{"id":59,"date":"2009-11-12T01:58:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T09:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendofeuterra.com\/devblog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2009-11-12T01:58:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T09:58:10","slug":"behind-the-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shadowdawngenesis.com\/devblog\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve been fine-tuning the combat, since I am trying to avoid a mindless hack and slash.\u00a0 The kittris, though test monsters, are still using fundamental attacks that other monsters later can borrow, and I found them incredibly hard to predict… part of that is because I haven’t drawn the animation frames that signal what they are about to do.\u00a0 But they did move a bit too fast, especially when I implemented the next ability in Arashi’s arsenal: defense.<\/p>\n

Arashi has the ability to either simply just block attacks and take reduced damage (she is allowed to move at a reduced rate while defending), or the player can try to time pressing the initial defense button the moment an enemy lands an attack.\u00a0 If within the “parry” window, if the enemy’s attack connects, it will do no damage at all as long as it is a physical attack.\u00a0 Furthermore, parrying an attack will not only stun the enemy in place for a good block of time, it will enable Arashi a counter attack window that does even more damage than a running slash.\u00a0 One of the early bosses is weak to this particular strategy, since I want to teach the player how to use it effectively to handle the harder levels later.<\/p>\n

I guess I want the combat to be more about options, since I want to reward the main possible playstyles, cautious and strategic, or aggressive and swift.<\/p>\n

Also notice in this screenshot, I added a fog layer as the first “weather” effect.\u00a0 And I am working on a good time of day routine… this is important since the first stage occurs at night.\u00a0 Fog is a very useful effect for ambience, but I want to add rain, and possibly cloud shadows for higher level weather (I think the camera is too low to have a believable cloud layer overhead).<\/p>\n

I’m getting to the point where I’m running out of things to program without going forward with the level design, once I copy over the “usecode” source, the next thing I need to do is make a handler for multiple sound effects playing at once (right now, the only sound effect I have is the BGM and a sword swing).\u00a0 After that I see no reason I can’t design the first level… minus cutscenes and npcs.\u00a0 I’ll get to that.<\/p>\n

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