What's the best example for learning platform games in Defold?

[Jerry80]

Hi !

I have a question.
What’s the best example for learning platform games in Defold?

[britzl]

My recommendations:

• Take a look at the Platformer sample game which you can open from the Welcome screen of the editor.
  • The code for it is here as well: GitHub - defold/template-platformer: Template project for a platformer game
• Platformer tutorial: Platformer Defold tutorial
• Runner: Endless runner tutorial

[Jerry80]

I see that the level is created using “tilemap”. I have a question.
How big (in px) max can/should such levels be?
Are there any limitations?

[britzl]

@Jerry80

How big (in px) max can/should such levels be?
Are there any limitations?

The limitation is on number of tiles, not pixel size. You can set a max tile count for your tilemap in game.project:

Defold project settings

[Jerry80]

Thank you for your quick reply. What value is optimal for mobile and web games ?

[britzl]

You can create big maps on mobile and web as well. The size of the map rarely matter much, but if it is filled with thousands of game objects you need to manage this and disable objects that are far off-screen for instance.

You can always measure performance using the profiler: Profiling in Defold