Posted October 24, 2021 by Fefeman
#progress #Maiden Monstruous
After the last Update that changed the base attack, added control remapping, made it easier to read the enemies, I took a bit of time this week to continue working on this game. I initially planned to make a big, major update, but time limitations meant I had to focus on the essential... Still, I am satisfied by what I did, and how it's a good basis for latter improvements.
- Holding down the light attack button will charge power to be used for improved attack. The first charge level make the projectile bigger and more powerful, and the second level makes it even more powerful, faster, and able to destroy buildings.
- By double-tapping on the Right & Left inputs, the player can teleport a short distance in that direction.
These changes are a first step in trying to give more action options to the players. That says it's not the end of it: A lot of the work was making a code structure that would allow me to quickly add options for double-tapping inputs, holding down, and timed click so when I'll make future characters, they'll be a lot of possible abilities.
I also reworked quite a lot the execution of the attack themselves, making them more efficient and light in code. In this end, on that front, this was mostly groundwork for future Updates.
- Minor changes to their life value.
- Change to the bomb projectile speed and damages, to make them still dangerous in spite of them being targeted by the character
In the Immediate future, I'm probably gonna focus on the visual, especially the SFX, UI & Lighting. For now the charge attack effect & teleport effect are barebone, and there is too little visual feedback. I also need to start seeing how to add more animation to the character, with Aankh. That's probably gonna be most of the content for the November Update.
In the less than immediate future, I need to rework the enemies, make them work better & give them more diversity.
And in the even less immediate future, I'll need to add a story mode...