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[medieval]

Those are both very, very awesome.

[Soulliard]

One last suggestion, based on the original scheme:
I don't think the polar star fired forward is necessary since the spirit King would mostly be used instead, if it has a short warmup and cooldown (which it has in cave story). Instead we could just do a punch for neutral A but still leave the polar star up and down attacks.

Spirit King has a very large cooldown in order to balance it. Polar Star is a 6-frame attack, and Spirit King takes nearly 30 frames to execute.

Polar Star has great range, and its intended to get off a few quick points of damage without stunning the enemy. Spirit King is powerful and unblockable, and it can hit multiple enemies in a large area, but it has much less range. The two attacks are very different.

You can try it out in the latest release of the engine, if you haven't already.

[Rostiger]

Here's my first pixel explosion I ever did:



Nuke 'em Quote! 

[EDIT]

And here the polar bullet:



[/EDIT]

[Soulliard]

Beautiful!

[Rostiger]

Glad you like it!

Here's some more - got it done finally!

[battlerager]

HE'S ON FIRE!

BOOMSHAKALAKA!

[William Broom]

 

[neon]

holy fuck, kovski!

 

[Soulliard]

It looks even better in action. 

[Xenophobe]

Here's a crazy idea. If you really don't like the idea of projectiles as standard attacks, we could change the move list to this:

A: Blade
>A: Spirit King
^A: Booster
vA: Rocket Launcher

S: Spur
>S: Polar Star
^S: Polar Star (Fired Upwards)
vS: Fireball

That way, his basic attacks are all relatively short-ranged. The lack of a special recovery move might be annoying, though.

I like this movelist a lot, in playing the engine tests, my friends and I rarely used special recovery moves because jump could recover from most hits, and there is HP instead of smash bros style %, so flying of the course wasn't a problem.

[neon]

but, i think the explosion is a bit too much on the red side.  maybe do a hueshift towards the yellow-orange side of things?  it kinda looks like the explosion was caused by a stick of dynamite in a crate of paprika.  also, the top part of the mushroom cloud looks a little funny as it evaporates, and i think it's a bit too dark.  i don't know.. take these crits with a grain of salt.  otherwise, i love everything.

[Rostiger]

Ah, thanks for the input, neon. I'll try to tweak the explosion a little bit, when I get around to it. How said - it's the first one I ever did so any corrections are more than welcomed.

Anyway - I'll try to finish up the rest of the animations for Quote as soon as possible. Unfortunately today I have to work and am overall quite busy the rest of the week, so I have to see how I get around to it. Gotta pay the bills sometime too, eh?

Nightshade, I saw you edited the list with the missing sprites and that you suggested(?) a bigger missile. Do you mean another one that is shot when the player charges or should I increase the size of the current one? What did you have in mind in first playe, anyway?

It looks even better in action. 

Wanna see! Wanna see! 

[William Broom]

I hope you don't mind  Just for a little while

[Rostiger]

Not at all! It's my pleasure! 

[Soulliard]

Nightshade, I saw you edited the list with the missing sprites and that you suggested(?) a bigger missile. Do you mean another one that is shot when the player charges or should I increase the size of the current one? What did you have in mind in first playe, anyway?

Since the missile is more powerful when used on the ground than in the air, it was suggested that the missile be larger to indicate that. It's not terribly important, though.

[Synnah]

Glad you like it!

Here's some more - got it done finally!

That's awesome. I love the expression on his face during the recoil!

[Rostiger]

Thanks much for the appreciation. I'm currently working on the throwing animation, but character sprites always take me a lot longer than smaller effects, which is why I took a quick break and incorporated neons feedback.
Here's the updated version of the explosion:

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As you can see I just changed the colors a more to yellow and lighted up the smoke a bit. I will adapt a bit more on the animation itself, once I can have a look at it in game.

[Corpus]

Kovski, the animations are awesome. It might be worth thinking about the fact that Oracle's style used black outlines to separate different objects on the character - it's not just around the outside. In particular, the gun on your falling animation should have an outline, I think.

[Rostiger]

Kovski, the animations are awesome. It might be worth thinking about the fact that Oracle's style used black outlines to separate different objects on the character - it's not just around the outside. In particular, the gun on your falling animation should have an outline, I think.

Thanks, glad you like them.
Concerning the black outline you're right. I've actually utilized it that way in the new throwing animation for Quote:



I guess I just forgot it for the hurting animation... I have to go over it anyway a little bit again..

[neon]

god damn!  are you some sort of excellent animation robot, kovski?