This weekend I disided to run a few test to see why I was having so much trouble programming the platform engine for Funland Lex. To begin, I made a platform engine with just blocks and the player, nothing fancy at all. Then to monitor some things about the character that would be important to the game I had GM draw the stats so they could be monitored in real-time. The engine works fine, but I found some intresting things that could possibly be the reason for my troubles.

As I started the test I saw that as I was standing on the floor of the room I kept getting different y values. So I programmed in that I could add the players y value to a list of all the different y values. I found that I got 4 different y values for my character just standing on the floor at different times.

After finding this I added it in so that all the blocks that were below the players y would be partially transparent.

Because of the different y values sometimes the blocks are considered below the player and sometimes they are considered above.

Is this a GM screw up or is it something with my programming? You can download to file Here if you would like to see the file.

Aside from that I have started to learn a bit of HTML to hopefully design my site later. It is suprisingly easy so far and I should have a working site within the next week.