How to create physic logic for a platformer game?

[King_Me_Real_OG]

Hello SO I am trying to create a 2D platformer game and I cannot seem to figure out why my main character is unable to remain standing straight on the platform I was able to create a tilemap and set it to a static collision object and I made my main character (IDLE) along with its other animations(i.e. walk Left, walk Right, jump, etc.) a dynamic collision object. My MAIN goal is to have my character perform its animations while remaining on top of the tilemap on the collections screen. Any help AND/OR feedback WHATSOEVER would be GREATLY appreciated!

P.S. - If someone knows how to create multiple instances of coins along with the proper behavior so that my character would be able to collect them, PLEASE DO let me know THANK YOU!

AnAnimal’sKingdom.zip (604.2 KB)

[britzl]

If someone knows how to create multiple instances of coins along with the proper behavior so that my character would be able to collect them, PLEASE DO let me know THANK YOU!

The side-scroller tutorial shows how this can be done:

Side scroller tutorial

I cannot seem to figure out why my main character is unable to remain standing straight on the platform

If you have problems with physics my first recommendation is to enable physics debugging in game.project:

Debugging in Defold

With this enabled you quickly see that your player character has a pretty big collision box and that the ground consists of a single small collision tile:

Since you are using a tilemap I suggest that you check this example on how to do tilemap collilsions:

Tilemap collisions

And read this manual:

Collision shapes

Defold tile source manual