New badguy: Jumping Spiky

[Savs]

The jumping spiky is/will be another variation on the Spiky badguy. As usual, it looks like an innocuous spiky until the player gets near it, at which point it spontaneously hops into the air, hopefully nailing the player.
I modifed the code to get it compile with supertux 0.4.0 now the only problem is that it won't jump. It sees the player, it crouches but don't jump. Advice?

[brmbrmcar]

I don't like the idea. The toads are annoying enough, but a spiky one...

[onpon4]

looks like an innocuous spiky until the player gets near it, will jump on player like a toad.

So, it's pure fake difficulty. Terrible idea.

[Savs]

Remember that Helmuts from Jazz 2 in Medvio levels would occasionally jump at player if you play on Hard diffculity? So, why not do the same for spiky in supertux?

[Hume2]

This remembers me the trolling levels made by community in the 0.1.3 times, where the trick was jumping over specific areas with non-solid ground that appeared as solid.

[brmbrmcar]

I guess they could be implemented, just for game flexibility. There would be a rule not to use them in official levels though.

[Hume2]

So why to implement that when it can't be used anyway?

[brmbrmcar]

FOR GAME FLEXIBILITY! Of other third party levels.

[Hume2]

Assuming that it's possible to think bazilion different badguy behaviours, adding a next one won't make any difference. For game flexibility would be better something like generic badguys.

[brmbrmcar]

I think there should be custom badguys somehow then, but it would get tricky. Maybe a very restricted C++ coding environment would work, but that would be tricky.

[Hume2]

I think, there was already an idea like that but apparently it was left. I personally think, it would be nice, but currently there's no capacity for that.

[brmbrmcar]

How would there not be capacity for it? It's going straight to 0.5.0, right? There should at least be some new features!