COLT shooting Starling (2D Platformer) Games

 
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 This could be perfect tutorial of creating 2D platformer game using Starling, but it is showcase of  Live Codding by use of C.O.L.T. Code was inspired from Bret Victor "Inventing on principle" session. His example presenting ideas of Live codding thru game Breid was with use of JavaScript. JS is parsed and AS3 is compiled which makes Colt even more successful tool in you development.

   You can use any editor with Colt(even Notepad or TextMate), write code and after saving changes see what happen on fly. 

 Colt support multitargeting (web,standalone,IOS,Android) so you can test on all platforms at once and changes would be synchronized thruout devices. 

  Colt track assets and apply  designer's changes in running application right after without any assistance of developer. Very useful to check  what skin or graphics fit or look better. 

  In editors like Flash Professional and Flash Builder you can position UIControls or MovieClips (layout positioning) on stage but they are "just dead meat" not "Live". Colt let you add components and see them working "live" or tweak values/constants for best effect. Otherwise this need hundreds recompiling in testing and adjusting process.

You can also use Colt as providing live input to your game tools and prototypes, meaning your special code could handle code change listeners and present you with nessesery information. (see the time rolling example).

Colt let you also test ideas that aren't planned in project concept resulting in more interesting and attractive solutions.

 

Use "Left", "Right" and "Up" arrows for playing. Press "S" to save states and press "P" to pause. Use scroller to move Breid position and/or hit button to see position of Breid in time.

Update 07.11.13 Advice about how to use COLT successfully is to create good disposal functions that run before live update. This would also improve your program memory leak protection.

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