Looking for sidescroll abs tut

[DeusExMachina]

Allright. First off, I gotta say, Im sorry as hell for requesting help and tutorials this early into my registry here at charas, but Ive spent the last hour scanning the tutorials section, and alot of the tuts didn't really hit on exactly what I was trying to do. Some of them said that the "tutorial writing mini-team" had the answers, but alas, I could not find this mini team listed. Last night I was trying to make a system using anothers tut, but it wasnt working right at all.

So in my project Im working on, Ive got 3 battle systems I plan on using. 2 of which ive got figured out. One is a modified version of the Default system. Another is a "point and shoot" style system. These two Ive got figured.

Its the last one thats bugging me.

This system is to take place in a side scrolling map.

I know there is a ton of ABS tuts on here, but the ones that were actually coherent enough to understand, contained things in it that confused me, as the attacking system was a bit more complicated than what I had in mind, and when I tried to simplify the system, I would *&@%$ it up.

No Im trying to Make a very simple ABS....Side scrolling, left and right. No prjectile attacks.

You use your sword.No Beams. Nothing special. Hit the enemy until it dies.When you hit it, it gets pushed back. When you get hit, you get pushed back.

You jump over some gaps, and onto platforms. (This one is the one I had troubles finding. It was apperantly in the tutorial mini-team, but I couldnt find that team at all)

This system is to be used only at special times, when I deem it necessary.

Again, a simple system. But the thing is, apparently, im stupid. I cant seem to figure this out, or find a tut that is dumbed down enough to perform this feat.

No upward attacks. No Downward Attacks.


I have a firm understanding of Switches. I can understand variables. I am just grasping Key Input Processing.

I was wondering if anybody had a couple of tuts that would explain this in a simple manner.


 

[Dragoon de Sol]

Hmm...

If you go to Gaming World, they have a game based on Zero from MMX. It has a small ABS-Side Scroll style of gameplay. It is not very adavnced, but it may be what you need.