Hey folks, today we started on a platform engine that can be used as the basis for many games. Mostly today we were trying to get the physics of it fairly right. We had to solve a lot of problems to make it work the way we wanted it! This involved:
- figuring out how to do realistic gravity!
- letting us bump head off platforms
- sorting out the “pillar” problem where we pop to the top of pillars
- jumping
- walking up slopes
- using hitboxes to avoid snagging our whiskers on ledges
Hold onto the project as we will come back to it and add some enemies and maybe build it into a game!
The full instructions for the project are here:
You can download the code here! (Note to download the code, click on “View RAW” and it will get downloaded to your computer).
