I got stuck on the second level unfortunately, the geometry was too confusing and it was hard to tell what was a platform and what's a trap. I think that the painting mechanic needs to better display platforms, right now the dots don't really do it for me. Though, any improvements I can think off will probably just turn this game into INK (you should play it if you haven't already, given the similarities) as that game does what you're going for just a lot more elegantly. You'll probably learn a lot from that game as it is *quite* good.

Here's a quick list of improvements:

• Add sustained jumping (tap for short hop, hold for leap)
• replace the blood dots with splatter, dots are hard to connect and don't really show the geometry all that well
• Refine collision for platforms vs spikes, simple touching the sides of a spike even if you're on a platform will kill you, which seems unfair to me since the geometry is poorly defined (see point 2).

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> > I thought the issue was 3rd party reliance

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> The only remotely practical way to write a set of cross-platform native exporters would be to rely on some kind of existing framework or library, which... relies on third parties. I struggle to see why this is an argument for native exporters.

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> > 80% games are CPU bottlenecked and only 20% are GPU bottlenecked.

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> This contradicts what I've seen, and I've done profiling for some of the largest C2 games like Airscape. As ever, I am absolutely keen for anyone with poorly performing .capx files to send them to me (preferably in minimal form like a bug report) so I can optimise anything that needs to be. I repeat this with every thread that ever crops up like this, so I've said it a lot, and I am either sent nothing, sent games which are incredibly inefficiently designed, or games which are GPU-bottlenecked. So even if what you say is true, I'd be very interested to see any examples of that, because I almost never see them myself.

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Would you be able to write a tutorial, or instructions on how to handle big projects events? That would save you time in the long run, and help others not to make bad events and then complain things are not working well.

That's a fair request. I'm working on a pretty big project and I have my own way of optimizing it but it would be nice to have other practical examples and optimization tricks besides the very broadly applicable guidelines on some of the blog posts.

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> -InkScape

> -Photoshop

> -Paint.NET

> -Gimp

> -PyxelEdit

> -Graphics Gale

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You forgot Illustrator, Animatron, SpriterPro,Spine etc

basically any software that lets u ease your work and your comfortable with it

Yeah those were just the ones I recalled from the top of my head, I'll add the ones you listed, thanks!

As they say the artist make the tool, there are lots of different software you can use to get the same result (or similar). The most common I see on the forums here are:

-InkScape

-Photoshop

-Paint.NET

-Gimp

-PyxelEdit

-Graphics Gale

-Illustrator

-Animatron

-SpriterPro

-Spine

Off the top of my head those are the ones I can recall and they are all very powerful tools if you know how to use them, it all comes down to how you work presonally, some people like the interface and hotkeys of Gimp, some prefer Photoshop, personally I use Paint.NET, it's simple and easy to use and I mostly work with pixelart so it was a sure match for me.

You should try them all, most of them are free or very cheap (except PhotoShop).

• I've updated the running animation for the main character and improved the animation when jumping to grab a ledge.
• I've also implemented cover, your character can only take cover in specific areas (like the dark areas and the trees), enemies now detect the cover furthest from the player and roll into it.
• I'm also working on getting various mechanisms to work together, like levers, pressure plates, lasers and things like that. here's an example with a lever that activate rocks that fall down onto pressure plates that then activate the next rock).

> I don't think there's a way to expand/collapse events though if you add your events to groups you can collapse/expand them.

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Have you read my post?

Just press right mouse on a collapsed or uncollapsed event.

Yes I did, but what you suggest only works with groups, you can't expand/collapse events outside of groups was my point.

I don't think there's a way to expand/collapse events though if you add your events to groups you can collapse/expand them.

Or just small icon before the name.

That's such a small thing that would be very helpful, I'm surprised it's not there yet.

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Overall it would be great if there was an easy way to tell the difference at a glance.

mudmask Thank you! I was always a little bummed out by how the pixel art movement forgot about DOS and early computer games. I was a PC child, played lots of Warcraft, Heroes 2, Might and Magic, adventure games etc. with Razzia I want to bring some of that back through the visuals. I'm glad you like it!

TELLES0808 Sweet, Blackthorne is one of my main inspirations for Razzia, great game.

Updating some of the animations in Razzia

That's pretty much how I've planned. With the updated engine I have a tilemap that acts like a trigger mask for the levels and whenever I need a new trigger I just add a new tile and check whether the character is overlapping the new tile and then do the thing I want. Much easier than before when every trigger was its own sprite (which was super inefficient)

Thank you, stay tuned

Ethan Thank you, I thought it turned out good too!

byondisoft Thanks! It's certainly hard work getting every animation working like they should but it's worth the effort! Yeah I'm actually working on specific cover spots for the game right now, the bigger problem is getting the enemy AI to utilize them as well.