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[Alec S.]

Update 5/12/2016

Recently I've been working on two things.  First is I've been having friends test an early build of the game, and thus been doing a lot of little fixes and tweaks.  For example, I've changed how powerups are dropped.  They are no longer dropped by enemies, and are now found in crates scattered through the levels.  This will not only deal with the confusion that was caused by enemies who were out of reach of the player dropping powerups, but also let me reward the player some more for exploring the levels.



I'm also doing rough passes on the remaining levels.  It is looking very likely that I'll have a rough pass on the entire game done by the end of the month, which I'm excited about.  There will still be a fair amount of work to do after that, though: cutscenes, a few missing bosses, polishing the levels, ect...

[Alec S.]

[Alec S.]

[eyeliner]

Captain Power And the Soldiers of the Future kinda robot.
With that chest area.

Man, I loved that show...

[Alec S.]

I'm not familiar with it, but looking it up, it looks rad! 

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The robot design in that show is quite compatible with your game.

[Alec S.]

[Oscar Blomqvist]

The gameplay looks fun, the artstyle is consistent and brings back memories, and the plot is absolutely hilarious. Good luck with finishing development of the game.

[Alec S.]

Thanks! 

[Alec S.]

5/20/16

I hit a milestone today:  I now have at the very least a rough pass of each level of the game (not including boss-only stages).  There are a total of 14 stages (including the motorcycle level and the raft level) not including boss stages.

[Alec S.]

[Alec S.]

Duel in the Forest

[Shnurbs]

Wow. That's an incredibly striking art style you've got going on here. Gameplay looks pretty fun too!

[Alec S.]

Cold Vengeance just made it through Greenlight!

[Alec S.]

Just a quick update (8/13/16):

Development slowed down quite a bit over the past couple months as I had a summer job which took up most of my time.  However, work on the game will resume this coming week, so stay tuned.  My goal is to have the game finished by the end of the year (although hopefully sooner). 

As I said back in May, the I have basically a rough pass of the whole game at this point.  Most of what remains is:
- Cutscenes
- Incorporating feedback from playstesting
- Sound Effects
- A few side areas that need work
- Polishing the levels
- Menu and interface work
- General tweaking and fixing
- Some missing or incomplete bosses

[Alec S.]

Added a rushing water effect to the canyon level:

[Alec S.]

In an effort to eschew naturalism in favor of arcady-ness, I have added arcade arrows:

[JWK5]

This looks awesome, I keep seeing bits and pieces of it around TIGS and it hits that right note of nostalgia (with some added color finesse).

I am really liking the feel of the gameplay you've got going, it kind makes me think of the Siphon Filter games (which I absolutely love), but please tell me there is or is going to be an awesome sword (or whatever) melee attack! Especially the image where you have the jumping Mouser-looking guys I have this overwhelming mental urge to move forward and start slashing away. Especially with the constant forward-looking camera I could see instances where you'd move pillar to pillar for cover so that you could close in on a shot-resistant enemy to get in a defense-busting melee strike.

If you haven't played the Siphon Filter games (PS1), I highly recommend checking them out (they have a lot of the same elements going on including the forward-looking camera and strafe movement). There are a lot of good ideas in them you could mine.


EDIT: Speaking of cover, I am not seeing a lot of it in your screenshots, even though in this type of game cover is absolute gold. Especially with some kind of roll or pop-in/pop-out mechanic it is great. Even if you don't take it that far and just keeping the movement options as is, just putting in more things to hide behind would be a great tactical asset.

[Alec S.]

Thanks!

I haven't played Syphon Filter, but that's definitely the era of early 3D I'm going for here.  I should check it out.

Melee attacks are something I've considered, but they're currently not in the game.  I may play around with some sort of melee attack, but I don't have specific plans for it right now.

Some levels do have things you can hide behind (trees in the forest, rocks in the arid levels, ect...) but I really don't want to make this game too cover-heavy.  I want it to be less stop-and-pop and more run-n-gun.  Basically, I'm going for something in between Sin and Punishment and Jet Force Gemini.

[JWK5]

Some levels do have things you can hide behind (trees in the forest, rocks in the arid levels, ect...) but I really don't want to make this game too cover-heavy.  I want it to be less stop-and-pop and more run-n-gun.  Basically, I'm going for something in between Sin and Punishment and Jet Force Gemini.

Yeah, ideally you'd alternate. Cover segment, run-and-gun segment, cover segment, run-and-gun segment, and so on. It'd give the game a nice balance of "heated" gameplay followed by "cool down" gameplay allowing the player to have periods of immediate tension and periods of slow caution.

If you have any story you want to get across the periods of slow caution are a great time to drop them (the way your game operates it'd be awesome to pick up some item of some sort that tells a chunk of background info or something).

Anyways, just a thought. From what I can see it looks awesome so no matter how you go about it I'm interested!

If at any point there is anything I can do to help feel free to shoot me a message.