Hey there,
after reading more and more about pointer and playing
around with them, I got my mapeditor as ready as much
as I need it now.

But the Code was much bigger than I thought at first.
Also I didn't managed it, to struct the code nice,
since there were a lot of things I didn't think of in
the beginning.

Now I want to make my little Mario jump and run.
It's very basic, only running left, running right,
jump, falls, jump right, jump left.

To prevent doing badly structured code again, I made
a plan what I need and outline the functions.

It would be nice, if you could give me some hints about
what essential things I forgot.

The code in the file is just pseudo-code, that way the
programming language used shouldn't matter(in my case: c++).

This is the file(PDF. If you need another formal to be able to read it
let me know).
http://home.arcor.de/sjnrw/mario.pdf
Don't be too harsh, it's the first time I outlined it that way.

best regards,

Aestond

Very basic, but in concept correct.
Now the actual fun can begin, eh

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Okay, thanks.
Already started, collision detection sucks xD

Tomorrow I want to implement jumping and gravity.
Will post some code, as soon as I think it's not too embarrassing *g*

Welcome to game programming

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Hehe, thanks ("one of us, one of us, one of us")

Made good progress I think.
Only issue I didn't find a solution for yet is the jumping and running at the same time,
without the jump interrupting the running.

Here are the files, take a look if you want
Download game

nah, they work out fine. You can clearly see this when you are on the top tiles and jump while moving.

And pack the SDL.dll too (I just happened to have it in my archives)

Yeah, getting the actual character behavior right is not easy, though very essential.
Acceleration, deceleration, jumping velocity, air controls, slidyness. There's lots of nobs you can turn.

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Just want to show you my latest updates:

Mario-clone download (sdl.dll included)

There is not much to do yet, most of the time I spent in reorganizing my code(
for example: The collision is now a function not belonging to a class, instead
it the coordinates of both objects I want to collision detect as arguments.
This way, I can detect everything with everything).

Short-term steps are:
- Improving the mapeditor
- programming a goal
- building 1-2 more maps
- building a menu

Long-term steps are:
- animate the movements of figures
- building clickable blocks(for coints)

Very long-term step:
- making the game sidescrolling

I think the next steps are well thought.
If you have advises about what to do different,
just let me know