blaugrana:
Seems like having that many enemies makes it hard to tell what's going on and makes the action very sluggish. I like the jump move, though, and the relatively fast pace once there are less enemies - but it feels kind of underwhelming to have all the enemies go down in one hit. In a game like that I personally tend to prefer more interesting foes that take multiple strikes to dispatch, and can actually fight back - like in some of the devil may cry games, or in secret of evermore, for two divergent examples.

You might want to add some sort of a motion blur/trail for the player character's sprite to make the jump animation have more weight and be easier to follow.

Those stock sound effects grate on the ears, though.

I should have probably added that the video was not actually from any part of my game, I just recorded it for fun. My game won't actually have enemies that hit you for 0 and go down in 1-2 blows.

However, thanks for the advice about the jump, I like how it sounds and I'll definitely add it. And yeah I should probably do something about the sound effects. :P

Thanks.
It actually shakes only when you crit, and for this video i put my crit rate at the maximum.

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About the shadow, I agree and thanks for the notice, I'll add it.

Fun with 25 enemies...

@Killer Wolf - I like your sprites, the screen looks interesting, makes me wanna find out more about your game...

@Rockman - It looks cool, I'm looking forward to seeing a video of it.

@SW - I like that screen a lot. The characters' poses are a nice touch.

@Corfaisus - Awsome use of the RTP mate! Plus, what KW said.

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This is my first ever screenshot with a dialogue. That's because for the first time ever I'm actualy making a game, with a story and everything, and not just some ABS/other type of CBS/minigame/whatever. I call the game "Unit 56" and it's (basically) about that captain in the screenshot (the one with the dark-gray uniforms) and his attempts to desert from his army unit (Unit 56) and start a new life. I believe I will eventually open a topic for it.

P.S.: I was "B.I.G" for the past 5-6 years here. It bothered me so I changed my nickname.

@B.I.G.: Looks nice, but don't the enemies attack your ally?

Not yet. It's not that much of a problem to code, I'm just lazy. I'll get to that though.

@B.I.G.: I really like that battle system so far, it looks like it's shaping up to be pretty fun without being overly frenetic. The hit detection seems like its a little off. Not necessarily for four-direction swings, but the arc of the sword doesn't seem to do anything once it leaves a very small angle. Maybe extend the hitbox?

Hmm... there isn't really a hitbox but I get your point. I'll give it a try.

@SupremeWarrior: I think they are a bit too light in relation to the rest of the environment, and they go all the way down to the ground, which makes them look more like doors. Maybe you should try to make them only 1 tile in height, in the middle tile of the wall. It also looks kinda "neat" if you know what I mean. I would expect boarded up windows to be a few smaller boards nailed together, with maybe one or two of them a little bent, broken or whatever.

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Here's a new video from my ABS. I made an ally person that helps you fight. Still very basic, but working.

@Killer Wolf: I like the style of those sprites, very nice job! I've noticed the no-border issue too, try working on that, I'm sure it will do good.

@Rockman: Looks good mate. Are you just gonna make the DBS look like that or are you going to make it as a CBS of your own?

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Here's a little video from the ABS I'm working on in Sphere:

The town is overrun with Neo (yeah that's supposed to be a Neo sprite)!

I've been working on an ABS in Sphere for a while, here are some screens:







- Yes, the player's spriteset is an edit of that RTP guy from RM2000/3. :P
- Right now all you can do is attack the enemies with your sword, and they attack you back. You can also hold a key to run. I'm done with the sprites so I'm starting to work on more complicated aspects now (special skills mostly).

How do you justify to yourself Palestinian land being taken and homes bulldozed? How do you justify the food and medical blockade? How do you justify walling people into a ghetto and blocking them off from their land and their work? How do you justify an occupation that has lasted sixty years while tariffing imports into Gaza while not recognizing the geneva convention? Would you still think it was okay if these "terrorists" were hiding among civilians in Tel Aviv? Would you support 800 tel aviv citizens being killed? What do you have to say of reports of children being sniped by Israeli snipers? About un aid convoys and UN schools (whose coordinates were broadcast to the idf) being bombed? The UN has said nobody was mortaring from their property do you accuse them of lying? Why not just cede land to the armistice agreement instead of negotiating through slaughter?

Palestinian land being taken - what land are you talking about? The Gaza strip land? We don't plan on taking this land, be sure of that. Other lands? This is just my personal opinion but I really won't give a crap if we gave them half of our country for peace. This was actualy offered to them back in 98 when Ehud Barak was the Prime Minister (98% of occupied lands back). No, they didn't take them. Their leadres just want to see Israel destroyed, not live with it.
Houses being  bulldozed - we do what we do to protect ourselves when wer'e in there. If the house has people shooting at me inside it - I don't care if it will be destroyed. If it has civilians in it - I don't justify it by any means. On that matter, did you know that before we bomb a house we actually warn the people around it to get out of the way? So why are people still being killed? Get back to my original post.
Food and medical blockade - I don't justify it. I know that we do seize our fire for 3 hours everyday so those things could get in. I whish we did more.
Walling people into a ghetto and blocking them off from their land and their work - I said what I think about the land and the work. Walling them into a ghetto? I'm just waiting for the day that the real Palestinian people, and not some mentaly ill religious extremists (aka Hamas) will take over the strip and ask Israel: give us money for books, help us build a normal society and live like normal people. As long as Hamas is handing them by the balls, this won't happen. Because they don't just despy Israel, they despy the entire western modern world and guess what, if someone from the Hamas will get his hands on you - he'll probably try to kill you to - because you live in a western country (I guess).
About the occupation and all - I believe you can understand my standing on that from the above.
Would you still think it was okay if these "terrorists" were hiding among civilians in Tel Aviv? Did I say it was okay? I think it sucks ass, I don't think it's okay - and I will say again - we don't, don't, don't, ever, kill any civilian by intention. You could say that bombing a house without knowing 100% that there are no civilians inside it is the same as killing them intentionaly, but if someone is shooting rockets from that house? Should we let him keep doing that? I'm glad I'm not the one making those choices.
What do you have to say of reports of children being sniped by Israeli snipers? If you actualy believe that, then why am I trying to reason with you? You clearly hate Israel and see us as some big evil that is inside Gaza to kill little children. Sorry, but this is bullshit. I swear to god, these reports are just lies.
About un aid convoys and UN schools (whose coordinates were broadcast to the idf) being bombed? From what I know of it - I am really ashamed and I don't justify it at all. I don't know as much as you (havn't been watching the news during the time inside) but please, try not to just believe everything you hear like it's a fact (again with the snipers thing...).

it's ok truth. he's an injured Israeli soldier in a hospital bed in Gaza on a laptop with wireless. the connection is kinda spotty especially when the dust from the bombings of nearby buildings gets inside and in between all of the power failures. he might not answer for a while

I can see the sarcasm about my condition, but I can also see from that post that you don't know what you're talking about when it comes to what happens in Israel (just a guess, sorry if I'm wrong). Obviosly, I'm not in Gaza right now as Israel wouldn't send it's wounded soldiers over to Gaza.

Are you trying to say that because a family was pressured not to leave an area where Israelis might be entering, it absolves IDF forces of all blame if they blow the shit out of them?

Are you aware that it is a war crime to not take measures to limit civilian deaths, even if the enemy is creating a situation in which preventing civilian deaths is difficult?

edit: I guess that is somewhat patronizing to say to a wounded soldier but really, do you not see the flaws in that example?

Nope, I'm not saying that. I don't agree of killing civilians, ever.

Also, in that particular example, that family just stayed in the house when we left them. It's not like we came in, saw them, shot them all and went like "HAHAHA YOURE DEAD SRY ITS THE HAMAS' FAULT" - We try to avoid killing innocent people as hard as we can...

Hi. An Israeli here. An Israeli soldier actually. I've been inside Gaza for some time, got injured and now I'm in the hospital passing my time by reading all those anti-Israel posts around the internet.  I wasn't really sure if I should reply, because I know that there is a very low chance to change anyone's mind in these matters, especially now when it's so "currect" to hate Israel and say we are war criminals etc. But I read some of the posts here and I just feel like I have to be the one saying something for my country and trying to show you the other side.

So first, I will say this: I'm not here to make Israel look all pretty and clean. Yes, Palestinian civilians are being killed and I can give you my word (if it worth something for you) that not a single one of them was killed intentionally. Sometimes it looks like people on the street around the world like to think about us (Israeli soldiers, leaders etc) as animals - we are not animals, we are human just like you. Believe me, I don't like to see any 5 year old kid getting killed - it makes me feel sick and it should never happen. Let me give you a little info from the inside - we came across some house in Gaza, and when we got inside, we saw a family just sitting there. We asked them why they were there, in such a dangerous situation, and they told us that someone locked them inside saying he would kill them with his gun if they go outside. This someone is a Hamas soldier, knowing that this family could die in some Israeli attack. So why the hell will he make them stay inside? isn't he supposed to defend them? Nope. He knows that if they will die, at least this will make Israel look like shit in the media, creating more pressure from the outside world on Israel to get out of Gaza. Another thing about those Hamas "soldiers" - they fight us wearing jeans and T-shirts. There is no way to know if a person is a civilian or a Hamas soldier, until the second he brings out the gun and starts shooting at you. They don't do it because they don't have uniforms, they do it because they simply don't give a fuck about they people of Gaza - all they want is to destroy Israel, no matter the cost. And these stuff are just some of the shit we deal with over there.

About the justification of this whole thing, let me ask you a question: if your country was bombed with rockets for 7 years from a different country, would you want your country to do nothing about it? Imagine this: you walk in some street in your city on a beautiful day, you do your grocery shopping, whatever, and then out of the blue - A ROCKET FALLS right in front of you, killing you! Sound kind of ridiculous, right? We would you think that something like that will happen to you? Well, think about that: in Sderot, an Israeli city 15 KM from Gaza, a day without 3-4 rockets is a REALLY fucking weird day. So the people of Sderot and all of the cities in it's area should just live with that for... how long? another 7 years? will that make this military operation justified? Or maybe we should just wait until the rocket will fall on some group of children, killing them, and THEN we will have a good reason to try and stop it? A week ago, one rocket hit a school class in Be'er Sheva. The class was empty of children because Israel stopped all studying in the bombed ares. Why don't the Hamas do the same for the people he claims to defend? Why do I see a man walking down the street of Gaza with a baby in his arms and an AK47 on his back in the middle of a war? What the fuck?

I have a lot more to say but my time is short right now. Please, feel free to ask me questions (hit me with hard questions if you want) and I will try to get my hands on some computer here to answer them.