@15312:

Your game seems to be some sort of survival horror game with a mediaval twist...well is it?

@MISTER BIG T:

I know you probably dont care but I am a big fan of your work,and I really look foward from any realese from you.

Now with some (rudimentary) skeletons...and death. Lots of skeleton detonations, and even some player rupturing.

Killer Wolf, wow! Those animations look incredibly slick.

One, the skeleton death animation is a LITTLE ridiculous

depends on how serious this game is taking itself, i really like the animation but in a serious game it wouldn't make sense

It is still very early so I haven't completely balanced the whip yet. It is a separate sprite and the whole thing is used in collision detection. The enemy pauses (ever so slightly) when hit. A couple of the "near misses" in the video (when I'm not just swinging at air and hoping I timed it right to have a skeleton walk into it) are actually hits. The skeletons take two hits at the character's current strength.

The standing whip does have slacken/fall frames, so with the right range you can score two (possibly three if you're lucky and at completely point blank range) hits. The jumping strike is a shorter/faster animation. In game, the whip feels more responsive than it may look in the video, but I'm probably going to speed it up some anyway. Thanks.

And with the death animation, I kind of wanted it to be a little overdone. In game, it has a nice "bones clattering" sound effect along with it. Since these skeletons are going to be a bit of a pain, being strategically placed to give the player hell during certain jumps, I want their deaths to be satisfying. "Oh ho, knock me down into the spike pit three times will you?" whip... boom, clattering bones.

Keep the skeleton death like that just decrease the speed at which the bones are thrown

@15312
I'm liking that ruined castle and the book menu!

Rm2k: Let's go Driving!




Yes, the graphics don't go too well together *shrug*, it's the driving system I'm really going for here.
I felt the Zelda-style walls would work great with the top-down angle of the cars.
In this map, you can not walk on the road except the crosswalk, and you can only drive on the road.

- Mike

@mikemc: Does that have driving similar to GTA 2 and the older GTA games?

@ SupremeWarrior
No, the simple player movement plus walking speed up for each type of vehicle. Just keeping it simple

- Mike

@supreme warrior - it looks great but the buildings SHOULD overlap the pavement on the top side of blocks, it loses all depth when you don't. you never walk behind the buildings by the looks of your when in reality... you do.

but yeah as for the sprites they look brilliant.

@JMickle: Oh, yeh it still does I just wanted to keep things consistent and leave one tile before the pavement.

Not nearly enough 8-bit goodness in here...

From Hellion (a revived 2007 Rm2k3 project of mine):

The community can always use more arrow puzzles!


Slide on the ice


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