GMYumil's avatar
It's fine. :) Maybe instead of just suddenly going from slow to fast he slowly starts moving faster?
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he kinda does that already (speeding up and slowing down while walking and running, not only the switch between walk and run). But I want to show the animation switch so that the player knows when john can jump higher (he jumps higher in the running phase than in the normal). Hmm but I just got an idea... Not sure how to explain but pretty much what you just said just with switching out the animation + the maxJump height when he reaches a certain speed, and switching it to normal maxJump height when you are under a certain speed again.. have to try that. *playing with switching characters right now : D *
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In my opinion, you should do a textbox conversation thing next.
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XD after the movement. I need the real base for the movement stuff first. I just redid controls completely again to prepare being able to switch characters and for them to have different abilities without having to type everything multiple times XD *found out how to work with families in construct 2 and love them*
But yeah textboxes are also far up on my priority list.
Not sure if I can load text from a txtfile or something easily via this software... so I might try to put the text into a giant array or something. (also need to find out how you can work with arrays in this. I'm pretty sure they exist.XD ) ah so much stuff to do but this is a lot of fun~
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Reminds me, I should get started on my shitty game soon. OTL

As for textboxes, I find it's quite easy, though I'm using different software to you. Rounded rectangle with a grey background tends to work decently -kind of like in the recent homestuck flashes - the adventure ones i mean. Just like said flashes, have the character pic/talksprite on one of the sides. What I did for the conversation stuff on mine is that each time you pressed space (or whatever button), it would replace the textbox with the next textbox, and on the last box of the conversation it would return you to the game proper. However, I'm using them between levels, so I'm not sure how that would go mid-level.

And yeah, preparing multiple different characters is going to be difficult.
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what kind of game : D ? and in which coding language?

Oh well I did do textboxes already a while ago in flash CS2 where I had used an array and something that checked to automatically show the correct nexttext. I don't want to replace the textbox, I just want to change the text. So I don't have to copy a textbox and put in text manually for every dialogue (at least the 'replacing textbox with the next textbox' sounds like that, not sure if I misunderstood.
I want to make them somewhat like here in this gif: [link]

I just started with construct 2 though so I don't know a lot about it yet. But it's insane how fast you can do amazing things with it;A; There is a free version which can do a lot of stuff already. But since I wanted more layers and usage of families I bought the personal edition 2 days ago XDD.

The problem I have in mid-level which goes in hand with the controls is ... pausing the controls while the box is up?XD + what's if I open the menu or if I actually pause the game? I wonder if there is a trick to it or else I'll have a lot of if conditions built into other ifs...XD
Ok that's for another time..XDD
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Um.... I'm making a top-down action platformer game. Have you played Binding of Isaac? It's like that - in fact, it's very similar to that, even though I made the original plan for it before said game was out.

As for software, I'm using Game Maker. It's rather simple, but you can use it for a lot of things (for example, I made a version of Space Invaders earlier, with boss enemies, powerups and upgrades, along with a freeplay mode).
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Oh ok. No I didn't know it but i looked at a trailer and the beginning of a playthrough now. It looks like fun! What will yours be about? Is it original or a fangame of something? Do you have one main character or are there more.

I know game maker. I got it someday but didn't get into it that much before i got lazy with it again..XD Game Maker is cool too though : D
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