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JavaScript Introducing JavaScript Let's Make a Game Doing Things With Functions

Bozena Jablonski
Bozena Jablonski
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Posted by Bozena Jablonski
Bozena Jablonski
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My platforms fly off when the player touches them!

By adding the extra coins and platforms I must've messed something up because now the platforms fly off when I touch them. It clearly says 'body.immovable', and I don't think I've edited that part at all.

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

https://w.trhou.se/ltvs5irhwc

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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It looks like you managed to discover something that could be used for some very interesting future games or modifications! :wink:

But you had the right idea about calling "platforms.setAll('body.immovable', true);", you just need to move that down to the end of the "addPlatforms" function so it is called after the platforms are created.

Bozena Jablonski
Bozena Jablonski
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Bozena Jablonski
Bozena Jablonski
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Hi Steven, Thanks! I did think it looked cool, can you think of a way in particular it could be used or harnessed in combination with other effects? Are there similar ones that can be added in a similar way to functions like this?

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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A few ideas:

  • platforms you have to move to reach a goal or avoid traps
  • objects you have to place to contain a "baddie"
  • a "switch" on the level that would lock or free the platforms

Have you ever seen the original "Commander Keen" games? They do a lot of clever things and most of them can probably be implemented with Phaser.

Ian Johnson
Ian Johnson
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Ian Johnson
Ian Johnson
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Oh man, this 'error' is so cool!

I know this is an old post, but you can sort of make a new mini game by placing platforms.setAll('body.immovable', true); at different points between the platform code and try get the coins before the platforms slide off/drop/raise up - depending on how you hit them.

Cheers!