Poptropica - Want to create a scaled down version!

[scottgroovez]

Hi Guys,

I want to have a go at making a vastly scaled down version of Poptropica. How do you reckon they created the levels, tile-based, art based or another technique? Any suggestions as to how I could replicate being able to use anything as a platform?

Cheers

[renderhjs]

there are many ways of doing something like that,

one of them perhaps...
creating a array that stores shortcuts to the movieClips that are climb/jumpable. Loop through that array and check collision with each (first bounding box then pixel preciese or hitTest excact collision level.
For each object that that works like a platform gravity collide only on the top part (like 0.8 - 1.0 of the object height) - and if your movement vector goes up aka you jump dont collide.

[tonypa]

Looks like art based to me.