Zooming and Rotating camera

Today I had fun making some sort of zooming and basic rotation for my camera in my game. The rotation can definitely be improved a lot, but for now I'll leave it as a proof of concept.

Use z to zoom in and x to zoom out
Arrows to move
W and S to rotate the camera (still very very temporary)
A to reset the rotation

(Also click to begin)

<a href="http://lmtproductions.weebly.com/uploads/2/0/7/9/20793336/fun.swf" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://lmtproductions.weebly.com/uploads/2/0/7/9/20793336/fun.swf</a>

Hopefully I can actually utilize this in the future. (I was thinking of a pinch to zoom in a mobile game, but also of dynamic zooming in a 'beat 'em up')

One word: awesome

Nice ! You did this with the image api ?

Looks nice!

If you made it with the image API, wouldn't it slow down the game if the screen is to large? Also, can you zoom out (less than 100%), so you see more from the level

I have tested it quite a bit and am not seeing much slowdown. Currently I only know how to actively see the area of the screen that would be displayed so I can't zoom out to see more of the screen (although I may try forcing changing the screen size mid-game and seeing the effects).

I did do it with the image API.

This is great! Any chance of sharing this in the future?

When I wrap it nicely I probably will. Currently it is quite a mess of code.

Wow super cool !  Any chance of turning this into a extension ?

woahhhh !!!
hope you can do a zone , a region and it zoom out to show the scenery

This is what I'm searching for!
If you could make an extension of it would be amazing!

-Alessandro

Maybe something like this would work better (includes zooming out); Use up and down arrow keys to zoom, arrows to move, and z to jump:

<a href="http://static.stencyl.com/games/32078-0.swf" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://static.stencyl.com/games/32078-0.swf</a>

Everything is still very rough, but it's a possibility.

Here is zooming out done completely engine side (So all I do withing Stencyl is set a variable. This is turning out to be pretty interesting. For now use down to zoom out (and then up to zoom back in to normal leve).

<a href="http://lmtproductions.weebly.com/uploads/2/0/7/9/20793336/tank_men_game.swf" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://lmtproductions.weebly.com/uploads/2/0/7/9/20793336/tank_men_game.swf</a>

Amazing!
Great work!

This looks amazing! I love this!!

Not to bring up an old topic, but tada (use 1 and 2 to zoom in and out). I think this performs better than my previous attempts:

<a href="http://static.stencyl.com/games/33886-0.swf" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://static.stencyl.com/games/33886-0.swf</a>

If you fall out of the world press z to generate a new one. Click to place blocks and shift click to remove them. I was planning on showing this in a dynamic state, but couldn't find something I was happy with yet.