Here’s the obligatory desk shot. Ok, I’m in the zone.

Over the weekend I worked out:

1. How to create the appearance of continuous platforms in a side-scroller. (Still having a little trouble running backwards though.)

2. How to change scenes and levels

3. How incredibly strange it feels to bind every object in a scene so that it moves when you press the arrow key, while the main character who’s supposed to be running forward isn’t really moving at all. I’m probably not doing it right. suggestions?

and 4. space (the key i want to make a “jump” key) is already used by the browser to automatically follow page links. It’s disconcerting to jump over an obstacle and end up on facebook I’m working on a way to disable that. I could use a different key for jump, but that just feels wrong. I bet someone else has run into this same problem?