today i am designign some cakes
going to write a lot here ok here we go writing
-cake
In boidcak 1, cake served as an hp / dura thing for weps. While this was interesting for a short amount of time and was kind of fitting with the LD theme, we decided to remove the wep durabulity for boidcak++
instead you now how 4 cake slots, and 5 hp(starting)
you will manage which cakes you want to carry, each cake has a different effect. Note that cake does not represent hp, however you can EAT slices of cake to gain hp, but this will remove the cake
cakes have 3(for now) effects
1 - slice effect "s/e" the s/e occurs when you hold a slice of cake in your plate, for example one cake may have you run faster as long as you are holding that slice
2 - cake effect "c/e" The c/e occurs when you hold a plate full of 4 slices of these, ex 4 bombcakes make you explode on weapon impact - please note that we may remove this as it would reward keeping one type of cake, which might make it seem less rewarding to diversify and make cool strats
3 - eat effect "e/e" most cakes will heal 1 or more hp when you eat them, however they can also have an e/e which occurs when you eat the cake (im thinking these will mostly be some form of AOE)
here as some quick cake ideas
please note that the cakes all are pallete swaps, however later on they will be replaced by seperate sprites once we know they are well balanced, or the idea is plausible during gameplayWeapons will also change a bit, we will probably add a bunch more, but i will probably write more about that later
Hopefully these will work in interesting ways, so that players can develop different strategies as they work through the game
one example of this, for instance
imagine you are carrying a weapon that upon charging (oh yeah you can charge weapons now) hurts you, but also imagine you have a slice of cake that explodes you upon taking damage, and one that heals you at a chance upon taking damage - now you run around the map exploding yourself to damage enemies, might be cool?
OTHER STUFF
-npcs, bring them certain cake slices for stuff, get rare cakes.
-the reason i want a wonder swan is because they layout would work perfectly for boid, y1-4 for ckae, x1-4 move a/b attack
-we will probably attempt to localize and put the game on playism for japanese cake fans
-we want to do a form of early access for feedback to improve the game
- demoscene stuff for sure
-player/weapon skins
-minibosses/weirdMiniZones
-we are still working on burrito
love u
heres some music for bird from kfaradangus, tho it will probably be remade w/ snes soundfonts to match the games theme
https://soundcloud.com/kayfaraday/gaia-the-dragon-champion
