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[Sam English]

 that is so lovely

[Chis]

thanks everyone!! it's interesting because I wasn't planning on giving her that smirk in the first place, but now I wonder if it could be part of her personality - heroic but sometimes cruel.

ALRIGHT so scrapping the 4 combat buttons idea, that was pretty stupid. I think I'm going to go for a system very reminiscent of SMASH BROS. there'll be at most 1-2 combat buttons. you'll be able to purchase/discover different attacks and map them to combat button + directional, either on ground or airborne. the fun part is that enemies will have very different methods of attack, and there will also be ~environmental hazards~ on the map. so you have to be clever and figure out the best way to destroy the enemies, possibly using said environmental hazards as assistance.

FOR EXAMPLE, there could be a map with a bunch of clouds floating on top of a poison lake. many of these clouds are occupied by enemy A. the catch is that only one thing can stand on a cloud at a time; if you and enemy A inhabit the same cloud, the cloud will temporarily sink into the poison and everyone dies. there is also enemy B, which flies around and is just annoying. so a good method would be to grab enemy B and then throw it at enemy A, rendering them both unconscious and also sinking them to their doom because now there are two things on one cloud.

also!



SAY YOUR PRAYERS GUYS
(would love any critique you might have as well)

[trexrell]

I think it looks really cool and smooth. The color scheme is pretty unique. Although I am not a perfectionist I'm assuming its unfinished. But I like where it is going.

[mushbuh]

smashbrosesque controls sound cool. just make sure you get it working early on for remapping buttons so you dont have to deal with it later on

[Chis]

trexwell: thanks!! actually, what part of it seems unfinished to you? the circle of swords hasn't been added yet, but the animation at least is done afaik.

mushroomized: awesome, and yeah absolutely 

[Belimoth]

I walked to the left and fell off of the world.

Also you're gonna have to mess with the player's zIndex if you want things like banisters to layer properly.
You should think about the rules for this before you get too deep into level design.

P.S. I like your game.

[Chis]

thanks for trying it out, glad to hear you liked it!
whooops, I will fix that  

I think I might know what to do about the railing. If the player is below the slope of a railing tile and the player is not standing on the collision layer associated with the railing (aka the stairs), then I draw it behind the player.

or, I can just draw it behind the player if the last collision map the player stood on is not the stairs. but that means that if the player jumped onto the stairs from the ground, she would be in front of the railing for a second before she lands on the stairs.



something might be wrong with this. errrrrrvggh

[Belimoth]

You could also do it Little Big Planet style where the player floats between layers based on context, and objects can block z movement. Then you'd have to actually jump "over" the railing to get to the stairs.

[Ouren]

You could also do it Little Big Planet style where the player floats between layers based on context, and objects can block z movement. Then you'd have to actually jump "over" the railing to get to the stairs.

Mario 3 is also an option

[Ouren]

I gave your screenshot the bump~!

http://indiegames.com/2013/08/screenshot_daily_playstation_m.html

[Chis]

whoaomgod, I'm famous! thanks so much, Ouren!!
lmao, I probably should update that screenshot with the new sprite.

having the player jump over the railings makes a lot of sense. for now though, I'll put in the minimum effort and draw it behind the player when she's not standing on the stairs, and then I'll tackle this problem later.

I never played Mario 3 because I don't play games 

[Ouren]

Look into trying out Mario 3 or little big planet for your layer stuff.

Mostly Mario 3 because you're not doing 3D.

[Belimoth]

Might be tough if I remember Impact's collision system correctly, but it's doable. I don't know why I love sitting on benches so much.

[Chis]

when she crouches, the circle of swords will rotate 90 degs so that's parallel to the ground. she can attack by spinning it around and tripping everyone.

Ouren - sorry, was trying to say I don't know how layering works in Mario 3. I watched some gameplay & it seems to work the way my demo does at the moment, is there something specific I missed?

Belimoth - it was tough, but I was able to hack impact to support separate collision layers   so I think linking other layers to them will be totally doable as well.
haha, that's great! I just want to spend all my dev time putting in stupid easter eggs like benches.

[Ouren]

Oh, well I mean, you should download and play it.
It's generally done very well.

If you're already doing that, then you didn't miss anything.

[mushbuh]

so cool

[mushbuh]

you're not allowed to not make this game

[Chis]

sorry mom ;_;
I got a bit frustrated with level design and then school came along so I was not making this game
but I'm slowly getting back on track.



I'm redoing the weapon circle a little bit. The lines represent the swords. The idea is that I have a small imaginary inner circle that I can move around:




so when she attacks in some direction, the inner circle will protrude in that direction and some of the swords will shoot forward. the goal is to have it be really fluid and natural, like airbending ??

that piranha head will be her companion weasel. atm his AI can follow you and search for/jump across nearby platforms.

[mushbuh]

woah, nice i'm glad you are still working on it  

so the spinning thing itself is the weapon, or just a way to select them?

[Conker534]

Yeah that looks dope