my 2d mario project devlog

source: the blocky kong 4 discord server

January 19, 2024

note: video was reuploaded onto youtube for convinence

gameplay starts 6 seconds into the video

this video feaures many things but probably the most notable is;

the ability to interact with tiles (like coins and collission n stuff)
the physics, all done without faking it (simulating them in 3d)
- including mario's variable jump height
entity animations, figuring out how to flip the players sprite was actually quite easy
font drawing, each letter is its own imagelabel
smooth camera and how the camera can scroll around the tilemap (the math wasnt that hard)
how the levels are stored? idk if this is actually that notable its just a bunch of strings
tile animations although, the way thats currently being done is slow and stupid, expect that to change eventually
entity spawning (so far, only happens when the player spawns and when the player bonks a block)

mario's physics arent too great, no skidding or anything of that sort, i spent hours tryna fix that lol
the code is still abit of a mess, even after hours of cleaning up the code there are things im unsatisfied with
the game's fps can be uncapped and luckily, i was able to get that to work with deltatime (so it stays consistant with different fps) but terrible lag/fps drops can cause the player to clip out of bounds, this happens because the the math to calculate player's position doesnt check for blocks inbetween as that would not be expected at a stable fps, doesnt bother me atm but its nessesary i fix that later 🤷‍♀️
the tilemap is made up of imagelabels the screen the amount of tiles is (16 + 2) * (15 * 2) which is 540 tiles, thats 540 tiles being looped through each time the game redraws the screen, none of the tiles are deleted though so its fine but this happens every, single, frame _(im probably way too concerned about preformance lol but i want this to run good! [it does run god])
tile limitations (no bg fg layer, nun of that yet)
difficulty modifying this (no "game enginge" yet, will be done when the game reaches a very very solid state)
~~no multiplayer but whateve~~

this project was completely programmed and textured by me w/o anybody's ones help (not like i get anybodys help 4 things like that anyway lawl) theres a huge learning curve when developing with someone and thats something i cant put someone through lol😭

the code for like.. the game is all done in here