Sliding In SuperTux

[weluvgoatz]

Just like swimming, sliding in SuperTux is considered an essential penguin behaviour according to the Internal Chat. Multiple things worth considering about sliding are:

• Does it work on all slopes? Or just special blocks?
• How does Tux attack enemies while sliding?
• What actions can Tux do?
• Would it break levels?

[Alzter]

In my opinion sliding should:

• Kill enemies on touch.
• Only work on downwards slopes by pressing down.
• Let you gain momentum to be propelled up a slope and get launched off it.
• Be cancellable by jumping.

[qwertychouskie]

Also:

• Be auto-cancelled when (pseudo-code) !tux->isOnDownwardSlope() && tux->getSpeed() <= tux->getNormalRunningSpeed()

[weluvgoatz]

Some other things:

• Does Tux need to be big or can he do it small?
• How to activate it? (My opinion: Tux should probably run, jump and press down in quick succession)

[weluvgoatz]

Also, Tux should only do the sliding when he is on snow slopes, I think it would be weird if Tux slid on dirt...

[Rusty-Box]

@weluvgoatz I don't think so. This would rather limit the usage of such an essential feature for a game having a penguin as a playable character. Sliding shall be aviable in any enviorment. Even the non-snow ones. Otherwise what's the point of even having it when only one world (main game speaking) would be supporting such feature.

[weluvgoatz]

Hmm, maybe it's just that the current dirt tiles (the ones from like 2005) look dry and crusty... Maybe if we had snail slime slopes or mud slopes or just ones that don't look dry... But new forest dirt tiles have already been added into the game which look slide-able.

FWIW what I remember from playing Mario is that there was a special powerup that enable this behavior by simply consistently moving in one direction for a period of time (I think it was 3-5 seconds). The effects of it were that he looked/behaved like a snail that had been hit.

[Alzter]

FWIW what I remember from playing Mario is that there was a special powerup that enable this behavior by simply consistently moving in one direction for a period of time (I think it was 3-5 seconds). The effects of it were that he looked/behaved like a snail that had been hit.

That's the Blue Shell from New Super Mario Bros (DS).

[HybridDog]

I stopped using the Blue Shell when I noticed (in multiplayer) that running without this powerup is faster than moving as shell.
Anyway, I think that, if Tux can slide on snow and dirt slopes, it's important that snow slopes have less friction than dirt or even grass slopes.

[weluvgoatz]

What level would this be introduced in?

[Rusty-Box]

@weluvgoatz It shall be introduced in the very first level of the game as it is a universal useable ability, like jumping, ducking, etc.

[weluvgoatz]

The first level already has a lot of things, how about in the first level on the linear path with slopes? This would be either "A Fork in the Road" or "23rd Airborne".

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[Alzter]

Are we going to implement this?

[HybridDog]

Are we going to implement this?

I think that #854 should happen first.