Wow okay! Responded to everyone that left comments the past two weeks or so, thank you for being so patient with me!
Will there be music from that same country? If you secretly told me what country it is I could listen in now and get you some nice tunes later
Music from the same country, I’m honestly not sure. I never really decided on a country, but was basing a lot of the character designs off of Poland and Russia.
I really like the new animations. The fixed jump looks great, and the enemies look good as well.
I think the Nesting Doll enemies could use a little more animation(maybe rotation when they attack), but they look really cool. I really like the way they punch when they attack.
Can't wait to see some levels with the tiles in it.
Thank you! I was thinking about that, but honestly will take a few minutes when I get the time(if I do).
Really appreciate how you are attentive to, and knowledgeable about historical details. I would really embrace that!
Also liking the character sprites, though I've got a comment on the 2nd animation, the "cat-step" onto the toes; I think you've drawn the angle of the ankle too extreme. The foot is back behind the ankle - with the heel and toes vertically aligned; it's an impossible position. (Maybe not for a ballerina? but it's too extreme for combat, I think).
See how the right side of the right leg ends up having blank space beneath it when the character moves to her toes? I think that, if you fill in a few pixels there, you may have to reshape the foot a bit, but it would probably look more natural.
(Sorry if there are art terms for this and I don't know them.
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Thank you for the feedback, I did fix the ankle, so I hope that’s to your liking, and removed the frame where that animation looked awkward, just because playing around with it, I couldn’t get it to work. Also, it’s fine, I barely know terms myself!
The eye looks interesting--but right now it doesn't look very "round" to my... well... eye.
(Presuming that it's intended to be round, of course.) Perhaps it might look more circular if you shaved a pixel off of each horizontal and vertical of its outline?
The enemies animation are pretty minimal, just because I’m running a bit behind on schedule for this game and would like more time but into bosses ...
Hmm... This may well ignore some element of player psychology, so take my thoughts here with a grain of salt...
That said, how much time do you expect players to spend in boss fights, relative to combatting standard enemies? If the player is likely to spend more time fighting those standard enemies, then--depending on the ratio of time with bosses to time with standard enemies, and the degree to which each makes an impact--those enemies may have a greater aesthetic impact than the bosses.
Thank for the feedback, I’ll look at what your suggestion would be for the eye looks like soon, it does look a bit awkward but, I’ll see what I can do! I understand your feelings about the enemies and bosses, my wording was a bit awkward there, I meant I more wanted to do simplified enemies and simplified animations in a personality sense, than the bosses, so I can invest time into them looking how I wanted to.
I really like the design of the new enemy. They look really cool, and different from the other enemies. Can't wait to see them implemented into the game.
The ankle also looks a lot better.
When do you think we could see video of the game, with Dimka doing her double // slashing???
Thank you again! And soon hopefully!
The new enemy looks interesting--a water elemental, or something similar, I take it?
As to the ankle, examination of the new GIF seems to suggest that her forward ankle still ends up in that uncomfortable-looking position in the final frame--unless I'm mistaken about which ankle others were commenting on?
Yes, it’s a water elemental, the boss will be something similar as well for this stage!
I assumed that people were talking about her ankle moving too far back, but I can look at it later, when polishing the game more, I just need to move on for now.
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