So I have an idea I'm casually pursuing, to make a sidescrolling version of something like the 3 different play styles in aliens vs predators fps franchise, basically there's a grappling hook play style in that game for the predators, the humans have jetpacks, and the aliens can climb the walls
10:32
basically I think these mechanics in sidescroller form already exist, so I'm gonna try to figure out how to do that in teeworld maps, and then maybe add a lighting mechanic so the human players can only see where their flashlight shines, sort of thing
eh, it's a cool idea I think, but it's another thing to actually make it
10:36
I'm not a kick ass developer or anything but I think I can do this, so I'm basically saying "guys I might need help if you think is cool 2 plox" but at the moment that's about the state of the idea, "aliens that play sort of like the original gex, sticxing to floors walls and ceilings and also backgrounds that are immediate", so you can climb up cave walls or the walls inside a building but not the far away scenery or sky type logic
10:37
the jetpack playstyle, soldat is the game that's the classic example
that's sort of why the idea is to hack at the mechanics in the infection mod
10:39
the mercenary class there has a neat jetpack mechanic via the pistol
10:39
that's at least a starting point
10:41
the 'stick to walls' bit, for the gameplay barrier walls, the idea is to use the existing grappling hook, with a radius of 1, and 4 of them radiating from the player and allowing traversal/automatically attaching detaching to near blocks when in 'climbing state'
10:41
so that mechanic, minus sound effect, lets a tee jump to and stick on wall, then climb up/down it
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ditto ceiling
10:42
have to jump all the way to ceiling now, no more grapple, but can climb to ceiling if no hard barriers that are unclimbable
10:44
I sort of like the mechanics of moving and jumping in n++ and super meatboy so I want some level of this kind of bouncy-ness from it, and teeworlds is a good game for that kind of responsiveness as a baseline
10:47
basically my thought is to take the 'jump' and make it work for the 'alien class' as a 'jump 90 degrees from the surface you're on', so you jump out from walls, and if you jump up also your momentum upward is added to by each jump a little bit so you can accelerate upwards
10:48
other than that basic logic set, some sort of menu selection of "I want to be that class" or maybe even "if you are a and you get killed by b, you respawn as c" logic
10:49
aaand I'll probably put it into some kind of ctf map to try it out
10:49
that's about my thought process for 'how to pursue this'
The great Teeworlds gameplays are those who understand the limitations of the game and cleverly work around it.
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