AGS platform game engine

[Gregjazz]

Hi, I just thought I'd anounce that I'm pinching a large portion of this platform engine for a new vegetable-patch-extreem game I'm making for my BF's birthday.

In my readme I've got: "Vegetable Patch Extreem Physics Engine courtesy of Geoffkhan."

I hope this is ok!

Heheh, cool. Hope you were able to find some relatively readable code in that... I'm sure I could do a much better job now.

[Akumayo]

I have one word to say, followed by alot of praise.

WOW

Geoffkhan, this will absolutely REVOLUTIONIZE AGS if it gets into the right hands, (my hands probably aren't those right one, but whatever).  I simply LOVE this engine, its user friendly!  Especially with the level creation, I can already see basic arcade storyboarding in my head!  You've opened like, every door in my imaginations LOCKED DOWN game closet!!  Thank you SOOO much!!!!

[monkey0506]

Heheh, cool. Hope you were able to find some relatively readable code in that... I'm sure I could do a much better job now.

Your scripting skills have indeed come a long way since last year.  From what I've personally seen.

BTW, I can't look at this now, but I will take a look at it as soon as I get a chance (when I'm on my main computer).

[Helm]

but I know it's someone from GAC. 2ma2, I think.

2ma2 isn't even a honorary member. We hate him. He's a betrayer and deserter of ags.

[Ashen]

this will absolutely REVOLUTIONIZE AGS if it gets into the right hands

Given that this thread is more than a year old, I'd say it's a very slow revolution.

[Bugalicious]

but I know it's someone from GAC. 2ma2, I think.

2ma2 isn't even a honorary member. We hate him. He's a betrayer and deserter of ags.

wow. so much hatred. wheres the love man?

[Pumaman]

Oh, you should have seen Helm and 2ma2 slug it out at Mittens. It was a veritable blood bath.

[Helm]

It all came down to homoerotic arm-wrestling

[Akumayo]

I don't care how old this topic is!  I think this is the 2nd most amazing AGS related thing I've ever seen!  (AGS being the 1st of course).  I've already started developing with it.  You can do anything with this system!  Pitfall, Donkey Kong, Mario, Super Mario, Super Mario World 2, Super Mario World 3, Yoshi's Island, all our favorite SNES games can come back to life!

[Helm]

Akumayo... you do know there's engines geared towards this specific thing like Game Maker, right?

[Akumayo]

How dare you point that out to me!  I love AGS, I wouldn't switch unless money was involved!  Besides, so far AGS is the most user friendly and flexible system I've tried out, this platform thing just opens up a new genre in things AGS is capable of.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

You mean like Bear Story? Arr. AGS is über flexible. Though this particular oddity is rather old (was old before Geof, thanks to the Platformerius engine).

[Akumayo]

The concept of a platform engine may be old, but Geof's is ~unique~ because with platformius, making a new level was not only difficult, but frustrating, and the screen didn't scroll.  Geof's is wonderful, you can make a new level in about 2 minutes, complete with spike pits, floating platforms, and collectable tokens, AND the screen scrolls.  That's why I like this system so much better.

[Helm]

I'm not sure, but I don't think CJ's going to cry if you make your platform games in Game Maker.

[Akumayo]

Probably not....but I don't have time to learn a new system either, it took me all summer to learn this one in... whatever year that was....

[Gregjazz]

I have one word to say, followed by alot of praise.

WOW

Geoffkhan, this will absolutely REVOLUTIONIZE AGS if it gets into the right hands, (my hands probably aren't those right one, but whatever).  I simply LOVE this engine, its user friendly!  Especially with the level creation, I can already see basic arcade storyboarding in my head!  You've opened like, every door in my imaginations LOCKED DOWN game closet!!  Thank you SOOO much!!!!

Heh, thanks so much!

You might want to just rip code here and there to use for your own platform game. Like I said, I'm not 100% happy with the platform game engine. The double tap running and attack buttons, for example, were pretty hacked together. Sometime I'll have to make a much cleaner engine...

[Akumayo]

Actually, I like this version very much, I'm using the template you already had to formulate The Spire BUM BUM BUM!  I've actually used some of the glitches (running off edge of screen causes death unless there are walls all around, if a moving platform is goin up, then character slides off of it, if platform and barrier collide, character slides off, etc) to make the game more interesting!  EXAMPLE:  Four randomely moving platforms float about, but the character has to use them to reach the top of the screen!  He/She must constantly jump on the center of the platform, lest its magneto energy give out, plummeting the character into the deep!

[Captain Mostly]

I've nearly finished this game now... But my mind is full of ideas for full fusion AGS platform adventure games that this engine would be perfect for implementing.... Although it'll be AGES before *I* do it... 

[2ma2]

The biggest reason P:tNI is useless for scrolling is that the code was specialized to cure som really nasty bugs, also known as "features" at the screen edges. I suspect this code lingers on. I gotta check Geoffkhans code out!

Also, the only reason I'll attend Mittens is to burn down Greece and gay Helm to death!

[Captain Mostly]

yikes!