Building Vertical Platformer Games using Kaboom

Building Vertical Platformer Games often has issues when working with arcade physics. Check out this experiment for building a Serious Scramblers prototype that highlights the pros and cons of using Kaboom.

Kaboom is a Javascript game programming library that helps you deal with arcade physics fast and fun. In the experiment, Kaboom is still affected by arcade physics issues since it doesn’t really have a proper physics engine. For example, if two moving objects collide, they end up stopping together.

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