#coyote space

[programnoir]

Platformer Mechanics: What is Coyote Space?

While Combat Nightsuit Saboteur is going to be a simple game in terms of game mechanics as a platformer, there's one mechanic that I personally feel is essential to platformers besides jumping, and that's coyote space.

The term coyote space comes from the cartoon Wile E. Coyote and the amusing gag where he will walk off of the edge of a cliff for a few steps before it's too late for him to recover. In gameplay terms, players who walk off of an edge (or run, slip, etc) will have a limited amount of time or frames where they can still jump.

You may be asking, "is coyote space that necessary to implement?" In my expert opinion, yes, absolutely.

Take an innocuous section of your typical platformer game, such as the below screenshot:

When platformers do not implement coyote space, I feel that their gameplay becomes inherently too strict, due to how human it is for your timing to be a few fractions early or late. Coyote space is crucial because we are not calculators that know the precise instant that our next pixel will be the last chance to jump.

Because of this lack of insight and our natural margin of error, the scenarios in the above screenshot show where issues in a platformer without coyote space will be exacerbated. Platforms with a very small amount of horizontal space (like the platforms on the left) and areas with an overhang matching your floor's width (the platforms on the right) are guaranteed to produce a degree of frustration. Either you slip off because you jumped too late, or you hit your head on the ceiling due to jumping too early.

Coyote space solves both of these problems. The video below demonstrates a before-and-after with an exaggerated coyote space window of 0.5 seconds to show the effect.

Coyote space is one of the many small things that makes game development take longer to polish and perfect, but it's worth it to preserve a satisfying player experience.

[hiddenstashart]

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[lyrifaun]

walk slow and low on the tightrope

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[xenon1962]

[echo-coyote]

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[mcromwell]

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[vanadiumvalor]

Redesigned Venus a bit to make them look more like their species! Also got the chance to take inspiration from the new photos of venus that have been surfacing <3

[acmeoop]

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[picklepie888]

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[barkingdamage]

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[aspenonpawzzz]

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[daikenkki]

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[hiddenstashart]

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[lyrifaun]

walk slow and low on the tightrope

[cupids-rainbows]

hii :3 could i request a coyote stimboard? I really like stars/space themes and green forest areas if that helps with anything. I love your stimboards btw!!

Sure! ^w^ (An thank you sm!! ♡ (˶>ᴗ<˶))

Coyote stimboard with stars/space & forest stims !

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[skullislandproductions]

Wile E. Coyote from the “Mad Max” sequence of “Space Jam 2.” This is one of the layout drawings I did before the scene was issued into animation. This was done to help guide the animators, as well as to help visualize the scene for the edit, for preview audiences.