JumpWorlds day 5
Not that I've been working on JumpWorlds for 5 days, but there you go.
I think Flash might be a dead-end for now. Over the past couple ofyears I have run the same basic experiment: using Flash to make a
bitmap-based platformer (think Mario) rather than vector based. It
seems the raw animation grunt is just not there, the animation becomes
very flickery at any speed. I have played Flash platformers, but I suspect they use movie clips
for all the onscreen entities which does not scale well
performance-wise either. Sooo, I'm going to experiment with Java applets and compare the
performance. My concern with applets is that the browser will be
sluggish when an applet loading, but we shall see.
