A Platformer Template with Level Editor (in-progress)

[RootBound]

So I've noticed that people often ask if it's possible to make platformers with AGS, and they get the same answer: Yes it is, here's an example, and no, we don't support tile-based drawing of rooms.

I'm trying to expand that answer to: Yes it is, and here's a working game template, and yes, the template lets you draw tile-based room backgrounds.

So far the code has been full of hurdles, but I've made great progress today, so I wanted to announce the existence of this endeavor.

For now, enjoy the results:

[brushfe]

That's incredible!

[Rik_Vargard]

That looks awesome! 

[RootBound]

Layer support enabled.    Now I need to implement very silly things like actually being able to scroll around the room.

[Khris]

DKH beat you by 11 years
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/completed-game-announcements/the-art-of-dying-8-bit-platformer-w-level-editor/

This looks awesome though, and AoD didn't have layers afaik.

[Matti]

Nice work!

In case you don't know, abstauber also made a tile-based platformer engine a long time ago. I never really tried it out though and the links seem to be dead.

[abstauber]

Nice work indeed, this also caught my attention and it looks pretty good 

Btw. dkh also did a tile based game in 2007 with an ASCII art text file serving as a tile map.
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/play/game/933/

oh, and here's a screenshot of my tile editor (based on DKH's work).


Unfortunately I never managed to finish it, the last showstopper was implementing at somewhat acceptable pathfinding. But if it's on github, in case you're curious:
https://github.com/dkrey/ags_krokus