Every weapon has three attacks: A ranged, charged, a melee attack.  The melee attack can only be used when you're completely still.
This screen shows off the fire melee attack, a burning fist with no knockback, but incredible damage compared to the falcon punch.  Its only downsides are its short range and long windup/cooldown time. (17 frames of windup and 15 frames of cooldown, running at 60 FPS.  Might not sound like much, but it is in an action-based game.  And the attack frames last 10 seconds, making the whole attack take 42 frames, or 0.7 seconds.)


And on a related note: I only need to make 10 more melee attacks, and then I can finally start working on the cutscenes, levels, and bosses.  Y'know, stuff that makes it more than a tech demo.

@DragonSlayer: I didn't know you make gaems... Looks awesome, but I'm just wondering if your gonna make the player walk all the way through that with random encounters and very slow walk speed, since that would be somewhat annoying.

I'm not really planning to make a game, just making a world map for the hell of it. Although if I ever find enough time and motivation maybe I'll give it a go. I probably wouldn't have random encounters on the world map though.

@DS: That is a really nice map! Cliifwork is indeed tricky business but the cliffs all look like they line up, which is a testament to a lot of fine-combing. The only problem I have with it is the bottom-right, which is all "here is a monolithic cliff face to gaze upon for eternity" instead of "here are some neat caves and rock formations" to spruce it up. I think the problem with that is the stark contrast between the detail everywhere else and the lack thereof in that one area. That could just be an area you haven't worked on yet, though!

Watching the picture, I can definitely see where you are coming from. However, part of the reason it seems like that is that it's just a part of the world map I'm showing. There's this huge cliff surrounding the center part of the world map creating a large crater area (though the shape is way different) which is called the lower world, and obviously the outer area of the world is called the upper world. I already mentioned this but it's a setting I took from my old game. Basically I could add more details to the cliff but then it would look less like this huge, tall cliff and more like a mountain, and I don't really want that. Certain parts of the cliff do have more details as there are these border towns and other areas which link the lower and the upper world together, like the one in the bottom of the snowy area I posted. There are some other points of interests and details as well so it's not just some big boring cliff. But for other parts, there's just the cliff, and when you play the game and go next to the cliff, you can't see the top or the bottom and that creates the feeling that the upper world is much higher than the lower world. You have a point though and once I have finished the map, I'll see if I can add more details to certain places without breaking the illusion.

Thanks for the feedback and comments!

chef has egyptian disease syndrome

 
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heylo from egyp

maps are too empty

i agree.  the player is going to get really bored walking around all that open space.  i might suggest a few trees around there, maybe some boulders and barrels to fill up all that emptiness.

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it is my game.... and it will be done in a week ​.

Gray text over a gray flashback tint is a bad idea.

True, but regardless it's legible.

I like it.

And I disagree with the suggestion to remove the enemy names. They occupy a very logical location on the screen, they help people reference enemies, they can add some interest (like a townsperson speaking of a monster by name), and removing them for the command box doesn't make sense since the command box could always go over the enemy names and use the same space. Speaking of which, I endorse the idea to move the command box out of the center of the map (as in, over the enemy names). I didn't like it when Legend of the Philosopher's Stone did it, and I'm fairly certain it will cause you problems long term as well.

Also, the idea to decrease the width of the health bars is a decent idea. I'm not sure if it would look better or not, but they are a little dominant right now (which could be seen as good, but maybe not that much). I disagree with adding in the maxes for the energy and health in the boxes because there simply isn't enough room without making it too full of numbers and cluttered. Right now it's really easy to see everything and those large HP bars split stuff up nicely so it doesn't look cluttered or confusing.

I just noticed that gap between the enemy names and the character stats looks a bit odd. I'm not sure if widening the enemy name box to fill the gap (don't make it taller though) would look better or worse. It would depend slightly on how the command box fits in there too.

At any rate, good luck with the programming. 

Here you can see the protagonist interacting with a tribe of crazy survivalists.

holy crap, that's insane and awesome!