Hey everybody! It's a bit late in the day, so hopefully some of you will see this before tomorrow, but as promised I come with a gif of what I worked on the other day, as well as the date for the next stream. First off, the stream - me and Orexius will once again be hosting a stream tomorrow at 2pm EDT, just like last time. This time may become a new norm, given the recent changes in both of our schedules, but hopefully I'll be able to stay online longer this time.
Second, I bring you this gif: http://i.imgur.com/TLZOwuT.gif
This one is showing off the new parallax scrolling that will be visible in the caves, which is the first area in the game. I've been wanting to revisit them and give them some more visual flair for a while now, so hopefully this will spice up the area a bit! Considering the amount of time it'll take to cover every single cave room that's in the game so far, they probably won't all be done in time for v.16 - but I'll get as many as I can in.
That's all for tonight. I'll make a post tomorrow when the stream begins, as always! Hope you can make it!
-A42
Yes, I code everything from scratch. All the code I need for parallax is done now, what will take a long time is just re-tiling every cave room with the new cut-out background tiles. It's not a hard process by any means, just time consuming, so it'll depend on how long finishing everything else takes me.
ReplyDeleteThe parallax isn't the problem. It was done before the stream ended. Right now, all the cave areas in the game have only one background piece - a flat, looping background layer of the cave wall. This looping background is only 64x64 pixels big, and it just repeats that background to fill up the whole room. However, for the parallax stalactites/stalagmites to show through, I need to tile each room specifically with breaks in the walls, where the player can 'see through' to the parallax in the far background. If I don't do that, they won't be able to see the parallax at all, even if it still exists behind the cave wall.
DeleteWhen you will do the next stream?
ReplyDeleteHey, sorry I didn't respond to this - been a rough week, and I didn't know when I'd be streaming. I'm going to be starting one soon though, if you happen to be available, feel free to drop by - I'm making a post here soon about it with the link.
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