Well, I managed to fix that glitch I had. Kind of a hack-ish fix, but then again, the cause itself was kind of hack-ish, too. With that, though, climbing should come along smoothly.
I'd also like to say that, if I can get away with not implementing slopes, I'd like to. Of course, if you really want slopes, I can still get them in. Hopefully.
Anyway, here are some questions for climbing:
1. So far, I'm finding it kind of clunky to have to hold "up" to climb after jumping onto a wall. Do you want it to be like this (not necessarily clunky, but very intentional, as in, you don't climb unless you really want to...), or could we maybe also allow the direction towards the wall to climb up as well (as in, jumping onto a wall from the left, and continuing to hold that direction will make you climb, kind of like the Spider Ball in Metroid II)?
2. Speaking of jumping onto a wall, that's currently the only way to start climbing. Did you want the player to be able to start climbing a wall simply by walking up to it?
3. Also, how do you want the player to get off the wall? Would pressing the direction away from the wall be enough, or do you want him to jump to get off? And if he jumped, would it just be treated as a normal jump, or as very strict wall-kick sort of jump, where you jump off and away from the wall every time?
4. Finally, I know you want the player to be able to climb up at the top of a wall. How about holes at the bottom of a wall; should the player automatically climb into these as well?
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Anyway, the music is totally awesome, as usual. Being able to change the music at any time during play should be an interesting thing, though I'm kind of hoping you won't necessarily need to collect each CD in order to hear different songs; as awesome as the level theme is, I'm pretty sure it could get annoying if you were to listen it for a long time. I guess I'm saying it might be a good idea to maybe provide at least 3-4 different songs at the beginning that could maybe switch out randomly/automatically during play, maybe corresponding to some difficulty or tileset changes?
I'd also like to say that, if I can get away with not implementing slopes, I'd like to. Of course, if you really want slopes, I can still get them in. Hopefully.
Anyway, here are some questions for climbing:
1. So far, I'm finding it kind of clunky to have to hold "up" to climb after jumping onto a wall. Do you want it to be like this (not necessarily clunky, but very intentional, as in, you don't climb unless you really want to...), or could we maybe also allow the direction towards the wall to climb up as well (as in, jumping onto a wall from the left, and continuing to hold that direction will make you climb, kind of like the Spider Ball in Metroid II)?
2. Speaking of jumping onto a wall, that's currently the only way to start climbing. Did you want the player to be able to start climbing a wall simply by walking up to it?
3. Also, how do you want the player to get off the wall? Would pressing the direction away from the wall be enough, or do you want him to jump to get off? And if he jumped, would it just be treated as a normal jump, or as very strict wall-kick sort of jump, where you jump off and away from the wall every time?
4. Finally, I know you want the player to be able to climb up at the top of a wall. How about holes at the bottom of a wall; should the player automatically climb into these as well?
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Anyway, the music is totally awesome, as usual. Being able to change the music at any time during play should be an interesting thing, though I'm kind of hoping you won't necessarily need to collect each CD in order to hear different songs; as awesome as the level theme is, I'm pretty sure it could get annoying if you were to listen it for a long time. I guess I'm saying it might be a good idea to maybe provide at least 3-4 different songs at the beginning that could maybe switch out randomly/automatically during play, maybe corresponding to some difficulty or tileset changes?