Introduction

Micro Jam #41 is happening once again.

This time the theme is Platformer. Last time when I participated, I lost badly, but I gained enough knowledge that was worth the Loss.

So I decided to try this jam again, and this time, help you too.

In this blog. I am gonna tell you how you could make a simple platformer controller for your game in Mini Micro.

If you prefer to learn visually, I suggest checking out my video on the same topic -> How to Create a Platformer Controller in Mini Micro

Platformer Controller

In most engines and frameworks, this is a very hard task, but why?

Because you have to code every single thing,
Collision, Ground Detection, Movement on keys, and Jump Mechanism.

But Mini Micro takes a special approach, which makes the creation of a platformer controller way easier

See, there is a library in Mini Micro in /sys/lib called spriteControllers. This library has everything you need for creating a platformer sprite controller.

// Set up our player character, "Kip"
newAnim = @spriteControllers.newAnimation
kip = new spriteControllers.Platformer
display(4).sprites.push kip
kip.x = 400; kip.y = 80
kip.idleAnim = newAnim(file.loadImage("/sys/pics/KP/KP-stand.png"))
kip.runAnim = newAnim([
   file.loadImage("/sys/pics/KP/KP-run1.png"),
   file.loadImage("/sys/pics/KP/KP-run2.png")], 10)
kip.jumpUpAnim = newAnim(file.loadImage("/sys/pics/KP/KP-jump.png"))
kip.fallDownAnim = kip.jumpUpAnim
kip.climbAnim = newAnim([
   file.loadImage("/sys/pics/KP/KP-climb1.png"),
   file.loadImage("/sys/pics/KP/KP-climb2.png")], 10)
kip.curAnim = kip.idleAnim

// Main loop:
while true
    spriteControllers.updateSprites 1/60
    yield
end while

THIS CODE IS TAKEN FROM THIS BLOGPOST I HIGHLY RECOMMEND TO CHECK IT OUT TOO - HWYDT: Donkey Kong

Jam is a time when people are usually in a rush (Especially if it's for 48 hours). So I have answered some questions below before explaining the logic.

How to Turn Off Climb?

Just delete this part from your code

kip.climbAnim = newAnim([
   file.loadImage("/sys/pics/KP/KP-climb1.png"),
   file.loadImage("/sys/pics/KP/KP-climb2.png")], 10)

What if this code doesn't have the logic I want?

Mostly Everything You need would be available in the library, so make sure to check out /sys/lib/spriteControllers, but if it's not, then you have to create your functionality

Explaination

• This code sets up a player character named "Kip" game using a spriteControllers system.
• First, it initializes Kip as a Platformer sprite in spriteControllers and adds it to the display layer.

• The character's starting position is then set to (400, 80). - The code then defines various animations for the player: an idle animation, a running animation, a jump animation, and a climbing animation.

• The main loop runs continuously, updating all sprites at 60 frames per second (FPS) by calling spriteControllers.updateSprites with an argument of 1/60.

Outro

If you do have any doubts, write them down (I promise I will try my best to help you).
To get more in-depth details about spriteControllers, make sure to check out

• spriteControllers.ms in /sys/lib/
• Platformer Controller
• HWYDT: Donkey Kong*

Till then stay awesome, Best of the luck for the game jam and BYE