Launching yourself with your own explosion, strength by distance

Shoot the floor at your feet and fly. Sounds fun, but the blast either does nothing when you stand on the ground, throws you the wrong way, or breaks when the blast is exactly under you. Here is how to aim the push and when it must be bent upward.

Why this works

A blast feels fair when the shove follows what the eye sees: it points away from the centre of the explosion and fades the farther you stand. Measuring from the middle of the body, not the feet, makes a shot at the floor push upward, as players expect.

When not to use it

Skip it when the level depends on fixed heights, such as a puzzle with one intended route. A player who can fly with every blast skips your design. Give such games a fixed launch pad instead of a push that depends on distance.

In the full entry

• What to build, step by step
• Starting values and the reason for each
• 3 common mistakes and the fix
• A diagram of every state
• 30 lines of example code with 4 checks that pass
• How your AI shows you that it works

Say this to your AI

Use the Spielerando entry "Launching yourself with your own explosion, strength by distance" (read_entry explosion-launch-from-blast-distance) in my game. Build it step by step, and show me how you checked that it works.

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