The game is looking great so far! Will definitely be following this devlog.
In response to your question for preserving memory and compressing images:
I'm not sure how MMF2 loads and displays objects, but if you cut the big images down in to "tiles" (say 4 across and 4 down for that big house image) and you place them as tiles, the game wouldn't have to load that whole big image at once and could instead display it in pieces when needed.
As I said, this is pure conjecture, as I'm not sure how MMF2 handles these things.
But goodluck!
We will definitely try this and let you know how it works. MMF2 is sort of stupid about compression unfortunately. Also even though I downloaded and used PNG crush for our images MMF just turned them into non alpha pngs. Which means there is just one transparent color as opposed to variable transparency for each pixel. So that freaking sucked. Hopefully your method works :D
The eye has personality
, but for some reason I dislike the shooting. The animation is great, but the shots seem like out of place, maybe because the eye is more towards the physical in my view.
Even the lightsaber kind of thing is cool. Just the shooting...
Omulus is a demon incarnation so perhaps we will try to make the "energy" look more spirity. I'm not sure what that entails right now but we can give it a shot.
Also Omulus will not blink for every shot fired because the rate of fire is too fast so the animation will end up looking choppy. Furthermore if we smooth out the animation it will desync with the firing of the bullets and will make players feel a disconnect between the two actions. Which is something we do not want.
Anyway I believe the blink will be primarily for after shooting the charge shot so it shouldn't be jarring at all.
Oh and I bit of a sad announcement...I'm fairly bogged down with freelance work so Omulus is taking a back seat in my priorities at the moment. It's pretty difficult to juggle both things at once. However my freelance job is allowing me to hone my animation skills so in turn Omulus(game) should have fairly fluid, nicely spaced and nicely timed frames of animation. It's going to be freaking awesome! Oh and Blake is no slouch in the animation department either. Also we should have animation samples posted within a week or week and a half. Actually I worked on an animation for the character Helna last night and it's going quite well. Also I have come up with a system that will minimize the amount of clean up that has to be done by either me or Blake. As an aside all animation is being done in flash which is a great program. Although vector drawing can be annoying it's benefits far out weigh it's limits.
Things are going great if not a bit slow because of how busy we are with other avenues of life. Such as working :\ If only there was some way to work on this full time...we could finish so much more quickly! Argggh...
Anyway again...thanks for all the comments everyone! I love reading about what you all think of the game! In the end Omulus will be a better game for it. So keep those comments coming!!