How to do Meat Boy physics?

I'm trying to make a game with similar physics to Super Meat Boy, maybe not as slippery. Wall slides, high acceleration, long air time.

Wall jumps and variable height jumping I can figure out..

But I can't figure a good velocity, gravity, etc.

What values do you put in, or do you force velocities for movement in events?

Is this too off for a small sprite in 1080p?

Tuning physics values has no definitive answer, there is only one way -afaik- around it: Trial and Error.

My suggestion is that you add a punch of Sliders/TextInputs in the game, and each one would change a parameter (Max speed, Gravity, ...etc).

Then you play around with them until you get a sense of how each one affects the player.

It would help if you have some references from SMB, for example:

- Simple jump: when you press jump, how high does the MeatBoy jump? Then try to replicate that in your game.

- Jump forward.

- Wall jump.

- ...etc

Try to mimic SMB behaviors one-by-one, and hopefully it will all work out in the end!

Good luck!