Movement Cleanup
Once I had made some decisions about the lane structure of the game, it was time to start working on cleaning up the player’s movement. I had some experience working on tuning the player’s movement from working on past platformers, so I started working on the movement for this game based on work I had done in past projects. This stuff is a bit more mechanical than some of the prior work I had done, but needed to get taken care of so that I could continue my design work.
At this point the player can no longer jump multiple times in the air, handles their collisions better, moves smoothly up and down slopes, can go up and down stairs, and is able to switch between the “lanes” of the game. Right now I’m playing with the idea of limiting the whole game to being at most 3 lanes everywhere.