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[ShillyShills]

This is looking really nice. Wish you the best of luck with your project!

Thank you can't wait to get the demo more polished so more people can check it out

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I’m constantly rethinking my color pallettes soooooo here is another pass at what the colors might look like for the first biome.

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Ooooone more pass, 90% sure these are the colors I’m thinking of for the Outside Frontier Biome.

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I gotta leave this for now I’ve been looking at this painting for too long I need to move on and call it done for now.

[ShillyShills]

Spent today thinking about one line that can describe my game and I came up with this:
“Hunt the Biggest Baddest Outlaws in the Weird, Whimsical, Wild West”
I redid some portions of the Hud aswell.

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Hey, this is looking better all the time!

For explaining your game, try this:

https://www.pentadact.com/2012-03-17-gdc-talk-how-to-explain-your-game-to-an-asshole/

[ShillyShills]

Hey, this is looking better all the time!

For explaining your game, try this:

https://www.pentadact.com/2012-03-17-gdc-talk-how-to-explain-your-game-to-an-asshole/

That was an amazing read I rewrote it and as time goes on might rewrite again but I think this one is a lot better.

-A 2d hack ‘n’ slash game where you hunt the Biggest Baddest Outlaws to gain as much street cred as you can while exploring an Everchanging landscape with a wide assortment of whoop ass, ranging from spectral blades to a cannon that shoots toothy creatures.

[ShillyShills]

Worked on some polishing from certain UI things  and player damage effects and planning to add some polish to the Tutorial/intro stage.
Heres an updated game demo - https://www.dropbox.com/s/snzbkuip4hqgsgr/BigBadBounty_Game_V07.zip?dl=0

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-A 2d hack ‘n’ slash game where you hunt the Biggest Baddest Outlaws to gain as much street cred as you can while exploring an Everchanging landscape with a wide assortment of whoop ass, ranging from spectral blades to a cannon that shoots toothy creatures.

Yeah I want to buy that game!

[ShillyShills]

-A 2d hack ‘n’ slash game where you hunt the Biggest Baddest Outlaws to gain as much street cred as you can while exploring an Everchanging landscape with a wide assortment of whoop ass, ranging from spectral blades to a cannon that shoots toothy creatures.

Yeah I want to buy that game!

Thank you! I appreciate the support 

[MSC]

-A 2d hack ‘n’ slash game where you hunt the Biggest Baddest Outlaws to gain as much street cred as you can while exploring an Everchanging landscape with a wide assortment of whoop ass, ranging from spectral blades to a cannon that shoots toothy creatures.

Yeah I want to buy that game!

I second this sentiment.
I love the art style.

[ShillyShills]

-A 2d hack ‘n’ slash game where you hunt the Biggest Baddest Outlaws to gain as much street cred as you can while exploring an Everchanging landscape with a wide assortment of whoop ass, ranging from spectral blades to a cannon that shoots toothy creatures.

Yeah I want to buy that game!

I second this sentiment.
I love the art style.

Thank you so much!

[ShillyShills]

Created some unfinished art for the tutorial stage, and fine tuned some things with the item pickup system. Things are getting to the point where there are less huge things today and its all a bunch of small things that are hard to notice but make a huge difference. Like  having guns drop from chests and not bounce off screen, sounds simple but and it is but it still gave me a hard time…

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I had a problem where you can get stuck on a corner of a platform if you performed a boost jump, Its not 100% gone but now it is much harder to get stuck on a corner I’ll continue trying to make it bomb proof though. Cleaned up some of my code regarding  what happens if the player drops off screen and added fade transitions between maps.

[io3 creations]

The art is looking great!    The game kind of reminds me of Earthworm Jim.

At this point of development, it might've been better to wait with the demo.  While the visuals are almost there, the gameplay is lacking.  It's easy to use the gun and kill enemies from a distance so there isn't much challenge.  Just skimmed through most pages so I'm not sure if you mentioned what you have in mind for guns/swords

Coupled with that is the issue of current level design.  I'm guessing the levels are procedurally generated.  I have started thinking of a similar approach for one of my games and it's best to at least "narrow down" the possible platform arrangement based on weapon use and enemy attack/movement.  Reminds me of Featherpunk Prime where players mentioned that actual gameplay wasn't as much fun as it appeared in the trailer  i.e. similar frantic run/slash fun  like in your game.
Trailer:



Gameplay:



Also, be sure that players don't die when jumping down because they aren't able to see the gap below.
I accidentally pressed the R button a few times.  Either a different key or "Are you sure?" type confirmation would be nice.

Oh, one more thing. Do you have the images from your inspiration collage?  I can probably find them with reverse search but sometimes it helps if the image is better quality.

[ShillyShills]

The art is looking great!    The game kind of reminds me of Earthworm Jim.

At this point of development, it might've been better to wait with the demo.  While the visuals are almost there, the gameplay is lacking.  It's easy to use the gun and kill enemies from a distance so there isn't much challenge.  Just skimmed through most pages so I'm not sure if you mentioned what you have in mind for guns/swords

Coupled with that is the issue of current level design.  I'm guessing the levels are procedurally generated.  I have started thinking of a similar approach for one of my games and it's best to at least "narrow down" the possible platform arrangement based on weapon use and enemy attack/movement.  Reminds me of Featherpunk Prime where players mentioned that actual gameplay wasn't as much fun as it appeared in the trailer  i.e. similar frantic run/slash fun  like in your game.
Trailer:



Gameplay:



Also, be sure that players don't die when jumping down because they aren't able to see the gap below.
I accidentally pressed the R button a few times.  Either a different key or "Are you sure?" type confirmation would be nice.

Oh, one more thing. Do you have the images from your inspiration collage?  I can probably find them with reverse search but sometimes it helps if the image is better quality.

Thank you for the awesome feedback. Right now its more of a prototype then a demo and I really want to get feedback at all stages even when its a bit broken.The levels are handcrafted but will be randomly reordered.

Right now I want the players to have many options to kickass with so thats why you have guns/swords/items all can be used effectively to play through out the game so the combat feels fresh all the time. The basics of the game is to explore the landscape and hunt Outlaws collecting their bounties with the goal to become bounty king.Fight enemies, Get Gold, Spend Gold for new Weapons,Items,Skills, and Guns, FIght more enemies, all in new environments.

This is the newest version of the game no more r button that can reset the game it has a menu now that you can open with escape and everything else is updated aswell with a tutorial beginning and new levels.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x9ktxx5qbfmsjt9/BigBadBounty_Game_V08.zip?dl=0

I do have some of the images on the inspiration collage it got a bit compressed when I uploaded it to the forums.

I really appreciate the critique its really helpful in getting me to rethink things.

[ShillyShills]

Added a janky cooldown placeholder when you use your items. I figured out the goal of the player which will be to simply complete all the bounties in your bounty book to obtain the title of bounty king. I’m planning to go hard into content creation(more guns, enemies, environments, skills, items, and mods) so I can start filling the bounty book and create incentive for the player.

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I'm trying to ramp back into the art creation because I need to start making some polished assets but i feel rusty so here are some rough sketches some from ref.

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I’m focusing on art direction right now so heres an Illustration of Rin showing my process from start to finish.

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Heres my next illustration of the Crimson Unicorn I really want to see how this character looks like when done in a more polished style.