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[Gabriel Verdon]

DAY 304 - February 16, 2012

• Added ledge grabbing.
• Worked on tower level.
• Figured how to make parallax backgrounds work with tile layers instead of the 7 built-in background layers, which opens the possibility for all sorts of awesome custom backgrounds.
• Fixed a few bugs with parallax breaking when switching rooms.

[GCshepard]

Ledge grabbing? Water arrows? Cool!
...Even though I have no idea what water arrows would do, other than cool any fire enemies down.

BTW, would you shooting those lantern-holding phantoms dowse out their lanterns? This could give some strategical shadow stealth action in some places, or just be interesting to see or give the enemy some behavior for if you do happen to dowse its lantern (running/going berserk are the standard two actions).

[Gabriel Verdon]

DAY 305 - February 17, 2012

• Added awesome mouse trail effect.
• Blocked in some areas and added some tiles.

[Gabriel Verdon]

DAY 306 - February 18, 2012

• Remade the area from one of the early screenshots in it's actual place in the game world (for Anthony: it's on the top of Ragamuffin's tower).

Here is the old version for comparison:



The new version has the platforms further apart because the window size has gotten bigger, and also ledge-grabbing makes you able to jump further. I've also made the ambient light more green. I think I like the new one much more overall. The main character has also been through two iterations and definitely looks better.

[laxwolf]

beautiful.

[ANtY]

Sadly I like the old version more, mainly cause of vibe

[SolarLune]

Sadly I like the old version more, mainly cause of vibe

I think I do, too. I think it's because the old version felt 'darker' because the dark areas weren't green, and the close proximity makes it feel like there's more going on than there is.

EDIT: Still looks cool, though.

[jotapeh]

Yeah, the old and new versions feel like very different moods.

They're both gorgeous though, just the grittier feel of the old version is.. special.

[Manuel Magalhães]

I like both, but I prefer the older.
I like the grittiness. 

[PANPOMMA]

As an actual set piece in a game, the new one is far better. But perhaps the lighting could be more towards orange?

[andrewjb]

The bottom one is better in general imo, but the archway and roof of the top platform in the top one is pretty damn cool.

[mokesmoe]

Adding the rain in could help.

[BlueSweatshirt]

Your new art style definitely feels more whimsical and fantastic in comparison.

[Gabriel Verdon]

NOBODY UNDERSTANDS ME *slits wrists and remember it's down the river not across the bridge*

[GCshepard]

If you have a reason for changing the ambient light to a more green color, tell us. It sounds as if we all generally like the older look. The only thing I really like about the new one is that the dark spots don't look so dull (they have more contrast between light and dark).

[BlueSweatshirt]

Speak for yourself. 

[HyperDuckChris]

Useeee BOTH!

[owendeery]

Yeah, flash between them every frame.

[mokesmoe]

[Gabriel Verdon]

DAY 307 - February 19, 2012

• Added a sweet new enemy behaviours for diving birds and bats.
• Added a new animation for bats.
• Designed some random levels.
• Started updating the saving and loading to include stuff like current ammo and different items collected.

Ok, story time. So up until now I haven't really had a vision for what I wanted to the game to be. I was just kind of hoping that if I worked on it for long enough, something would happen. I started playing Zelda 1 the other day, and while playing it I got this feeling where I suddenly understood videogames. Like everything made sense. That's not at all to say that I instantly became a good game designer, but I got very specific look at where I'm going. So the game is in a good place right now and I have a clear vision for where I want it to go.