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« Reply #100 on: March 24, 2014, 07:52:45 AM » |
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What in the world am I looking at? LOL
Poor eye though. Is it so much to ask to have a friend?
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« Reply #101 on: March 24, 2014, 11:42:54 AM » |
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Hey guys, you got mentioned on RPS! Not as cool as your previous feature on the Devlog Magazine #15, I know, but still!  Congrats on all the exposition, I love How To be a Tree's novel concept a lot  Hooray! Thanks! What in the world am I looking at? LOL
Poor eye though. Is it so much to ask to have a friend?
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« Reply #102 on: March 24, 2014, 01:23:36 PM » |
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Great concept, funny dialogue too! I love the way it looks when those mouth dudes turn you into mulch.
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« Reply #103 on: March 25, 2014, 10:38:27 AM » |
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By the way I tried adding some simple color cycling -- here's how it looks now:  ( how it used to look) |
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« Reply #104 on: March 25, 2014, 11:16:13 AM » |
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I never wanted to marry a tree before but now here i am
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« Reply #105 on: March 25, 2014, 02:25:14 PM » |
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By the way I tried adding some simple color cycling -- here's how it looks now: ( how it used to look) Dat integer overflow... |
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« Reply #106 on: March 26, 2014, 04:24:30 PM » |
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 Trees are pretty terrible at climbing stuff (especially because, hey, one mistake and you're suddenly at the bottom again) so I'm playing with one-way elevator platforms. Not the coolest design but they really do help open up the level design possibilities I think ... |
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« Reply #107 on: March 27, 2014, 12:31:51 AM » |
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This looks hilarious and quite fun, great work so far!
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« Reply #108 on: March 27, 2014, 12:49:18 AM » |
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Do you think about the possibility to add skins to the tree? It would be interesting to play as famous trees like pocahonta's grandma or Barbol (yes, this one is not a tree, is an ent). They could have their own movement and jump style  |
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« Reply #109 on: March 27, 2014, 01:07:21 AM » |
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Do you think about the possibility to add skins to the tree? It would be interesting to play as famous trees like pocahonta's grandma or Barbol (yes, this one is not a tree, is an ent). They could have their own movement and jump style The great deku tree?  |
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« Reply #110 on: March 27, 2014, 01:17:55 AM » |
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Hahaha, it would be funny to watch how that giant tree twists trying to walk and jump  |
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« Reply #111 on: March 27, 2014, 03:14:52 AM » |
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Woah, I love the look of your game, I'm now officially interested -Ivan |
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« Reply #112 on: March 30, 2014, 05:48:58 AM » |
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« Reply #113 on: March 30, 2014, 10:22:16 AM » |
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Do you think about the possibility to add skins to the tree? It would be interesting to play as famous trees like pocahonta's grandma or Barbol (yes, this one is not a tree, is an ent). They could have their own movement and jump style That could be fun -- maybe some day! When I started making this game initially, I actually was trying to make a super general system where players could even design their own trees, but it turned out the physics system and controller code I'm using right now is just not good enough to do that. So right now I'm mostly just focusing the game on the one tree, and a couple more carefully-chosen ones. If I ever find / write a 2D physics engine that's really good at handling complex articulated bodies, I definitely want to revisit handling more diverse trees ... Haha, cool. |
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« Reply #114 on: March 30, 2014, 11:05:08 AM » |
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This is absolutely fantastic, and I love the character the eyes and such add to the feeling. It's a weird mix of serenity and brutal dismemberment. Definitely looking forward to this, although I wonder how difficult the tree controls are to master?
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« Reply #115 on: April 05, 2014, 11:59:35 AM » |
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This is absolutely fantastic, and I love the character the eyes and such add to the feeling. It's a weird mix of serenity and brutal dismemberment. Definitely looking forward to this, although I wonder how difficult the tree controls are to master?
Thanks! Yeah, it's pretty hard to master. Balancing difficulty is something I worry about a lot, actually. I'm playing with a branching level structure, with optional challenge levels, to help allow people to avoid getting stuck. Also thinking about some physics tweaks to move the sim slightly away from 'what the physics says' and more towards 'what the player expects' -- e.g., if the player is holding 'right,' put a bit of extra bias in the sim to move the player right. I'm worried that this might lead to some weird behaviors though, so I'm approaching it with some caution ... Anyway, here's a gif from one of the level paths I've been putting in lately:  |
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« Reply #116 on: April 07, 2014, 10:32:38 AM » |
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 Experimenting with some tree bondage ... (with hopes to make the difficulty curve more gentle: By binding the tree to 'closed branch' mode for a level or two, I'm giving the players a simpler control space to navigate, and hoping that helps them find useful strategies more easily.) |
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« Reply #117 on: April 07, 2014, 10:36:47 AM » |
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That's so charming. Look at that little tree learning to move. There's a bunch of personality in those animations.
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« Reply #118 on: April 07, 2014, 11:21:28 AM » |
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« Reply #119 on: April 07, 2014, 12:45:04 PM » |
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This may end up being the single greatest game I see this month.
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