Crate Escape

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Crate Escape is currently in development. Check back soon!

What You’ll Build

Single-screen platformer. Jump between platforms in a warehouse setting, avoid hazards, reach the exit. Crates as platforms.

Guide your character through a warehouse filled with crates, conveyor belts, and hazards. Jump from platform to platform. Reach the exit to advance. This teaches you the physics that power every platformer — gravity, jumping, and collision.

Why This Game?

After Neon Nexus taught you PPU fundamentals, Crate Escape focuses on physics and movement. Platformers defined the NES era, and this game teaches you why:

• Implement realistic gravity and falling
• Design satisfying jump physics (impulse, arc, landing)
• Build robust platform collision detection
• Create player animation (walk cycle, jump frame)
• Add hazards and enemies that test the player
• Design multiple levels with progression

By the end, you’ll understand how Mario moves.

Skills You’ll Master

• Gravity — constant downward acceleration
• Jump physics — impulse, arc, variable height
• Platform collision — landing, bumping heads
• Player animation — walk cycles, jump frames, states
• Hazards — enemies and environmental dangers
• Level completion — exit logic and transitions
• Multiple levels — level data and loading

Prerequisites

Complete Game 1: Neon Nexus first. You’ll need the sprite management and controller input skills from that game.

Time Investment

64 units at 60-90 minutes each. Roughly 64-96 hours total, spread across 4 phases.