05-17-2009, 12:23 PM
It's very nicely done. The code is very reasonable, but I do see a bit of extra fluff here and there, but that's ok. What I think would make this a REALLY good engine for people is to do a little cleaning up and some major commenting so people know what does what. It's good practice as a programmer to do so, particularly when you're making an engine.
My next suggestion is to do a bit more of a strip-down. Reduce it to a platform engine, heavily comment, and put a lot of your larger sequences of code into smaller scripts to make it easier to read the code. I mean, it makes sense that it's all there, but you've done a great job on the project itself, now it's time for polish and beginning to wrap it up with aims on making it user friendly and idiot-proof.
I like it, it has a lot of the things I've made, but done in different ways. So trust me, I'll be using this from time to time. I always forget the best way to do platform collision detection, so I may end up using this as a reference. Then again, I may not; a lot of people don't, so don't be disjointedness with people who use your code and don't give you credit, just make it a point to support and promote the good projects that DO give you credit.
And again, trust me, this is four start work (out of five) and is absolutely well done including everything you need for a mario clone. So, polish it up and liberally add comments, and reduce some of the larger blocks to scripts so readability is easier. Do your best!
My next suggestion is to do a bit more of a strip-down. Reduce it to a platform engine, heavily comment, and put a lot of your larger sequences of code into smaller scripts to make it easier to read the code. I mean, it makes sense that it's all there, but you've done a great job on the project itself, now it's time for polish and beginning to wrap it up with aims on making it user friendly and idiot-proof.
I like it, it has a lot of the things I've made, but done in different ways. So trust me, I'll be using this from time to time. I always forget the best way to do platform collision detection, so I may end up using this as a reference. Then again, I may not; a lot of people don't, so don't be disjointedness with people who use your code and don't give you credit, just make it a point to support and promote the good projects that DO give you credit.
And again, trust me, this is four start work (out of five) and is absolutely well done including everything you need for a mario clone. So, polish it up and liberally add comments, and reduce some of the larger blocks to scripts so readability is easier. Do your best!