I’ve been making slow progress, mostly due to my lack of motivation, but since I started, which was about a week and a couple days ago, I’ve just been fiddling around with some tutorial code I found on the internet, and the platformer starter kit that XNA 3.0 provides. Watching that Indiana Jones dude in the starter kit run and wallslide and do wall jumps was fun to a certain extent, but I decided to start from scratch, which has been a bit difficult.

I actually found it kind of amusing, because the two primary platformers I’m looking at are the Megaman series, particularly the Zero series, and the Castlevania games, of which I am currently playing Order of Ecclesia, and I thought it was really awesome when I saw that Soma sprite running around.

Despite my best efforts, I doubt my own projects will go too far, as I don’t think I’ll have so much time once winter quarter comes around, but I just wanted to say good job on this, and I’ll probably come back once in a while and check up what’s happening around here.

Syn :

I am impressed on how by using only a few platform components you could make so many fun puzzles. I especially like the unrestricted engine you are building, eg: Wall jumping off sides of platforms, going over the door before it closes. The controls also look good, I can’t wait to try it out.

I was wondering what kind of game you are aiming to create with this engine? Something much like the DS Castlevania series(RPGesque), something with more puzzle orientation or something else.

I’m aiming to build a game in the same general vein as the DS castlevanias (primarily order of ecclesia), but with a more puzzle-oriented focus, similar to how the newest prince of persia game is structured.

The game world is ideally going to be one large seamless level full of smaller unique environments, and I’m hoping to come up with a set of gimmicks and motifs that apply to each environment, and then construct my puzzles out of those. As a contrived example, some motifs for a clock tower like in the castlevania games would be spinning gears, pistons, swinging pendulums, etc. where an environment like a cave formed by water erosion would have motifs more fitting to its design - adjustable water levels, destructible barriers, etc.

I was wondering what kind of game you are aiming to create with this engine? Something much like the DS Castlevania series(RPGesque), something with more puzzle orientation or something else.

…also burns.