What are your thoughts?

TILI

A platformer shooter thing. Woo!

It's got a menu! It's got settings! It's got super hard to find easter eggs! It's got boxes!

It's got bows! It's got arrows too.. Otherwise there wouldn't be much point I guess. Plus you can jump on them so yay!

Other names I considered:

• Use your bow to get places. Yay, fiziks!
• The Jiraffe Jockey
• Billy
• And Yet It's Another Platformer

Character update! Also levels 4 and 5 are done!

Goals

• At least 15 levels (7 / 15)
• Bonus sections in levels
• Water ?
• More easter eggs
• Super, super hard ridiculous levels ?
• Another environment type (snow? sand? who knows.)
• A jockeyable giraffe???
• Maybe a boss fight?

Please leave feedback! Any criticism (e.g. "The effects are way over the top dude") is welcome!

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Solved.

Found out there's a bug involved; audio playing from a previous layout will keep playing even when you try to stop it. Turns out I have to stop the music before switching layouts.

Looking at your code, pressing P should stop both samples from playing.

Do you have any music playing before this layout starts? If so that will continue looping and won't stop unless it has the same tags referenced in the code.

Unfortunately not. I wish it was something that simple, but those are the only events that play music. There are sounds elsewhere, but not anything playing with those tags.

Neither events stop the music, but the music still starts playing, so the events are functional, the stop mechanic is not.

I've tried pausing the audio as well, which doesn't work, and setting the volume, which doesn't work.

Anyone got advice?

Pulstar

That sounds like a really good idea about interdependence and prototypes. I usually start by messing around with a prototype and then plan the game, but I know from a couple of projects I've worked on that making a prototype for a specific mechanic can be really useful.

The interdependence idea is fantastic though. I mean, if everything is built from the ground up and the whole 'engine' of the game (functions for everything muahahaha) is done, anything else on top of that is super easy to make, and if they're separate parts of the code, the features can even be cut out altogether or placed into other projects.

I didn't do this in the past, but now I make every action in the game other than animation rules and every tick rules a function. Not only is this good for debugging, because you can just go to the exact part of the code responsible for the problem, but when you put in a console, you can literally do anything to the game. When you look at the source code of most major programs/games they have functions for almost every thing you can change in the game, from the position of the player to how much health a boss has.

A lot of the time though, I just get carried away with the art and forget about making a game haha!

Sumyjkl

Oh no! Thanks for letting me know.

It's a bit hard to tell from the image you posted exactly what happened; Is the screen grab you posted the whole screen and the HUD elements have shifted? Did the game lock up? Are the sprites not clearing? What inputs were you making at the time of the issue? Any extra info you can provide would really help me to fix the issue.

Haha, no I just clicked once every frame and it fired super fast :p The offset's just from cropping

Although the recoil from firing that fast actually did put me under the floor... xD

I broke it...

I'm sorry :d

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hey everyone, first time posting here. Working on a small metroidvania game inspired by matrix and alien's design and H. Giger in general.

These are not in-engine screenshots yet, mockups sketches only.

Since I'm worried if people would like this type of theme(visuals), I'd like to know what do you think about it before going public.

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That looks epic. Love the style.

I wonder how you guys plan (if at all) your games. Do you lay out the whole game and all its features, environments, art style etc.? Do you get all the art first or use placeholders? How do you go about making your games?

Personally, I don't tend to plan much, but when I want to make sure I get it right and don't lose sight of the goal, I write out a long list of every detail, from main gameplay features to individual variables, and work out all of the systems I have to make individually, then do the art based on a list of assets needed, and then finally make the functions for the main gameplay section of the code, working with a testing level to show that it works. Then scripting/level editing last. How about you?

A way to make it analogue easily is to set a center imagepoint and when touching the sprite, use X Y coords relative to the sprite's center to determine control power.

Example:

if touch touching analogue

xAxis = touch.X - analogue.X / (analogue.Height / 2)

yAxis = ..........

You can get more complex with deadzones and such as well.

touch.X - analogue.X gives the relative position of touch to analogue. Dividing by 2 gives half the height of the analogue sprite (which you would change to a more reliable value)

The Taker

Keep in mind that overlapping at offset doesn't take into account over-shooting (i.e. if your player object has a collision poly less than 100 pixels wide, it's possible that it will think it's not overlapping when you're really close.

You may be better off testing for x coordinates if that is the case ( player.x > object.x - 100 OR player.x < object.x + 100 ).

Otherwise, you would have to use an OR block (which means you might need to nest it if there are other conditions in the block)

If overlap is what you're looking for, this is what you would use:

if overlapping at offset x - 100 OR overlapping at offset x + 100