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what do you mean by "make up the reasoning"? are you unable to articulate why you dislike things? if you cant, maybe you dont have much a say in criticisms about these things  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You point the pointy part of the sword to the ground and lean on the hilt. You say to the guard:

"I'm sorry mister, I don't think you understand, actually this is my wa-"

You're interrupted by the blade moving under your weight into the soft earth and trip a little bit. You look quite foolish.

"Never mind that. Wanna go on an adventure together? I'll be so kind as to give you half the spoils!"

The guard starts to think about your offer. And then he thinks some more. He's taking way too long to think about your offer and you're getting impatient.

Who is smack

You bring the hilt of your sword again to the stranger's forehead, knocking them out before they could even figure out what was going on. The guard, at this point, realizes exactly what is going on and takes evasive action.

"I'm going to ask you one more time: follow me, or I'm going to have to use force."

You knock the nearest person out with your hilt and throw their limp unconscious body at the guard, pinning him down. Now negotiations can begin.

"Did you see a man with a funny hat running away from this place?" you ask the guard.

"Don't be ridiculous. Get this person off of me, now, or suffer the law."

You pick up the hat and take it back into the shop, where you take the time to paint it red. It's a beanie with the words "ROCK ON" embroidered on it, but the blood makes it a bit hard to read. It also has a pom-pom. A few drips of blood run down your face when putting it on, even after carefully wringing out the hat. That doesn't bother you, though. In fact, it's kind of refreshing.

You test your sword's strength on the shopkeeper, whose name happens to be Bobithan. The sword is very sharp and good and he is decapitated without much effort at all. There is now blood everywhere. There was one other person in the shop with you, but they've ran off by now. Wonder why.

I think physics should be redone entirely, but the game should remain a 2D platformer.

The UI should also be redone entirely. There was a thread a while back about a UI redesign and Onjit posted something I really liked. Very different from what we have now.

All of the current graphics should be trashed for a spiritual successor, but I think it would be important to keep the general aesthetic that EE currently has. A switch to unity is a great opportunity for vector graphics rather than the current and quite limited 16x16 pixelated style that is prevalent now. Smileys should be kept but redone to separate them from Facebook. I think smileys are great for EE because they are easily exploitable into many different designs as we see in the EE of now.

Smileys should roll instead of glide like they do now which suits the slippery style of platforming that EE has (I like the friction as it is now that I think about it, maybe with some minor adjustments my main gripe is gravity). Smileys should kick up a small amount of dust as they roll and jump and land and decelerate and should also make simple sounds to give further weight.

The camera should be suited for all sorts of resolutions, fullscreen and windowed.

The shop should stay similar to how it is now. Keep prices around the same but make energy generate much faster and give people more to start out with. I think the shop is important to force new users to pace themselves in how they learn to use different blocks.

Keep most if not all current action blocks and effects, cutting those that don't mesh well with the new engine or, better yet, tweaking them to be better to play. A lot of the current effects that modify physics are underwhelming and I think they have a lot of potential if better care is given to them.

The lobby should only be sorted by online count and be a separate entity from a level library where people publish their worlds. The lobby would have a more social focus, where the library would have a more creative focus.

Online and live editing should be kept. It's the most important thing in EE I think. Crews also help with that.

Open worlds need something to counteract autoclickers and should only contain blocks and gravity.

Friends should be kept.

Only have basic starting blocks and smileys like when EE was initially released. The shop should only have worlds, action blocks, and effects to start. New smileys, block texture packs, and decorations shouldnt be bothered with to start.

Profiles should only have a list of worlds the user published.

The development of a "spiritual successor" of EE should be focused entirely on making something new. It shouldnt be EE, it should be a better game than that. No assets from EE should be directly ported over: no sprites, no physics, no UI. It should look and feel new, but with the core of the game still there. Even so, I don't think it's important to start adding too many things that would be considered totally new features. Focus on what we have now to mold it into a more robust game, because that game is there, just covered in a thick layer of scum.

I typed this all out on my phone so this is kind of a mess of a post but I do really care about this stupid game and want a platformer with the core elements of EE: grid based world, online, collaborative, gravity shenanigans (but better than what we have now), artistic, creative.

The idea is that there are only two available kinds of physics: new and legacy. The new physics would exist entirely apart from legacy physics, and the legacy physics would only apply to worlds ported over from the flash version. At least, that's the way I'd rather see it work, just to prevent people from sticking to outdated physics.

The new physics require extensive testing and fine tuning to get just right. An example would be the alpha period of Rocket League, where old players of Super Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars helped the devs fine tune the experience to what is now one of the most successful video games. A lot of the SARPBC veterans on the release of Rocket League considered it to be a downgrade, but the change stuck and they got used to it and it's a huge esport now.

Not that Everybody Edits has a chance of becoming anything of an esport, of course.

Idk, there's arguments to be made for and against fast and slow horizontal acceleration. Slow acceleration isn't as tight, but it leads to a lot of what makes EE platforming at least a little interesting, as a lot of advanced minigames are focused on speed management.

This is a good question to be asking and a hard question to answer. I really don't know much about game development but this is the way I would do it from my marginal knowledge of game design:
1. Focus on getting the basics right. Find ideal ground/air acceleration (which are currently the same, I think they should be different), the ideal jump arc and timing, and the ideal max speed.
2. Add in the other doodads keeping their first and foremost principles in mind. Gravity arrows/effects switch gravity, boosts give you max speed in their direction, etc.
3. Fine tune those mechanics in accordance to how the basic movement feels. They might be fine as they are, really: my main gripe is jumping and gravity in the game.

I do remember. I was there for the drama. The thing about the background update, the one that broke a ton of old levels, is that it was simple value changes. Nothing was adjusted to create a better user experience, it was just a change in how things were calculated internally. It was a change from one bad engine to another slightly different bad engine. The change I'm proposing would be fundamentally different, maybe even adding in the ability to tap space to jump a little lower. Things like that.

Also I don't think you noticed the whole "legacy physics" thing