Code-It-Yourself! Simple Tile Based Platform Game #1

This video shows how to make a simple yet smooth tile-based 2D platform game, similar to classic offerings from older consoles. It uses nothing but the Windows Command Prompt to demonstrate robust collisions between the scenery and the player. All collisions are resolved using floating point truncation. No geometry.

Shout outs to Brankec on Discord (known as GearCode elsewhere) for the request.

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[Nikarus]

16:50 "not that impressive so far"

I mean, I think its pretty damn impressive to get that much up and running with so few lines of code, and so elegantly. The olcGameEngine is pretty solid NGL. Orders of magnitude better than the engine I wrote in college to make a similar game concept for a final project where even getting this much of the game up and running would have been ~300+ lines of code (not including level design).

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[SWAGCOWVIDEO]

You have no idea how helpful this is! I've done so much searching online for a simple yet effective way to implement collisions in 2d platformers only to come up with solutions with mediocre results. After so many pages of sketches and code the solution was to check the corners based on where the player was moving... Awesome!

[wixic]

I've been looking for a good answer to collision detection for a few days now and I can't believe how almost perfect this advice was for my situation, much more simple to implement and just as robust in my situation as anything like minkowski differences and anything else etc. This video was a great help! Thanks :)

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[maximgasai]

Using the idea of your algorithm I created more accurate way to detect collisions in my game. Thanks a lot.

[RogueShadowTCN]

I did indeed forget it was the console window.
Classy.

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[seditt]

Very similar to the Collision detection I was using for the platformer I was Tinkering with Javid, Since many tutorials I see online suggest all sorts of stuff like checking every tile within specified vicinity etc .... Its nice to see someone else starting with the corners like I decided to do as well... I test the 4 corners, Then I test middle bottom +1 block in the Y axis to decide if the jump/falling Flag should be set or not.