I set my Time variable to 4 seconds, then it will cross the screen in exactly 4 seconds regardless of logic updates rate per ...
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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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Non-physics character movement in a Box2d Environment
I am in the process of creating a physics platformer. However, I want the player movement to feel very old-school(as in: non-physics like), which means that the character:
Should always move equally ...
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An “AABB Physics Engine” [closed]
I've been working on the physics for my 2D game and for the past two weeks it's been doing my head in. I wanted something a little more complicated than what you see in 2D platformers, but I wanted to ...
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How could you create climbing movement in a 2D platformer?
Basically what I want to do is have a playable character that is able to "walk" on an organic surface at any angle, including sideways and upside-down. By "organic" I mean I want my levels to have ...
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Impulsioned jumping
There's one thing that has been puzzling me, and that is how to implement a 'faux-impulsed' jump in a platformer. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then think of the jumps of Mario, Kirby, and ...
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Game Physics: Implementing Normal Reaction from ground correctly
I am implementing a simple side scrolling platform game. I am using the following strategy while coding the physics:
Gravity constantly acts on the character.
When the character is touching the ...
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What's the best way to handle slopes for a platfomer game using Box2D
I would like to know if there is any known solution for handling the player's movement on slopes using Box2D engine.
I tried to do it using a circle as the player. Everything was fine until I tried ...
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Detecting a ledge in Box2D [duplicate]
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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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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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Recreating retro/NES style physics with intentional imprecision
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I'm having a problem getting the jump curve correct for a retro platformer remake project of mine. The original game is for the NES, and the player's velocity is stored in two separate ...
