melody-sy wrote:

i finally got around to programming the wormholes from the original llewellyn rope concept art! currently they have two configurations: one that you can pull pullable boxes from and one you can pull swingable lumenjellies from– if turns out both have interesting uses for puzzles >.>

also you can only have a certain amount of each wormhole item at once, and if you try to pull more out the oldest one will disappear (the specific amount can be configured for each wormhole individually)

melody-sy wrote:

i like the idea of order being represented with electronic music and chaos being represented with jazz but i think i kind of missed the opportunity to do that ooops

melody-sy wrote:

oo idea
what if when flec shoots something with his gun i made it do the flashy thing like the nes zapper games did
(in games that used the nes zapper, like duck hunt, whenever you shoot something the entire screen will go black with white squares wherever the targets are for just a split second– it did this so that the sensor on the zapper controller can detect if you actually hit the target or not by looking for the white squares on the tv screen)

i think itd be a fun thing to reference and itd fit well with the super flashy effects i already have >.>

melody-sy wrote:

the other day i programmed tiny dialogue boxes that appear in the background and go on as you play the game without interrupting anything and i think that's something more games should have
im using it a lot in the chapter 2 area to have llewellyn spit out witty commentary while you're swinging around and solving puzzles >.>

melody-sy wrote:

something i want is for the characters' overworld abilities to be less like keys that you use to get past obstacles just by switching to the right character, and more like a box of tools– sure, some tools are made for certain situations, but there's nothing stopping you from trying to hit a nail with a wrench (or finding an alternate solution to a box pulling puzzle by using flec's gun)

CodeNinja329 wrote:

ooh, that's a great idea! this game is definitely gonna need a flashing lights warning tho lol– are you implementing accessibility settings?

CodeNinja329 wrote:

i love this idea :0 i think the closest thing to this i've seen in a game are the little speech bubbles in A Hat in Time, but i guess i'll have to wait and see how this system is similar and different :>

melody-sy wrote:

i think it'd be easier to come up with an ability for alpha if we think of the other characters' abilities this way:

bat's ability is very much inspired by platformers and puzzle games
flec's ability is based on shooters
and zee's is a bit broad, but i think we can safely say it has elements of stealth games

so i think it'd only make sense for alpha to continue the trend and incorporate elements of a completely different game genre–
some ideas i have already: type of movement inspired by racing games, some kind of situational mechanic based on point and click adventure games, ability to command the rest of the party like a real time strategy game???? something to do with rhythm mechanics, ability to build stuff like in minecraft

melody-sy wrote:

CodeNinja329 wrote:

ooh, that's a great idea! this game is definitely gonna need a flashing lights warning tho lol– are you implementing accessibility settings?

you can turn most flashing effects off and darken / stop the movement of battle backgrounds, but there are still lots of super bright high contrast colors that i feel are too integral to the game's visual identity to completely get rid of and would take a lot of reworking to fix anyway (eg, the text box, the battle menu, the glitchy startup animation)– so even with settings it might not be for everybody–

melody-sy wrote:

CodeNinja329 wrote:

i love this idea :0 i think the closest thing to this i've seen in a game are the little speech bubbles in A Hat in Time, but i guess i'll have to wait and see how this system is similar and different :>

you know that scene in deltarune chapter 2 where noelle is talking to you as you're walking down the path and pressing letter keys to spell out “december”? it's a little bit like that, except the text box is made smaller and moved to the top of the screen so it's clear that you can still move while the character is speaking

melody-sy wrote:

i think it'd be easier to come up with an ability for alpha if we think of the other characters' abilities this way:

bat's ability is very much inspired by platformers and puzzle games
flec's ability is based on shooters
and zee's is a bit broad, but i think we can safely say it has elements of stealth games

so i think it'd only make sense for alpha to continue the trend and incorporate elements of a completely different game genre–
some ideas i have already: type of movement inspired by racing games, some kind of situational mechanic based on point and click adventure games, ability to command the rest of the party like a real time strategy game???? something to do with rhythm mechanics, ability to build stuff like in minecraft

melody-sy wrote:

big milestone! i finally got around to programming the first actual enemy attack for the battle system– i was very intimidated by the idea of it so i put it off for quite a while, but now that i have the base systems in place it shouldn't be too difficult to make more in the future

fungors can now do a simple charge at a random party member– you can block by pressing c with good timing (right as it makes contact with you)

melody-sy wrote:

the party members still have no proper hurt/block animations yet though i want to finish those before i show a video

melody-sy wrote:

melody-sy wrote:

the party members still have no proper hurt/block animations yet though i want to finish those before i show a video

okay there's a block animation i can show a video now

melody-sy wrote:

repost from the tumblr:

In a quiet little corner of the Rift is a spot known as the Falloff Point.

It seems completely abandoned… but foreboding structures and messages from an era long past still remain.

melody-sy wrote:

big milestone! i finally got around to programming the first actual enemy attack for the battle system– i was very intimidated by the idea of it so i put it off for quite a while, but now that i have the base systems in place it shouldn't be too difficult to make more in the future

fungors can now do a simple charge at a random party member– you can block by pressing c with good timing (right as it makes contact with you)

melody-sy wrote:

melody-sy wrote:

the party members still have no proper hurt/block animations yet though i want to finish those before i show a video

okay there's a block animation i can show a video now

melody-sy wrote:

i got projectile attacks working too! fungor has a second attack where it spits toxic gas at you now

melody-sy wrote:

just for fun i made a variable in the enemy code that makes enemy projectiles be deflectable, meaning that if you block them they get sent right back to the enemy, dealing the same amount of damage they would have done to you

the catch is that there's also a setting that makes the enemy block the projectile too, so you can get into little energy ball tennis matches that go on until someone misses the block and gets hit (like ganondorf)

melody-sy wrote:

just for fun i made a variable in the enemy code that makes enemy projectiles be deflectable, meaning that if you block them they get sent right back to the enemy, dealing the same amount of damage they would have done to you

the catch is that there's also a setting that makes the enemy block the projectile too, so you can get into little energy ball tennis matches that go on until someone misses the block and gets hit (like ganondorf)

CodeNinja329 wrote:

ooh, nice! i read “toxic gas” and thought “that sounds like an attack that could hurt the whole party at once” (probably in part because i've been playing omori a lot lol, it has a lot of those kinds of attacks), which makes me curious: are you planning on implementing attacks (whether on the party's side or on the enemy's side) that can damage multiple characters at once?

CodeNinja329 wrote:

i love this idea :0 seems like the kind of mechanic that, in addition to being used for normal enemies, could have a boss fight centered around it! the most obvious way to do that is an enemy that can only be damaged by its own attacks (similar to mad dummy, donut county final level, literally all of everhood), but the tennis thing in particular could be interesting to focus on…

melody-sy wrote:

big milestone! i finally got around to programming the first actual enemy attack for the battle system– i was very intimidated by the idea of it so i put it off for quite a while, but now that i have the base systems in place it shouldn't be too difficult to make more in the future

fungors can now do a simple charge at a random party member– you can block by pressing c with good timing (right as it makes contact with you)


the party members still have no proper hurt/block animations yet though i want to finish those before i show a video

melody-sy wrote:

WHAT IF YOU COULD USE THE LLEWELLYN ROPE AS A FISHING ROD

melody-sy wrote:

WHAT IF YOU COULD USE THE LLEWELLYN ROPE AS A FISHING ROD

melody-sy wrote:

WHAT IF YOU COULD USE THE LLEWELLYN ROPE AS A FISHING ROD