This is an attempt to make a 2D Platformer game and complete the whole development cycle.
The final step will be publishing the game to the google play.
Target platforms:
- Android
- Linux
- Windows
Now works only on windows.
- Dragon Bones
- Cocos2dx v4.0 engine + tools needed by this engine (Python2, etc)
- CMake 3.16 or higher
- MSVC compiler with c++17 or higher
- Tiled 1.2
- Texture Packer
- Python 3
- Jtoc - custom tool for generating cpp classes from JSON schemas
You can see the current progress at videos below.
FPS is not steady due to potato laptop: it doesn't like recording...
Current player's abilities:
| Key | Description |
|---|---|
| A, D | Move left-right |
| W, space | Jump and double jump |
| F | Sword attack. Has 3 types of animations: top, mid, bottom |
| E | Special attack, has cast time, deals more damage |
| G | Fireball attack |
| Q | Dash |
Images:
You can see more here: Youtube link
You can perceive level as a sandbox. Level boarders are shown on the debug screen.
Now sandbox contains only boxes and typical platforms. Can be restarted and paused.
Debug mode has several usefull flags:
- show physics level boundaries
- invicibility
- current state of the player and NPCs
Images:
You can see more here: Youtube link
First boss is a forest bandit. Boss has following abitilies:
| Ability | Description |
|---|---|
| Chain's attack | Slow attack ahead of yourself: doesn't move and attack 3 times, each attack longer than previous |
| Fireballs | Send several fireballs |
| Jump with chain attack | Deal damage on attack |
| Dash | Special attack, has cast time, deals more damage |
| Summon fire cloud | Calls fire cloud which attack with fireballs from the sky and doesn't depend on boss |
Images:
You can see more here: Youtube link
Sergei Nevstruev - programming Andrew Sadovnikov - graphics/animations