Hey coldstone is a incredible Rpg maker but what i really want to do is make a nice side scrolling platformer game, like casltevaina, mario bros, metal slug, ferazel's wand ... ect. you might say that those types of games are dead but i disagree, many games have there roots in platform games and are simply ruined when they make the jump to 3d. any ways is there a program that will let me do that on my mac? thanks in advance.

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Originally posted by totalimmortal:
**Hey coldstone is a incredible Rpg maker but what i really want to do is make a nice side scrolling platformer game, like casltevaina, mario bros, metal slug, ferazel's wand ... ect. you might say that those types of games are dead but i disagree, many games have there roots in platform games and are simply ruined when they make the jump to 3d. any ways is there a program that will let me do that on my mac? thanks in advance.

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Mr. Totalimmortal,

Is there any reason why you couldn't make a map that had a fixed north/south height that corresponded to the resolution you wanted people to play with, and a long east/west width. This would make it so you would not be ablt to move north or south(which could also be blocked off through the use of access tiles) and would force a player to a east/west directional.

Pretty much all you would need are graphics and what you want the player to be able to do. But I would think the game engine itself could/would handle it.

I do recall this topic being discussed before, and I think there are some people working on side scrollers. Might do a search on the topic.

Good luck.

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You might have a hard time trying to get a good 'jump' and 'drop' effect, I can't think of a way to get the player to fall off ledges using the coldstone tileset system...

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Originally posted by the Necromicon:
**You might have a hard time trying to get a good 'jump' and 'drop' effect, I can't think of a way to get the player to fall off ledges using the coldstone tileset system...

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of course you could go for smaller motion tiles say 16pixels or maybe 8,
create an avent
so that when the player goes 8 pixels past the ledge it plays an animation of the player falling, and moves them down, and subsequently kills the player
artificial gravity,
if you use this system for jumping in reverse you will get a FF7 type platform deal, which is safe from free fall, thus defeating the purpose...
jumping ---> haven't thought of anything for that,

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yeah the whole jumping thing is what has me puzzled. it would kick so much ass if ambrosia make a engine for side scrollers .....

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Originally posted by totalimmortal:
**yeah the whole jumping thing is what has me puzzled. it would kick so much ass if ambrosia make a engine for side scrollers .....

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What's the deal? If I go to the Schwin store to buy a bike I don't complain because it doesn't have a 250 horsepower engine on it. It was made to be a quality bicycle. Nothing more nothing less. So, it is with the Coldstone engine. It does what it says. RPG gaming. Give them a break!

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Originally posted by Toast:
**What's the deal? If I go to the Schwin store to buy a bike I don't complain because it doesn't have a 250 horsepower engine on it. It was made to be a quality bicycle. Nothing more nothing less. So, it is with the Coldstone engine. It does what it says. RPG gaming.:) Give them a break!

Never give up never say die.

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... He is here
::theme music plays::
Guess who's--guess who's--guess who's back
::rakim music fades off in the backgrounds,apparition materializes, 2 aazul hollow spheres glare back at you from the dark::

correction ::steps forward from the shadows::
the name is Coldstone Game Engine...
the engine has been left open ended in order to allow you to build work arounds and to inspire the people at Beenox
to include features to accomadate various genres in time...
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...go fall on something sharp.

... He is here
::theme music plays::
Guess who's--guess who's--guess who's back
::rakim music fades off in the backgrounds,apparition materializes, 2 aazul hollow spheres glare back at you from the dark::

correction ::steps forward from the shadows::
the name is Coldstone Game Engine...
the engine has been left open ended in order to allow you to build work arounds and to inspire the people at Beenox
to include features to accomadate various genres in time...
::a shock blue corona flares,the room preserved in perfection, dissapates::
... He is gone...

No, the name is Coldstone RPG Game Engine. And yes I believe in work around challenges, not complaints about what the engine can't do.

:frown:

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(This message has been edited by Toast (edited 05-13-2002).)

this thread is not ment to knock the cold stone engine in any way. it is a incredible engine, and when i said ambrosia should make a side scrolling engine i did not mean anything bad agnest cold stone, just that it is a RPG engine and mabie is not versatle enough to do sidescrolling games cuz thats not what it was ment to do. at lest i could not figure out how to do it, thats why i made this post. get it ???

ps chill_rx .... i love your little narative thing, that was so funny ;-D

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I believe that RealBasic may be the best option for this....you might check idevgames.com and see what people are using for making side scrollers and platformers (which I assume is what you really mean, since you mentioned Mario and Castlevania). I think you may find that people have already made code samples available to do a lot of what you might want.

-Elektrix

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Or you can try metal, which you can download at idevgames.com. It's free and very easy to learn!

If you REALLY wanted to use Coldstone, I'm sure you can, but the way I'm thinking of is very extreme...

I'm thinking make a stamp action for every movement tile and using conditionals and the player x / player y globals to determine which stamp action to do. Have a fixed width and height for each level and you can use the same events over for each level. Tell me if you don't understand me.
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(This message has been edited by Palic (edited 05-16-2002).)

whats metal and what does it do? please tell me more.

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Metal is a BASIC metacompiler. You write text files in BASIC code and it can execute it or make an application out of it. The homepage is (url="http://"http://www.iit.edu/~sarimar/GDS/metal.html")www.iit.edu/~sarimar/GDS/metal.html(/url) . At (url="http://"http://www.idevgames.com")idevgames(/url) you can find other BASIC compilers like TNT BASIC, which is shareware but made specifically for games.

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(This message has been edited by Palic (edited 05-17-2002).)

(This message has been edited by Palic (edited 05-17-2002).)

I would just like to say that I love sidescrollers and wish there were more of them.

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Look at this link: (url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/games/coldstone/images/coldstone_badge.gif")http://www.AmbrosiaS...stone_badge.gif(/url)
The engines name is: Coldstone Game Engine
No RPG in that name...
Just wanted to point out.

yeah i love side scrollers too.

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Originally posted by Mr. Me:
Look at this link:http://www.AmbrosiaS...stone_badge.gif
The engines name is: Coldstone Game Engine
No RPG in that name...
Just wanted to point out.

::chesire cat grin forms::

right...which is what i told you young bloods, trust me...i've comitted the name and the details of the engine to memory,
you newbies...ya crack me up

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...go fall on something sharp.

has anyone thought of a way tojump yet, (i assume simply using a keydown event that triggered an animation and moved the character would workbut what about directional jumping and varied distances?)

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