Add your ideas how to improve the tool / what features you would look to see in the future here :)
didn't knew lol. will see later...
maybe also an idea for sounds of player dying, jumping and dashing? like not only background music...
also a cool idea to set up background color to every level separately like vfx and size? also background music level (not-game) dependant would be cool...
You can always learn to make a webpage wrapper using Electron, but it's rather painful and bloaty that way.
There are tools out there that can convert an HTML into an APK, like webintoapp , or similar.
One way to make it easier to convert to other platforms/engines could be the ability to export the game data into something that can be read by other platforms, like, for example:
The idea would be that, if someone ever wanted to migrate their game to other engine, it would be as painless as it could possibly be. Of course, the various behaviours would have to be implemented from scratch on the target engine.
Starting to experiment with data extraction: https://github.com/haroldo-ok/pocket-platformer-exporter
The work-in-progress script above extracts the level/sprite data from the exported HTML into a JSON file.
Example exported JSON: https://github.com/haroldo-ok/pocket-platformer-exporter/blob/07180426cd61af45f6...
that's awesome! :)
Already useful as it is, even if you don't continue with this project.
Now, the script can also generate a Tiled-compatible TSX file, including custom properties and animations.
Example TSX file: https://github.com/haroldo-ok/pocket-platformer-exporter/blob/71daea0e84569760a9...The tileset opened in Tiled:
The script now exports the levels into Tiled-compatible TMX files (only map layer for now; objects will be next):
https://github.com/haroldo-ok/pocket-platformer-exporter/blob/bb766f5f469b8c7ea8...
Original level:
Converted to Tiled (so far):
can't you make secret levels with custom doors?
but yeah, red/blue (or maybe green/yellow or something) switches could be made to persist whole game - like coins...
you can download a zip with all files here: https://github.com/l0bster2/pocket-platformer
not thinking about monetization
Thank you! :)
i was planning on doing a simple event system and hopefully some of your suggestions will be possible to do with it.
You can also already achieve "conditional endings" with coins and flags in case you've overlooked this feature btw. Place some coins and click on a set flag to make it conditional.
i would like to do all of it. Cutscenes, enemies etc. My main problem is lacking the time for it.
Also i don't want to do quick fixes, like 1 generic enemy, 1 generic weapon. Those things should be made flexible, so it's possible to expand them later, but such ground-work takes longer than a simple solution..
