Playing as a Character instead of FPS?

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Playing as a Character instead of FPS?

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I've seen it done several times. Most interestingly was the amazing Sonic the Hedgehog game, in which you played as a full character with the ability to jump on enemies to kill them. How can I pull this off? To make DOOM into potentially a platformer?

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Hidden Hands wrote:How can I pull this off?
By coding the entire player movement from scratch.

I've made a side scroller starter kit project: viewtopic.php?f=105&t=55366
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Nash wrote:
Hidden Hands wrote:How can I pull this off?
By coding the entire player movement from scratch.

I've made a side scroller starter kit project: viewtopic.php?f=105&t=55366
Now this is fantastic just what I wanted. I can make a full on sidescroller like this?
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While I'm sure this one doesn't use the system from that thread, it does show how far down that line it is possible to go:
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=49491

And this one pre-dates that thread by quite a bit but, even so, it shows what was achievable before ZScript and other more recent enhancements:
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=16214
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