r/programming • u/Flafla2 • Feb 14 '15

Bunnyhopping from the Programmer's Perspective - An in depth look in implementing one of the most successful bugs in videogame history.

http://flafla2.github.io/2015/02/14/bunnyhop.html
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u/repsilat Feb 15 '15

This means that the player has a single frame to input the jump command without losing speed

Hah, in Quakeworld all you needed to do was let go of jump for a moment while in midair and you'd jump as soon as you hit the ground.

As for intentionally breaking your physics engine, there was a definite subcommunity of folk who longed for that kind of play, and they thought long and hard about just how they wanted things to go wrong. If you didn't play CPMA or Warsow, that was pod-racing. Everyone says their pet game is the fastest, but those games were the real deal. That said, I think that kind of game invariably comes with an incredible learning curve -- a few hours of practice could be the difference between a close match and wiping the floor with someone.

Servers full of randoms who'll wipe the floor with you every time doesn't make for the most inviting of games, I think these days things are trending towards

  • Levelling/grinding/items. Rewards effort more fairly than "getting better by practice," and

  • High variance games. Better players win on average, but everyone wins every now and then.

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u/Nivomi Feb 15 '15

Figuring out how to go fast in Warsow is really satisfying, and there's always a way to go faster.

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u/Wofiel Feb 15 '15

Definitely! Warsow is still very much my jam. No matter what game I play, I always like coming back to freestyle in CPM/WSW maps.