Them Stairs.

I don't know if there's any way you guys could know, but has there been any footage of how stairs work? I know a huge bother in some other 2d games I've played (Terraria, Maplestory, ect.) is the fact that if stairs are included they are really annoying to use. In Maplestory for example, when there is a ground floor that meets a stair case and you want to take the stairway path, you have to jump onto the stairs because otherwise you'll just continue walking on the ground. Terraria simply lacked stairs all together and it bugs me when you can't make a functional house in a 2d game.

Idea: Pressing up (or W) doesn't make you jump, instead if you hold down W while walking it will make you take the stairs when you pass them.

Thanks for any insight in advance.

P.S. I really hate I lost my Master Chief title, having 117 points was the bomb.

 

There are a few videos by Tiy that have stairs in them. You just got to go onto his Twitch channel

 

I don't know much about them, but I think that holding down and hitting jump makes you jump down through them.
Also I'm not sure what you mean by Maplestory's stairs?
I think it'd be more annoying to walk up stairs every time I want to walk through them.

Anyway, have this screenshot!


Also this video has stairs.
I don't remember if they use them much, though... and feeling too lazy to re-watch it.

 

Eh. I just used platforms instead of stairs in Terraria.

 

I think this is how it works right now. Jump is probably spacebar anyway, so.. yea..

 

Thank you SOOO much! At 20 I saw them seamlessly move from a ground floor that continued, to a stairwell.

It's now official, this game is gonna kick ass.

 

It has been official for awhile

 

I guess another quick question, in that video I saw them blow a hole in the background layer of the level and it was pitch black, but up a little higher light came through. Does it all depend on if there's a consistent background break from the surface?

 

If I recall correctly the pitch black background was supposed to be a cave level graphic. They just didn't have it in yet.

 

Stairs? it kind of annoyed me that Terraria (and other platformers like it) don't have some kind of elevator. Link went up and down elevators all the time in Zelda 2 from the 80s. I can even think of a platformer for the Atari 2600 that had elevators. I sure hope we can eventually make elevators / lifts of some kind in Starbound.

 

The only thing I can think of when I see "Stairs" is Claptrap and Borderlands 2, I am sorry.

 

Having 117 points is the shit.

 

That's a bit off topic.