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[Ashkin]

Use that effect you used for the heat wave thingy on the space where the fish is.
As in, sideways waves.

I was going to suggest this, but I think he can only do it for the whole screen or nothing at all.

[Blodyavenger]

<Actually Hempuli‽ just earned one more follower!>

Seriously, that seems just great. Simple story with no complications and the art seems perfect, not to mention all the animated screens you've posted, that just seems like a "YOU SHOULD PLAY THIS" game.

Can't wait to see more!

[JMickle]

,,,ashkin?

[Ashkin]

Yes, I created this game! It was me all along! Hempuli is just an impostor, trying to steal my work! Don't believe what he tells you!

[Blodyavenger]

,,,ashkin?

 

I don't know how or why...I copied the wrong one. Well Ashkin, you had your minute of fame for this game 

[Hempuli‽]

Curses! The ruse is up!

...But Ashkin is correct. The effect will affect either the whole thing or nothing. Also hi and thanks Blodyavenger!

Today I finished another mini-boss. It guards the aforementioned powerup.

(really confusing, yeah)

Next week I'm going to try to participate in 7DRL, so I wont promise progress, but we'll see! Adding the powerup shouldn't be a problem, so there's not much left to be done of the underwater sector!

EDIT: A tad better:

[Franklin's Ghost]

Nice Jelly mini-boss, can't wait to see it animated.

[paste]

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter

[Delicious]

You are my new favorite person for that tube mockup. I look forward to this!

[sublinimal]

More people should use .gif mockups in their devlogs, especially with real-time games. They're both fun to look at and instantly informative about the progress.

About that last one, I think the water effect is just a little bit too powerful. It's almost at the point of obscuring details and height information. A smaller wobble might be more fitting for the "cute" graphics anyway.

[Theophilus]

I'd like to know a little more about how you do these GIF mockups... do you just hold a key that saves a screenshot every frame, then stitch em up? That's what I would do.

Project is looking great. I like the black background... minimal, but at the same time adds atmosphere...

[Hempuli‽]

I use Camstudio for recording, and then just edit the resulting .avi in a gif editor, saving it as a gif afterwards.

sublinimal: I fear you're right, but I really do like the wobble. I'll see what the ~playtesters~ say about it.

[Lizardheim]

...But Ashkin is correct. The effect will affect either the whole thing or nothing.

Can't you give the individual BG tiles a different behavior? As in, move up and down like waves?

[mokesmoe]

Is there no blue on your palette you can spare towards the background?

Also, even if he could move background tiles individually, they would look odd when they don't line up.

[Hempuli‽]

...But Ashkin is correct. The effect will affect either the whole thing or nothing.

Can't you give the individual BG tiles a different behavior? As in, move up and down like waves?

Technically I can, but mokesmoe nailed it; currently the effect is applied as a layer-specific overlay, and the only way to do it differently would be to make it local to every object; this wouldn't work due to them not lining up correctly (+ a couple other things that are caused by how MMF 2 works).

mokesmoe: Here's the full range of blue I have:


Note that the darkest one is already used in the walls in the underwater area. Also I think it'd look silly to have a coloured water but totally black interior areas.

[easynam]

hey this looks amazing (i've seen some of this in the pixel/mockup threads and i really love the style of the game)

also i think that that water effect is probably a little strong too; i'd reduce the vertical movement a bit just because it seems like it'd be a little disorientating at the moment (especially considering the small tile size)

that said, i obviously havent played this so i cant really judge on that :v

[SolarLune]

The addition of just bubbles would help loads. Although, it already looks awesome. By the way, do you get any Jellyfish Juice from beating the jellyfish?

[Hempuli‽]

The addition of just bubbles would help loads. Although, it already looks awesome. By the way, do you get any Jellyfish Juice from beating the jellyfish?

You do, but things brings a gameplay problem: there are no fireplaces in the game!

[mokesmoe]

I tried a couple of mock-ups using that palette.
I wasn't sure how to handle the water colour and tubes though.

[Ashkin]

The addition of just bubbles would help loads. Although, it already looks awesome. By the way, do you get any Jellyfish Juice from beating the jellyfish?

You do, but things brings a gameplay problem: there are no fireplaces in the game!

There is, however, a volcanic area...
... Time to douse the player in jellyfish juice.