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RavaTroll

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Moving platform concept

Hey !

I have been thinking for a long time about moving platforms in EE, and I thought I should share the concept with you guys.
The concept mostly come from Super Mario War, a small fighting game in the Mario universe.

The Idea

It's quite simple : A new tool that allows player to create moving platform intuitivly and simply.
Each platform as its own ID, like portals and switches. The platform is composed of a shape, and movement type, a start block, an end black and a speed slider.

Here's how the UI go :

1) The Platform

There's two options here :

- The player draws the platform's shape in a limited space in the tab. Here it's a 9x9 square.
- The player draws the platform in game (explained later)

2) The movement type

There's two movement type that will change the way the start and end blocks work.

- The first movement is a circular one.
- The second movement is a linear one.

3) Start and End blocks

If the player wants a circular movement, the start block will be the center of the circle and the en block will be the radius.
If the player wants a linear movement, the start block will simply be the starting place of the platform and the end block will be the ending block of the movement.

Example for the linear movement :

If the player can draw the platform ingame, then the start blocks can be placed on what will be moving. Here's how it would look :

The player don't have to make an horizontal or vertical path. I havent drawn anything to show how it would look so here's a screenshot from Super Mario War's Editor :

EDIT : I forgot to mention that the player wont be able to make a platform that goes through solid blocks : The ending block ( or the starting block ) would simply not be addable if there was something between this block and the first one. ( I suppose this is understandable )

4) Speed

The player can choose the speed the moving platform will have. I've made it so it's a percentage here, from max speed to almost no speed.

Other ideas

The platform can affect the player's movement :
- If the player jump when a platform going up is arriving at the end block, he can jump higher.
- If the player jump when a platform going left/right is arriving at the end black, he can jump further.

The platform can go through gravity : The player will then be affected by gravity - this can make some interesting minis.

The platform can be trigerred by a switch : since it has an ID, a platform switch can be added to make puzzles

The platform could be made of anything : Portals, hazards, keys, switches, etc.

Preview

Here's a preview of a simple moving platform :

http://i.imgur.com/IuNZjjZ.gif

( It's a big gif so I'm not embeding it here. )

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Creature

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Re: Moving platform concept

I doubt it's possible to make the block don't be right in the empty tile.

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Pingohits

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Re: Moving platform concept

hmmm...interesting....

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Abelysk

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Re: Moving platform concept

I like this. A lot.

Infinight

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Re: Moving platform concept

It would be cool to see someday, but would take a lot of coding. There are more important things to be added that would be a lot easier to do

RavaTroll

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Re: Moving platform concept

I agree Infinight, this is for a "late future" update

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Freckleface

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Re: Moving platform concept

I am pretty sure this would be very hard to make. EE is a grid based game. The only things that are able to be not in the grid is the players. So that means the platform would need to be an entity (moving object) that is able to be collided with. I know this is not a very good example but think of Minecraft. Nothing can go out of the 3d grid but entities (players, monsters, dropped items, etc.). Sure there is mods that can make an entity that is basically a block but, the moving of the player is usually glitchy and will cause problems. Sure I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure it would be hard, even though its just a 2d game.

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Anch

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Re: Moving platform concept

I'm not sure how good a diagonal moving platform would look in EE but great idea!

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Re: Moving platform concept

Everybody Edits is tile-based, so I think having anything outside those tiles would only make things more confusing and complicated.

logothetis

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Re: Moving platform concept

Interesting...Good idea.

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Pingohits

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Re: Moving platform concept

It's an interesting idea, and I see you've spent lots of time on it.

However, it's not so fitting to EE, since it is block by block.

Plus, what happens if a smiley gets crushed by one of those platforms?

What happens if you put a block on the moving platform?

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andsrt500

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Re: Moving platform concept

It's an interesting idea, and I see you've spent lots of time on it.

However, it's not so fitting to EE, since it is block by block.

Plus, what happens if a smiley gets crushed by one of those platforms?

What happens if you put a block on the moving platform?

When smiley gets crushed by a moving plaftorm, it will die and go to previous checkpoint.

What happens if you put a block on the moving plaftorm, it will go back to start and will modify.

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daneeko

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Re: Moving platform concept

bst idea

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skullz17

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Re: Moving platform concept

I am pretty sure this would be very hard to make. EE is a grid based game. The only things that are able to be not in the grid is the players. So that means the platform would need to be an entity (moving object) that is able to be collided with. I know this is not a very good example but think of Minecraft. Nothing can go out of the 3d grid but entities (players, monsters, dropped items, etc.). Sure there is mods that can make an entity that is basically a block but, the moving of the player is usually glitchy and will cause problems. Sure I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure it would be hard, even though its just a 2d game.

It's different in minecraft though. 2d games, especially platformers, are often grid based anyway yet they allow moving platforms. For example, Mario. Just because they use a grid, does not mean they can't put things outside of the grid. I don't know much about flash, but I'm pretty sure it would allow these things.

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Re: Moving platform concept

I would think Super Mario Bros. is a bit different—the levels in the games are made by professionals (perhaps besides Mario Maker), so they would not have to answer questions like "What happens when two moving platforms collide?" or anything like that. Though one could argue that Mario Maker has moving platforms (albeit from what I have seen, is limited and not very customizable), you must also consider that the game was made for that kind of stuff and that you would probably have to rewrite lots of code in Everybody Edits to achieve the same effect.

Blindz0r

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Re: Moving platform concept

Why hasn't this been added

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