[HN Gopher] Show HN: My platforming game written in C 89
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Show HN: My platforming game written in C 89
Author : zamfofex
Score : 17 points
Date : 2023-07-07 21:30 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| suprjami wrote:
| Can we have a few screenshots?
| krapp wrote:
| Please change your jump controls. Having the same keys for
| walking also jump when double-pressed makes twitchy platforming
| really difficult (especially given how loose the friction seems
| to be) and not in a good way.
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| Typically I've seen the spacebar, up button or W used for this.
| In terms of mechanics It's just adding y (or -y, whichever is up)
| to the player's velocity vector after a ground check.
|
| Otherwise, good job.
| zamfofex wrote:
| I have been working on this game somewhat sparsely for the past
| three years or so. However, it is still in a very early stage,
| and there is a lot of work to do.
|
| One of my friends encouraged me to post about it here, since he
| felt people might find interesting how I don't use any libraries
| for it.
|
| The game can be played on a browser by virtue of WebAssembly.
| There are native ports using either MiniFB or SDL2, but you have
| to build those yourself.
|
| I decided to write the game in C because I feel like it is a
| simple language that a lot of people can understand well enough,
| and I didn't think I needed anything more involved or
| complicated.
|
| Over time, the game's code became complicated, and I decided to
| use advanced features such as coroutines and higher order
| procedures, besides general overly engineered abstractions.
|
| But then, over time I grew to feel like a lot of those
| abstractions didn't really add anything to it, and just made it
| more complicated (and oftentimes more buggy) than it really
| needed to be, so a few weeks ago, I made a significant
| refactoring to it to remove all of those abstractions without
| removing almost any features from the game.
|
| Milestones are released effectively whenever I get the game's
| code to a decently presentable state. Sometimes, this means there
| are a lot of changes and big refactorings, but sometimes it means
| there are only a few small changes.
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| The game uses a simple 2D model system to generate images for the
| character's animations dynamically during initialisation. (The
| source code can be browsed using a web browser on its page.)
|
| The character can be controlled using the arrow keys or "WASD"
| ("A" and "D") (double-tap a direction to jump).
| Minor49er wrote:
| While the scrolling and animation is smooth, why not have a
| dedicated jump button? With the current controls, the character
| would jump when I was just trying to walk around normally. It's
| also really difficult to gauge how much of a runway is needed
| to make the jumps with double tapping
| virtue3 wrote:
| I find this incredibly challenging to play with the current
| control scheme. Either up or space would be nice to jump
| with. Heck even if a single mouse click was jump it would be
| easier.
|
| Having to time holding down left and then double taping it is
| an exercise in frustration.
|
| Other than that it looks interesting, I enjoyed the moving
| platforms.
| moretrashplz wrote:
| [dead]
| pengaru wrote:
| There is something very wrong with the controls for jumping, as
| others have pointed out.
| disqard wrote:
| The character sometimes passes (horizontally and vertically)
| through walls/ceilings, and I can't seem to control when this
| behavior occurs.
|
| Is there a special game mechanic in this platformer?
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