Jolly Jugglers

Jolly Jugglers is a Neopets game about two brother Jolly and Olly saving their sister Holly, whom was kidnapped by the evil Mutant Chia who is jealous of their skill in juggling. This was a moving upwards platform game, where user have to keep jumping upwards on the beanstalk where they will face their nemesis at the top.

JJ Screenshot

In order to make good collision and smooth display of the terrain, the game have to be made with a grid game engine. Using a 2D array, we can place the tiles onto the screen and take them out any time it is out of the screen, this greatly cut down the amount of computer resource needed, if we were to load all non visible tiles onto the stage, it will definately hangs the Flash Player.

Artificial Intelligent (AI) is definately not as complicated as Meepit vs Feepit, all we need to create is to let the enemies or mob in the game decide to move left or right, letting them know when hit the limit, they should make a turn etc. The last stage is pretty much a sequence of actions like Megaman made by Capcom, example the boss in the game will shoot, jump, charge then repeat the sequence again, it will randomise some sequence in order to make it less predictable.

This game was featured in Neopets Magazine Issue 17. You can view the List of Magazine.

To try the game, click on the link to play Jolly Jugglers