You don’t need to know about integration to make a platformer. That’s an absurd thing to say. I think this is called gatekeeping. “You couldn’t possibly participate in X without first having these credentials that I specify.”
The way that you do physics in simple platform games is with an Euler integration. I don’t really know what to tell you.
Velocity = Velocity + changes in velocity
Position = Position + Velocity
Do this on an infinite loop and That’s a numeric Euler integration of velocity to get position.
It’s not gatekeeping, I’m not saying you shouldn’t be allowed to make a game without credentials. I was a college dropout for almost a decade until three months ago. I was just saying that that is more advanced math than what a fifth grader does.
That's so obvious it wouldn't have occurred to me that it had a name. And it still looks 100% within "5th grade math" to me.
[edit] Wikipediaing "Euler integration", which redirects to "Euler method", it's not clear to me at all how knowing the stuff on that page (and it's Wikipedia, so nothing on the page looks like 5th grade math, even if it actually is) is particularly helpful with coming up with those two addition formulas.
[edit edit] I don't mean the tone of any of this to be hostile—it's so hard to convey tone in plain text—but I'm just legitimately not following how this is connected, except in a "well you could derive these two very simple things from a very powerful, more complex, general method that's useful for a bunch of other stuff too—there's no particular reason to, but you could" sort of way.
tombert|4 years ago
Velocity = Velocity + changes in velocity
Position = Position + Velocity
Do this on an infinite loop and That’s a numeric Euler integration of velocity to get position.
It’s not gatekeeping, I’m not saying you shouldn’t be allowed to make a game without credentials. I was a college dropout for almost a decade until three months ago. I was just saying that that is more advanced math than what a fifth grader does.
I am sorry that you think that it is absurd.
handrous|4 years ago
[edit] Wikipediaing "Euler integration", which redirects to "Euler method", it's not clear to me at all how knowing the stuff on that page (and it's Wikipedia, so nothing on the page looks like 5th grade math, even if it actually is) is particularly helpful with coming up with those two addition formulas.
[edit edit] I don't mean the tone of any of this to be hostile—it's so hard to convey tone in plain text—but I'm just legitimately not following how this is connected, except in a "well you could derive these two very simple things from a very powerful, more complex, general method that's useful for a bunch of other stuff too—there's no particular reason to, but you could" sort of way.