Hahaha ratehr than a make game sim...its becomes a make program that makes games sim

Heres a slightly easier example:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/939828/dolphin.cap

Basically I attached 'custom movement' which allows me to move the dolphin with more realistic physics.

Lerp lets you take a number, and another number, and find an inbetween number.

eg

lerp(0, 10, 0.5) is 5

lerp(10,20, 0.5) is 15

2 * timedelta is about 0.03 so basically in deadeyes code it means that you take a lot of the current position, and a little bit of the mouse position...and place it between.

sorry, thats fixed now...kinda hoped no one would notice it heh

LOL! Wasn't quite what i had in mind but really funny none the less!

:O

Man this runs brilliantly on my computer... what an awesome effect! I like to hold down both the left and right mouse button and send like puffs off smoke into other things haha

I wonder if it can be hardware accelerated...like the operation be performed by the GPU instead of the CPU with cuda or something

Hey now theres an interesting idea for a tool....

Something you plug in all the values of the platform behavior and it makes a sprite that looks kinda like a rainbow to demonstrate how the player can jump...how high...how far...from a running jump...from a stationary jump....

Hey guys...was wondering what sort of thought process do you guys go through while developing a level?

To be honest the way I usually design levels is...well I dont...I just kinda make the level up as I go along, but in some lecturers in my course they were talking about level design as something that starts with a broad understanding of what the level is gonna be shaped like, and then detailing areas till you get a feel of how the level would play...and then putting in all the art assets the modellers have made for the level.

Anyway I was thinking if the same think was applied with a simple 2d platformmer game a good system of thought is to start off with a basic idea of the flow of the level:

<img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/939828/level1.png">

And then model out all the solid areas that your player runs around on and jumps between

<img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/939828/level2.png">

And then go over the level, add in detail which doesn't affect gameplay and basically make it pretty. And also add in any additional changes in geometry.

<img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/939828/level3.png">

How do you guys go about making a level ?

I dont think its so bad to be told you're pretty by people on the other side of the world ... or handsome ... on a side note everyone feel free to compliment my appearance

its an awkward area being when you think 3d you think of 3d collision detection, dynamic lighting, shadows, pixel shaders, LOD management, terrains, etc etc. But for a lot of purposes, people only want 3d to do something like a 3d lamp post in the background, or a 3d spinning coin...the game itself is still 2d but the background is 3d...I've written an obj loader before so I might make a version of 3dbox one day that can load and render an obj...then its capable of rotating and everything..but it wouldn't be as brilliant as the engine in a program like Unity because that was build from the ground up to support 3d.