I also vote Derek.

It worked

EDIT: You should have a few instructions on how to do ij jumps, so people can find the way that works for them.

Download seems broken- "zip file is corrupt" I tried re-downloading; didn't work.

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Comparing prices just saved me about $60 bucks on a router!

Back on topic: It's been a week.

Also, the rings drift outwards from the beam after as the beam is on the screen. They start at about where they are in Winterous's picture, and my pic as about the end of the animation.

Here's a better quality pic:



EDIT: Also, I just noticed that there is a little red particle coming off the gun going backwards. It would look cool to work that into the animation. (there are actually a few, but this pic was near the end of the attack)

Oh, I forgot to say I support the Plasma Cannon. I had a big post with some examples and good points towards it, but my computer and I don't want to type them out again, so just pretend I made some good points.

I think the difficulty curve is too high. You have every jump in the first level. You should have every level introduce one new jump, (slide jump, ij jump, around a pillar, diagonal jump, possibly more) and have that jump right in the beginning of that level to practice on.

Also, here are is a hard jump that I've only done once: (side view)

Code:

 Of   s: start
sOO   f: finish
OOO   

Around a pillar and up a level.

The way I do ij jumps is I looks straight down, jump just as I reach the edge, then do a quick 180 with my mouse. I can do multiple ij jumps in a row without stopping using this method.

I didn't find this very difficult at all. However I did start playing on the old version, (which takes five minutes to do the one level one it) so I would suggest playing that. (and you should totally put that level back in the game somehow. Maybe it could be a branching path from the tutorial room or something)

I had played every build up to now, so I only died about 3 times on the final build, all on this jump in the third level:
(side view)

Code:

OOO     O: block
SOE     S: start
OOO     E: end

Jump around a pillar starting with a block over my head.

EDIT: here a picture:
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/3334/dry1.jpg
And I realized that that level has ground below, so that makes 0 deaths.

I think a combination of both tapping and holding would work. Make a small burst of speed when you first tap the button, then decelerate to a slower speed.

You can jump around a pillar with a single jump without moving diagonally. I Have done programming myself and the real reason is that hes too lazy to make it work properly. (It is pretty annoying to fix it, but mostly just take a long time. And it could depend on the way the engine works.)

It doesn't have to be that long of a charge-up, and we could make the range a bit longer to compensate.

I got 'd, but I was more descriptive, so:

Her ^S should act like Fox's ^B form ssb have her changing forms for the charge up, then have her fly in the direction you point in. We should also limit it to 8 directions; both for keyboard aiming and ease of animation. We'd only need to flip sprites and rotate the forward one for up and down.

Edit: We could have sun form for her vA

What's the second height meter for? It just constantly moves up.

I find it's easier to do ij jumps while looking down.

THE KICK: In her game, it's a bit of a jump kick. Hops up, raising the left leg a bit higher, then pivots left, bringing the left leg down and the right leg forward.

I was suggesting that, but higher to make it work as a up move.

I imagined he would summon it and then smash it in front of him, making it a slow, powerful melee move with ok range. You should at least have pressing vS again do this instead of nothing. You could make vS do this for all items, he just smashes anyone in front of him with the object, doing more damage than normal.

He'll probably eventually be a character anyways, don't worry about using all his animations.

Slots are open, but we won't start working on new characters until the current ones are finished. And I'm pretty sure theres already a lineup.

[WILL]

So who knows, you WILL get a chance to play a bit sooner than that...

Fix'd. Or else.