I'm just working on the jump aspects now. So will post when I've got it working unless someone else post's it first. Cheers

I'm Starting to create my first Beat'em'up game.So i would like to start a "best practices & How To's" of the various mechanics of these games. I have already got a character moving exactly like the Double Dragon games with the all the directional animations. I will be explaining how i've done it here soon. So if anyone is working on or has done a similar game. You could explain your work of various game mechanics for other people to follow whether it's controls,animation systems,sound,combos,points,score system, how the screen scrolls or even tweaks to a game mechanic.

THE IDEA;

The Idea being people can pick and choose various part of these to implement in their own game and also to learn the best and most efficient ways of doing various parts.

I use AJAX to read a text file with names. It selects a random name from the list and puts each letter into an array. However it add a blank space at index 0 instead of the starting letter in that name?. Any Ideas on how to fix it would be appreciate.

Cheers guys i'll have a look at that plug in, but try the array option :)

Thanks :)

I've used an Ajax object to read my text file, which picks a random string of text. what the best way to ensure that it doen't pick it again?

I was thinking somehow copying the original text file (before the game starts) then as its picked delete it from the copied file?

How would i do this and is there another?

Cheers

Ok cool, thanks all i'll go ahead and upload it when its done, I do plan on (re-skinning it) with my own art, music etc so that I can try make same cash. I'll post a few screen shots and maybe a video of it so far .

Thank again all

I've a game similar to darksouIs & Zelda, it uses Zelda sprites. I want to upload the game on to facebook, for people to play(for free), however is thins allowed. I'm not sure as its free to play but uses Nintendo's sprites?

jeffige yeah I tried that but didn't work, cheers for the reply thought friend. OddConfection cheers that worked, thanks dude. No I can move on with my project . I'm still confused as my other method should've worked, maybe it's a current bug, as I've used it in the passed and sure it was fine.

I want to created a health bar for each enemy, but when I go into the debug menu I see the bars keep being created over and over so hundreds are on screen. They should be created once per instance as described. anyone know what's happening.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mlrs497i80sf7u1/image.dib?dl=0https://www.dropbox.com/s/yds4wexfxhzce4w/image2.png?dl=0

there is no difference option there. ill explain better.

the user collects xp and is stored in xp "xpplayer" variable

is then added to "xptotal" total variable

if the user "xpplayer" variable exceeds the "xptotal" variable then

the player levels up and the "xptotal" variable is reset to 0 and whatever is left from

the xpplayer" variable get added to "xptotal" so they can get xp to level up again

hope this helps

hi im having trouble finding the logic for finding the difference between to value, anyone able to help??

Thanks

Have the sprite create another sprite every (lets say 0.2 seconds) as it travels to it destination.