Club Tweak

I tried a spin attack finale… seems to fit better!

-Barney

Club Combo

What to say- it’s a guy swinging about a club!

A little more similar to the sword ones than i would have liked, but i can tweak/redo if i have a better idea of how to make it feel more “clubby” in the latter attacks… feels like the jump and slamdown at the end is a bit too athletic, but having trouble coming up with another good “finale” for it.

-Barney

Bow Combo

I’m pretty sure we won’t use combos for ranged weapons but I figured I’d have a go at one and see how it plays ingame… you can see I was kinda struggling to come up with something, and I still don’t really feel like I figured it out.

I’m guessing we won’t end up using it, but was still a fun experiment… The shot where he fires straight up was going to rain down a cluster of arrows around him.

-Barney

Dagger Combo

And I did the dagger tonight too…

-Barney

1-Handed Sword Combo

Same kinda thing but for the regular sword…

-Barney

2-Handed Sword COMBO

I got sick of banging my head against those stupid god statue designs, so I’m taking a break and extending the anim sets for weapon combos

This is *almost* the longest combo with a 2-handed sword- going to have one mega attack right on the end that i haven’t decided on yet…

When you pick up gear, each weapon will have a “level”, so an L.3 sword can only do the first 3 attacks from the combo before you have a cooldown and start again, so the attacks basically get more damage and bigger hitboxes the further you get into the combo…

I’m thinking about some prop like a workbench or something you can find to upgrade/fix your gear- perhaps needing you to find the right ingredients to craft with etc- pretty standard fare, but i like the idea of doing that stuff in a super fast arcadey way

-Barney

Blog posts are the best way to procrastinate!

I’m having troubles designing these damn god statue thingies…

The design is that each player can put a little “token” at the feet of a specific god statue, and that will control both the way their monsters evolve, and what stats their hero gains when he goes up levels…

So there are four main gods- one associated with health, one with strength, one with dexterity and one with magic. Then there is a fifth which is a balanced random. So everyone’s token starts on the random. If you are a new player and you don’t know about the system, that’s fine, you’ll leave your token there and you’ll still upgrade just fine- it will choose randomly but spread them over all 4 so you don’t end up with a deficiency… but you will have no strong specialty either.

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Read The Article And Write The Article In My Article About Rock Paper Shotgun’s Article About Crawl

By Barney Cumming on July18th, 2013 at 11:53 pm.

Articles about videogames come in many lighting conditions and are full of perils.  From articles commenting on the giant videogame rats of yesteryear to articles commenting on the hyper-detailed, physics-jittering corpses of giant videogame rats of today.  That, of course, is why humanity evolved friendship – as a defense mechanism in videogames websites.  Biology- it’s a disgusting thing!  But then along slithers this article about Crawl.  It’s a curiouslike game-details-mentioner where a guy from a website you’ve been going to every day for years suddenly and unexpectedly writes an article about the videogame you’ve been making!  Kind of like Kotaku’s League of Fighting Article, but about us!  But you can’t talk to the journalist?  Of course you can’t.  He’s in some other country.

Seems like it might be a little nerve wracking right?  Videogames journalists tend to be a bit more ruthless than some random human or family member I show my game to, after all.  But actually, the whole article seems pretty us-friendly.  Here’s writer Nathan Grayson’s description:

Also, Dave and I have markedly more naivete than journalists working in the games industry, so we’re not exactly the hypochondriacs in pee-soaked trousers we probably should be. Still, we’ll likely believe we’re about to meet our untimely doom more often than most strapping creators of low-fi murder simulators with hearts of gold, but it sounds like positive feedback from games journalists and pixel-art fans will keep us from becoming suicidal.

It all takes place in a manually generated videogame website with tons of great articles and info and this static image of the writer wearing headphones that won’t stop grinning terrifyingly out form the the RPS “about” page no matter how many times I try to obscure it with this half eaten cob of corn I for some reason have on a plate next to my computer, I guess I probably ate corn recently and put the plate down next to the computer but you’d think I would remember something like that

Apparently he’s aware of our publicly playable build in the coming months. We’d better not screw this up!
 
 
…man I think this really might be the stupidest thing I’ve posted so far!
 
I guess what I really meant to say with all that was:
OH MY DAYUM! RPS DID AN ARTICLE ABOUT OUR GAME!!!
 
Awesome.

-Barney

Super high level bosses…?

BUT…

I need to find out about the boring legal stuff… TV shows can reference people and characters and use an approximation of their likeness all the time, but i think games have significantly less freedom…?

-Barney