Hello, thank you and a question

dusker24

Hi, my name is Tom and I'm looking forward to being part of this forum.

Just downloaded GameSalad yesterday and have been playing with it today. I've been trying to learn objective C for the past 3 months with no luck. GameSalad is incredible - thank you for a wonderful tool.

OK my question... I'm interested in producing a mario style game with a long scrolling level. The tutorial in the samples for GameSalad has a small platform game but my question is how would you create a long scroller, with around 24 'screens' scrolling per world?

Thanks again

Tom

SlickZero

Couple of ways to do that. You could leave the main actor stationary, and have the backgrounds moving to simulate progression, but that is usually the method for runner games. For a Mario style, you can just make the stage as wide as you need it to be to fit all the action you want. Although, maximum image size is 1024 x 1024 so you just can't have a single image that covers the whole thing, you would have to break it up into separate images and sequence them across the stage.

And welcome to GameSalad!

Jamwithno

You said that you want to make it long while you are in the scene editor got to the button that say scene there will be a place that says length and width change those to what ever you what them to be.

dusker24

Hello,

Thanks for the help!

I just found you can set the stage to a different width (wider than the 480px). You can also preview the level at any stage. Having developed games on different platforms I have to say this software is incredible.

Jamwithno

Yes yes it is.

Asymptoteell

I see your question has been answered already, but I still should welcome you here. So welcome to the forums and to the overall gamesalad community! Good luck with all your games.

Asymptoteell