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Hey guys, I'm trying to make a simple platforming game using Slick. Naturally, I have a couple of questions:

- I have an animation and I want to make it loop in-between two specific frames once it reaches the first of these two frames. How can I do this?
- Should I use the Marte Engine to create enemies? What about Phys2D, should I use it for collision detection?

hi and welcome!



You should customize Animation class see Slick source code for this. Best way is customize your spritesheet and make your loop so.



You can use Marte Engine for make a platformer, see MarteEngine Fuzzy example on github.
Phys2D is a different stuff from ME, take a look to examples of both and decide. I think Phys2D have more you want to do a platformer

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If you're not doing anything crazy, MarteEngine makes things really easy. I would recommend it. MarteEngine can handle collision and physics.

I've written two platformers with Marte, Back to the past and StarCleaner. StarCleaner is part of the Marte source code (under test). The source code for Back to the past can be downloaded on my website.

Although Marte contains only minimalistic and basic physics stuff it's perfectly fine for a platformer game.
As already said phys2d is a much more powerful library but needs more work on your side.

Marte also supports animations so you're fine there too.

Just give it a go and learn while you improve your game. Feel free to use the code from my games - should help you a lot

Cheers,
Tommy

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Wow, so many responses! Thanks for all your suggestions, it's small stuff like this that can really help a guy out when starting out. I'll be using Marte, then, it seems like the right tool for this kind of game. And, Tommy, thanks for sharing that game's code!

About basic platformer made with MarteEngine, here a running example, take a look to github wiki
Source code of this basic example is here

For a more complex example take a look to Fuzzy, here source code

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Again, thanks for all these examples and documents, they make things a lot easier!