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Great work :D

I am! :D and READY FOR BATTLE! :D 

Looking really nice! Is there a slow motion effect briefly after the explosion?

There is! :D Just a little speed ramping thinking of making it a bit longer though, second glances at it kinda looks like lag thoughts?!

Here's a version without the slow motion ramping for reference

[Update # 6 - Explosions: Now with more BOOM! And death..?!]

Update # 6 - Explosions: Now with more BOOM! And death..?!

Gosh it's been so long since I posted been in hermit mode, as well as just plain feeling the crunch :D just a small update til I get back in the routine! :D

Big high five to anyone who made it to Steam Dev Days last week! :D 

Explosions

Looks rad
Now I just want to set fire to that archers tower though

I'd say, if the combo counter you showed on the last page is really important, it should be more prominent. I don't think you'll really notice it during combat in the corner. If you want the feeling of "oh, one more for the combo" you could try adding the combo counter to wherever you killed the last enemy.
just an idea. I'm personally never really a fan of combo counters in the first place ^^

AH! Sorry for crazy late reply, been in hermit mode :D 

TOTALLY agree about the combo counter going to try adding it above the character killed with a little transparency? :D

I'm personally not a huge combo person either, but I do like to SEE how many combo's I get sometimes, just not competitively

AHHHH my gosh this is SO cool looking! Absolutely love the concept too! :D :D keep up the energy!!!   

CRAIGZ :D :D 

[Update # 5 - Fire Arrows, Forests, and Fighting High!!]

Update # 5 - Fire Arrows, Forests, and Fighting High!!

Sorry about that last one, not what you think, but I wanted to make it 3 F's! Been a busy weekish!

Fire!
I started integrating fire as an element, so the player can:

• Be hurt by it
• Hurt enemies with it
• Shoot projectiles through it to add fire damage (and do Zelda puzzles?)

Will (hopefully) add a system for it actually spreading too, that'll most likely happen at 3 a.m. sometime when I rationally decide to organize my physics materials

Forests!

Just started blocking out how forest environments might feel, which has been really spooky/fun. I'm sure during they day they'll look less creepy. But for night time... keepin' the creep levels high.

Tread carefully, brave Warcube.


Arrows in the night



Fighting High!

I've started adding in contextual places for the player to basically initiate an action sequence, but what it does it apply very general physics forces to them, so depending on what angle you hit these at, or speed etc, you'll probably get a slightly different effect :D makes it more skill oriented! (<-- total opinion)



BONUS
aaaaaaand here's a bonus of a whole bunch of archers firing arrows at the player/eachother.




NEXT UPDATE IS ALL ABOUT TRAPS

or weapon swapping... we'll see

CRAIGZ :D

looks interesting, congratulations on being greenlit.

Thank you! It was totally wild! I hadn't looked up too much info about it before jumping into it. Kinda glad I didn't else I think I would have freaked out haha 

Looks amazing! And I second Oats, congratulations.

Huzzah! :D Thank you! super pumped to be moving forward :D I thought I developed internet addiction for those few weeks haha

I love the way those coins fall out of the chest like that and also congrats on Greenlit!

By fall you mean EXPLODE?! haha :D thank you!! Awesome seeing you twitter also btw! :D 

That grid pattern along the ground is understated but fantastic. Judging attack distances in an isometric melee combat game could be aggravating, but the squares around your player character help you understand how far the attacks will go. And they fit the art style. Brilliant! Good luck with all of it! 

AHHH!! Fantastic eye!! :D so spot on. They were TOTALLY something that stuck in there from the prototype of the game (when it was basically minimal battle chess ) but after taking them out for literally 5 minutes I was like "wait how come this feels so weird?!" I know I jumped over to your thread already, but your game is looking awesome!! :D

Not sure if this was asked before, but how are you achieving the environment reaction effects? It makes the environment seem very dynamic, or is it just a physics thing?

Yes!! This question please! :D 

BTW just saw you on twitter through Warcube shenanigans! Your game looks freaking sweet!! :D 

AHA! Found you on twitter AND here!! :D

Keep up the great work!!      

hahah yeah greenlight can be brutal xD 

Honestly, I'm not a huge racing fan (other than like motorstorm/unrealistic racers) but your game actually looked pretty cool to me :D had a fun vibe. Or maybe I'm just a sucker for crazy motion blur

Obviously I didn't get to raid your greenlight comments but I'd say the only "generic" thing about your game that stuck out to me was the graphics and the overall just "goal" of it :D I think everything else was moving in a good direction.

Like I'm sure you would have added some more mechanics (powerups, trick ramps, explosions, whatever really) organically through devving that would have giving it complexity/differentiation.

Which makes me super excited to see what you're going to do next!! :D 

Oh my gosh this game is beautiful! :D :D 

[Late Update # 4 - Money!]

Late Update # 4 - Money!

Super sporadic updates over here I'm honestly convinced nobody get's anything done  in summer

BUT! Been getting lot's of the core gameplay loop mechanics down, and of course, that includes MONEY, erm.. rather, gold, cube-ish coins. 

In locations players can primarily get money by:
 

• killing enemies (low amount)
• finding mini chests (med amount)
• finding one of the level collectible chests (high amount)

It's super fun to watch the coins follow the player, I'm a sucker for things like that :D



But right now they dont die on collision, so they build up in the player. So when  you do an attack.. they go flying 



A literal cash cow.



More soon! Including level checkpoint banners and playing with fire! :D

Congratulatioooooooons! So awesome! Happy Greenlit day :D

hahah I know we've been emailing haha but I wanted to make sure I responded on here too! :D :D 

Looks great! Love the slow down effect, and something about cubes bleeding smaller cubes makes me happy.

AHH!! Thank you :D it means a lot to me and I mean let's be honest, tiny blood cubes was the only logical thing to do haha :D 

Just wanted to pop in real quick and say this looks awesome! :D :D   

Keep up the energy! :D

craigz

i am absolutely not clicking on a video to listen to a person who looks like that on purpose

Got a good laugh out of this 

But seriously, I just finished up the Greenlight thang last month, and it was weird to look through the others that got lit and find comments like this... clearly just botted.

That being said, hoping Valve will have something interesting to show at this years Steam Dev Days :D I think they're on the right track with personalized curation > human editor curation. Doesn't matter HOW many games on the Steam if they're connecting the right games with the right audience. In theory, right?

Dragonpath has reached v1.0.0 and Early Access has ended, so I guess it can now be called a completed project (although it will most likely get a few more updates in the future).

Just found this game! :D the gameplay looks super entrancing! :D

Question though! How did you feel Early Access went? And did you feel like you "Launched" more when you ENTERED early access or when you came OUT of it? :D

 
craigz

[Late Update # 3 - Trailer! (and passed Steam Greenlight)]

Looks Rad!! Love this  

Thank you! :D :D that makes me pumped!  

this looks dip dang decent

+1 for the 'dip-dang' haha    

Late Update # 3 - Trailer! (and passed Steam Greenlight)
Crazy late on this one but WARCUBE got passed Steam Greenlight last month! Totally wild ride am super excited! :D I mean I know thousands of people have gotten the email from Valve saying, 'Hey, you! You can now sell this on Steam!', it was pretty surreal reading it







Final Greenlight Stats! :D

I was pretty entertained by the Greenlight system. I know they've mentioned their phasing it out, so I'm super curious what to! :D

["Are you sure?"]

Love it, looks super clean and responsive! The question remains, tho... why are these cubes so angry?? Is war the only answer, truly? 

Hahah this made me laugh :D and thank you! :D It's super responsive but with juuuust enough leeway to let you plan out an awesome tactic

I saw the email signup--definitely interested. Make sure to keep me posted!

The game looks awesome.

AHH! I just sent out my first email blast like minutes ago! :D :D I used mailchimp (not sponsored I swear I just love Radiolab and million other podcasts) and right before you press the button to send the email it gives you a GIf that looks like this with the title "Are you sure?"

The slowdown is magnificent. More combat-based games need that "300-esque" slowdown. It's just so satisfying!

AHH! :D Thank you much! Haha yeah it's kind of a 300/John Woo lovechild I'm such a sucker for it!

So what is this about?

It's just your classic cube brawler! but really. It's an acrobatic combat driven game, with subtle tactical elements across the main sandbox campaign.

[Following] This looks like it'll be great fun to play.

Thank you! :D I keep catching myself playing it... that's a good sign right?? 

Really nice slow mo! Is this in Unreal? If so do you use global time dilation to achieve the slow down? Also loving the monkeyball vibe with the checked ground.

Using Unity actually :D but hey you had a 50/50 shot right? and yeah there's a global manager that dynamically controls the slomo/action speed ramps. Thank you! :D And seriously, that checker floor is SUCH a life saver. It was left over from when the game started out as battle chess... but ended up being the only way to really feel your traveling distance

hahah alright, I spit up some coffee on reading this! :D warcube used as a verb?? I'm so on board for this haha :D and let's be honest... did anyone even like Jerry? Or was it Gary? (parks and rec eh eh?)

"Oh god Jerry you can't even get your own name right."

Classic. Also yes to Warcube as a verb!

Hahah Jerry is such a classic joke to me now and YES! Warcube as a verb! So dig 

Gameplay looks nice and fast-paced.

So what's the game all about?

It is! But because of the speed ramping/slow mo it kind of adds a super subtle, institutional-tactics element to it like juuust slow enough for your mind to say "okay evade that bastard, dome that guy off the bridge and reverse mele the sucker running at you" :D so it's an acrobatic combat driven game, super set on situational fun. With a world map to explore, and loose tactics that can influence how you play certain levels. Prepping a post for it! :D

here i made u this

beat me to it  

I clicked the thread for the title. Was not disappointed :D :D