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[Juan Raigada]

Much, much, much better...

[Konidias]

100000x better

[Indie4Fun]

ok, we've asked other forums and the result has been the same: the new design rocks. So we'll working on reanimating Izzy in his new dress.

Thanks for your help! It's really great to have support from you guys, this helps a lot.

[Indie4Fun]

WIP of Izzy's workshop, with some nice misterious machines.

Izzy running with the new outfit, still WIP:

[Games Inquirer]

Cute designs!

[Indie4Fun]

Beyond Izzy’s house

Izzy lives in Steelbridge, a city divided by a river. The city began to gain importance following the building of a bridge which linked  its two parts, defining its present name and facilitating communication and trade.
    With the construction of the bridge a guild came,  dedicated to the iron works, which took control over production and distribution of steam techonogy based on machinery. Three other guilds are supported by this one: the airships guild, the pharmacy guild and the liquors one.
   Because of the greed of their leaders, the four guilds gathered a huge power and they own the control of the whole city.

The first guild we’re working on:
    Airships guild:
The airship guild has managed to create flying machines that allow to move people and goods to remote places. It controls all flying city’s traffic.




I hope you like this!

[Indie4Fun]

We've been working these days in several concept art illustrations. What do you think about this one? It's a poster starring Izzy and the four main bosses she has to beat. We want them to be different in their personalities and in their look.

Hope you like it! We plan to give some postcards with this same design at the London's Campus Party!

[Indie4Fun]

Hey guys!

Izzy is already able to attack! we made a video with the new movements and you can see her walking accross Steelbridge streets (work in progress)

What do you think about it? Do you like the new designs for the city? 

[ANtY]

I don't think that it's very clear on what environment elements you can stand and which are only in the background.

[karlozalb]

I don't think that it's very clear on what environment elements you can stand and which are only in the background.

I agree. But the rest looks cool

[ink.inc]

attack animations lack impact

[William Chyr]

The airships and workshop art look really nice, definitely more in the steampunk style than the earlier images of Lizzy's bedroom (I personally think those are a little too colorful).

Anyway, good-looking poster! The bird-boss looks intriguing.

[Indie4Fun]

OMG, so many feedback! thank you so much!! we really appreciate it. After watching the same artwork hours after hours it is hard to see the flaws. A fresh view from outside is really valuable.


ANty and karlozalb. After your posts, we have discussing about that. We have to add something extra that makes that more clear. Maybe a slightly different colors o playing with the lights.

John. Thanks! attack animation is still not finished as it needs some extra particles for remarking the attack speed and (just in case) the collission of the wrench with an object.

[ANtY]

consider making background objects desaturated and foreground ones saturated, also a bit brighter. should solve the problem, but dunno if it'll look good.

[Indie4Fun]

We programmed for Izzy's revenge a very very basic physics functionality. Some elements like the main character, projectiles or enemies extends from a class named "Physicable". This class provide several characteristics like position, speed, acceleration, friction or air friction as well as some methods for detecting collisions.

Using these features, when Izzy gets harmed, we added some speed in the reverse direction as a knockback. You can see what happens with too high speeds:

[Indie4Fun]

Here you are some advertising that we will place ingame. These ads are from the SteelBridge guilds that control the city.

[Indie4Fun]

by the way, thanks a lot for your constructive comments!!!, we added more contrast to the level objects. Now it is more clear what environment elements you can stand:

[Indie4Fun]

OMG, near 8 months since our last post.

I've to say that many many things happened since them. Some of them good, some of them not so good. When I gather some time I want to explain it, but basically some parts of the game were boring and we made some heavy changes to the game desing in order to solve them.

Shortly after the last post we designed and added our first enemy: a basic member of the airship guild:

Crazy, slightly idot and armed with a batton, they patrol the airship guild district:

Killing them is easy, as he dies electrocuted after a few hits, but when groups of three or more come together, it becomes a really violent and fun challenge.


We created a quite simple AI base on the state object design pattern: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_pattern

The bird has a set of possible states: idle, seeking izzy, stunned, attacking, dead. Each state has two features: what actions should be made?,  what will be the next state? Both functions are evaluated on each cycle for each enemy. With a set of three or four states it is possible to obtain a nice and efficient AI.

Then, just tuning running/attacking speeds, attack damage and attack delays it is possible to adjust it to make it fun.

Finally, I've to say that we learnt that a simple AI that sometimes make stupid things is OK for most of the time, it even can make people laugh.

[karlozalb]

The enemy looks really cool

Maybe some different clothes color will be perfect!

[Indie4Fun]

Thanks for your appreciation! We have discussed ourselves about that a lot . At the end, we decided that, as he is the weakest enemy, it would be ok with non flashy colors.