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).