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[barneycumming]

totally awesome so far, can't wait to see more

[JasonPickering]

I ADDED PARALLAX!!!!!!!

[JasonPickering]

so thinking about this, and wonder if its possible to build an explorations game, without using up and down movement. Maybe something like the Odin Sphere games. with doors behind the player. might make the map a built odd though.

[karlozalb]

woooo I tested the prototype, this looks awesome :D

[JasonPickering]

Still working on the level design stuff. I need a way for the player to go from one layer to the other but dont want to add a lot of buttons for going up and down. my current options are:

- Stopping in front of a staircase has the player use the staircase
- Add a button for all interactions
- elevators that move when you stop on them.

I think I am leaning towards the First one, like my original design had.

[lionfish]

The issue with number one is that if there's an enemy, what's preventing one from going up or down unintentionally.  That would be bothersome.

[JasonPickering]

well. No enemies so that solves that problem. The game is strictly about traversing the world to get to a boss battle. Think Shadow of the Colossus.

[lionfish]

Oh nice!  I loved SoC.  Yeah, then, that definitely would work.

[JasonPickering]

I won't probably have any more prototypes for a bit. I am switching the project over from flash to gamemaker. So an engine rewrite is in order. I think it would be cool to get this on a bunch of platforms, so we will see.

[barneycumming]

as you already have one action verb (other than move left and move right) for attacking, i would consider making up/down movement triggered with that- eg. there are elevator type things you stand on, and they have a handle which you strike with your sword to trigger

[JasonPickering]

That could be good. I could also have locked elevators that activate when you find them adding shortcuts.

[JasonPickering]

I am actually thinking I might remove the sword when traversing the world. So the player keeps it sheathed. On getting into a boss battle the player will pull out the sword. So in the world the action button will operate like an action while in battle it will strictly be sword.

[lionfish]

That might be nice.  I think while traversing, it might be fun to have a button to press.  I know while I was playing WoW, I'd jump everywhere.  Maybe a visual flair of some kind that doesn't impeded movement.  I can't remember if there was one in SoC though.  That was just fun to look at, especially when riding the horse.

[JasonPickering]

Yeah I thought about a jump button, but fear it will be missed in combat if I remove it for the battle.

[JasonPickering]

So thinking more about the "action" when not in combat and it seems to me that this could really work. I could even go as far as making it a context sensitive button. Like ladder climbing, using stairs, pulling levers, interacting with switches.

[JasonPickering]

So this is sort of on hiatus, but not really. I am switching from flash to unity, So I can get it onto more platforms, but still working on the design.

[lionfish]

Unity is awesome.  Great switch decision!

[JasonPickering]

Yeah, the biggest problem I am having now is the 2d movement system. I am use to just doing x +1 but I guess you need to use the transform command now.

[barneycumming]

looking forward to seeing more on this

i have found the ex2d unity extension quite good for helping with 2d animations, sprite sheets etc

though i haven't looked into the recent changes/improvements they made to the built-in 2d tools- maybe something like ex2d is not as necessary these days

[JasonPickering]

yeah I was going to try and use the actual Unity stuff. It hasn't been bad and most of my code converts over. I just have to learn all the different terms. I have spent a couple hours reading through the wiki.