lionz's Forum Posts

  • Oh if the basket moves about then you can pin the solid objects to the basket, all good.

  • Well they don't need to relate to the basket sprite if they are just used as collision detectors for the ball. If the basket doesn't move then you just position then on either side of the basket where the green area is and set them to solid. Pin is not really required unless the basket moves so the collision objects move with it.

  • hello!

    Yes I can see why you made this post, that approach would become a little tedious with many questions. This is probably best done with an array. For example, you would have the question at x,0. The answers would be x,1 to x,5.

    So you would have a variable for tracking, it's set to 1. You display the question in the layout that is variable,0 so 1,0 in this case. And the answers always apply to x,1 x,2 x,3 etc so in this case its 1,1 1,2 1,3. When you click on the third answer it always add 1 to x,3 so in this case 1,3 in the array. So your line of the array looks something like this : question | answer 1 total | answer 2 total | answer 3 total etc

    Now when you want to come to the next question all you need to do is change that variable from 1 to 2. This then picks everything that is in the array at 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 etc so the question text and the answers all get added to the second line for that question.

    You can then save the array as a json format string, so you are saving only one thing into local storage. You load this string next time you load the game. That should solve everything, that would be my approach to this.

  • Well you're in luck as there is a new feature called Z elevation which might be useful in providing an illusion of jumping, it allows an object to change its Z so it looks like you're jumping towards the camera, or platforms are lower in the space :

    Z elevation

    The instance's elevation on the Z axis. By default the camera is at Z = 100, and looking down to Z = 0. The default Z elevation is 0. Increasing it will move it upwards (towards the camera) and decreasing it will move it downwards (away from the camera).

    youtube.com/watch

    If you don't want to use this, you would just mimic it with an animation and scaling the character.

    In terms of dodging projectiles you would have a state where player is jumping on a jump key pressed, not like in platform behaviour, for this you would have to create your own variable isJumping and toggle it on and off. Then you would say when player isJumping, disable collision on the player. This would mean that enemy projectiles no longer touch the player. You could also do it the opposite way, projectiles do damage or explode if projectiles overlapping player and player is not jumping.

    As you are unsure of the design yourself I guess that makes sense why the original post is confusing. To have a 2D side scrolling beat em up combined with a top down 2D RPG doesn't make too much sense. But the information above should help you to mimic jumping from a top down view.

  • Thanks for explaining the game a bit more, so you just need to create a solid object to go where the green is displayed. It doesn't do anything it's just a solid sprite that you position there. For the score you can create an invisible object that stretches across between the two solid sprites and say ball on collision with object, add 1 to score variable. This will mean when the ball collides with it and drops into the basket you gain +1 score.

  • If it's a basketball net it shouldn't move right? :P You can use the pin behaviour to pin it to the basketball net sprite. If you are using the object purely to detect a ball hitting it then I don't think it will matter too much.

  • You can create a separate object to cover the green area and make it solid, will that work?

  • If an object is made up of several objects you are meant to use 'containers'. You put the 2 objects into a container and when you create the base, the unit is also created with it and they can be picked together. It is the same as if you were to create a tank made up of a base and turret and want them to move together. If it isn't like this then please share more information about the game.

    construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/project-primitives/objects/containers

  • It's difficult to tell what purpose a jump mechanic would have in your game. In the kind of game you're describing it would be a jump animation for the character with the shadow included in the animation but in those kind of games, you don't jump. You could do something like move with 8-direction or the tile movement behaviour in a direction and play the animation.

  • Every time you die, add 1 to a global variable.

  • Have the button triggers in an OR block, then create a sub-event (S) for the boolean=false.

  • It works fine with your own custom button i.e. a sprite. The button object is a rebel and does its own thing.

  • You can't highlight the words inside the one text object and the click is based on the collision box of the text object. You could probably create an object on top of the word so it looks like you are clicking it but that would only be if its position is known as I don't think you could detect the location of the word in the text object and set the other object position to it.

  • Maybe it's because I've been playing too many hypercasual games but I didn't find it fun. Everything about it was very slow, even level transitions and death animations. I got the impression whoever made them really liked them and wanted to make sure we looked at them a lot. I understand that if it was faster then switching directions would be even more frustrating to get right so I guess it's just a game for someone with a lot of patience.

    It felt a bit nicer when I gained the power up to draw 3 lanes at once. But even if you have patience I don't think there is any incentive to go back and roll over 100% of the land, I just wanted it to be over. There are some nice ideas, I think maybe they would work well in a cleverly designed multiplayer game where you take over the land of an opponent or something. Well you completed a game so well done :)

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  • Yeah sure, I made an example capx for you here.

    dropbox.com/s/pwdor687mfn6oyo/grow.capx