Introduction:Hello everyone!
One thing I really enjoy are devlogs. So I figured I'd start one while I work on my game, plus it'd be good motivation to try to get things done to post it. Hopefully everyone likes the idea and enjoys the devlog. I can't promise I'll be able to post everyday or week since I only get to work on this in my spare time.
The GameThe game as I call it for now is, From Limb To Limb. Essentially, it's my answer to the question: "What would happen if you can keep fighting even if you lose limbs?". The idea first came to mind when I was talking with a friend and we talked about how it'd be funny to beat someone with their own limbs.
Right now, it's just me. I'll be looking for an artist eventually. Currently, I have an almost done basic fighting system setup. I'm just missing blocking and grabbing. Which grabbing can be used to take out people's limbs.
The fun part about this game, is that not only can you do damage to knock each other's limbs off but you can reattach limbs. Movement and attacks do change based on what limbs you have. Obviously, having both legs is going to make you move faster as opposed to one or none. Also, you have a choice to instead pick up limbs as a weapon and this goes vice versa for weapons. You can pick them up to use or attach them to your body. The goal with weapons is to have the weapons be used differently when it's a limb instead of being held.
For example (Rocket Launcher. Weapon: Fire rockets at opponent. Limb: Use it as a double jump. A literal rocket jump.)
I wanted to make it simple, easy to learn and fun. So there is essentially three things you can do.
Block. Attack. Grab.
Block beats Attack. Grab beats Block. Attack beats Grab. Basically rock, paper, scissors. Where you get some depth to the game is that when you attack or grab, you can press up to aim for the head or down to aim for the legs or if you don't press either, you go for the torso/arms. From there, you get to start deciding how you want to take down your opponent.
I'm hoping the game will be one of those games that people will want to sit around together and play.
ModesAs I've mentioned, one of the modes is to fight fellow players, whether free for all or teams. Not only is it just an arena fighting (using this very loosely) game. There will be mini-games as well. Some that I will "reveal":
Hangman: Either take turns or not, to guess letters. Every time you guess a correct letter, the other players lose a limb. Every time you guess wrong, you lose a limb.
Headball: Grab other player's heads and score them into a basket. Either the basket will be on the ground or I'll replace the legs with springs so players can do high jumps to reach the net.
Armed & Loaded: Every 30 seconds, each player's right arm will be swapped with a weapon.
Build A Body: Start off as a head and race others to randomly spawn body pieces and be the first to build your body.
Gifs:This is a preview of building your body up. You can roll around as a head before attaching your torso.
This is a preview of knocking someone's limbs off. Although for the sake of this gif, I made it so all limbs fell off.
This is a preview of Hangman. At first you get to guessing right, then guessing wrong. Credit to Kenney for the letters. There's just there until I get an artist.
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