I’m glad you enjoyed testing this game! It’s been a very fun project to work on not only to have fun, but also to try to figure out GML (game maker language).
Indeed it was lerping! My copter enemy already used that for its movement so that is what I just added to the player:
I haven’t posted an updated version yet, but I’ve already added velocity /damping to an unposted version of the game! The way that my character base was set up made it pretty easy to layer that in. I may also do velocity updates to the bomb dropper flying enemy as it kind of felt jerky as well without it.
The only hurdle that I have been running into with this game overall is some strange behavior with sub pixel rendering. Since this is actually an 180x180 px game with a viewport of 540x540 it doesn’t seem to do well rendering sprites if there are sub pixel values (seems like they end up showing sprites distorted with some pixels looking halved or jittery)
It’s been an ongoing challenge to solve. Tried drawing the sprites rounded to the nearest integer, but that can cause visual issues like the sprite vibrating between two whole number positions if the sprite is actually at a sub pixel value. Also have tried upscaling the application surface to 340x340 from 180x180 to attempt to hide some of those visual issues (since I’m theory the game would be rendered at a higher resolution) and then making the viewport 540x540, but that didn’t seem to fix it. Ultimately I’m trying to avoid having to upscale all of my game assets.
Hopefully I can figure this out.