alf2: current state - insights

[Ramond]

Let's see Woody's knee dash

[Lauli]

Explosive crate!
Let's fill this with crates.

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EDIT: OH NINJA! NOW I CREATED THIS PIC FOR NOTHIN'
EDIT2: His hand looks like a pe-...

[YinYin]

>>+JA(simultaneous)
useless for combos
good for hitting multiple opponents


next up: stage 1 places or stage 2 places

[Lauli]

Haha, okay. Ragebuilder is fun.

The knee dash is nice I think. Just that he switches his position way too quickly. It needs to be smooth. Smooooth.
I don't know, maybe if you take this sprite and rotate it a bit, it might fit perfect for a quick transition frame.

Explosive crate.
Stage 2 places.

[YinYin]

next up: a guessing game!
each of these stages will feature a hero as the boss and army character(s) helping him out

guess who they are for each of these three sub stages
also choose what you want to see next:
explosive crate, john JA action or a deep combo
guess the most characters right and your pick will be posted
(hint: one boss doesn't need any minion help, so you only have to guess 5 characters)

[Lauli]

Whoa whoa. Whoa. Awesome background adittions! Transition is nice! Cool titles!
Whoa. Whoa.

How about adding an additional tree-row to the bottom of Lion Forrest?

1. 

I think that helps to sell the fact that you're actually in a forrest, and not on a grass road with dense-as-fuck trees to the left and right.
Also, if you don't care about parallax scrolling too much (which I think you do a lot) you could change the sky setting to a mix between the highway-red and the forrest green/blue.
I don't know, it bugs me that there's such a sudden change in sunlight.

Hey are you going to add special entrances to the enemies? I could imagine someone climbing up the sides of the highway, or even some Hunters hiding in the trees, haha.

Okay, my guesses are...
Bat on the Highway, Henry with Hunters on the Mainland and John with Sorcerers in the Forrest.
And now you take a wild guess what I want to see next, haha.

[YinYin]

@Lauli (Click to View)

How about adding an additional tree-row to the bottom of Lion Forrest?
I think that helps to sell the fact that you're actually in a forrest, and not on a grass road with dense-as-fuck trees to the left and right.

already planned

Also, if you don't care about parallax scrolling too much (which I think you do a lot) you could change the sky setting to a mix between the highway-red and the forrest green/blue.
I don't know, it bugs me that there's such a sudden change in sunlight.

specifically on this one i do care a lot about scrolling
but changing the sky might still work
my thought was that you traveled quite a long time on the rest of the road - and the sun is supposed to be rising on the first sub stage so it simply became day time
probably a better option for me is letting the sun go down again on the third one

Hey are you going to add special entrances to the enemies?

yes

hint for every next guess:
lauli got two of five characters right

[Lauli]

but changing the sky might still work
my thought was that you traveled quite a long time on the rest of the road - and the sun is supposed to be rising on the first sub stage so it simply became day time
probably a better option for me is letting the sun go down again on the third one

Hmm, maybe if you add just some subtle colour fade in the sky (as an additional sprite with state: 9997). That might do the trick.

Do you mean to let the sun go down again in the third substage or stage 3?
If the sun gets down again in the third substage, that would be waaay to quick. Sunset in the middle of stage 3 sounds good though ;)

WAIT A SECOND.
One of those 3 backgrounds is a "fake" one. My guess would be the highway. So, is it a two layer background (with foreground object and state: 9997 object as background), or is there some witchcraft and wizardry again?

[YinYin]

surprise feature!

firen and firzen can flip or roll out of fire
simple

@Lauli (Click to View)

Hmm, maybe if you add just some subtle colour fade in the sky (as an additional sprite with state: 9997). That might do the trick.

thats what i was thinking

Do you mean to let the sun go down again in the third substage or stage 3?
If the sun gets down again in the third substage, that would be waaay to quick. Sunset in the middle of stage 3 sounds good though ;)

i did mean the substage
time is relative - you don't know how much time you will have to spend on the mainland
and i don't know yet whether i'm gonna do any daytime changes on stage 3

WAIT A SECOND.
One of those 3 backgrounds is a "fake" one. My guess would be the highway. So, is it a two layer background (with foreground object and state: 9997 object as background), or is there some witchcraft and wizardry again?

all three of them are fake, or at least partly fake
9997 is only used for fade in and fade out so far
i might change that on some backgrounds tho

the guessing game is still up
guess the five characters that will appear in stage 2 right and you get to decide what i post next
(maybe just getting more than lauli is enough ... hmm - i guess i am just desperate)

new list of future features you can pick:
explosive crate
louis kick
john JA action
freeze affinity part 2
john amulet power part 2
deep combo 2
deep combo 3

uuhhhh
they will keep piling up

[empirefantasy]

My guesses:
Henry,hunters,Woody,Dennis and Bandits.


john amulet power part 2

Also,nice idea about that rowing