sidescroller game

By chumbalum Date 2011-07-18 19:02 Edited 2011-07-19 01:29

hi, I wanted to show my current project I'm working on. It will be a 2D sidescroller with a space-scenario. I made some videos to show the progress:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9IiTy0LsJg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Mkoc1C9aU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4z8X-5z124
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Miov3QkYPLw

the current code is online at github:
https://github.com/chumbalum/sidescroller
mainfile is game.rb

the media isn't made by myself, because I'm not into that

I used graphics from
http://www.lostgarden.com/

and sounds/music from
http://www.freesound.org/
http://www.newgrounds.com/

feel free to give feedback and comment :)

By jlnr (dev) Date 2011-07-20 09:03

Wow, what a great positive difference music and sound made (not to mention the boss). Looks like fun from watching the videos alone now.

Do you have any good concept for the map of such a scroller? I had been thinking about writing a game like this and the map logic was always kind of ugly...

By chumbalum Date 2011-07-20 11:51 Edited 2011-07-20 11:57

currently, I use a simple format for the enemy generation
https://github.com/chumbalum/sidescroller/blob/master/levels/level1.txt

the levelparser just shifts that lines as character arrays to the game
https://github.com/chumbalum/sidescroller/blob/master/levelparser.rb

the game creates the enemies, depending on the character used
https://github.com/chumbalum/sidescroller/blob/master/playing.rb#L71

it was the first idea, that came to my mind .. it's easy to generate levels without big knowledge of the game and it was easy to implement, though it's not very flexible

By kaBOOM Date 2011-08-04 15:01

Looks nice. Good work.

By Jwosty Date 2011-08-04 20:03

I played it, and loved it! You could really get far with this. Keep up the good work!

By RavensKrag Date 2011-08-05 05:49

Haven't had a chance to play this yet, but from the videos it seems like the sounds are really great. Did you have to look through newgrounds/freesound for a while before you got sounds you were happy with?