More complete Player example

[Kenoshen]

It would be nice if the player class was fleshed out a bit more with things like multiple animations, sound effects, keyboard and gamepad controls, etc. So when you start up a new project you are not starting (almost) from scratch with the player class.

Maybe go so far as to have multiple player classes for different types of games (platform, topdown, etc)

[MondayHopscotch]

I wonder if there's a clean way to have slightly different templates for different styles of games. Maybe in branches? Not sure how you'd keep that stuff in sync. Maybe we could do something like have this base 'template' project, and have some other small repos that have all the starter code for various types of games. So you make a repo from this template and 'select' your genre and it clones down all the genre specific starter stuff from that other repo. It would keep this repo clean and generic, while also allowing us a super quick jumping off point. I'll have to think on this for a while.

[Kenoshen]

Ya, trying to manage the different flavors of game in a single repo seems complex whether they all live on the same branch, different branches, forks. Yuck. But using separate repos seems like it might be even worse since any "generic" update to the template would have to be done in both places as well. But maybe "generic" updates would be better handled in util libraries instead of directly in the project itself. So that way you don't have to update the code in each genre project, you just update the libraries that the genre projects depend on?

[MondayHopscotch]

Yeah, the current process, which I think I like is basicaly:

1. Use the flixel-utils repo
2. if changes are needed, make a branch (named after the jam, such as ld55, or whatever)
3. After the jam is done, we have a nice clean set of commits for things we wanted to change and can clean things up and merge them into master for the next jam

But yes, I'm also still thinking of a good way to give us jumping off points for different genres.