djam

26d

Interesting…

It’s easier to handle and remove some missed hits frustration.
It removes the need of the button that covers the playground..

But that reduces the player role…
It might end not challenging enough.
I’ll give a look to Arc Hero…

benjaminsen

26d

I think that can be balanced in many other ways.

djam

26d

Seems that in Arc Hero they balance the lack of player actions with the quantity of enemies and projectiles.
Player's role is to avoid them... and to collect rewards: rewards collection occupies half of the play time :)

So that could do it: Multiple drones and bouncing lasers could compensate the removal of punch action.
Another advantage is that it removes current player placement issues.

And Arc Hero also inspired me another thing...
I first thought that properly adding a weapon in the sprites would be too effort expensive.
But now I see it's possible to imagine a bunch of remote attacks: Power fist, Laser fist, Companion drone...

Add to this a story, some puzzles and that could give a very cool thing.

djam

1mo

I started that only to test the Upload feature when it was released weeks ago, just to see the possibilities.
Recently, after viewing some new games that still have low to no animations, I decided to publish that test... and I couldn't help adding some gameplay !
But I mostly rely on the community to Remix that into full games 😎

djam

1mo

Thanks 😉.

It’s funny that you talk about the explosion/death anim : that’s the one I had to drop because using sprites for it would’ve taken too much time 😅.
That’s why I switched to the simple particles solution...

(the Knight death is inspired by a mix of Another World game and Transcendence movie)

blackwidowink

1mo

Must have taken forever just to get the assets loaded in. Look at the initialization list!

djam

1mo

😉yeah, It was long but actually quite simple

djam

1mo

Thanks 😉

djam

1mo

Hi,
Thanks, I didn't generate the animation, I uploaded it.

I’ll write a post to give more details.