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« Reply #60 on: September 06, 2015, 08:12:02 PM » |
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That sounds and looks really cool, subbed. This screenshot is awesome, but these non-pixelated lights spoils the entire look of the game for me. Agree here, per vertex lighting works best for pixel art imo. Looking good though, early days!
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empika
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« Reply #61 on: September 07, 2015, 12:43:31 AM » |
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Agree here, per vertex lighting works best for pixel art imo. Looking good though, early days!
Think you might have missed a few updates. The game is looking very different now
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cykboy
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« Reply #62 on: September 07, 2015, 05:07:59 AM » |
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Agree here, per vertex lighting works best for pixel art imo. Looking good though, early days!
Think you might have missed a few updates. The game is looking very different now You are very much correct, I didn't see the page numbers.. my bad Looking beautiful!
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empika
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« Reply #63 on: September 07, 2015, 07:57:38 AM » |
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Haha, thanks! Much appreciated
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empika
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« Reply #64 on: September 12, 2015, 03:47:24 PM » |
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Hey there! Today I rewrote my door code after a bunch of refactoring for interactable items in general, also added a popup kind of notification for incidental text I also worked on some more items for the new labs, and tried to get that laid out a bit more. Finding it hard to get the lighting balanced nicely though
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Alec S.
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« Reply #65 on: September 12, 2015, 03:53:47 PM » |
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This is looking great, plus I always think there should be more under 10-hour RPGs. I really like the aesthetic of those battle screens.
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« Reply #66 on: September 12, 2015, 04:01:47 PM » |
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I agree with Alec S. The battle arena screens look really great. Also the door animation and movement also look good, not so sure about the text though, but I don't have a great alternative.
What do you mean it's hard to get the lighting balanced? Maybe some screens showing alternatives? Also I wonder if the atmosphere could get a bump if the green screens in the computer lab were giving off a subtle glow to the surrounding area?
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empika
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« Reply #67 on: September 13, 2015, 03:36:48 AM » |
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I'm finding it hard to light the environment so the items in the room aren't as dark, but without washing out the rest of the room. Maybe that's ok though as it should be a bit gloomy :s
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empika
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« Reply #68 on: October 01, 2015, 06:57:09 AM » |
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Been a while since I posted an update, so here some WIP for the first boss Detail: Initial pass at animation, I kinda like how he is thrashing about a bit:
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« Reply #69 on: October 01, 2015, 11:49:43 AM » |
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Looks great Following
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« Reply #70 on: October 01, 2015, 12:21:51 PM » |
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I'm following as well.
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mzn528
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« Reply #71 on: October 01, 2015, 08:03:13 PM » |
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Damn this looks really cool! I love the artstyle and game mechanics!
Keep up the great work!
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empika
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« Reply #72 on: October 02, 2015, 12:46:04 AM » |
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Thanks folks, always great to hear some encouraging words Did some work on the game over screen last night Needs some work on the arrangement but I wanted to get some code hooked up. I've been thinking a lot recently about the penalty for failure and wasn't sure how to handle it. After picking up Ni No Kuni again this weekend I decided I quite like their take on it. When you die in NNK, it costs 5% of your currency, I found this pretty trivial as you are always farming currency from enemies. I decided to do something similar but cost the player 25% of their current XP progression. You will always stay on the level you are at, but lose XP earned towards the next level. I think this feels a bit more consequential.
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« Reply #73 on: October 02, 2015, 01:20:06 AM » |
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Looking pretty unique and well made, nice! What's it made in, not Haxeflixel, perhaps?
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« Reply #74 on: October 02, 2015, 07:26:11 AM » |
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Looking pretty unique and well made, nice! What's it made in, not Haxeflixel, perhaps?
Thanks! I use Unity + Pyxel Edit, with my own hand rolled importer for Pyxel Edit tilemaps. I actually use this technique stolen from Sebastien Dubois and the amazing guys over at Amplitude 3d with forced perspective = 2d It means lighting sits correctly against surfaces (mostly), it has a few drawbacks (such as weird z scaling) but it works pretty well. You can see how that looks in the editor in this old screengrab:
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« Reply #75 on: October 12, 2015, 05:17:00 AM » |
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Changed the brain boss quite a lot, made it float up and down (not gonna lie, animating side to side was a pain! couldnt get it to feel right) and gave it some kind of armour/arms things that I think will make quite good defence or attacks. Here's some wip:
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« Reply #76 on: October 12, 2015, 10:09:37 AM » |
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This is looking awesome, very atmospheric!!
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empika
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« Reply #77 on: October 18, 2015, 02:13:43 PM » |
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Hallo again! Spent most of the weekend working on battle system stuff. I changed the software select menu to be more inline with the other menus in the game. I also got the mecha brain boss into the game, i think it's going to be pretty cool once i add some more attacks and things. ...the only downside of of adding in the boss is that I've realized the battle system is a bit limited in some ways. I thought I had prepared for enemies made of multiple parts, for example the mecha brain consists of two attackable parts, the main brain and the arms. however as I've not touched that part of the system in a rather long time it had suffered some entropy and is super fiddly to get some thing to work (the mecha brain is a huge hack job). So at some point I really need to go back and refactor a bunch of stuff to make it easier to work with and more flexible. The other thing i noticed from having a multiple part enemy is that my enemy selection is all messed up. To select the arms, underneath the brain, you have to press right, rather than down :| so i'll add an enemy select menu at some point. All in all, some good work done and some good lessons learnt
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« Reply #78 on: October 19, 2015, 09:30:28 AM » |
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Being on holiday is great!! I have a few days free before I go to disneyland (:D) for a few days, so I'm spending it catching up on sleep and continuing getting work done on the game. Today I tidied up some of the hacks I made to get the mecha brain working and refactored the AI behaviour to make it a bit more flexible. This means I can now fire animations on all elements of an enemy more cleanly, and also do some more fancy bits I also ironed out that enemy selection stuff mentioned in yesterdays post. I thought it was going to be a lot of work, but it turns out it slotted in quite nicely with my original code once I had set up the UI and attached the event handlers I think it's a lot clearer now: The other thing I worked on was getting the missed hit + dodge animation (just tweening atm). It's starting to look pretty good, although I need to add some more animations to the player and each enemy. This evenings fun will probably involve refactoring the cutscene editor! :D
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« Reply #79 on: October 19, 2015, 09:41:12 AM » |
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Looking good!
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