Planning on creating a Puzzle/Platformer game

[dialgarocksful]

Hi, I'm planning on creating a puzzle/platformer game that has different controllable characters (press 1 for one char, press 2 for another, etc), but only uses the same movement control (WASD + Space for jumping). How can I approach this? Please take note I'll only be using Visual Studio XNA with Monogame (no other engines)

 

Here's my current options:

- creating the multiple characters as different objects and calling them upon press of the button

- creating movement control as an object and use it for all of the characters on the Update stage

 

Additional question: How do I make the camera movement smooth between transitions of the 2 characters? 

[Guest]

Assuming you're asking for help in switching characters, I'll give 2 options. 

 

Pretend you understand C for a second

 

While(playing){

   While (player1){

      Jump =1;

      Power = 5;

   }

   While (player2){

      Jump = 5;

      Power = 1;

   }

}

 

(no code blocks on mobile that I can see)

 

Or do functions 

 

Updates every second{

if key press 1

    Change to 1

else if key press 2

    Change to 2

}

change to 1 function{

   Power= 5;

}

changr to 2 function{

   Power = 7

}

 

finally yiu you can actually swap out characters instead of changing stats.

 

Updates every second{

if key press 1

    Change to 1

else if key press 2

    Change to 2

}

change to 1 function{

   Find player position

   Delete player

   Create player version 1 at position

}

changr to 2 function{

   Find player position

   Delete player 

   Create player version 2 at position

}

 

^^ that may not work depending on how you program lose conditions and AI. Otherwise you may need more function calls.