What exactly is a charge jump?

Never mind now that I read Chris post below I know what a charge jump is referring to and looks like he covered it.

Do you have your sprite set to loop?

Open the sprite in the editor and click on properties.

Yes you can set most joysticks to work the same as pressing a key on the keyboard but codes for each joystick are different so if you design for a certain joystick and your users are not using that joystick you may have problems.

Yes- the hard way is not so hard. You can use a variable or create door/switch for each path linked to the path they will go to next.

I prefer collision switches for games with moving characters.

Pretty sure physics would be a bit overwhelmed at that scale, but bullets might work.

Well I wasn't thinking of anything that complicated so I think physics would work. Just components that move the ball in different ways like I use in my pinball games. The user would have to set the components so the ball goes through a continuous cycle.

I think it can be done but it would be some work. I may give it a try if no one else does.

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Yup I figured that is where it came from. Lots of creativity in that design.

Thanks.

Thanks LaMar, that's much better!

You are very welcome!

I don't know who created that but it is genius and took a lot of work and gave me an idea for a sandbox game where the player must design a perpetual motion machine using various parts provided to get a ball with physics and gravity to complete a circuit ending back where it started in a continual loop.

It would be a neat game and good way to introduce kids and adults to physics.

I have too many projects in the works now so I thought I would throw this up there to inspire some other creative people.

Not sure about the tycoon games idea. I have never been interested in setting up that sort of game because I have run real businesses my entire life though I do know some people like those games.

I do like Burvey's idea for a roller coaster and theme park design game using ready made components.

I would love to see a game where you can build your own coasters, or even a game where you can "ride" pre-made coasters. I don't know what roller coaster tycoon is though (I've heard of it but never played it). Is that more like a simulated theme park where you make decisions to make money etc?

Interesting idea building roller coasters!

I have done train sandbox games but a roller coaster would be cool and more interesting for younger players that probably have never seen a train or played with train sets.

I may have to try something like that.

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lamar

can you include a 'full-screen' button in the game?

i tried using the full screen button on the arcade but it does not seem to work with my iphone. at least not the way i expected it to.

I am not sure how to do that bit I will look in to it Harrio. I have it set for laptop and I will have a button to scale outer or inner so it will work on any system in an update.

There are so many devices if you scale for one it will look weird in another.

Yura is right and I just use scale inner or scale outer for the window setting and let the device select the scale unless I am designing for a specific device or have pixelated graphics I want to maintain scale for.