Adding Enemies To My Roguelike - Devlog 2
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- Опубликовано: 4 май 2024
- Adding enemies to the roguelike video game that I'm developing. In this devlog I show how I'm making this game, with these pixel art enemies being made with Kenney's creature mixer, and Aseprite. I create the different variety of enemies I think a game needs, before moving on to other topics for the next devlog.
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Why
00:16 Base Enemies
03:15 Squirrel
04:01 Base Enemies 2
06:13 Enemy Variations
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Remember to leave a comment about your favorite upgrade in a game!
Preferably from a roguelike, but any cool upgrade suggestions are welcome. 👍
I'm planning to spend the next couple of weeks working on these, and I'll report back then. 📃
Wes, can you try to vouch for me to get unbanned in the Fireside Discord. Also tell the mod I called a "parental figure"(can't remember what exact words I used) that I'm really sorry and that it was just a small joke...
Hey! I have an idea for an enemy, could you add an enemy that slams their fists into the ground and unleashes a wave that damages the player but eventually dies out.
@@TVR300 That's sort of what the imp does though, the only difference is that the imp jumps and slams down and then the shockwave doesn't fade away until it hits a wall. 👀
My favourite upgrades revolve around interesting gun/weapon changes or passive items that change how you play the game entirely, for example binding of Isaac and enter the gungeon do this very well, you might pick up technology or brimstone and now your attack patterns are very different or gnawed leaf/Aries and now you run into enemies to kill them 😂 enter the gungeon does this with melee weapons and the huge range of variety in weapons from shooting water on the floor and then electrocuting it or just having a sword which shoots ranged projectiles only when full hp
check out brotato demo on steam, that game made me wanna make something similar, but also here are my favorite upgrades: (might be a little overkill for the small rooms youre working with buut :D) 1.: Ricochet (bullets chain) 2.: Split shot (50% dmg, 2 bullets- may wanna pump it to 3 bullets, bc the targeting might get a little funky if you directly hit but your bullets go to the side, can code it, that the primary bullet hits where you aim) 3.: Shield (blocks the first hit, might refresh,/ burst outwards when hit...)
I always liked a drone or buddy pet upgrade where it would help you out with hp or attacking enemies. You could later on have the pets or drone have level upgrades
I've definitely been thinking about that, everyone loved the slime so much, it could be a pet of some kind in the future. 👀
an upgrade I really love from binding of isaac was actually a synergy, there was some combination where you got a laser eye that shot a straight line that would pierce through multiple enemies, and then there was something else that made it ricochet BETWEEN enemies, so you got to hit a bunch of things in the room if you had enough skill to hit a single enemy. it's so satisfying!
Awesome work! Adding Enemy Mobiles to my project is one of the next steps :D I have the BaseMobile and Player class, have an NPC .. but now for the Slimes!!! Muhahaha
That's how I quit my job a few months ago, even though I was working for a good salary, but still... it wasn't what I liked, even though I was working as an engineer.
Now I try to do what I like and slowly I hope to succeed. Now I'm starting with RUclips, to make myself a little known and then to promote my future games!
I'm a sucker for bullet upgrades: more bullets, explodey bullets, bigger bullets, bouncy bullets... whatever turns the player into a Touhou boss, basically.
I had planned on adding all of those, but bigger bullets I hadn't thought of, I like it. 👍
Love your artstyle combined with the gameplay :) hopefully lots of people will play your Game when you release it
I'm very late but I really enjoyed the pills from binding of Isaac. They made each run very mysterious because you don't know what the pill colors do in that run until you try them.
Great to see just how varied you're making these enemies!
As for upgrade ideas, you could do bouncing bullets, different elements like fire and freezing and/or an evasion ability for the player.
Nice work on the enemies! They looked great, also thank you for blurring the spider nests, feel like you need some holy water!
As for an upgrade in BoI, I always loved having the buddy upgrades or the abilities to make you shoot a lot faster/give you different bullet types!
Lol. I didn't want to spring that on people, so I blurred it. 👍
And I'll have to look in to those upgrades. Something that changes the bullet type would be cool. 🤔
@@HelperWesley I thank you greatly.
And genuinely bullet type changes are my favourite type, sometimes they're great, sometimes they're awful!
poison dmg, continous dps at lower increments, glass cannon stuff (like a buff where you loss a heart but gain thrice the dmg or somthing), healing spell, harming potion, dead cells colour coding system for weapons. etc etc. You get the gist of what im saying.
Add all of the things. Lol. 👍
The squatch and stretch on it all looks great!
I loved the mind controlled tears upgrade from binding of Isaac especially when brimstone was involved. It added a neat variation to the playthrough that wasn't just a stat increase.
Great video! Love to see something meaty once they die. Not violent or anything (especially with those beautiful slimes), just squishy and ‘blingy’.
Love 'Cursed Eye' from Isaac. Turns your attack into a single powerful bullet you have to wait to load. Having to wait between each shot makes it only beneficial in a good player's hands.
Oooh. That'd be neat.
Can you fire before loading? But it's more powerful to wait?
Yes, but it has a max charge shot of three, although there is a disadvantage nobody enjoys about it and that is the fact that upon being hit their is a 50 50 chance you will be teleported out of that room in a different one
@@SmellyRio 👀
I love seeing people work on their games, good stuff
Same I’m trying to learn more contract 3 using free version
like a sort of flame thrower that is active continuesly for like 5-10 second or a coffee that make u go very fast. Both of these could be like a power up that you can buy from like in the biding of isaac where there is a shop room, so and make a currency (coins, ruby or you own little thing) :)
I've been thinking about "activatable" upgrades. A lot of games have them, and a burst flame thrower one would be cool. 👍
Just found your channel, game looks very fun and cool, about to binge your other devlogs rn
3000 subs just came across you, nice video keep up the great work. I'll follow your journey!
This is amazing.
5:07 LOL I was not ready for that haha
I did it ad a joke while recording, and then recorded the proper lines. But the proper lines didn't come out well, so I just used that instead. 😅
Looking real good, well done
Thanks! I'm pretty happy with it so far.
Excited for the next couple of weeks, coming up with upgrades. 🎉
One of my favourite tboi items is spoon bender
just gives homing shots :D
Brimstone is a wonderful upgrade.
Great video! Glad to see the game is growing and shaping up :D
I've gathered some upgrade ideas from my own notes, tried to pick something more interesting than just plain stats.
To preface: one of the things I try to consider when designing interesting abilities is giving the player an incentive to do something they normally wouldn't want to do, or, conversely, incentive to abstain from doing something they've been relying on.
Another thing would be enhancing already existing abilities, as well as changing the way environmental entities function, so enemies, hazards, props.
So, here are some ideas:
- Something to do with the dash: make it spawn projectiles, give a temporary buff, or maybe deal contact damage.
- A close range melee attack that happens on a timer. The idea is to incentivise the player to get closer to enemies, while also requiring to be timed properly.
- Something to do with enemies. Perhaps make them have a chance to a spawn friendly ghosts upon death.
- How about a familiar? Maybe a friendly crawler that chases enemies and inflicts status effects.
- And, lastly, simple stuff is also important. Stat ups (maybe that come with stat downs), stronger bullets, various bullet effects, status effects, and so on and so forth.
Hope this helps. Good luck! Looking forward to the next video :D
Incentive to abstain from something they'd normally rely on. I love that. In Revita there's an upgrade that gives you a flat stat buff, but if you dash during a fight, you lose the stats for the rest of that fight.
I thought that was genius, and definitely says your thinking properly about upgrades. 👀
Also, I love the idea of a familiar. Everyone said they didn't want to kill the slime.... so maybe in the future it can be a type of companion. 🤔
@@HelperWesley Glad you agree!
Yeah, maybe make it like a cute pink girly slime, haha :D Sort of like Bandage Girl from Meat Boy.
Awesome vid, great to see how much you can do with Kenney's Creature Mixer and your own pixel art skills. My fav boon in Hades was the Tidal Dash, pushes back enemies, and damages them while dashing; you can do some fun stuff with that. Isaac has so many, Brimstone stands out for me, the blood laser barrage thingy. Looking forward to seeing what upgrades you come up with.
I'd love to add something like that to make the dash for useful. 🤔
Binding of Isaac has so many upgrades that it'll be a treasure trove to pick apart and get ideas from. 👀
"I want to have a game at some point" Savage
Upgrades:
your gun deals half damadge, but fires twice as fast
every time you hit a shot, there is a 10% chance for lighting to strike a random enemy on screen
your bullets are twice as big, 50% stronger, and twice as slow
your fire-rate is significantly slower, your bullets return to you like a boomerang
every 5th shot is double size and pierces enemies and barriers
your bullets now bounce off of walls (two times)
summon a helpful spirit that follows you around and shoots a bullet towards the furthest enemy once
every 5 seconds
summon a (second) helpful spirit that follows you around and shoots 3 bullets at the closest enemy once every 15 seconds
your bullets gain +30% size and damadge when they bounce, +1 bounces
whenever you kill an enemy, they explode in a group of tiny, slow moving bullets
every 15 enemies you kill, you heal one HP
your gun now shoots a cloud of locusts/poison/whatever that homes in on your target, but deal their
damage over time, instead of all at once, and move 50% slower
when you dash, drop a bomb behind you that explodes after a brief delay (the bomb can also hurt you)
you can dash an additional time, but it moves half as far
when you dash, instantly fire a bullet at the closest enemy.
your dash now deals damadge equal to your bulelet damadge to targets you collide with, and creates a small explosion that knocks enemies away at the end of the dash, but you get -90% fire-rate.
summon a dragon egg, it hatches once you get [a certain ammount] of XP, creating a helpful baby dragon that follows you and shoots blasts of fire at enemies.
Your movment now leaves a trail of poison that damadges enemies and dissapears after a breif delay. the size of this poison scales with your bulelet damadge
lose half your maximum HP, deal double damadge
enemies move twice as fast, double your fire-rate and movement speed, your bullets now perice
once every 15 seconds, a meteor begins to fall on a random location, dealing massive damadge to anything (including the player) on that location
your gun becomes a mini-gun, massivly reducing your fire-rate, but holding down the shoot button increases your fire-rate by 20% per second.
your gun becomes a sniper rifle, making your able to fire one shot per second, and removing your abbility to hold down the shoot button to continusly fire. Gain +50% bullet size, +300% bullet damadge, your bullets now peirce, and +200% bullet speed
you cannot fire while a bullet is on-screen, gain +500% bullet speed and +10% damadge
also I would reccomend looking into having upgrades unlock other different upgrades that appear in the upgrade pools as you get them (ie: picking dragon adds a thing that makes the dragon better that can now appear this run in later upgrade unlocks)
A good example of what i mean is in the game "20 minutes till dawn" which is like 3 dollars on steam iirc
Most of my ideas came from 20minutes or the game Rounds, I migh reply to this with more later
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i like upgrades like cursed eyes from Isaac where you could charge you bullets and release them in a big spray or like chochy milk where it does more damage the more you charge
exited to see where this game goes.you should also eventually make more characters to spice things up
I'm a sucker for multiplying your shots, like 20/20, third eye, mutant spider in Isaac. More shots mean more dopamine.
You have a creature that follows you around dealing major damage to enemies by charging at them, but if you’re in the way of it’s charge, it will damage you
The rooms might be a little too small for that kind of thing. But... maybe if it shot bullets that would hit you and enemies, but you could tell it where to move in the room. 🤔
@@HelperWesley yeah
I think a good upgrade idea is to have some sort of turret you get from a boss. you can place down in a room that when you hold it you are slower. (also the turret does not shoot when you move it).
Crown of light from Tboi. Your damage is doubles at full health (Althought to make it different, you could make it so the more health you have, the higher damage instead of just an instant buff when at full health)
The spider spawner enemy is such a good idea, I think some kind of shield that spins around the player like the Bible from Vampire survivors but it breaks after a few hits.
A shield of some kind would be good. 🤔
Hey! This is my first time seeing your channel. I gotta say, this looks awesome! It’s like The Binding Of Isaac but more light hearted.
I've been going through a bunch of popular games in that style and taken inspiration. 😅
The movement and the rest of the game is smooth and looks nice, but the enemy animations are incredibly choppy which could be an eyesore and reduce the number of sales this game makes. You could either speed the animations up so they look smooth, or interpolate them, but if they stay like this, the game just won't be good.
Also, since you scaled the enemies to become bigger/smaller using a scaling system (I can see that from the huge pixels), you can make the enemy squish use this too if you want the game to look even smoother.
If you have time for polish at the end, you could add lighting and torches on the walls since it's a dungeon (please do, it will look a lot better). One last thing, I feel like the enemy movement is slightly too slow; you could make it slightly faster as you saw in revita.
Otherwise a good game though, I like the pixel art!
Now, I don't really play Rogue-likes but a nice concept from Demon Slayers is the slayer mark. Basically those who have the mark are strong but die at 25. I think there should be a buff where you press a key, lose 2 hp but gain +4 dmg and increased player speed. After a while it should go out and have a 15-30 second cooldown before you could do it again.
I love homing and active items from binding of isaac.
Active items. 👀
That'd be really neat. I'm not sure how I would implement that exactly, but I like the idea. In risk of rain 2, you can pick up a special ability upgrade that you only get 1 of, and if you pick up a second one the first goes away.
Maybe I could do something like that. 🤔
You could add a item that gives bouncing projectiles like rubber cement in tboi.
I think it could add some crazy combos.
neat!
Did you see the gdevelop now have a wait event, tip: change the damage color from green to red
Upgrade: a bouncy bullet
Name: Rubber bullets
Upgrade2: small bullets but faster
Name: Pea bullets
I might reconsider the whole system of colors. Right now the players bullet and damage text is green so you know it relates to you, and blue is the color of enemy bullets.
In Revita the player bullets are blueish white and really stand out against the background. So I might try to get a better color scheme going later. 😅
Also, good suggestions for upgrades. 👍
hank you very very very much, you help me a lot
I think that shrinking the imp lord makes it harder to hit
Maybe you could implement a time freeze mechanic (like in Zelda 1) that temporarily freezes the enemies on the screen, but only for a short while?
Double shot triple shot quad shot basically all of the increased bullet count abilities like from binding of Isaac. And that's one of the other comments say a drone or orbital maybe. Homing bullets that home in maybe there can be a synergy between homing bullets and the drone have the drone shoot homing bullets. Maybe bomb bullets that explode upon impact. Maybe an active item that turns you invincible for a few seconds. I don't know. I'm an ideas man
I'll probably come back to this comment to edit it with more ideas or go to the next video you make about this either way I would love to play this
damn i thought you were some massive channel until i checked the views, epic enemies
Lol! Nope, just little me here, making games for fun. 👍
Just letting you know, be careful when decreasing the opacity of that shockwave bullet on the red slime. because I've done that before and when a bullet becomes more invisible it becomes almost impossible to see but its still there and it can still hurt the player. And while playing the game it may feel unfair or unpolished to take damage from an almost invisible object. I recommend making it go fully invisible then visible again really fast right before phasing out, like when you take damage in super mario bros 3. But other than that fantastic video, I love the game so far!
I've noticed that, and for now it'll do the trick. But later on, because that is definitely an issue, I might change it so it won't check for collision with the player unless it's above a certain level of opacity. 🤔
@@HelperWesley I was going to suggest that at first, however if you do that, the player is going to have no idea when the shockwave is safe to walk into. But it’s your game do what you want to, I just thought I’d suggest that 😁
I am sure is too late, but I got one or two ideas:
PowerUps. On killing an enemy, creates -a corpse- -a fleshy- wall with a bit of health and maybe can focus enemy's attention; bullets on hit spawn more bullets in a wave towards the origin of the first bullet; bullets manually or randomly rotate, making the not gping in a straight line; enemies don't attack you until your first shot (wherever it lands); if a bullet lands in a wall, you get teleported to that position (it might get clipped); bullets left behind a "gunpowder" line which will cause damage once the bullet is destroyed (considering piersing); every 5th shot will "fragment" the bullet mid-air spawning nore bullets; bullets get force directed to your moving direction; if you shot to an enemy bullet, both explode, spawning more (maybe ally) bullets (imagine the chaos if you also include every bullet that it spawns can do the same, your own Uranium Reactor); enemy bullets that collide with ally bullets get redirected randomly or around the same as the ally bullet; generate a "force field" which makes the bullets go arround you in a semicircunference and "try" to land you from behind, but you can get more time to prevent that to happen (maybe my worst idea written here); each time you get damage, spawn -fleshy- walls arround you that destroy all bullets on contact, I mean ally or ennemy; shot a bummerang bullet; shot a DRG Leadburster®; shot/trow a manual turret (like if you where shoting from the turret position (but you are not there (you are safe (maybe away from the chaos (then you can pick it up (yes, I added a lot of "()")))))); shot a bullet that gets bigger over time; damage wire, you only need to land the first shot, which makes a connection to that enemy, each next shot goes directly towards that enemy, but can disconnect only once is dead; friendly-fire-izer bullet, not the enemy can damage other enemies (bur will not try actively to); bullet landmines, they lose speed until goes to 0; blackhole on impact; retarded explosive bullets; if you finish a room hitless, you get X hp; every first hit you recive does X% damage instead of full; if you get damage > 1 and after that the remaining hp is 1, you get 1 hp back; if you are full hp and you restore hp, you get invulneravility to the next hit instead; bullets cause brain damage, I mean make their IA target and move randomly sometimes; bullets make the enemies electric conductors and can cause electrocution, by probability or killing, the before hitted enemies recive some damage maybe with electric arcs that can damage too; random Midas hit, sometimes the hitted enemy dies instantly, and drops nothing but (high amounts of) currency; bouncy bullets; the same as electric arc but with walls, and make the arc as soon as a bullet lands a wall; dead enemies spawn spikes; hitting wall spawns spikes.
Ok, I should stop here because my head is a non-stop bad idea generator.
LAZOOORRR. Also soymilk from TBOI, also would be cool to have a way to get smaller versions of the enemies as pets which attack enemies, but not of the same kind. (pet slime wont cannibalize other slimes)
Love your log,
Don't think this is the best you can do, but! Very informative non-the-less.
For upgrades....
Be original, but start with the basics. You be surprised with the stuff you can come up with.
With basics I mean, damage, speed, health... Get that done, get creative.. it's your idea of a game ;)
I haven’t played any of those games but maybe a flamethrower or Ricochet gin upgrade would be cool.
I think you should do live stream ever weekend on a particular type of game
This will surely help me and our fellow game developers
I'd love to do that, but I actually have Tourettes and I don't like being on live video because of it. 😅
I can edit it out of videos.
I am very sorry to hear that you have tourettes 😔😔
@@yuvrajaggarwal3587 Thanks, but it's not a big deal 90% of the time. 😅
@@HelperWesley iam very glad to hear that 😁😁
I have a idea its an item called cup of hot Coco it turns your bullets too a cup that say boom
And makes a puddle of hot Coco that damage enemys.(;
Fitting for the month, rainbow baby
A lot of people are suggestion familiars/pets for the game. So I think that'll be a must. 😅
Also, I totally thought "Fitting for the month" was another type of upgrade and tried googling it, before realizing what you meant. 🤣
How about a rage ability? Once your health goes below a certain amount it you get a (number)% dmg increase?
Or or the opposite. As long as your at full hp you have a dmg increase.
Idk, I only have dmg increasing abilities on my mind rn 😅
Well those are both much more interesting than a flat damage increase. Giving the players something to think about during a fight. 👀
I have an upgrade idea! Maybe like a charge shot or a bubble shield or a missle shot!
I like the charge shot idea, no idea how I'd implement it, but it can't be too hard to figure out. 😅
I can't be the only one that paused the video to go and lookup spiders nest, only to also regret it.
Oh no! I blurred it for good reason! 😱
Aaaahh, just thinking about it. 😅
Upgrade idea you have a arm coming out from hell and they grab the monsters that you chose for it to grab and they are dragged to hell.
That would look awesome, but I don't know if I'd be able to properly animate that. 😅
Maybe a hole that opens up and they fall, and as it closes back up there's a little smoke puff. 🤔
Litle late cause just found the channel but your stuff looks greate!
But a holy mantle type of effect: One per room just blocks one hit. Gives alot of more safety net but gives no real combat advantage besides avoiding litle bit of DMG here and there
That does sound good. 👀
Currently I'm working on making everything stack, so I'm not sure if thatll fit in this round of upgrades, but I do want to add unique upgrades later in development. 👍 it'll be a little trickier because I'll have to make take them out if the randomized list after you already have it, but I definitely think unique upgrades will be great to add.
@@HelperWesley One solution to make it "Stackable" is making it have like lets just say 3 room cooldown. And getting another one reduces the cooldown to only 2 rooms. It makes it stack to sertain degree... But like you can probably imagine it comes to hard stop of once every room and you would have to once again code it to not be in the pool when you can't stack it anymore...
So yeah kinda can be made stackable but keeping it Unique makes it easyer to balance and work around. One easy option is an If statement of :
If(Player.Holymantle == True){
RollAgain();
}else{
Add item
}
And this can be extended to check multiple different items in a single if statement but when time gose on and there is more Unique items this will come realy heavy to do... Or atleast an absolute pain to maintain... So would not recomend as permanent solution
heh you didn't show the marshmallow spider nest.
also a upgrade suggestion.
i suggest a upgrade that makes you get more health points than usual.
Like a vampire lifesteal? I could see that working. 🤔
So as for the upgrade, maybe an upgrade that increases damage by a lot but greatly decreases range? Range is quite unused in most games though there's definitely a lot of fun stuff you can do with it
That would be awesome, people would have to get closer to danger to use that. 👀
Ok this guy is def someone inspired or friends with that slimekeeper guy
Benbonk? I've seen a bunch of their videos, but I've never actually talked to them before.
@@HelperWesley ah ok
Love the little devil thing but I think the shockwaves doesnt look good. Maby try using something like fireballs insead.
In spelunky there is this spider veb gun that shoots spider web that slowes down things in it and when something moves enought in there it fades avay
Not sure that kind of gun would make sense in this game, but maybe an enemy could shoot something at you that would slow you down. 🤔
Just get this Video recommended from youtube. Looks like a nice game, would like to play it when it is finished. Will you do it on steam or something?
Right now I'm planning to post it for free on itch and some other sites. But if I get it to a high enough quality, maybe I'd consider posting it on steam for a few dollars. 🤔
@@HelperWesley would be amazing. I mean that kind of game i used to play and usually (if it is good) i also like to pay a little bit. My most favorit way for games like that is seen in "Brawlhall". You do not need to pay to play. But you can pay to get nicer stuff (do not change the game quality at all) and i allready spend like 40€ on it xD
@@ChristianZenker Likewise, I'm a fan of the free to play model with cosmetic upgrades.
In Warframe, you can literally get everything in the game for free with very few exceptions, and then you pay for cosmetics and quality of life things that don't impact the play much at all.
(And you can trade with other players for the premium currency, so you can still get those things if you're willing to trade stuff for it)
nice work. now it's time to make a new Cursor sprite.
Why a custom cursor? 🤔
@@HelperWesley I think a crosshair would Look better than regular arrow key when hovering enemies to aim
When is the full version of Conviction of Gundude coming out, I'd love to see this in the example browser
I actually plan to release this as a game myself.
This version will likely not be an example in GDevelop. Examples have to be near perfectly optimized and set up in a way that makes it easy for people to learn from and modify.
The version I'm working on in these videos is an absolute mess under the hood.🤣
Money = power from isaac is a fun one
HEADSUP LOTS OF TEXT!!
Scattershot (Enter the Gungeon)
Rubber cement (The binding of issac)
Continuum (TBOI)
Explosivo (TBOI)
Playdough (TBOI)
Stout bullet (ETG)
Polyphemus (TBOI)
Hemolacruia (TBOI)
Platinum bullets (ETG)
Cursed bullets (ETG)
Brimstone (TBOI)
20/20 (TBOI)
Lost contact (TBOI)
Spirit sword ???? (TBOI)
I was expecting more text when you opened with that. 😅
I've looked up a few of those, but I'll have to check out the rest. 👍
@@HelperWesley I bring more
Shock rounds. ETG
Explosive rounds. ETG
Ghost bullets ETG
Homing. ETG
Shadow bullets. ETG
Snow ball. ETG
…..
Pretty much, just check out the ETG wiki and look at ITEMS
the game is very good! but can you tell me how you put a bitmap font on the life bar?
I'm not using the resource bar object, I'm using a bitmap text object and I just placed it on top of my life bar.
@@HelperWesley thanks for answering!
for the entirety of my game development, not once have i thought of making objects the same size as their art and just zooming in, this entire time i've been scaling up my art (which also uses way more space when i have lots of art). facepalm emoji.
Well it has its trade offs.
Sleeper games, the dev who made hyperspace dogfight, told me they do both, scale up the art and zoom the camera in.
Longer Invincibility frames apon taking damage
I haven't felt an issue with that yet. But hopefully, if that's an issue, it'll be brought up during the playtesting phase.
Are you ever planning to release this on steam or another platform, and if so, for how much?
I am really interested in the game
Currently the plan is to release it for free on itch, and some other platforms.
But.... if it turns in to something bigger, maybe I'll put it up on steam for a few bucks.
also i'm pretty sure stuff is supposed to have a bigger shadow the farther it is
Why not have a spinning shot if surrounded by multiple enemies as an upgrade or power up?
Not reason not to, but I haven't decided on whether or not I'd use activatable upgrades yet. 🤔
Maybe instead, it could be a passive that triggers whenever you get hit? That could be cool, and it would pair well with a high health or defense build. 👀
split shot (shots doubled, spread doubled, damage halved)
continuous fire (turnes current multishot into a single stream of bullets, same fire rate, but one shot at a time)
Fragmenting (bullets either shatter into smaller, weaker bullets after certain distances, or when an enemy dies it fragments into shots)
piercing (pierces an enemy per time taken or a set amount if can only be taken once
charge shot (ability to stack damage into a single shot via holding fire, shooting when letting go
please please please have meta progression
I'm planning on some form of meta progression, but I havent decided how itll work yet.
I've been looking in to a bunch of different games in the same genre, and there are a lot of ways to take it. 🤔
Contract from below from isaac would be easy to implement
Another thing i like from isaac (and most other people probably do too) is shot replacement effects. Eg. Mom's knife, brimstone, dr fetus etc. Although maybe that wouldn't work too great if you're planning to add different weapons
Oh yeah, also, definetly add something akin to soy milk (rapid fire - minimal damage per shot)
The game looks awesome, but there is one thing I would change, (I'm assuming that this will change once you add more upgrades, but still) Whenever I play the game, half of my runs feel really slow, because I haven't gotten any upgrades that affect how fast I kill enemies. Sure I can be as fast or as tanky as can be but you still feel weak when you only do a little bit of damage per shot, so maybe once you get around to the upgrades, make damage related stuff a little bit more common, or just add more stuff related to damage. This may just be my bad luck or personal feelings though.
But even with that it's still really good! Just my personal take.
Edit: If I'm gonna complain about upgrades I should probably give some upgrade ideas huh
Scarier face from nuclear throne: less enemy health, makes me happy
Literally anything that can damage you but is really powerful from isaac: I like the risk reward
The entire rarity system from risk of rain 2: the more common items are basic stat upgrades, and the rarer something is, the weirder the effect it has, for example, Soldiers syringe (common item): +fire rate, Spare drone parts (legendary item): gives you a drone, and buffs the damage of all other drones you have, the drone from this item respawns every level if it died.
Sorry for the large wall of text but I want to help if I can!
Yeah, the first thing I need to rework as I go forward is how enemy health and damage scaling works. If you don't get an attack upgrade early the game feels VERY slow. 😅
Recently played through Revita, and they do balance really well. Each upgrade is tiny, like 5-15% buff, but because the stat upgrades happen fairly often it feels good to get. 🤔
So needless to say, I'll be tweaking that as I start to add new upgrades. I'm not sure how I'll do upgrades just yet in the final version, I've been looking at so many different examples and I want to incorporate aspects of them all. lol. Brotato's system of "finish a round" and then spend points for upgrades is what I'm sort of leaning towards.
4:30 в мене є думка,щодо цього.
А що,якщо,куля влучає в фрагмент стіни, він не тільки здригається,але й знищується,а куля рикошетить у випадковому напрямку чи в гравця.
Можна зробити боса зі схожою механікою щита,але щит одноразовий і має декілька шарів захисту
I was thinking about adding a "variation" of the shield enemy that would reflect bullets. I didn't have time to make it during this video, but maybe I'll come back to it in the future. 👍
(But now I'm wondering if I should just make a different boss version of every enemy in the game. 👀)
@@HelperWesleyДещо схоже є в Soul Knight гра на андроід і т.д
Там на основі деяких ворогів, створені боси. Коли проходиш біом(5 рівнів) то в наступному біомі цих ворогів уже немає....
Але я думаю це можна покращити. Гравець знищив головне гніздо павуків,деякі павуки розбіглися і гніздо вибухнуло. В наступних рівнях,в неочікуваних місцях можуть ховатися павуки і чекати момента,щоб вбити гравця,бо він зруйнував їхню домівку.
Поведінка павуків та вигляд(може вони буду червоні він люті) має змінитися, бути більш агресивна,можливо вони стрілятимуть сіткою,якою закидає підлогу і якщо гравець на неї стане,то не зможе рухатися.
Можливо вони буду рухатися з високою швидкістю,що для гравця буде важко в нього поцілити і т.д
Can you show me how to show the damage you dealt to enemies or way round? And the number that go on top, please 🥺❤️❤️
If you're using GDevelop, the base version of this game is in the engine as a template. That version has the damage text and everything. 👍
Point-point XD
People knew what I meant. Lol.
how to you make the dashing
also really cool game :)
If you're using GDevelop, I made a game template from the base version of this game. You can open it up and have a look. 👍
@@HelperWesley thanks! :)
@@HelperWesley im using gdevelop but im not quite sure how to access the template, can i have some help?
nevermind - i figured it out
Make the slime annoying like the chu chu in twilight princess
Green damage numbers is all things cursed
I just changed all of that actually. 👍
You can check out the twitter, now the player's attacks(And damage numbers) are light blue and the enemies have red attacks. 👍
Homing Shots
is creature creator a free to use piece of software?
Yup! It's made by Kenney, who almost exclusively makes free art assets and tools. 👍
what game engine do you use?
I'm using GDevelop. 👍
I like the spider nest bring it back
t when i use Asprite is won't let, me import my art on there.
It won't let you import your art to GDevelop? Is that what you mean?
Are you using the desktop version of the app? And are you saving the images as pngs?
@@HelperWesley yes thank you for responding. Yes, i am using the desktop version i also do save them as Png's. when i go to add them from gdevelop it doesn't show but when i go to my files separately it's there
I still can't tell if the new imp design has one big eye or two white eyes
Lol, it does kind of look like one eye still, but it's supposed to be 2. 😅
@@HelperWesley lol
Looking foward on playing this on Newgrounds.
Will you be interested if I help you on how to add Newgrounds Medals using it's API? And you can credit me as additional code.
I'm not sure if I'll go with medals or achievements, but maybe.
I think I heard someone created a Newgrounds extension or something. 🤔But either way I'm sure it can't be that complicated.
Thanks, but I like to figure those things out for myself.
Cuphead smokescreen
wasp enemy
wasp enemy
"Imp Lord" feels like such a boring name. Surely there's a pun we could inflict on the audience?
Unfortunately, the only ones I can think of are Impaler (an imp throwing around ale) and Impressler (imp wrestler, very impressive). Or maybe Imp Roper?
So, I misread your first suggest as "imperor", instead of emperor, and now I'm totally changing the name to that. 😅
First🥇
good weapons + good weapon variety + good enemies + good enemy variety + some other important stuff to every 2d game + maybe a little movement or something similar = pretty cool
Game engine?
I use GDevelop. 👍
@@HelperWesley thanks man
The game feels like Soul Knight
There are so many games in this genre that it surprises me I've heard soul knight over all of the other games. Like wizards of legend, which is also great. 👀
So much like etg
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It really does! 🤣