Game title: KREN
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As I said in a previous post about my platformer engine (the one I’m working on for Fuzeboy), I’m using Zack Bell‘s code as a base. Recently I started to look into ways to optimize such code without losing the functionality (slopes are a big feature of that simple collision/movement code). And as someone once told…
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In this post I’ll try to write down the thinking process I made when I chose to develop Kren at a 384×216 sceen resolution.
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Kren Devlog #1 – Upgrade System and Level Specific Items
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