Comments on: Separating a Level’s Layout from its Appearance

By: Rasmus Wriedt Larsen (Snurre)

Rasmus Wriedt Larsen (Snurre) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:58:32 +0000

Yay, another great tutorial Michael! I really like where this is going

and thanks for the link Daniel. This looks very nice.

By: Michael Williams

Michael Williams — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:57:02 +0000

Thanks Daniel! I’m glad you found something for your modelling, that sounds like it’ll be a cool game. I’ll try to pop on FGL later tonight

By: DanielSidhion

DanielSidhion — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:45:30 +0000

Great MJW! I loved this tutorial. You are getting close to what I saw on scripts of game emulators. They worked with many weapons, armors, spells, and just putting things as BaseWeapon, BaseArmor, BaseSpell made everything easier. I’m waiting for the next tutorial to start thinking on the structure of the engine of my next game. About the shape modelling I was searching: I found a good site (http://www.flashandmath.com/basic/drawpathCS4/index.html) with some cool scripts. I will use them on my starting code.

I wanna talk to you about some colision detection methods I found on the web, and about some other interesting things. When and where can we meet? Maybe at night on FGL? Thank you.

By: Michael Williams

Michael Williams — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:31:53 +0000

Actually, I think you could use this in an avoider game. Check out the conversation between Fred and I in the comments of Turn Your Avoider Game into a Shoot-’Em-Up. He wanted to be able to define what time various enemies appeared; you could do this by creating a tall thin movie clip and dragging enemies onto it — your code would then interpret distance along the y-axis as time before the enemy appears.

Platformer games… I would love to write such a tutorial but don’t have the time. I wrote more about that in the comments of the About page actually. Mr Sun and Emanuele both have platformer tutorials, though

By: Mushyrulez

Mushyrulez — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:24:06 +0000

O_o This may be hard to use in an avoiding game, but for other games, this could be useful.

Gonna write a platformer tutorial soon?