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Message: 6124

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 16/04/2007

Subject: Re: Erix1-mode and vertical lifts

 

Alexandra wrote:

3) Erix1-mode has a feature which can be turned on in each room -
it allows you to walk on the guardians

Even vertical guardians? (Excuse my lack of familiarity with Erix1-
mode.)

As far as I remember, yes. But obviously they won't carry the player
up with them.

My vertical lifts do carry the player up with them! But they
currently do so in a jerky manner, as my idea is to align the
player's vertical position to a character-row to iron out bugs, and
later to offset the position at which the player is actually drawn,
in the same way that ramps do.

My vertical lifts do not yet carry the player down with them - you
just fall. There's still work to be done on the row-matching logic...

and also if a blank sprite erases a platform, Willy will fall
through it.

?! Investigate, I must!

Check out the screen called "Forgotten Realm" in JSW: RR. It has a
beautiful (if I do say so myself) instance of a bunch of appearing/
disappearing platforms over a pit of fire, not to mention a moving
hole in the floor above. I want to make a whole game based around
these jumping/timing puzzles.

Yes indeed! One day, I really must study a disassembly of Erix1-mode,
and document the room-format.

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Dr. Andrew Broad
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