Quote:Original post by CGameProgrammer
There will indeed be multiple characters, with different moves. One will specialize in fire-based attacks, so he's the one with the fireball. But I did plan on just hard-coding them. Since the attacks themselves need to be hard-coded, and setting the moves and firing the attacks is very simple, there seems little point in moving it out of the code. For coming up with the combos, I don't need to actually test it; I just press keys on the keyboard and see what seems good for an attack.

// in the file:"FIREBALL"{  min 0, max 1: W pressed                D pressed, W released                A pressed, D released                W D pressed, A released}// in the code:MoveCombo[MOVE_FIREBALL] = LoadCombo("FIREBALL");

Quote:Original post by Slick-Player
i would preffer pressin ctrl and shift maybe a space bar 2 jump

Quote:Original post by MaulingMonkey

Quote:Original post by CGameProgrammer
On my keyboard, Ctrl, Z, and Alt can be easily handled from my left hand, and Shift and X can be hit pretty easily too. So I'll use those keys from now on.

Using the ALT key in a game is just asking for trouble IMNSHO. Unless you dig out some groovy code for disabling certain system keystrokes (which many games I have played have NOT done) the alt key tends to get hit by accident in conjunction with other keys, causing system menus to pop up.

The worst case of this was this one game that used control, alt, AND delete, where you could NOT remap the keys. Sometimes I'd have reason to be pressing all 3... which as you can probably guess had a rather annoying effect.

Quote:Original post by Anonymous Poster
How would you handle combos made up of special moves, where each special move consists of multiple input combinations.

Quote:Also, what about combos where each move must make contact with an enemy before you can do the next move?