Here it is: http://sites.google.com/a/mike-wyatt.com/mike-wyatt-s-blog/spacebattle.cap

Hey MikeWyatt, my name isn't Mike Wyatt, it makes it kind of hard for me to log into Mike Wyatt's blog at MikeWyattDotCom as Mike Wyatt.

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Nice job Minor. I like the life indicator skull. The jumping seems a bit abrupt but I'm sure that when playing the full game I'd get used to it.

One buggy thing I noticed is that a few times that I fell in the lava, a second player sprite appeared and would dissolve along with the first one. Weird. I couldn't get a lock on what was causing it, though.

What or Who is Lerp?

It stands for "linear interpolation," and it's a very useful and powerful math function. I had no clue what the hell it was when I first started to use Construct, but once it was explained to me (see David's post above) it made complicated stuff a lot easier. I know you're adverse to the whole coding side of things, but lerp() is a really good one to know.

In my opinion, everyone should make friends with lerp() and clamp(), which is also so useful it's sickening. There's a list of system math expressions here on the wiki:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/c ... xpressions

Lerp() and clamp() are under the math section.

Best use of the All Your Base meme ever.

We should make that game!

Would make an interesting game story though, hehe.

It is no story. It's TRUE.

No, leading the player with the mouse is not hard. You can do it in one event:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/529356/mouselead.cap

Made in v0.99.62. Hold left mouse to move the circle.

If you wanted something like acceleration and deceleration it would simply be a matter of adding another event or two.

Also, this isn't the only way you could can do this. You could use a behavior like Bullet, 8Direction, Custom Movement, or even Physics, instead of coding your own. But it's such an easy movement to make I don't see why you'd need to.

As for the different gravity directions... yeah, that would be harder to do for a beginner.

A lot of deadeye's platform tutorials should still be helpful to you, although I think it's time he updated them to work in the latest version of Construct .

I don't wanna

No, really... I've rewritten them all four times now. I don't want to keep doing that. I'll wait until v1.0.

Just use v0.98.9 to take the tutorials for now. There is a link to it in the first post of the Platform School thread. You will learn enough from v0.98.9 to get the hang of Construct.

I am a newbie ...

i dont know what to do.

Do this:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/c ... r_tutorial

Then do this:

Wow, this sounds really cool . You guys are doing an awesome job over there at GJ.

So who developed the plugin?

In the year 20XX the great war started. The oppressive terrorist organization KILLK was poised to rule the world. A rogue splinter group under the command of General Ashes defied KILLK. They gathered together the remaining rebellion forces to fight back, to reconstruct civilization.

Thus, the Reconstructors were formed.

This small, battle-scarred group fought bravely against the might of KILLK. Even KILLK's elite front-line soldiers, the Daily Crew, could not suppress them. Time and again KILLK's massive army proved ineffective against the Reconstructor's superior technology. Until one day KILLK unleashed it's secret weapon... the cybernetic organism known as Liji.

Liji's onslaught was merciless. It fought not only on the front lines with the Daily Crew forces, but in the cold, electronic landscape of cyberspace... hacking into Reconstructor data banks in an attempt to find a weakness and foil their plans. But Liji ultimately proved itself ineffective, and KILLK dismantled the cyborg.

Now there is a general armistice between the two factions. KILLK understands that the rebels aren't going down quietly. It's all they can do to keep their forces in line while awaiting the inevitable day that the Reconstructors unleash their most powerful weapon...

... One Point O.

The Platform Behavior in Construct is light years ahead of the default platform movement in MMF2.

It's even better than the Platform Movement Object plugin.

Anyway, if you want to make a Mega Man type game, then there's really no reason why you shouldn't start with the Platform Behavior. It's pretty customizable with events.