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·         A great Jump ’n’ Run adventure based on the Kirby series
·         Six worlds with 48 different levels to overcome (includes boss and bonus levels)
·         Collectables (squid coins for unlockable stuff is one of them)
·         Dangerous mid bosses and bosses with a great variety of attacks and patterns
·         Custom crafted graphic assets, which are all drawn in a cute and colorful art style
·         A simple story, which is easy to follow
·         An advanced shop system (will include something like negotiations, discounts, offers and even a cute shop owner)
·         In-game achievements (for bragging rights)
·         Three minigames to play are included (A puzzle game called ”Train Tracks”, a reaction dungeon crawler named ”Cavern Quest” and a third minigame, which I still have no idea for)
·         And a lot more secrets to discover…!

This project looks pretty rad, man. I love the graphical style, too. And I love that you based it on the newer Kirby games. Those are bloody brilliant games. I als highly approve of the choice to add buttons to move on the mobile version. Makes it seem like it's perfectly able to be controlled like a normal sidescroller, and it spares it from the clunky mess that plagues games like Mario Run.

I only have one issue so far, unless it's your choice. Is it your intent to have dust effects every time Cappani lands? It just looks a little odd when she lands from a platform relatively close to the ground.

Quote:In order to defend herself from enemies, she can use her spores to fight back, which can be released at certain actions (mainly by landing on the ground or by using her floaty hat). Cappanis spores can also being used for other things rather than combat. Often, these basic actions must be combined to solve the problems in the world Cappani is living in.

this answers your question

Oh, is that what that is? An attack? Okay then. I thought they were landing effects only.

Quote:And I love that you based it on the newer Kirby games. Those are bloody brilliant games.

I agree on the Kirby games aspect . I will give my best to take the best from those games and make the flawed things better than those games (like the "not so kind", one try secret blocking, those games like to do).

Quote:I als highly approve of the choice to add buttons to move on the mobile version. Makes it seem like it's perfectly able to be controlled like a normal sidescroller, and it spares it from the clunky mess that plagues games like Mario Run.

One thing that I really disliked about games is if its controls are to gimmicky by force, just to have something "innovative". Most mobile games have this problem. While sweeping and other touch movement might be good for certain games, but not in a platformer, because most of these controls begin to feel too forced and it makes the movement unnecessary harder.

The current controls with the buttons are feeling smooth (at least for me now, don't know if others are thinking the same about that), which is my main objective in the controls.

Thanks for your kind post TabuuForteAkugun .


Kinda small update about the development of the game:
I took Gors advise about making a devblog for my game. I created a Twitter page for everything Fungi Cappani related (small updates about gameplay, art, etc...). The link for the Twitter you can find in my signature or in the first post of this topic. Usually, I had not so good experience with Twitter, since I'm not a "advertisement guy" (I don't know why, but something about me, seems to scare people or I have something, which is making them sillent). I will, however, give it a shot and try it out. Everyone, who would like to share these devposts, can do that of course. Any help, in any form, is always appreciated .

I also started to program the enemies and player damage into the game. This process will take a while to do. There is a lot of stuff I have to be beware of. Also, I played around with my current water object (which is only a visual thing at the moment). I also have here a .gif, which shows the game running on a actual mobile phone. All these can be checked on Twitter (the .gifs are included).


Because that .gif is too big for Twitter, here is the .gif about playing the game on a actual mobile phone device :

Sure thing, dude. I see tremendous potential in this platformer (plus Cappani's freaking cute ) , and I'll do whatever I can to try and help you make it even greater! I'm following your twitter with my own game's account (@Sorcia_Indie). Once I have more stuff done on mine, I'd love your opinion in return.

Did I mention I love the graphical style? Reminds me also of old NES sidescrollers. The GOOD ones. From what I can see from the gifs, the game's control looks damn smooth and fluent. I haven't seen an indie platformer that controls this well in some time. You got talent, my friend.

Am I correct in assuming those 2 white boxes will eventually be used for something, like items?

Yep, I'm seeing your gif and it plays exactly like I imagined it would.

Quote:I'm following your twitter with my own game's account (@Sorcia_Indie). Once I have more stuff done on mine, I'd love your opinion in return.

Sure , and thanks for following my project.

Quote:Reminds me also of old NES sidescrollers

Well, I hope it's better in terms of quality (like NES mostly didn't really have any shading and was kinda simple) . But I know what you mean with that .

Quote:Am I correct in assuming those 2 white boxes will eventually be used for something, like items?

No, actually those are only there for testing purposes . Two debug keys to restart and exit the game, to be exact (because I didn't program a menu yet). Those will most likely later removed, if I can get the pause menu to work .


So, I finally began to work on backgrounds (on this one, I sit like two days up to the current status). I did draw most of the graphics needed for it (still missing animations for it but these come, if a problem is out of the way) by using my concept art (which are new ones in the first post btw.) and even coded it into the game with parallax scrolling. Seems like everything is nice and dandy...

My big problem here however is the colors again... I don't know how I can possibly make the background look like background, while not being completely dark. Also, editing this BG is a pain, since it's made of many parts for the scrolling. So, playing around with these colors will be extra though...





EDIT:
How about this ? I hope, it's not too dark now (also, excuse me for the poor recording with the windows background there... It was too late until I noticed that ):
EDIT2:
This is the current result so far... I like it ... how about you guys?

Absolutely digging the background. Game looks fab~!

the parallax layers don't look like 3d, but mroe like cardboard cutouts. I guess if that's your idea, then it looks very good

It reminds me more of the fake NES parallax scrolling than something more modern. I have no idea if that was the intended goal, though.

Quote:the parallax layers don't look like 3d, but mroe like cardboard cutouts.

Quote:It reminds me more of the fake NES parallax scrolling than something more modern

Really ? I really don't want it to look like cardboard tho ... that was actually not my plan .

I only remember parallax from like specific SNES Games and those handled it like that... mmm... how exactly can I improve the parallax or graphics, so it will no longer look like cardboard, I wonder? Is there a way? Because I don't know, what I could do about that.

Which Part of the Background is problematic? Or is it on the entire thing ?

I think the water in the very front needs to be a little more animated and separate from the ground. Having it move along with the ground makes the whole section look flat instead of adding depth and distance. The clouds also bother me, but I'm not exactly sure why...

The art of the background itself looks beautiful though.

Quote:I think the water in the very front needs to be a little more animated and separate from the ground.

How is this? Is this a little better now? I tried to change the tree locations a bit, which should now look more natural... I also added a new animation and split-up the water layer into three pieces to make them all animated separately.

Much better. Fluid and nice! And I like the water animation, too.

I think it looks much better . The ground appears to have much more depth and the moving water looks really good.