Same game style as 'Knights Rush'?

duckwit

Has anyone on GameSalad made a game like Knights Rush? (Like, same game logic)

Where you move up and down and left and right....

I'd be really interested to see if there is

Duckwit

IsabelleK

You mean a game by Chillingo? Where hundreds of knights are attacking your castle and you are draging them outside of screen?
Or the second promo game, when you are a knight?

If you mean the first one - I don't know, but I think that this is possible.
If you mean the second one - sure, just check out Cave Adventure in GS. It's simillar (but for keyboard).

UtopianGames

The biggest problem you will have is layers in a 2.5D game...imagine you have a rock in the middle of the scene you will have to go behind and in front of it and im not sure gs has the ability to change an actors layer.

Darren.

duckwit

I mean the second one. But Cave Adventure doesn't have jumping and that is my main concern.... not really sure how to do that with GS. Because you want the character to be able to move up and down a certain amount.... but you want him to be able to jump which would exceed the maximum y axis distance if you were near the top when you jumped.... if you know what I mean.

Do you know of any examples made by a GS user?

duckwit

I posted just after you Darren.

I can see how that would be a problem.... so GS cannot switch an actors layer? That sound like a real bummer. But what if lets say, each rock, had a layer in front of actor that had a rock, and a rock in the same position on a layer behind the actor. When the actor is in front of the rock, the layer with the rock in front of the character would have the rock removed, and replaced if the character was behind the rock. Do you think that would work?

UtopianGames

Yes that's probably how i would do it but it's best to ask someone with more experience like firemaple or QS.

Not sure how you would do the jumping either tbh.

Darren.

duckwit

Might be better for me just to continue learning Obj-C and C and use cocos2d.... where everything is possible!



thanks for your help Darren

scitunes

I am working on a game that has a top down world in it and the main actor jumps. I just interpolate the height and width so it appears to get closer to you and then interpolate it back to its original size to make it look like it is returning to the ground. Then I have a rule that says

Rule - when collides with hole
------Rule when self.width = (original width)
---------change self.fall to true

Rule when self.fall is true
----(insert fall behaviors here - animation, etc.)

This way you can jump over a hole but you can't walk over a hole.

duckwit

That sounds like a good idea scitunes, but I don't think it would apple to this. The only way I can think to simulate jumping is to have an actual jumping animation and have a shadow... like when you jump you don't actually move the sprite, you just move it within the animation and have something like 'isJumping' to keep track of what the player is doing. Would that work?

duckwit

By the way is there anything like the order of sprites on a layer? Like when you right click in a scene and you can choose options such as 'Bring to Front', can you modify that to make it work?

duckwit

So nobody has made one of these before with GS?

duckwit

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