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Aryadi Subagio
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Aryadi Subagio

Aryadi Subagio is the second among seven brothers. He has loved video games ever since he was little, and he wanted to make his own game in his teenage years. This led him to pursue a Diploma in Computer Programming after he graduated from high school, where he spent years learning about software development techniques. He learned about game development from online sites, because at that time, there was no book on game development in Indonesia. After graduating, he immediately jumped into the world of game development. During this time, he made a few shooting games for the Flash Platform. After a year, he decided to gain more experience by working in a game studio; this is when he joined Esabra Studio. After working at Esabra Studio, he worked at Enthrean Guardian, a game studio based in Semarang. He has now quit working and is trying to set up his own studio. Aryadi has a passion for sharing his knowledge. He has written a lot of blog posts about game development on Indonesian and English sites. He also shares his knowledge on his own personal blog at http://daggio21.blogspot.com/.
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Joining two objects


I have given you examples of how to use forces and impulses to move physics objects around, but I haven't covered joints yet. Joints are used to join two objects together so that the distance between them is the same. We will make a bridge using joints, so, create a new layout and make it look like the one shown in the following screenshot:

The sprites for the bridge and the fence objects are located under the Tiles folder. Before continuing, check the bridge's collision polygon and fix it so that no lines will intersect each other, just like the buttonBlue object. You want to be careful when adding physics objects, as small sprites tend to have similar collision polygons.

Tip

Always look for collision polygons when adding an object you want to make a physics object, especially the ones with small sprites.

The fences and bridges are physics objects, but only the fences are immovable; the bridges are still movable, but we won't let them fall to the bottom. We will tie the...

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Aryadi Subagio

Aryadi Subagio is the second among seven brothers. He has loved video games ever since he was little, and he wanted to make his own game in his teenage years. This led him to pursue a Diploma in Computer Programming after he graduated from high school, where he spent years learning about software development techniques. He learned about game development from online sites, because at that time, there was no book on game development in Indonesia. After graduating, he immediately jumped into the world of game development. During this time, he made a few shooting games for the Flash Platform. After a year, he decided to gain more experience by working in a game studio; this is when he joined Esabra Studio. After working at Esabra Studio, he worked at Enthrean Guardian, a game studio based in Semarang. He has now quit working and is trying to set up his own studio. Aryadi has a passion for sharing his knowledge. He has written a lot of blog posts about game development on Indonesian and English sites. He also shares his knowledge on his own personal blog at http://daggio21.blogspot.com/.
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