Thanks. The editor was just implemented and I hope to add arrow key navigation to assist in creating. Did you understand the help alright, or should I improve that screen?

Yes it was helpful. It would be nice if the help text was not behind the items placed in the level. I am a little confused about the Invisible force field, - is it different from a blank space? Also I don't know if it is just my computer, but it seems copying from a jpane doesn't actually put it into the clipboard.

The force field is an invisible block that will make patrolling enemies turn around when they touch it. When the entire level has been seeded, a JPane will appear and ask if you want your seed. Pressing okay shows the seed and highlights it for you, and pressing ctrl + c (Windows) or command+c (Mac) should copy the seed to your clipboard.

Hey, I'm just getting into starting Java programming (by just I mean merely a day) and I'm wondering if you could explain the level generating to me. If it's complicated, then I'll try to understand as much as I can. I read through the code and sort of get the idea, but not the process that turns the symbols and numbers into blocks and objects. If it will take a long time to explain, just tell me that it's too complicated and I'll just try to figure it out. Thanks :D! PS: Fun game!

Okay so was there a blank you can place? And then it would probably be good in the editor to distinguish between them. And yes I know how to copy. I'm just saying the clipboard from the jpane seems to be a different context than elsewhere. I've ran into it before and I don't know what to think about it. I try to keep to printing out to the console.

Ah I've just checked it out. My apologies bourne. Time to look for an alternative output source, I'm not a big fan of the console window...

Darkmist, It's really not complicated at all :) In the levelBuilder class, there is a void that initiates the level string. When the program starts, in the levelBuilder act method, there is a command that tells it to read that string, and read the 'legend' (private void check(String[] segs), line 396) The legend merely checks a character against an if statement, so if the character is a 0, do this, if it's a 1, do this, etc. Hope that helps!

this is a BOSS platforming game!!! oh yeah! but by the way, you can't fall through a one-block space unless there is a wall, so on the first level, at the top there is a one-block space, i don't know if it's just for decoration or what, but it does nothing. Amazing game though!

forgot to put this in my last post, but also you don't lose enough when you die because if I get more than six coins before I die, I'm still gaining money.

Yes, the one-block spaces are troubling me :-/ The rules for losing money are: if you die and you have >= 500 points, you lose 500, so if you have more than 500, you will still have money.

Coming up soon, already implemented, just can't update the scenario (I'm running the gallery through a web proxy and it doesn't allow me to share through the proxy)

If you've lost and you click at 'stash', while the objects are flying out. And then you want to return to the game, the objects are just hanging around in the air... and you can't do anything...

great game, love it, very creative, interesting, and challenging. on level 5, the first level to introduce disappearing blocks, there is a part near the end where it is very difficult to fall down a hole that is 1-space wide, which leads to the level exit.

Thanks Busch, I'll fix that shortly. As for the difficulty falling through a tiny gap, I don't know exactly how to solve that other than cycling the gravity method faster (resulting in falling through blocks and jumping up and down pixels at a time) or just making the gap bigger... I'll fix these problems though.

i was thinking that, space permitting, you could remove one of the blocks on the left or the right to widen the gap. you'd only have to do that at the entrance to a 1-block wide shaft, cause then wall collision would line you up perfectly with the shaft.