Well, I'm here to show you guys the fruit of a few days of work and boredom. In my programming class in College, I had a pretty easy time with some of the projects so I decided to start this. It's a sidescrolling game, along the lines of SMB and the such. The twist? It's played using on the console. Some of you may have seen an earlier version of this, but I have retooled it to work much better. It now has monsters, and proper gravity.
The game has four levels, but you can make more if you want. Open up one of the levels in notepad to see how it works. You'll need to turn off word wrap if it's on. The first line contains the height of the level. If you put this wrong the level won't run. This is followed by a dash (-), then coordinates for each monster. The coordinates for each monster are the row number (the top row is 1, second is 2, etc) followed by a comma and the column number. The lines below this are the actual level. _ is seen as standable ground, and | is as well. Space is whitespace... just try to stick to what I used for characters - It'll make things easier for you
One little thing with the program. All of the lines in the program need to be of the same exact length. If they are not, the program will generate an error at the moment. Just stick a flagpole at the end like I did - it makes life easier. if you want a space after, be sure to add a space to EVERY line so the program doesn't error on you. Let me know if you have any problems.
If you make any levels, please post them here, even if you think they're crappy. I'll include any levels if you want me to and give you credit for them.
It's not perfect, I'm aware of that, but I'm pretty happy with the results. Let me know of any bugs you encounter. For now, let's say being able to hang onto the clouds is a feature, not a bug
Anyway have fun with this - I had fun making it.
The game is available on
my Project Pages page. (If I use it, it encourages me to keep PP up to date and working)
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