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Jetpack Dynamite Devlog

A topic by JPD created Dec 22, 2015 Views: 589 Replies: 2
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I may be a few days late to the party but here's my first post. I've been playing around with some ideas on how to implement my project but I think I have it all figured out.

I've never made a game before, so the learning curve is significant (I doubt I'm alone in this). The first task I wanted to complete was getting my physics simulation up and running. Box2d makes this very easy so that was no problem. The next was tougher: procedurally generated terrain. Maybe not the best place for a new developer to jump in, but I find the topic interesting. I actually found it fairly easy to achieve for my 2d game by using Box2D ChainShape + midpoint displacement. Where I got stuck was how to render this terrain. After much researching, I learned all about creating meshes and rendering them with shadres.

Feeling good about my progress so far.



And here's the BitBucket repository

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Looking great man. And yeah if this is your first time, Box2D is not in the top 5 friendliest things to learn I still hit my head with it quite a lot, but it sure helps a lot.

Thanks, I'm looking at how to implement joints in Box2D now..there's much to learn!