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[Lord Tim]

EDIT: Here is a fixed version that is actually finishable. :_(
I suppose this is a bit late for the compo (Monday). The compo version, is playable, just the boss levels are bugged.
http://www.rocketninjagames.com/skydungeonfixed

GAME DONE! :D



Competition Edition:
http://www.rocketninjagames.com/skydungeon

Super feature bullet list:

• 300 playable characters
• Lots of awesome levels
• Magic and guns and coolness
• Level editor which doesn't do anything
• Fun

Final list of assets used:
oryx + oddball: character sprites
oryx: character portraits + menu interface stuff
pgil: tilesets
arachne: tilesets
yokomeshi: effects
kazerad: blood splatter
lolzapricot: particles
craig stern: music
saros: music
jrhill: couple of tiles

old:

Awesome dungeon game.

Going to be making all of oryx's characters playable, and it will be cool.

Actual factual level editor.



AI dudes attack you now!



Combat system implemented



Credits to assets made by:
Oryx
Oddball
Arachne
Yokomeshi

Latest version:
http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1262051157

[Lord Tim]

But wait! Progress:

http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1260218255

Now I just need gameplay...

[oryx]

Haha sweet Are you planning on making all of them actually play differently? - Also can I suggest you make the feet jiggle back and forth one pixel when they move? And or shrink them in the middle one pixel when they jump?)

[Lord Tim]

Yeah, I am going to try to make them all as unique as possible, at least have a bunch of different "classes" that will make most of them unique.

Also I was planning on little hopping motions.

[Healy]

This is looking good so far!

[Mocker]

Are you using any game libraries, tile map editors etc? I started looking at flixel and Tile Studio, not sure if there were any other really easy frameworks to start building platformers in

[Lord Tim]

Just Flixel, with some modifications, like the TilemapSheet and SpriteSheet, and then mappy for making the levels. I will probably add some xml support or something later.

Flixel is really nice and super easy to work with. I really love Actionscript, cause it is so flexible, and it isn't that hard to learn compared to heavier languages like C++.

In terms of progress: I have added a health bar! 

[Lord Tim]

Got done with finals and now working on stuff more.

Got a combat system kind of working now:
http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1261036653

Z for magic, X for slash, and C for stab.
Also [  and ] to test the health bar.

Nothing to kill yet, and the combat doesn't actually do damage anyways, so yeah.

pic:

[oryx]

  - this is feeling pretty great. Nice bounce and effects.

[Lord Tim]

Badass update:
http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1261365326

Z,X,C to use attacks, press "esc" to see what the attacks are.
Only the first 4 characters have attacks right now.
A dummy dude to test attacks on.
A bunch of fancy new abilities with many more to come! :D

Next thing to work on: Levels.

I still dunno if I want to do procedural, which will probably take more time cause I'll add too many things to it, or just make a bunch of straight levels.
I think my best bet will be to make the pre-created levels, but make it so not all characters can go through it the same way. I.E. some abilities let you take shortcuts, etc.

After that, all I'll need to do is finish filling out attacks and character data, and put some ai in so it is fun.

[oryx]

Awesome, can't wait to see more of this - the particle effects are fun.

[Lord Tim]

http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1262051157

The AI now attacks you! It is totally cool, and only works sort of.

Only the first 4 guys have attacks still, and now if you press f9 during the character select screen, there is a level editor that doesn't export unless you're in debug mode.

I am getting ever closer. Just need lots of content now.

[Slashie]

the wizard, it transformed me into a cute cat! :D

Looks fun, keep on it!

[Lord Tim]

Now that I've got a level editor, I should probably get around to making some levels in the scant lessthanaweek I have left. Speed-designing go!

http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1262665070

F9 on the character select screen to enter level editor. ESC for controls.

For right now, "continue" unlocks all the characters, so don't use that unless you want spoilers. About a quarter of the characters have some attacks now.

[Lord Tim]

Game done, first post updated! Woo! :D