Hi christ59,
Didn't open a discord server because I work in the game only during nights after work, so I wouldn't have too much time to keep an eye on it and answer the users. Maybe in the close future I will open one because after the Slash Update I have stuff near ready and I would like to know what players would prefer to get first.
The flashing idea could work and it would be cheap to do, as everything would share the same material with a flashing animation. I will give it a try.... But I think I'm currently not too much epilepsy friendly... ^^U Maybe this would be too much... but a slow flashing cycle could be right.
The current stage is based in a 360º space background and some 2d sky building layers. First iI will check if uncompressing them the alias gets better. The other idea would be to mix it with the 360º image. Right now there is enough Ram to uncompress textures, so I will start trying the first option ;) Thanks for the offering!
I will think seriously about creating a community around the game, so I can try to catch all the kind of things you all would like to try so that we can make something fresh for the next sets of weapons/challenges/game modes. I just didn't had the time to move this way because the game sales with now are very basic and can't focus my time on it, but maybe with the Update Slash things can start to move up a little. At least enoigh to be able to dedicate a ocuple weeks each month to work on the game nonstop :)
Ps: Where you able to test the sword grab? If too much users have problem grabbing them I will add some kind of special indication, and maybe in the next stages I will move to to the hips for a traditional samurai grab.