alf2: current state - insights

[YinYin]

@Lauli (Click to View)

How about adding an additional tree-row to the bottom of Lion Forrest?
I think that helps to sell the fact that you're actually in a forrest, and not on a grass road with dense-as-fuck trees to the left and right.

already planned

Also, if you don't care about parallax scrolling too much (which I think you do a lot) you could change the sky setting to a mix between the highway-red and the forrest green/blue.
I don't know, it bugs me that there's such a sudden change in sunlight.

specifically on this one i do care a lot about scrolling
but changing the sky might still work
my thought was that you traveled quite a long time on the rest of the road - and the sun is supposed to be rising on the first sub stage so it simply became day time
probably a better option for me is letting the sun go down again on the third one

Hey are you going to add special entrances to the enemies?

yes

hint for every next guess:
lauli got two of five characters right

[Lauli]

but changing the sky might still work
my thought was that you traveled quite a long time on the rest of the road - and the sun is supposed to be rising on the first sub stage so it simply became day time
probably a better option for me is letting the sun go down again on the third one

Hmm, maybe if you add just some subtle colour fade in the sky (as an additional sprite with state: 9997). That might do the trick.

Do you mean to let the sun go down again in the third substage or stage 3?
If the sun gets down again in the third substage, that would be waaay to quick. Sunset in the middle of stage 3 sounds good though ;)

WAIT A SECOND.
One of those 3 backgrounds is a "fake" one. My guess would be the highway. So, is it a two layer background (with foreground object and state: 9997 object as background), or is there some witchcraft and wizardry again?

[YinYin]

surprise feature!

firen and firzen can flip or roll out of fire
simple

@Lauli (Click to View)

Hmm, maybe if you add just some subtle colour fade in the sky (as an additional sprite with state: 9997). That might do the trick.

thats what i was thinking

Do you mean to let the sun go down again in the third substage or stage 3?
If the sun gets down again in the third substage, that would be waaay to quick. Sunset in the middle of stage 3 sounds good though ;)

i did mean the substage
time is relative - you don't know how much time you will have to spend on the mainland
and i don't know yet whether i'm gonna do any daytime changes on stage 3

WAIT A SECOND.
One of those 3 backgrounds is a "fake" one. My guess would be the highway. So, is it a two layer background (with foreground object and state: 9997 object as background), or is there some witchcraft and wizardry again?

all three of them are fake, or at least partly fake
9997 is only used for fade in and fade out so far
i might change that on some backgrounds tho

the guessing game is still up
guess the five characters that will appear in stage 2 right and you get to decide what i post next
(maybe just getting more than lauli is enough ... hmm - i guess i am just desperate)

new list of future features you can pick:
explosive crate
louis kick
john JA action
freeze affinity part 2
john amulet power part 2
deep combo 2
deep combo 3

uuhhhh
they will keep piling up

[empirefantasy]

My guesses:
Henry,hunters,Woody,Dennis and Bandits.


john amulet power part 2

Also,nice idea about that rowing

[Zabobula]

You're putting alot of little things into this mod. I really respect how in-depth ure going with these little tweaks. Good work man.

[Bamboori]

will you make freeze be able to free himself from ice too?

[Ariel]

i would like to see more stages like u showed stage 2
it looks realy cool

[Lauli]

You're putting alot of little things into this mod. I really respect how in-depth ure going with these little tweaks. Good work man.

will you make freeze be able to free himself from ice too?

i would like to see more stages like u showed stage 2
it looks realy cool

Yea come on dudes and dudettes, it's not that hard to just guess five names. :P

The flip looks very good, the rolling doesn't look very professional though. You could still have the flipping animation, but then continue with the actual rolling. That might look better, I don't know.

[YinYin]

@empirefantasy (Click to View)

My guesses:
Henry,hunters,Woody,Dennis and Bandits.

two right aswell
means: no bat, john, sorcerer, woody, dennis or bandits
but henry and hunter are right

@Bamboori (Click to View)

will you make freeze be able to free himself from ice too?

this one might be it:

freeze affinity part 2

@DesignHeaven (Click to View)

i would like to see more stages like u showed stage 2
it looks realy cool

why thank you
i actually recorded stage 1 places before 2
got the gif lying on my desktop

@Lauli (Click to View)

The flip looks very good, the rolling doesn't look very professional though. You could still have the flipping animation, but then continue with the actual rolling. That might look better, I don't know.

well the flip is what you expect as an action for the jump button from falling (even if he is burning there)
but doing a flip as well when pressing defend? no

also the main point of having these two different ones is:
flipping doesn't change your direction, you are still facing your opponent (you will roll towards him when pressing D on the ground)
while doing a lil somersault will actually turn you around so you will roll away from your opponent on the ground
that's important for either dodging to the right or left afterwards (while still being predictable because the animations are different)

[Siegvar]

Deep, Henry, Hunter, Rudolf, Jack.

EDIT: louis kick. I'm tempted to ask for John's stuff.. but it looks like he's shaping up to be an epic character.. so I'm gonna keep his surprises for last as much as I can. :P