Platformer #33 - Mega-Sized Mega Man (3x size)

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Published on October 22, 2022 9:00:03 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f4KIV4Bir4

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2022-04-03. While porting this from XNA to MonoGame, I was cleaning up some code. One piece was to remove the hardcoded 3x3 pixels from the higher quality graphics to the pixel art, by reducing the pixels to actual single texels, then using scaling constants in the code to scale it back to 3x. During this conversion, I found myself playing a funny version where all hero and enemy sprites are 3x too big (actually, play field is 3x too small!)

LEGACY NOTES:
2D platformer engine original made ~10 years ago, in 2011, for a local game jam. It is based off of an idea I had for 5 or 10 years or more at the time, for which I have a lot of game design documents for. It predates all of the of the relatively modern 2D and 3D terrain games where you can influence its shape. But it does not predate the abundance of 1980's single-screen, or simple 1-way scrolling, games that implemented these same ideas that perhaps we simply forgot about for 3 decades. This has been a dream for me to create since I played the classics in the 1980's, and was amazed that not only could you create a world for a gamer to live in, but also interact and modify. Of course, I made my own games like this, but the real dream was something much more immersive, but still 2D, where you can get some magical things to happen and be visualized that even 3D mastery cannot achieve. But what you see here is just the basics of a weekend demo that I've cleaned up a bit.

Playlists:
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- Voxel Software 3D: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uadGU-stF-w&list=PLjnbT4UISq0bQF1g85tE9jTrKfEtdRYlY
- Ray Casting 3D: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SkaPYZOKPQg&list=PLjnbT4UISq0YcFtRFjFQqK0g6ONNCtrvY
- Graph-All Calculator 2D: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kLSc7bZW2Bs&list=PLjnbT4UISq0YLgynFSpLzml4BMC6TDZL2
- Parallax Side-Scroll Shooter 2D: https://youtube.com/watch?v=l9bIYkZepPo&list=PLjnbT4UISq0Y_7IAN_zUzxgZnfhXxo_0Q
- Road Pseudo 3D: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rA4g4VX7ys8&list=PLjnbT4UISq0bnfd1RC3M4PgTgkmhlkikV
- Arena Shooter 2D: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VKjiuq437t0&list=PLjnbT4UISq0adw__Y9B2eXA0LL35TyORU

Websites:
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- GitHub: https://github.com/JDoucette
- Indie Game Studio: http://xona.com
- Blog: http://thefirstpixel.com