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[Raku]

my goodness, the animation on... everything in that image.

[andy wolff]

dang, this is looking gorgeous.

[Beaulamb1992]

Wow! this is beautiful!

[Impmaster]

Just saw your GIF in the (I forget where) thread. Looks gorgeous.


BTW, how many of you are working on this?

[karlozalb]

You might remember seeing this place before if you watched the video I uploaded back in 2009. The Wind Festival is about to begin in Ivos City, a place not in the region in which the game takes place.

Eliavinna is a region demarcated by a chain of mountains that surround a middle grassland. At the centre of the plain there is a hill on which Ivos is built, owing its name to a solitary yew tree that stood at the top of the hill. Ivos, the largest township of Eliavinna, is the first city of the West dedicated exclusively to trade, and as it grew, four other towns were built at the perimeter of the grassland, between the gaps of the mountains, each serving as a trading passageway into farther lands.

Not much can be said now about the relevance of Ivos to the game's plot, but here is where everything begins for the main antagonist.

Great work, that flag is very very realistic :O

[Moshfunk]

Oh goddamn!

There was a time when I was searching for videos like "games created with mmf2" and so and saw some alpha builds from this. I didn't know you're still on this - I honestly thought that Heart Forth, Alicia was another good game down.

It looks damn awesome, keep it up! 

[Mr.Blue]

Oh wow. This is really petty, smooth too.

[christopf]

i just stumbled upon your website and was suprised when i saw the credits you doing nearly everything of the game while it got sooo detailed graphics and smooth gameplay (as far as the screen saying). +follow this

[Konidias]

I feel like if that giant flag is moving, the little flags should be moving as well.

[BomberTREE]

This is beautiful 

[Silvermaan]

Thanks everybody! And @Konidias, that's definitely a good point you're making right there. I'll have to talk to Alonso about that one. We put out a new update the other day, thought you guys would appreciate seeing them over here in case you didn't see them originally.

Some gifs from the opening dungeon:





and some artwork from a super talented dude we're working with, cloverlee



Lee's site, if anyone's interested in seeing some more of his work: http://cloverlee-portfolio.blogspot.com/

Basically, the big stuff we've done in the last couple weeks has been related to getting in checkpoints, reworking the dungeon that the gifs are from in order to make a smoother opening, and refining the movement and controls off of some pretty insightful tester feedback.

There's umm... a lot of good stuff coming soon . We're gonna be hanging around a lot more, so feel free to throw any criticism out there and we'll get right on it.

[AlonsoMartin]

Ah, thanks a lot, guys <3. I'm really glad you're liking the game. I thought this thread was buried!

Yeah, there's still a lot of stuff to be fixed and re-done: those little flags should definitely be animated. I added the big flag much later on, so i guess I overlooked it

I'll keep the thread less abandoned!

@Impmaster There's a few of us working on it. Jonathan Geer's doing the music, Andrew's helping me out with marketing and managing the project, Clovelee's working on the illustrations, and I'm taking care of doing the game. If things go well in the next months, I could get another couple of people to help out with some aspects of the game.


@Moshfunk Ah, yeah! There's a really old 2007 video of the game. I did stop working on the game for a couple of years, though, so I understand why you thought it was dead. It's just the opposite, though

[eigenbom]

Looks bewdiful!

[Slader16]

I love that artwork 

[barley]

Oh wow, this is awesome. Your art is so nice.

[FK in the Coffee]

Are you still developing this in Multimedia Fusion?  That's mind-boggling to me.

[ephoete]

I didn't know it was still possible but your arts are just getting more gorgeous and gorgeous... just aaaaw.

[Silvermaan]

New post up on the website today, talking a little bit about melee combat in HFA: http://www.alonsomartin.mx/hfa/2014/03/07/melee-combat-in-a-gif/



Essentially, one of our main goals with melee combat is to keep things fast and agile. Alicia may be a wizard, but getting in enemies' faces and smacking them down with her whip is an important part of how she deals with enemies.

This gif is from pretty early in the game so the most you see here is the charged attack that finally takes down the skeleton, but throughout the game there are loads more upgrades for melee combat, both in terms of new attacks and whip improvements, and more forms of mobility that enable Alicia to run circles around her enemies even faster. We might be showing off some more of them soon, depending on how things go.

The enemy in the gif here is a skeleton that's fairly common in the mines region of the game, and while they're not too much to handle when they're alone and in open space, getting a few of them in a room together, especially a tight one  or one with a lot of platforming, and it can take some serious effort to get around them unharmed. But as rough as skeleton groups can be, actually managing to weave your way through a barrage of pickaxes when you're one hit away from death feels pretty darn good.

[AlonsoMartin]

Just a small update showing another gif from the game. This time it's of a mini boss fight that happens early in the game (just before getting the wall-jump skill). Will be showing more of these in the following days

[Zack Bell]

Badass. I dig it.