Thank you, Firo! That's an interesting idea.

Another idea: use a different camera perspective.

Then you can do the layer switch fluent, like shown in this video of a Turtles Beat em Up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiUA561FFHM

I think simply adding a shadow to the characters should help a lot as well.

Dear team members, there is a new version with crate grid snapping, better camera and balloon crates on George's SkyDrive Account.

Hihi... this new version's actually really fun

http://www12.picfront.org/token/ZiAA/2010/02/26/1773870.jpg
(that shouldn't have happend... the balloon stayed there but should've kept going. It stopped, and so I pushed the other box onto it.)

Overall, I think this is getting quite close to what I'd like to see in the final game. I really miss the pulling of boxes though. For example, in this game you will never be able to get a box from layer1 onto layer2, without pulling. i don't think I like that, but we can of course limit the pulling to one of the two characters or something...

Thanks for your reply.
Yes, George already pointed out that bug for me, thanks anyway.

Pulling is an ability that I wanted to implement, too. Let's see what the team / leader says.

Looks spiffy Superku . If you can implement things not planned, totally fine by me! We're waiting for the artists anyway as far as I know .

Dear team members,
there is a new version on George's SkyDrive Account. Please test it and report bugs.

New features:
- Touch crates then hold [Ctrl] to pull them.
- Stack crates and move them altogether.
- Laser barriers that are not your friend (there is no restart at the moment, please use the gamestudio F2/F3 quicksave/-load function).
- New gravity code, both player and crate should not get stuck anymore.
- New crawl implementation.
- Switches that need a heavy weight (player/crate) to activate sliding doors.
- New collision system.

There will be a documentation about available actions (most of them are configurable) soon.


(Click to enlarge)

And a video

Regards,
Superku

Hot stuff Superku! I can't test now but the video looks great. And it will be even more way awesome if the camera will rotate with it.

I'll see if we can merge this demo with the interfaces soon!

Is it ok to use render-to-texture ?

PS: RedPhoenix contacted me and his input system and my movement code work well together.