I was honestly wondering when you would show up ....

I'm open to suggestions. ATM, I honestly can't recall how I'm handling it But the controls are definitely going to be tweaked as I go. I'm not using a table though; I'm calculating y-velocity over time. I didn't think it was that bad ....

Ooohhh, one other suggestion! You NEEEEEED a double jump in that game! just like the new UT has

Yea, double jumps are totally unrealistic, when they should be locally modifying gravity to make themselves jump higher!

What's wrong with a double jump?

In megaman it was his boot upgrade.

In metroid it was a spinney move, so you're not really double jumping - but spinning without getting dizzy.

Don't get too crazy. It's just a game. Double jumping can be cool, unless you can do it all the time.

Anything that you limit: the player will want it more. Think about it. (take megaman for example) How badly did you want to use Zero for a WHOLE game during the SNES X series. VERY badly since you could only use him that much more per game. Then came along the PSX version, and you COULD do it. Everyone says woohoo. Then the next one comes out and you can be Zero: Nobody cares.

A double jump would be cool if you implemented it well: Ie - it's some kind of item that makes you double jump, or; being able to double jump off of an enemie's head. you know, jump up, and press jump before you land on top of an enemy and you can jump again. That would work, no?

Anyways. It's up to you. It's your game. Sorry I got divergent and talked about limitations

(it would be fun to jump off enemies, though)

So when can we expect the "Embedding LUA for game programming" Tutorial!? You know its a tutorial that NEEDS to be written..... If not you who? If not now When!?

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I got 99 to 100fps on my computer. 1ghz duron, 256megs of ram, Geforce2mx(32meg) running WinXP. And FYI, w/ or w/o vsync didn't matter because I have it disabled altogether.

Seems to be a pretty kickass and robust engine you've got there Chris. I hope you make a pretty kickass game out of it.

-Flecko

that was really good. keep up the good work and don't be so hard on yourself about the graphics; they're actually pretty good.

15fps
500 mhz processor
384 mb ram
4 mb video card
win2k

next time put all of the files inside one main folder.

Whoa, feedback flood ....

I'm already thinking about how I might outline it, but I want more experience with it. Give it time.

I'm an artist first and a coder second Anyway, I wasn't trying to draw anything good; it's just placeholders until I get a scanner or something.

jcact: bmpfont? What are you talking about?

And I still don't like double jumps

I got a steady fps of 45. nice and smooth.. good job!

JaTeR

Opps, I'm dumb! I unstuffed your program in the same folder as a program called bmpfont Anyways what I was saying is the computer I have at home doesn't support the color depth you are using, could you add code to cycle through the depth until it finds a working one and repost.

Well, having used only 8-bit color, here's my 2 cents. (Which means I never have converted from 16 to 8 before but here's a shot at it.) Since you're sofar using pretty basic colors and few of them you should be able to make a nice little palette. Load all your gfx into on image in photoshop and save as 8bit pcx, then load the pcx into your engine and use the palette. (Tip, since you don't need the whole image just crop out a liitle bit before saving.) Anyway, you need to use set_color_conversion(COLOR_CONVERSION_TOTAL) or similar (chack the docs). Then load the palette and then load your data file. I think that will do the trick but I'm not sure. Someoneelses opinion on this would prolly be good. You could check out Steve Terry's GUI-demo, I know that he down-converts some gfx there.

Also, the demo/engine is looking really cool. Good work. I'd love to see a game with it. I have to agree on the jumping physics though. When the player let's go of the jump button early I usually do something like:
jump_force = jump_force >> 1 to get a quick but nice curve. You should at least try it out.

About the jumping, if you're thinking about doing it realistically:

The longer you would hold down the jump-button before letting go should determine the amount of jump you get. Think about it. When you jump in real life you can't just say "I'm done jumping, let's fall now". It all depends on how hard you kicked off. It would be interesting to see a game that implements this beause you'd have to figure out the timing for yourself if you were in a tight spot, you know.

It could also get really annoying. Eh. Think about it.