Platformer game engine (a proper one, really!)

[timmeh42]

EDIT: I just realised that the game is performing in a highly suspect way on my pc - worse than these "glitches" show. Does this require love 0.8.0?
Otherwise, something is causing havoc with how it runs for me. Anyway, these are the supposed glitches I found:


Glitch Time:
Found a bug where you can get stuck in a normal block (not the moving ones). Seems to be something along the lines of:

1: Stand in the one-space-wide gap between two blocks. Move left until you cannot move any further. Now move right. Teleports into the block.
2: Holding 'jump' and 'right' as you fall towards the top-left corner/side of a block. You then get teleported into the block.
3: Jumping up on the left side of a block, then pressing right. Again, teleported into the block.
4: On the 'jumping' level, pressing 'right' immediately after spawning teleported me into the block on the right.

All of these were sometimes not replicable for unknown reasons. Maybe need the x position to be a multiple of something?

A few screenshots of the glitch:


(Couldn't seem to replicate that one after a while - dunno why.)

[coffee]

lava.png

Some problems may happen when jumping to movable platforms. As you see in screenshot player got stuck once in Lava. Also and hard to reproduce again the player but not the game (since lava animation was still running) got frozen once in an upper regular platform in Up and Down.

[timmeh42]

Possibly the same as what I am experiencing, seems to be with moving/shifting platforms too, then.

[YellowAfterlife]

Updated game with a small bug-fix for mentioned thing. Or, at least I think it is a fix. I can't reproduce this error no matter how hard I try, both in 0.8 and 0.7.2
Judging from provided descriptions, issue happens in player's update event when trying to move right and\or downwards.
Apparently error is caused by usage of math.ceil(), but I fail to see how could it work differently on different systems or versions.
Also made game restart if player gets stuck in a 'door' block.
Tell me if it works right now.

[timmeh42]

Yes, you've fixed it.
To be sure, I tried to glitch into the walls on 1.0.3 as well to compare. Using the same methods, 1.0.3 could get me stuck but 1.0.4 couldn't.

EDIT: Also, I just realised that the reset button and its associated counter are broken - they should activate once on key press, not continuously while the key is being held down.

[YellowAfterlife]

Updated ~ 1.0.5
Changes:
* Fixed bug with continuous restart. Also added implementation of system to make checking for key presses\releases easier in object events. See this for separate post on that.
* Changed format of storing objects a bit, to allow level modifications (level.plot, level.add) to be done more intuitively, and for it to be possible to define blocks outside of loadable range (blocks that are only created by code, and not loaded from strings)
* Added a nice-looking player death animation. Also serves as example of re-using code from block behaviour in object behaviour.
* Altered ending screen a bit.

Unless there are more ninja bugs that I don't know about, could consider this as stable - will be making first games upon it around next week.

[meoiswa]

The math.ceil() bug could have been provoked by this:
Consider the player's X position, ranging from 0 to 150, and a block's position, which's left side is at 50 and right at 100.
If the player approaches from the left side of the block, that is, augmenting is X, then math.ceil() would effectibly move the player LEFT (because it decreases the X value) when called. If he comes from the right, math.ceil() will also make the player move left, and thus getting stuck in the right side of the block

[coffee]

Never more got the stuck bug.
The small improvements are good quality touches.
Could be a question of taste but I think that jump probably needs some alternatives ways of jumping. The way it does now don't look very natural. It's good if jumping with a jetpack but a person couldn't other way contradict or stop in the air the jump as we does now.
Good work.

[trubblegum]

Runs pretty smooth.
How are enemies implemented?
What about menu screens? Is that beyond the scope of the engine?
I presume collision functionality is available to be borrowed for gui implementation regardless.

[timmeh42]

Ah, one last thing - some of the levels have low ceilings, and the player goes off the level when s/he jumps but is still drawn at the top, leading to a sort of sticking-to-the-ceiling effect - I guess it's just a level design thing though.