Simply2D - a platform game

Dude I like the giant godzilla, it makes the pic.

Yeah I thought the background image was pretty awsome

The game doesn't work for me. I installed the redistributables and DX stuff but it didn't help. The music is playing but I get this screen:

That's really weird. I have no idea why it looks like that for you

Hi again !

I managed to get the game working on another computer, don't know why doesn't it work on this one. When I saw Super Mario and the editor I realized that we are basically working on a same thing. I am also using DX9 and C++, even though I am modifying an existing engine.

I made a Mario style game/level few months ago: Super Serious Bros. but I didn't have an editor then. It was all "hardcoded".

I recently started making an editor, it has just some buttons, but I can add enemies and platforms. And I store and read level data from a text file , how do you do it ?

I had some issues with double jumping, it is like I can double jump only one per level/life. It took me some time to get to the pistol without double jump.
Also when I went to credits and pressed escape the game would crash.

BTW, how do you think to cross this ?

Hi.
when i opend it i could only see a portion of the window (half of it must be off screen)
can you add an option to manueally set PosX and PosY of window ?

Hi again !

I managed to get the game working on another computer, don't know why doesn't it work on this one. When I saw Super Mario and the editor I realized that we are basically working on a same thing. I am also using DX9 and C++, even though I am modifying an existing engine.

I made a Mario style game/level few months ago: Super Serious Bros. but I didn't have an editor then. It was all "hardcoded".

Your game looks cool, I like the gore effects with all the body parts flying around ;) Was that a part of the engine you used or did you do that yourself, and what engine was it?

I recently started making an editor, it has just some buttons, but I can add enemies and platforms. And I store and read level data from a text file , how do you do it ?

I also store the levels in a textfiles. You can look in the folder levels\ to see how. Each line in the level files basicly is the data for one object. The first value is the type of the object and then comes X, Y width, height etc... Once loading the level is just read the type of the object first and then call that objects loadFromFile() function.

I had some issues with double jumping, it is like I can double jump only one per level/life. It took me some time to get to the pistol without double jump.
Also when I went to credits and pressed escape the game would crash.

BTW, how do you think to cross this ?

You aren't suppose to double jump, but if you mean the walljumping then that's weird because it works good for me. Will take a closer look at it any ways

Oh I forgot to fix that turret, should've played through each level before releasing it..

Hi.
when i opend it i could only see a portion of the window (half of it must be off screen)
can you add an option to manueally set PosX and PosY of window ?

You can move the window around but I should add an option to choose the width and height of the window.

Thanks for testing and leaving your comments, it's worth a lot!

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Hi.
when i opend it i could only see a portion of the window (half of it must be off screen)
can you add an option to manueally set PosX and PosY of window ?

You can move the window around but I should add an option to choose the width and height of the window.

Thanks for testing and leaving your comments, it's worth a lot!


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the half that was missing was the half that had the title bar and the left half of the game window

the half that was missing was the half that had the title bar and the left half of the game window

Oh I understand, I believe I have a fixed position for the window.. Will have to make it allways get centered

Your game looks cool, I like the gore effects with all the body parts flying around ;) Was that a part of the engine you used or did you do that yourself, and what engine was it?

Thanks. I am using Advanced2D engine by J.S.Harbour. Originaly it handled input, sound , rendering, font,entity management and collision detection but I modified almost all of that to fit my needs. And I also added some new stuff like pixel shaders, scrolling, skeletal animation... It is all WIP, but it doesn't look bad.

I also store the levels in a textfiles. You can look in the folder levels\ to see how. Each line in the level files basicly is the data for one object. The first value is the type of the object and then comes X, Y width, height etc... Once loading the level is just read the type of the object first and then call that objects loadFromFile() function.

That is basically the same way I do it.

You aren't suppose to double jump, but if you mean the walljumping then that's weird because it works good for me. Will take a closer look at it any ways
Oh I forgot to fix that turret, should've played through each level before releasing it..

Haha, I thought that I should be able to double jump and that wall jumping is a bug.

BTW, you set the default resolution to 1440x900, which is too big. I am using a smaller screen resolution on my monitor so the window couldn't fit the screen. I had to increase the resolution of the monitor to fit.