Infinite run!!!

Well im starting work on this, it works on a system where you can continuosly keep adding on blocks to it, so once it's done, we can make blocks for it after.

i just need some probability.

there are 10 tiers.

10 will be rare, the main focus is the increasing speed of the ball.

i will want to keep it around 2 to 4 tier levels and then 3 - 6 and then 5 - 8 but i want to keep a consistant balance of blocks, rather than taking early tiers out, just add in new ones.

anyway the gradient of difficulty will also be small.

TIER 1 - automatic, nothing needs to be done. ramps, flats. so you do nothing.
TIER 2 - single event, either jump or speed.
TIER 3 - single event with ramps and stuff.

TIER 4 - two events, can be two the same or not.
TIER 5 - Decisions, two ways to go.
TIER 6 - Two events, more logic required.
TIER 7 - two events still but timing will be more important.

TIER 8 - stuff like super jump introduced.
TIER 9 - three events.
TIER 10 - two/three events, super jump and timing is crucial.

Tier 1+2 blocks will always be used to connect events, most commonly only tier 1 blocks. three tier one blocks may occur in a row after a 10 tier block to give people a break.

Just thought id outline the guidelines, im not going to bother writing the programming structure of this as i doubt anyone will actually read it and use it.

BRAIN WAVE!!!

i have worked out how to implement this!!!

each room will be saved as a file, this file will then be copied out as a script.
the script arguments will control the x position of the next block. the only tedious thing is saving the levels as a text file as we may end up with around 50 sections.

PROGRESS UPDATE!!!

I have got the infinite run working, it is truely infinite and every other section is a transition section.

i am using the code:

Code:


if (global.section_calced) mod 2
      {
      //normal
      }
else
      {
      //transition
      }


the number 2 after mod can be changed, if it is set to 1, every block becomes a transitional, if it is set to 4 every 1 in 4 sections will be a transitional, this could be optimised in many ways.

i put the latest version of the infinite run onto dropbox, it test runs a simple running demo.