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[Saker]

cool.... more action to the game 
u guys are doing well 

[Clemens]

Wow, this turned out really nice! Love the new feeling that it got by the moving camera.  

[Zaphos]

Ah wow, that works great! 

[Xion]

What they said. Smoother would be nice, but still awesome nonetheless.

[undertech]

It looks good enough to eat! I find it hilarious that the character stats are also affected by the scroll. I don't know if that's intentional, but you should make it toggleable if you're going to "fix" it.

[Soulliard]

The stat bars should not be affected by the scrolling. I just wanted to release the camera demo and didn't have time to fix it.

What they said. Smoother would be nice, but still awesome nonetheless.

I agree that the camera can be a little schizophrenic now. It kind of flips out when you die, for example. I'm working on trying to make it smoother, but if you have any suggestions on how to do this, I'd like to hear them.

[Mentalpatient109]

I think it looks great. It only really looks not so good when the two players are basically touching each other.

[Annabelle Kennedy]

What they said. Smoother would be nice, but still awesome nonetheless.

oh..
yeah i made it just to exemplify my idea..
its pretty much bad, i was just trying to show that small tiles are ugly, compared to big ones, because of the world scale, between the cave story world and the indie brawl world.

[Gainsworthy]

Brilliant. Works perfectly. And there I was, imagining pixel deformation, or copy upon copy of sprite sheet.

We totally have to go with this.

[increpare]

I think it works quite well.  If you're looking for a suggestion as to how to smooth it, what about giving the camera an acceleration as well as a velocity, and have the camera accelerate towards its desired position (at some rate proportional to its 'distance' from that position) rather than moving linearly?

[Oracle]

Thank god the fellow artists supported my possision on zoom in zoom out...i think that what Anabelle + Xion said, pretty much sum up my toughts on the matter.

The demo looks mighty nice

[Annabelle Kennedy]

yeah!!! the camera! i just got a chance to play it looking great, if it were smoother itd be great, but even just get some paralax on there to get some depth going and im very impressed great work!

[Xion]

accelerate towards its desired position (at some rate proportional to its 'distance' from that position) rather than moving linearly?

That's how I always do my cameras. Simple as setting the camera's speed to the distance between where it is and where its going divided by something (or something).

As for the growth rate of the view...Maybe the same concept could be applied?

[FoxBlitzz]

The zoom out speed needs to be a lot faster than the zoom in speed. When the camera zooms in, you can already see all the characters, but when it scales back out, it's doing so because one of the characters is in danger of leaving the view. If you move the screen as slowly as you have currently, it will greatly hinder one's ability to play the game. As for the rate, I'd say about one fourth to one third of a second might be a decent timeframe between the start and absolute desination.

[Corpus]

What? That doesn't mean it can't still be pretty.

No, I was agreeing with you. I mean that the focus is on making a pretty game, not a pixel-purist game.

EDIT: Yeah, zoom looks nice. Needs a lot of polishing, obviously, but it's a great little demo.