Creative Works of Gary Deken
Animation is key to any 2D Game, but one aspect I didn’t want to overlook was how to make switching between different animations by the direction in which a sprite is moving. To me, this logic is repeated again and again in a 2D Game. You move your character across the screen, then back again. If your character walks (or runs) from left to right across the screen, then he moves back (from right to left), you either have him run backward or change his direction. The variance is in how many directions the cha
I feel that this is another item to be added to the framework. The hard part was to figure out the names of the classes. My first thought was Movement, which is confusing with the sprite actually moving, so I came up with the class name of Motion . What the Motion class does is encapsulate the transitioning of Animations based on the direction in which the Sprite moves. If you remember in my third video , making the Animations switch between directions can get excessive. When the sprite moves from left to r