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I'm working on a couple things: I finally have the fourth and final party member of my current game worked out, mechanics-wise.

He fights using claws, his main "attack" is an ability called Breaker that makes the enemy more susceptible to attacks from him in the future. The way this works, is attacking with Breaker makes the enemy more susceptible to this player's attacks in the future. However, the enemy's vulnerability only lasts two rounds before needing to be refreshed.

He then a command list that allows him to target parts of the enemy's body to wound them. Target Head lowers the enemy's magic attack, Target Arms their attack power, and Target Legs their agility for those nasty, real fast-acting enemies. Those actions are regular attacks that inflict damage as well as a chance to put the debuff on the enemy. They cost nothing. The trade-off is, however, that the vulnerability from Breaker will not be refreshed, meaning the player has to reapply it. Likewise, reapplying Breaker means that the debuff can drop off. So the player can juggle between higher damage or more debuffs.

Finally, the character then has a third ability set that uses their Mana Pool, and has abilities such as raising the speed of another party member.

On a separate note, my game uses all custom music, and I'm trying to find a way to make a video with some of the music and maybe a screenshot of the game so I can advertise it on YouTube and on my game page. Any advice on doing this?

author=Rebezion
Working on that silly castlevania clone of mine.

I am finally getting somewhere. SgtMettool is too!

Welcome to Branice ! Mark: Remote village, Location: Nightvale

This is incredible. Excellent level designs and looks like a blast to play. I wish there was a "Castlevania Maker" that made games like this.

Working on a little item menu, I'm unsure whether I need the description window or not.

Depends on the game. If half the gameplay is figuring out where and when to use Key Card and Floppy Disk, then leaving out the description is fine. If the game is about tactical battles, then knowing exactly how much Med Pack recovers is important to the player's planning.

That border really completes the screenshot. The screenshot makes me think of the sci-fi chapter from Live-A-Live.

Close encounters of the blurred kind! Anyway, I now have multiplatform online play (kind of) working, and here is proof!



(It is not fun trying to take a picture with a years-old camera because you're already using your phone.)

Perhaps you could have a little arrow or something above the head of the character you're controlling on the HUD? Or a flashing circle around their icon?

Aren't those little portraits in the bottom corner enough? When in single file, they're all brightened, when independent, whoever you're controlling is brightened while everyone else is dark. Unless of course those portraits mean something else entirely that cannot be changed for something like that. In which case you can have different command names for split and single file, like Split and Merge. The icon above the head of who you're controlling is also a fine idea.

I spent last week adding new characters into my game, and this week going through all the dialogue, cleaning it up, and removing all the text pauses and breaks, allowing the player to read at their own pace. Soon enough I should be able to put out the next update...

I'm getting pretty close to putting out a rough demo. Within a week or two, I'd probably say.

Anyways, Oozies are back! They're looking a little different nowadays.



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