Worked like a charm - and then I added lots to it! Perfect. Was just doing water and reflections etc. My player sprite was not showing up. Turns out Nuovo Fill and Canvas do not get along. I technically don't need it but I'm to lazy to edit it out at the moment so it's just disabled until the player gets hit and then disabled again after the hit loop ends.

Cant wait to show this boss off!

Thanks again!

DMM

Thanks Jayjay - I wasn't sure if this was covered yet or what. I searched a few things and figured it wasn't or I just had no idea what to ask for. I was hoping to draw out separate sprites for the body bits anyhow (especially for when it explodes!). I can't wait to get started on this LOL!

Thanks a ton!

DMM

Ok - scrapping the wolf boss in my game. He's now just a regular enemy through out the level. I've extended my cave level and want to make a big tenticle snake merman head boss thing that emerges from the water under a bridge.

So the question is: How do I make this snake like movement where the head moves but the end of the body is attached to the wall/doesn't move?

Here is a video (skip to 3:20) as an example from castlevania 3. Someting tells be bone movement but I'm also seeing it as a bunch of connected sprites that mimic the movement of the head less and less as it gets closer to the base sprite...

Thanks for the assistance as always!!!

DMM

New video link for week 10 here:

http://youtu.be/CjgOg7e3yI4

DMM

New bats and ghosts and all the other junk in action. Only a few minor bugs left to fix - you'll see them in this video (when I get hit in mid air).

***Link is broken - reuploading video***

<img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/7lq_5gWQ8Mk/0.jpg" border="0" />

Here are some screen grabs of the latest build. New bats, new ghosts (now banshees), new trees, hidden chests full of treasure, and a bunch of new BG art in the cemetary section. I will post my usual video but other than this stuff, it's been mostly bug fixes this week.

DMM

<img src="http://designchris.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/newbgcrap.jpg" border="0" />

<img src="http://designchris.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/newgiantattackbat.jpg" border="0" />

<img src="http://designchris.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/newtreesnchest.jpg" border="0" />

<img src="http://designchris.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/banshee.jpg" border="0" />

Thanks! I'm hoping to get a demo up after a little bit. It's still too buggy and missing too much even from these two stages.

I keep thinking up little background bits to add (more trees and a busted up wagon in the forest stage for example). Once I'm around 99% happy with these two stages I'll release a demo for everyone to try.

I also noticed upon messing with the scroll rate in the forest level I've dropped the clouds off the bottom of the screen where the ghost flies out of the grave - and covered the hole up as well when messing with the layers...

I'll probably release the demo without the first stage, there is at least a month and a half if not two months of work to do with that as it wont run on the same platform engine for the most part.

DMM

Ok - here is the video for week 9. Only real updates are the random (buggy) drops and the weapons (4 of 5). This is the full 2 stages from start to finish. Still a few bugs to squish but only minor ones. I managed to get around 10 annoying ones before I did this video. You can see just how not random the random drops are. Nothing at all for ages and then the stupid first weapon keeps showing up. There should be tons of gold drops but their arent. This also changes every time you play the game...wtf.

Anyhow here it is, I'm going to bed :)

http://youtu.be/robbYBMNEm8

DMM

Thanks!

Should be a new video coming later tonight. Had no time to work on this at all yesterday. Very little time today. I've got 4 or 5 weapons completely finished and the 5th does nothing yet. Random loot drops are there but just dont feel very random to me. It's almost like the random code goes through sets of numbers for so many cycles and then goes to another set. Like it will take random numbers from 1-10 for about 10 seconds and then 10-20 for 10 seconds etc etc.

Sometimes I can go a whole level with only maybe two or three loot drops. I have it set now so for every random number between 0-9 if it's equal to 3 then run the code for random pick ups which is 10 numbers between 1-50. If I don't do that, 9 out of 10 times enemies drop loot.

I've tried several different ways to use random numbers but it just doesn't seem to be very random at all.

Also need to figure out why enemies are occasionally dropping two to three pieces of loot at a time. I have a private variable set per enemy at 1 and when the random loot code is excecuted, 1 is subbtracted from this variable... which seemingly does nothing, but it should force the code to only work once.

Anyhow that being said, the ground in the second scene has been redrawn. A few missing pieces from the third scene are there. Seems to be pretty bug free aside of when player is hit and random loot.

Anyhow, back to the grind.

DMM

Weapons system in the works. Wont bother posting the original bubble as that's been seen to death. Fire bubbles, Water bubbles and 3-way bubbles are completed. Just need to do Lightning bubbles and all main weapons are finished. Fixed a giant ass load of bugs tonight and seperated the shooting and controls into 2 seperate event sheets to make it 100x easier to find bugs and skip repeating events.

Here's the screens :)

Water:

<img src="http://designchris.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/water.jpg" border="0" />

Fire:

<img src="http://designchris.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/fire1.jpg" border="0" />

3-Way:

<img src="http://designchris.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/3way.jpg" border="0" />

You'll see this crap in action plus the final weapon by the weekend update video. Changed the boss colors already too - over the next couple days I'll be attempting to add the loot drops and designing the loot. Then it's the missing boss frames (blowing and dying).

DMM

Here is the final video for week 8. Info is in the video description. But basically the boss is around half finshed. Just missing animations for him but you can fight him and beat him, etc. Lots of little things to be tweaked and added in this level and with the boss fight. A couple new enemies, ghosts are fixed... stuff like that. A few tiles missing from the slime slide section and then the background is complete.

http://youtu.be/shka9TR4Dws

Enjoy!!

DMM

Hey! Thanks, declan_gage!! It's comments like that, that make working on something like this all the more fun :) Thank you!

I'm digging Construct for sure - It's a lot like the tools I use to do my real job - ADOBE CS5, etc.

I think a simple game is easier to get into. For me I have very little time to play anything anymore (despite the fact that I still pre order crap). And then it turns out to be just that - 7-10 hours of crap.

With an arcade side scroller, you know what you're going to get, you already know if you're going to like it 5 seconds in etc. And it's the attract mode that pulls you to the machine.

For me I'd rather play any Capcom arcade game excluding the one on one fighters, Konami's old arcade machines, Data East, etc over anything nowadays. They're a quick fix, there is 1000x more quality and dedication put into them. And how often do you walk away from one of those games disappointed with anything?

Again Thanks! I'm hoping to have a little beta demo out in about a months time. I'm just about done the cave level, the boss jumps, blows fire and dies now. It still feels sloppy so I'm tweaking it until I get it where I want it. Still need the fire blowing animation and a "death" frame.

Then it's on to the "Daddy's Happy Dream World" where Maddi has to rescue Daddy from his eternal dancing in a magic mirror "Take On Me" level.