Game Dev Secrets: What's up with ledges? #indiegamedev #gamedev

(It's named after Wile E. Coyote heh)

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[InboundShovel]

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[twiggy_being]

coyote time is so fun, and its honestly hilarious that its named after looney toons

[a_man_with_the_sauce]

And then celeste speedrunners went "it's free real-estate" and styled on that damn mountain

[hrothgardevaitos]

Now I'm going to add a powerup to my game that's called "Coyote's Boots." They increase the amount of coyote time you get.

[paulsd]

I’ve seen rhythm gamers use this term to refer to the ‘fret forgiveness’ (as epic Games called it) where you could strum early and still press a fret button to be registered as a correct strum

[csgphoenix]

I like how these tricks that make the game feel better to play are basically ways to secretly make the player seem more skilled than they actually are.

[spicyman]

This is named after a real world Phenomenon where Coyotes have shown the ability to jump what appears to be just after they've run off a ledge. However, this effect is null as soon as they look down

[disappointedcreeper]

and jump queing really helps as well, where you allow a jump input from before landing to be processed

[JamAttack]

Think of it this way: if you were to jump off a platform irl, you'd have a tiny bit of extra time to kick off the corner

[miguelangelcote]

So all this time platformers were not screwing me over but helping and i'm actually worse than I thought I was. Great

[sepiasmith]

at first i was like "coyote time? huh what a weird name" and then as soon as you said "let me crank it up to a full second" and i pictured in my head what i was about to see.... i got it. i love it!

[hamsterdoom]

I can't imagine what wily character this feature could possibly be named after.

[Kafj]

imagine having it be almost infinite, as soon as you press down, you fall, fast.

[darkychao]

a mechanic similar to that super-long coyote time was used in the Donkey Kong Country series, where you can jump out of a roll whether or not you're on the ground. presumably, this was originally to let players recover from a somewhat easy-to-make mistake, but in the final game there are a few points where the technique is required for some collectables.

[cinnamoone]

this combined with input buffering really makes the platformer world go round.

[THEMrFill]

That's one thing they "forgot" in the Crash Bandicoot remakes, 1 & 2 originally had Coyote Time and 3 didn't, but they used the same engine for all 3, so none got it, making the games MUCH harder than they originally were!

[Goneth]

I recall first hearing this from dead cells developers, also the first time experiencing it in a game too. I felt like i was able to jump around the map so much easier

[Dyedrainn]

and a double jump is just an infinite coyote time

[FoopyFoopus]

Dude, coyote time has always been a life saver for me. I've always been horrible at platformers, so it saves me all the time.

[DerfGameDev]

This combined with jump buffering feels perfect in platformers