Jario was never supposed to be a full-blown game, it’s merely a tech demo for Artemis, and something of a framework to go onto bigger and better platformers. I thought I should mention that one such game is now in the works. It’s still very early days, but it’s codenamed Carrot.
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Yes, thank you Chrome, only one of those is a word, and yet Jario now has both! Sounds were ridiculously easy to add through a generic SoundSystem with a handful of static sounds (courtesy of http://www.freesound.org/) and a static queue-push method, and then the single-line calls were peppered throughout the systems as required. The result is a game which is a lot more fun to play! Despite still being about 60 seconds long.
The issue of passability is a more technical one, and one I found quite interesting and challenging, and so naturally a lengthy discussion follows! Fun!
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I’ve just pushed an update to Jario with some pretty nice changes since I last mentioned it. As usual, you can check out the source if you’re interested or just !
I’ll be quick:
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You saw Hario, and you revelled in its technical prowess. Now, the summer (winter) blockbuster of 2011 has arrived.
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