★★★ SALE: Platform Template Now Only £7 ★★★

UtopianGames

Summer Sale ending soon!

Art is included in the platform pack and we have a new video below.





This pack also includes the Gravity template below and a few scenes with camera tricks.



http://www.deepblueapps.com/

Darren.

gyroscope

Marvellous stuff, Darren. More than coming along in my eyes; some excellent stuff going on there! Could you please put up the link for purchase info including copyright stuff if any? Thanks. (I must have missed the original post concerning 1.0)

:-)

UtopianGames

Yeah 1.0 was made after i had about 10 emails so i didn't really make it public cause i wanted to add a lot more to it.

I'm asking $50 with free updates.

There's no copyright, feel free to do whatever you want with it.

toyboxuk[AT]hotmail.com if you want a copy i will forward you my paypal info.

Darren.

GamersRejoice

That looks awesome. I'm definitely going to want this after I finish my first game.

DimensionGames

May get this in the christmas holidays to make a game

butterbean

Fabulous job! Has a lot of great Mario platforming elements!

gyroscope

Hi Darren: there's the danger that when I purchase this, I'll be waylaid from work on my major project (adventure game), we'll see! Perhaps I can do both at the same time... It's exciting stuff; for interest, my first project when I discovered GS was a platform game I called "Where is my spoon?" (Bit more interesting than it sounds; perhaps the title will change!) Most of the planning was done for that at the time; I'm quite certain I'll resurrect that particular project...

utopiangames said:

I'm asking $50 with free updates.

Sounds very good to me!

utopiangames said:

toyboxuk[AT]hotmail.com if you want a copy i will forward you my paypal info.

Darren.

Yes, I'd prefer to pay via Paypal; please send me your details to spidergriffin@tiscali.co.uk and I'll transfer the money straightaway, thanks!

:-)

expired_012

Looks very nice, will definitely try to buy it soon.

I don't think you should include artwork from RW though.. You should just replace it all with some royalty free art

UtopianGames

Thanks guys,

Yeah the orange thing we didn't end up using so its only the red blocks and im guessing most people can make those without too much trouble so....but yeah i hear what your saying.

Darren.

Sylon

Thanks for the update, this is a great template everyone.

gyroscope

Hi Darren I've sent my payment to you half an hour ago; I look forward to receiving the template! :-)

UtopianGames

Sorry for the small delay some of you had as it was late here in the uk and i had to go sleep.

All templates have been sent out this morning.

Working on camera today so you will have 4 camera options to choose from.

Darren.

juzcook

I'm tempted to buy this so I can see if there's any neat little tricks I should be using. I'm about to start work on my next major project (another platformer), and I'm trying to pre-plan it as best I can. The magnitude thing is awesome, and I've always run my cursor past it in fear.

skott

Been waiting for this

Darren I will send you a mail later today. I'm not familiar with paypal and have no idea how it works, so when I have setup an acount i'll write you..

gyroscope

utopiangames said:
Sorry for the small delay some of you had as it was late here in the uk and i had to go sleep.

All templates have been sent out this morning.

Hi Darren; sleep? What's that?! Insomniacs Rule OK! ;-)

Thanks muchly for the template, I received it this morning. Haven't had much chance to investigate it fully but there's certainly some interesting stuff, the enemy actor going from point to point (to point) in particular. Looking good though and well worth the money! A fine springboard to start a decent platformer game.

One thing: the player is lost if it goes outside the left or right of the playing area; I'm guessing this is because it's outside of the camera at those points? It'd be nice to bring it back on screen, left or right, without restarting the level.

As I say though, all in all a bargain: can highly recommend it to other members to purchase! And with free updates as well, you can't go wrong.

Where Is My Spoon will exist one day!! Hoorah!

:-)

UtopianGames

NP i can fix it so you cant go out of the play area

Added some new elements today and also some camera tricks.

Will be posting an update soon.

Glad your happy.

Darren.

UtopianGames

Sent everyone 0.4 (latest version)

Now includes a rope bridge and count down block when jumped on, can be used to jump on an enemy x amount of times to kill.

Also included camera constrain right and left scenes incase you want another option.

Darren.

rdcube

If you add a way to climb 'stairs' up/down...I think I'll be sold

MLCinema

Is this for sale now?

craps

Tell us how to order this great template.

expired_012

Is there a reset scene anywhere in there or is it a change back to original position on everything the whole time?

UtopianGames

rdcube ladders are on my list.

craps send me a mail to toyboxuk[AT]hotmail.com

arton i dont understand what your asking...reset scene is a simple rule, you have check points for the character so you dont have to start over but you dont have to put them in the scene.

I have coded it with minimal spawn and destroy and your fps will be better of because of it.

Darren.

expired_012

I was mainly talking about the spawn before you even reach checkpoint 1. Watch 0:29-0:30 in the vid and thats the one I meant. I couldn't tell if that was a reset scene using the "reset scene" behavior, or a reset scene using a simple change back to original position, but i think you just answered my question in the above post so nvm

UtopianGames

v0.5 is in the works...

Thanks for the support guys.

Darren.

MLCinema

Hello,

Does the main character have to be a ball? Can it be a person or animal?

Thank you

DimensionGames

No because the actor has all the 'properties' not the image

MagoNicolas

it Can be anything, you can make any object, but the collision shape, I think it SHOULD be a ball. But you can fix the rotation and make an animal walk or anything.

MLCinema

Utopiangames, can you add a different character besides a ball in the next update?

Thank you.

gyroscope

Hi MLCinema, with respect, Darren of Utopian Games is not selling graphics but a template. You can make the animation frames yourself and replace the rolling ball with them. If you need help making them work with the left, right and jump rather than rolling, take a look at the GS supplied Platform Template. Hope that helps. :-)

UtopianGames

You can add any character you want very easy, see RW's platform game it's almost the same code.



Darren.

MLCinema

gyroscope said:
Hi MLCinema, with respect, Darren of Utopian Games is not selling graphics but a template. You can make the animation frames yourself and replace the rolling ball with them. If you need help making them work with the left, right and jump rather than rolling, take a look at the GS supplied Platform Template. Hope that helps. :-)

No no that's not what I'm asking. This is a great start for a lot of people, but if there are 20 new platformers with balls as characters that would be funny. This is a lot of hard work for Darren of Utopian Games, and he is very nice to sell it to us, i just don't want to see a bunch of platformers that look the same.