Learn Game Programming with Ruby

Make It Your Own

Making Escape added a few tools to your kit. You learned to make a game using the Chipmunk physics engine, and you learned how to make a side-scrolling platformer. As in your other games, there are plenty of things for you to change. Anywhere you added a random chance, distance, or time is an opportunity for you to experiment and tweak the game to your liking. You can make bigger changes, too, by adding new features to the game. Make a copy before you begin.

Have fun with the camera.

What else can you do with the camera object? The rules for the camera are pretty simple. Try having the camera adjust to give the player a longer view in the direction Chip is moving. Give the camera a maximum velocity so that it can’t move as fast ...