I Made A Top Down Platformer In 7 Days - GODOT GAME JAM DEVLOG 

too nice, I only hope I can make something fun :)

Omg thank you! No shot though, i just want to make something fun, hopefully I get closer every time

@@mz_eth bro you are amazing keep it up!

This is so obvious yet so genius idk how i didn't think of this.

Right? I feel like a dumbass for not even thinking about it. @@itsArridian

or use a remote control 2d node

Damn thank you! It means a lot :)

YES 100% agree here, a friend told me hey I was “chilling” at every check point. And that had me really worried, the ideal solution was to just only let you “chill” at elevators but I ran out of time so I put that text in super quick. Then when I saw someone play it for the first time they had your same experience. AAHH SO DUMB THAT I DIDN’T CATCH THAT!! Feels like fumbling the bad at the finish line a little. Thank you though for all the nice words, it’ll be a lesson for next time :)

A bit late to the party, but this is not quite right, you actually do still need to normalize input with a 1:1 aspect ratio. The gist of normalizing a vector is that you're changing the length of the vector to be exactly 1. This seems kinda weird on its face but it basically exists because the player can in fact input values greater than 1. For example, if you hold w and d (or up and right arrow or whatever control scheme you're using) you're actually inputting the vector (1,1), which has a length equal to the square root of 2, which is greater than 1. The effect is that keyboard users would be able to run faster inputting diagonals than when they input a cardinal direction. Normalizing the vector fixes this by making every input have the same "magnitude" (fancy math word for length). If you're wondering why (1,1) is a longer vector than say, (0,1), it's not immediately intuitive without a bit of an explanation of what a vector actually is, but in short if you plug it into a^2 + b^2 = c^2 you get root 2 for (1,1) and 1 for (0, 1). All that doesn't actually explain what happens in the video, which is an issue with the *projection* rather than the aspect ratio (though to be fair 2:1 and 16:9 are pretty close ratios so the difference doesn't matter here). Basically under this orthographic projection, we can think of there being 2 axes, the up/down axis, and the upright/downleft axis. We can say that our "unit" is the distance between the tiles vertically, so to move 1 tile up you need to move 1 unit up. The thing is, on the other axis, you actually need to move 1 unit upwards as well as 2 units to the right to reach the center of the next tile. Basically, we can conclude that in this perspective, the vertical axis takes half as much screen space as the same distance on the horizontal axis. Because of this, (and because movement is in screen space) to have "normalized" world space movement, where moving up moves you as fast as left and right, we need to divide vertical movement by 2 to translate the real space into screen space. Apologies if that explanation is a bit hard to follow, linear algebra isn't super intuitive. Also sorry for correcting you because it does feel a bit mean, given your explanation does effectively work in this situation so it's a bit pedantic. My point is regardless of aspect ratio you should be normalizing input, and the actual issue here is the coordinate system of the game (2:1 isometric space) doesn't line up with the coordinate system of the engine ("screen space"). You do in fact need to normalize your input regardless of aspect ratio, and want to do this in 3d games as well (unless you're specifically going for a "retro" feel; a lot of older games actually use non-normalized input and make you run faster along diagonals, I think mainly to save processing power since I think they knew better even then).

@@alexbarbeau That is an AWESOME explanation. Thank you!

@alexbarbeau I love how informative and respectful this is. You guys are the best!!

thank you!

YEA

Bro a workshop for comunity maps would be sick

if only there was better documentation on how to integrate steam workshop, i tried and failed miserably

Thanks for this, love the constructive criticism/advice. Yeah I think you’re right about maybe skipping the really easy almost tutorial aspect of things. Especially when I’m introducing new mechanics. I maybe do a little, but I should do much more and it’s truly not that time consuming to do.

Thank you, also you can do it! There’s a lot to break down here, but overall I would say you sound very introspective. I think that’s really good for creating art, I’m sure you’ve heard this before, but just don’t be too down on yourself. Hours invested in these skills will help the most, so taking long breaks is the biggest pit fall. Oh also I’m a huge believer in those early morning hours for getting work done, it’s just such a peaceful time of day. And I’m chaotic like that too, waking up at 3am and can’t sleep so I’ll work until I get tired, but my whole days gets messed lol. Good luck!!

They’re both so amazing/helpful! I would have been easily 1-2 days behind without Challacade for that moving platform video

Thank you, that’s probably the best compliment I could get :)

Thank you :)

Thanks!

Thank you so much dude! I really appreciate it!!

Oh my god thank you so much! Yeah this jam just clicked for some reason, and I feel like I lucked into my art style. It would be fun to come back it :)

@@mz_eth of course! I meant every word! I'm super excited to see what happens when you have the time and funds to get something out there from like you said your style and just the great way you standardize your creativity workflow and general aspect on your goals

Thank you! I try not to focus too heavily on the engine but more the game design and the time crunch decisions. I’ll actually find myself watching good unity devlogs all the time lol

Thank you :)

fun fact that I didn't feel the time of the video because I was enjoying it A new subscriber to your channel

Oh thank you so much!

My writing skills and knowledge are yours at anytime you need them brother.

Thank you so much dude!!

Aww thanks!

thank you!

Thank you so much! Love hearing that about you working on your own project. Just remember keep it small, there’s always more games to make ❤️

Thank you!

@@mz_eth I wish you the best of luck and I hope that you will one day achieve great success.

It gives me anxiety every day

I wish I had a month! From the announcement to the due date it was actually just a little over a week

​ thats even more impressive you made this good of a game in just a little over a week i hope one day im that good

huh

Thank you! I’m honestly still learning so much, but that means a lot to hear :)

Thank you! I didn’t plan on it, but the whole time making this I just kept wishing I had 1 more week. I’ve never done a platformer before, so making these levels was a blast

​@@mz_ethhello, consider making this a full game(maybe taking more time), I would love to play a game like this, maybe give it some lore etc, but really I am willing to pay 15-20 euro for a full version on steam :)

Thanks! Maybe I could come back to it