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Thanks all for the feedback.

This one is perfect - if you're still worried about height maybe the smoke could linger? I think fire does that in the meat world.

I'm not sure what you mean by smoke lingering. You mean instead of it just disappearing quickly?

I tinted these blue for fun, recalling the old idea of using colors to represent magical items. In this take the colors are not as saturated as last time. No plans to make magic torches at the moment. Just a test!




And some UI work

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Happy Holidays:

Particle System Demo <- try in browser

I would like to post a .gif of this but I'm having trouble getting it at a good enough frame rate, so if someone is able to do that I would be very thankful!

A couple of thoughts on this demo. These effects are not intended to appear directly in the game. Each effect was designed to push the particle system and reveal the flaws (success there). I will most likely do some rain, water, smoke, weapon muzzle flashes and impact vfx, and perhaps some snow, however they will be tailored to fit the levels and items. There is a whole lot more this system can do. One thing it cannot do is adequately simulate physics because there is no interaction between the particles (yet). It's crazy but the particles are represented in 3D space, which means you could write a clever specular coloring based on normal, which would really help the water.

Edit: After much tinkering and trying various tools, was able to capture this. Some things are not so easy on a mac..

[JobLeonard]

 

[eigenbom]

This game, i love this game

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If you ever want to seriously make Moon Man ascii version let me know and I'll contribute some concepts. I have an idea for "HD ascii" which I think could work. Of course the original ansi style is hilarious.

[polkm]

That particle system is metal!

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The particle system working in conjunction with the torch attack animation.

[JobLeonard]

 

[JLJac]

 
Soooo amazing! The smoke and sparks in that unity demo was heavenly!
But the actual game doesn't have color?

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Thanks! It's amazing what a bit of programming can do for vfx and animation. The entire particle system is just over 400 lines, with pooling and all. If I can extract it properly I will make it public.

The game is grayscale but I've been playing with color sometimes and may use it to help deliver information (already doing this in one case in the UI).

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Obligatory 'left' handed version

[Kyzrati]

Wait a minute, isn't that the right-handed version?

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I suppose so but my pattern is to name anything on the right side as 'right' and on left side 'left' just to be consistent in the file names and variables.

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Some weapon doodles

   O    )
 ─/┼\─<`/
  / \  ¯ 

   O    _,|
 ─/┼\─<`o /
  / \  ````

   O  /¯\ 
 ─/┼\─)o( 
  / \ \_/ 

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[Polygonzo]

WICKED.

8s on the spiders, nice touch!

[marcgfx]

love the parallax scrolling, the spider webs in the foreground, the water, the cave. really impressive what you can convey using just ascii. the only thing i dont find that convincing is the fire. maybe you could consider using color, just for special-effects/weapons? i like the animation of the fire, just with all the other stuff going on in the background, its quite hard to see it (even when you know what it is). to me it looks mostly like a kind of whip.

[standardcombo]

love the parallax scrolling, the spider webs in the foreground, the water, the cave. really impressive what you can convey using just ascii. the only thing i dont find that convincing is the fire. maybe you could consider using color, just for special-effects/weapons? i like the animation of the fire, just with all the other stuff going on in the background, its quite hard to see it (even when you know what it is). to me it looks mostly like a kind of whip.

Thanks for the feedback. Color has a lot of potential for packing information into the game's constrained space. I am almost certain the game will have some color in the end, but I haven't spent enough time studying that yet. It's not something I can start throwing around.

Deadwood Valley Waterfall 2.0

I like how the top edge of the water transitions better compared to the original mockup. This is an important location and one of the things that really drove me to finally implement the particle system.

[JobLeonard]

The waterfall looks MUCH better!

[Sub]

I don't comment too much, but holy shit.  This looks amazing.