Endless stage.

Lhyak

Hi all, I'm new with GameSalad.

I'm wondering how to do an "endless stage" I mean; like those where you have your character going and going and never ends until an enemy kills your character or a fall or or anything that stops it?

I post this after watching some very cool videos that give nice tips and reading some of the forum's posts but none resolve that doubt.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Than kyou in advance.

Lhyak.

Lhyak

Lhyak said:
Hi all, I'm new with GameSalad.

I'm wondering how to do an "endless stage" I mean; like those where you have your character going and going and it never ends until an enemy kills your character or a fall or or anything that stops it?

I post this after watching some very cool videos that give nice tips and reading some of the forum's posts but none resolve that doubt.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thankyou in advance.

Lhyak.

Lhyak

For that, I need to make a very large background (stage)?

What resolution should the background be to not look like distorted or pixeled?

It should be PNG or GIF format?

Is it possible to make a random generated stage with GameSalad? If so how would be the best way to do and implement it?

Thank you a lot in advance!

rjf0909

what kind of game...are you dodging stuff or is it like doodle jump

Lhyak

rjf0909 said:
what kind of game...are you dodging stuff or is it like doodle jump

Yeah! Like Doodle Jump or Mega Jump would be a perfect example! Those you go the higher you can and the stage keeps going and going (the background).

GLGAMES

I think you dun need very big scene, just some scrolling back ground/parallax scrolling, and actor recycling.

Lhyak

georgeleong78 said:
I think you dun need very big scene, just some scrolling back ground/parallax scrolling, and actor recycling.

Wow, you know if there are any video about that? Would be nice to see how to do the "scrolling back ground/parallax scrolling"!

CaptFinn

wrapping a png in the background would that work?

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simo103

Hi Lhyak,

welcome. Just in case you don't know .... when you open Gamesalad creator and in the NEW+ area you can double click those projects that appear BUT also you can search and 100's of other projects are there to freely use and learn from. In this case the Alien Conquerors might be good to look at or search 'scroll' and you will find numerous templates to double click.

Also if you haven't yet done so look under the Support tab at the top of the page for the Cookbook tuitorials and the Help page which has links to step by step game making which is helpful for those new to GS.

Good luck.

Lhyak

simo103 said:
Hi Lhyak,

welcome. Just in case you don't know .... when you open Gamesalad creator and in the NEW+ area you can double click those projects that appear BUT also you can search and 100's of other projects are there to freely use and learn from. In this case the Alien Conquerors might be good to look at or search 'scroll' and you will find numerous templates to double click.

Also if you haven't yet done so look under the Support tab at the top of the page for the Cookbook tuitorials and the Help page which has links to step by step game making which is helpful for those new to GS.

Good luck.

Thank you Simo103. Did not know about the other projects I can see and I'll grab that Alien Conquerors to analyze like you say.

I did know about the Cookbook tutorial but I couldn't find any that focuses in that specific topic. But it indeed have very nice tutorials that reaches many other questions I had.

Thank you all!

NewFrontGames

The best idea i can come up with to maximize the fps. instead of having a very long scene have only the background scroll and have actors run across the screen and recycle back and fourth. this should give you the effect you are going for. Now if you want it to get harder as you go just set up a timer to change the attribute referring to the difficulty. Have the rate of your enemies spawn coincide with this attribute. For a jumping game though like DoodleJump. Good luck and if you figure out how to get a platform jumping one like that, hit me up.

Lhyak

NewFrontGames said:
The best idea i can come up with to maximize the fps. instead of having a very long scene have only the background scroll and have actors run across the screen and recycle back and fourth. this should give you the effect you are going for. Now if you want it to get harder as you go just set up a timer to change the attribute referring to the difficulty. Have the rate of your enemies spawn coincide with this attribute. For a jumping game though like DoodleJump. Good luck and if you figure out how to get a platform jumping one like that, hit me up.

Wow! That is an amazing idea!! Thank you a lot for that!! It will simplify a lot my game making process!!

And sure I'll hit you up and keep you all informed!!

Thanks again!!

yoenoesz

can someone help me ? im trying to make a jump game (horizontal) and i dont know how to make a big screen X.
I tried to make with photoshop but when i insert it to gamesalad it says that my background (image) is too big..
my question is actually the same as above..
i want a background that's moving to left but never ends.. untill someone hits me or the finish is hit.
could someone help me out please.. its making me angry a bit :P

mangaroo

Research "recycling" and "parallax scrolling"