Mark II of the new Versus screen. Now with 4 cursors to choose characters!
One of my next goals is to get a proper VS screen working. I have had the same temporary one there forever. Here are the beginning of the new screen. Much work still needs to be done (it doesn’t even respond to input yet!).
I just spent about half of today rewriting the input system. I know have an input manager that is about 10x cleaner than how things operated before. I still need to add a few more functions to it to aide in dealing with menu screens. Then it will be 11x cleaner than how things were before.
The screenshot is from the Player class.
Sneak Peak at Rave’s character art for some of the menus.
Special thanks to Angela Zavala (http://coffeejelly.deviantart.com/) who is helping with these portraits!
Race to a Solid Demo
This month, I am racing to get a solid demo ready for Fantastic Arcade here in Austin, TX. The gameplay is there, but multiple areas are going to be needing a polish pass (including an better character select menu). Time is ticking quickly, but that has never stopped me before.
Four Player Mode Working!
After some hiccups in four play mode, it is now functioning again! Full steam ahead! Let more testing commence!
I asked for an airship track and this is what I got. Sounds amazing though! You can thank this lovely accident of a track for the sand level!
How is a screenshot of a new map I made. Watch out for the rock snake that comes out of the ground! Also, you will notice the ui is different in this map. The trajectory and arrows are darker. I made an easy way to swap between light and dark UIs on bright and dark maps.
One other thing you might notice is that there are now only two halves instead of three thirds. Well, the thirds just seemed to overcomplicate things that didn’t need to be. So, all of the maps now only have halves.
I made various other small tweaks like being able to fine tune your shot. Gently pressing the left stick while aiming vs pressing it hard now makes a difference. Also, there is a visual cue when you can fire your next shot. After firing a shot, the aiming cursor and trajectory vanish. Once they are faded back in, the player can fire another shot.
I just finished making some Noise. Be ready to be confused by the psychic attacks of Noise, the newest Member of the Super Panic Showdown crew!
