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[John Sandoval]

Title: Erhardt
Author: John Sandoval
Release Date: SUMMER 2012
Tools: Game Maker 8, Photoshop Elements 6, Wacom Bamboo, Mouse, Brain


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For the uninitiated, Erhardt was (is) a puzzle platformer that I've been working on for some time. The original version ended up being too messy and ugly for me to work on, so I decided to wipe the slate and restart from scratch.



http://www.deviantart.com/download/256622112/the_construct_v2_by_john_sandoval-d48saw0.png
http://www.deviantart.com/download/256625112/alina_portrait_rough_by_john_sandoval-
http://www.deviantart.com/download/257190377/erhardt_screenshot_111_by_john_sandoval-

In the game, you control Alina Erhardt, a young, waifish, attractive (possibly vegan) woman with psychokinetic abilities.



Solve puzzles, fight enemies, kill bosses.

The game's basic engine is up and running, but it's still extremely early, and there is still a ton of work (especially art-wise) left to do.

Hope to post daily or every other day.

[John Sandoval]

Things I Did Today:



The first part of Alina's standard 3 hit combo. The red thingy is just a placeholder for her sword. Any tips on
how to make it better would be appreciated; I'm hardly the world's greatest animator.

Also did some work on the combo system. Alina's basic attack is the aforementioned 3 hit combo, but she has two other combat abilities: a dash type attack, and an attack that throws her sword like a boomerang. These, in addition to her psychokinetic abilities, make her a force to be reckoned with.

Here's the current version of the status bar.


And here's a screenshot.

[John Sandoval]

Weaponry/Item Brainstorm (because i'm a nerd)

Combat will consist of switching between weaponry and utilizing the most effective weapon to defeat a given foe.

The Edenfall


A curved blade of black metal. Capable of harnessing Alina's psychokinetic energies and focusing their considerable might. Can be used in a simpe 3 hit combo, thrown like a boomerang, and even allow Alina to warp short distances in a slicing attack.

Ecstasy's Drop
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A massive hammer capable of breaking through the hardest armor. The longer Alina charges this weapon, the more damage it deals. When fully charged, the enemy will be stunned.

Tragedy Cannon
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A rapid fire machine gun ideal for wiping out those pesky aerial foes

Crisis Breaker
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A shield that counteracts any enemy projectiles for a moment. Stores the energies and releases them upon activation.

Event Horizon
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Slows movement of all objects for a limited time.

The Witching Cloak
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Enables warping in short distances. Double tap to dodge enemy foes.

[John Sandoval]

quadruple posting because i can

made a save point



yaaay

done for tonight   

[leonelc29]

look good so far

[BattleBeard]

 I've been waiting for this.

I checked out the original thread without even knowing this existed yesterday. You've made my frickin' day.

[John Sandoval]

was making more attack animations and this came out instead

[Gabriel Verdon]

This looks soooooooooooooo cool. Great art and level design.

[Ishi]

Things I Did Today:





The first part of Alina's standard 3 hit combo. The red thingy is just a placeholder for her sword. Any tips on
how to make it better would be appreciated; I'm hardly the world's greatest animator.

Someone mentioned timing in the pixel thread; thought I'd do an edit as an example:





I didn't mess around with different timings per frame or anything. Just gave the anim more impact. There's a frame of anticipation movement before the attack - the sword moves backwards a little, which makes it even more strong a movement when it swings down. Similarly it bobs downwards on the frame after the attack swing. I made her legs kick forwards more too, in the opposite direction to the sword swing so it looks like she's putting more effort in.

I applaud the use of big sprites, and big scenery pieces like the statue head thing. They're more work, but more interesting than small repeated tiles and suchlike.

[John Sandoval]

I... I feel so loved 

[thatshelby]

Could you please post non-scaled images? Maybe in addition to the scaled. The cubic interpolation is annoying to me. Maybe there's something I can do with firefox?

[Ishi]

Could you please post non-scaled images? Maybe in addition to the scaled. The cubic interpolation is annoying to me. Maybe there's something I can do with firefox?

Edited with non-scaled images too.

[thatshelby]

Ooo, I like these graphics. The larger size is a refreshing change. Ishi is right, the timing needs some work.

Watching this. Sounds like my kind of game.

[John Sandoval]

Thanks a bunch for the help, Ishi!

Here's the second part of the combo...




(still gotta make the changes to the first part)

So the first part is a distance-closing leap strike, the second part is a quick pierce, and the third part will probably be a spin attack or something, I dunno.

[leonelc29]

nicely done! she need to step forward for the 3rd strike, or she will fall down.