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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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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Platformer Starter Kit - Collision Issues
I'm having trouble with my game that is based off the XNA Platformer starter kit.
My game uses smaller tiles (16x16) then the original (32x40) which I'm thinking may be having an effect on collision ...
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Should my game handle collisions in the Player object?
I'm making a 2D platform game. Right now I'm just working on making a very generic Player class. I'm wondering if it would be more efficient/better practice to have an ActionListener within the Player ...
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One-way platforms in UDK
I'm looking to make a multi-player platforming game using UDK.
I'm currently doing feasibility research, to make sure I will reasonably be able to do all of the technical things I want to do. The ...
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Cannot figure how to plan a Matryoshka themed game
Me and my partner are planning to write a Matryoshka themed game
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll).
It will be a side-scroller/platformer and the main idea is that the character will be ...
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How to load chunks of 2d map segments when player reaches a certain point?
In my 2d platformer (made with Java and Slick2d), random maps are made by combining different segments together and displaying them one after the other. My problem is that I can't load too many ...
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Platforms collide-able on one side only
I have frequently tried to make some sort of a platformer, but when I actually code it, I run into a bit of a snag. How would I be able to make platforms in the air stop objects if they hit the sides ...
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How do I prevent my platformer's character from clipping on wall tiles?
Currently, I have a platformer with tiles for terrain (graphics borrowed from Cave Story). The game is written from scratch using XNA, so I'm not using an existing engine or physics engine.
The tile ...
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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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World Location issues with camera and particle
I have a bit of a strange question, I am adapting the existing code base including the tile engine as per the book: XNA 4.0 Game Development by example by Kurt Jaegers, particularly the aspect that I ...
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How do I implement smooth movement in a Box2D platform game?
I have implemented a character in JBox2D which moves with the help of a wheel rotating at the bottom of it. The movement is the best result I've had 'till now but it's a little glitchy when the ...
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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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Microsoft XNA Platformer Example, is the Collsion Detection implemented accurately?
The example provided by Microsoft seems as if the collision detection (from what I can see) will have a small error. When the user collides with an Unpassable tile, the depth of the intersection is ...
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45° Slopes in a Tile based 2D platformer
I want to have simple 45° slopes in my tile based platformer, however I just cant seem to get the algorithm down. Please take a look at the code and video, maybe I'm missing the obvious?
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AS3 Internal preloader (one swf) for flash game with Embeded() images?
So I am using the Flash IDE.
And I am trying to make a preloader on Frame 1 so that it displays and loads progress before anything else is exported/loaded. So all my assets from the Library are on ...
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Why is my character not moving when applying an acceleration to it?
I'm having issues with my character in terms of gravity and the character bouncing up and down. You can find more information about it in the link below.
Character bouncing off ground due to gravity
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Platformer collision detection problems
I'm having a few problems with collision detection in my game (written in C# with SDL.Net). Detecting the floor and roof is fine, as does detecting sides of tiles when not jumping/falling. My problem ...
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3d platformer with 2d point of view
I made my first 2d platformer game using java + swing.
Now I want to achieve the same gameplay adding 1 dimension. I think this will require opengl knowledge.
I know the basics but i don't ...
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Hero/Character sprite size in comparison to tile size?
So I'm making this simple platformer where the Hero is 16x16 in size, but also, the tile size is 16x16. Which sounds fine right? But my game window/world is 800x416, which makes the Hero is really ...
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Actionscript 3.0 - Enemies do not move right in my platformer game
I am making a side-scrolling platformer game in Flash (Actionscript 3.0). I have made lots of progress lately, but I have come across a new problem.
I will give some background first. My game level's ...
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How to make a platformer character go DOWN a 315 degree slope?
Alright, so I got this code I'm trying to write, but the player won't go down the slope, it goes down and up perfectly on the 45 degree slope, but the 315 degree one is a mess. it goes "up" the ...
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Should I go with SpriteBatch or just 3D with Z component always zero?
I'm designing a platformer and beginning to code the viewing engine of the game. Now, I have to make a key decision: Should I just use SpriteBatch to draw all the 2D stuff, as there is no 3D, or ...
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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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Detecting right/left collisions with a bounding box
I'm building a platformer in cocos2d, my first game project. I'm working on movement and collision detection. I'm using a tilemap with a "meta" layer of invisible blocks that are designated ...
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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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What is involved in creating a real-time multiplayer platformer game?
I'm creating a platformer game that has a "co-operative" feature which I'd like to work over networks / the internet.
Now I've read up on network game programming including articles like What every ...
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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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Recreating retro/NES style physics with intentional imprecision
Background:
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 ...
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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 ...
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The Decline of 3D Platformers
What contributed to the decline of sales of 3D platformers over the past decade? (Other than Microsoft's acquisition of Rareware.) Would it be a mistake for a developer other than Nintendo (or indie ...
