Could somebody please make an instruction "game" that explains game physics (jumping,gravity). The basics of a platformer. I REALLY need this for my game and I can't grasp this concept and I can't find anything on the internet. Please? I will follow whomever does this for me. Please add side notes of what everything does. Thanks.

game physics is easy. but collision? that's a doozy.

Collision is easy! It's just spcol and sphitsp and stuff. Could you make an example? PLZ! Like just a screen where the player can walk around and jump. THAT'S ALL I WANT!!!!!! PLZ!

okay, i'll try. (probably going to somehow confuse myself)

k thank you! I'll figure out how to repay you. I can help you with collisions, though! I gotta go. Goodnight.

night

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Thanjk you so much. I'll try it out.

yourje welcome

xD One more thing, I know the SPANIM command and how to use it with top-down movement, but how would I do it with the code provided?

i dunno, i don't do that stuff. but i can send some helpers who may or may not come from another site

Um... Sure?

Do *not* use SPANIM to control your sprite's movement, unless you want it to follow fixed patterns. What you want to use is SPOFS. What you want to do is: Code that checks for input Code that moves player position by advancing/decreasing position variables SPOFS Control number,X,Y

Oh, not that, I just want to know how to make my character look like he's running. (animation)

Input is simple when the player pressed right, add to the players X position. I assume what you want to do, however, is make it so you can jump. That's pretty simple. You want a velocity variable, just call it PV (Player Velocity). When the player presses the jump button, change this variable to a negative value. This is where you move on to the second part of code I mentioned. You'll want...

And how do I make it so when the circle pad is pointing in the left direction, it animates the character running left. (I already have movement figured out) btw my game will mostly be top-down, but I just need controls for a platforming area for a boss battle.

code after the input that handles this velocity. Basically, write code that adds the PV variable to the players Y position, then add some value, say 2, to the PV variable. Eventually the PV variable will go over zero, which will cause you to start falling. When the player touches the ground change the PV variable to 0. Finally, after you have done this, you can use SPOFS to change the...

sprite's position on screen. Obviously this is a somewhat vague example, but hopefully it gets the point across. You may wish to use a similar method for horizontal movement, and of course you'll have to make sure the player can only jump while on the ground! You'll also need to make sure the SPOFS takes the camera position into amount if you're game has scrolling.

I'm actually not familiar with using the circle pad... The best method I can think of is getting the position of the circle pad via STICK OUT CPX,CPY , and then checking to see if: CPX is negative (<0) The absolute value (The value of a number ignoring whether it's negative or positive) of CPX is greater than the absolute value of CPY (IF ABS(CPX) > ABS(CPY) THEN)

I've actually never tried this out, but I think it's correct. If both IFs are true then just use the code you would normally use when pressing left on the D-Pad, although you could also use the absolute value of CPX in your X movement code to allow the player to move at different speeds when the stick is held at different positions. Just note that when doing this things get a bit more complicated.

I made a whole game about boss battles. You can check it out if you like

Just check the circle pad's x value. If sx is smaller than 0.8, it probably is held left. Vice versa for held right.