TGB Gaming Goodness

Purchased TGB before it went release about a month ago. Been touching it on and off and doing the tutorials which were included. Capabilities are very cool and love how well documented the engine is.

Recently, I wanted to delve into a project that wasn't straight from the tutorials. I decided to create a platformer where the goal is to collect coins. I learned a lot while completing it, since most everything was from scratch. There is a platformer tutorial but I had a hard time trying to follow it so I basically wrote it myself with some help as well from the TGB message boards. So the character can run, jump, and collect coins. The problems I did have were when the player jumped and landed back on the ground, he would move slower than he had previously. I had tried to change his gravity to nothing when he landed but then he would walk straight off the platforms without falling. The one-way collision code helped me cure this problem. The result is 3 levels, 90 seconds each, where you have to collect 50 coins each. I've had a couple friends demo it and they found it really addictive. I have had a couple problems with collisions on other peoples machines. I am not sure if this is my code or TGB's physics system wacking out because of low frame rates (which I have heard and saw when I tried to record my game with Fraps).



Have some other TGB game projects in my head. If I have time I'll continue on to those while I finish getting all the tweaks into this.