Running Free - actually working quite fast

[davidn]

I think I might have just spotted an oversight in the iOS exporter's sound code and solved the mystery of how to allow iPod music while a game is running - something which I'm really rather pleased about, seeing as I'm working in a language that doesn't make sense in an IDE I don't understand on a computer I can't use. But I'll have to see if it's verified by someone who has at least one of the above qualifications.

So I've been ploughing ahead with Running Free and adding the few more elements that I wanted - here are some levels played when run through the standard EXE exporter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpHwOQZucp0

I think that the ghost is my favourite bit, especially his "chomp" noise. And he's an all-new one, rather than the sprite from Treasure Tower that I've been using for the last six years.

Comments

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

Okay, that is looking absolutely great in all respects.

[davidn]

Thanks - it's been a while since I actually got excited by how one of my games was going (CT2 was a struggle to finish, FISP was just a stop-gap) - I think that this one really could be quite special despite its simplicity :)

[crassadon.livejournal.com]

Whow! What's even going on in this? :That's some wicked explosive gel: is the only thing that I can even think of to come up with!

Hey, put a few more curves in there!! Who doesn't like a sleek, sexy curve? :3

[kjorteo]

Did you just use the IWBTG spike sound effect for the ... um ... spikes? I swear my brain responded to that sound by immediately playing Might is Right but Tight when you hit one.

Anyway, I absolutely love the aesthetic in this. It kind of reminds me of Crayon Physics Deluxe or something ... cute like that, though I can already see that you're going to abuse it and make it one of those "looks adorable, is actually murderously hard" deals.

[davidn]

What kind of a song title is "Might is Right but Tight"? Nevertheless, it's good to know it has a name beyond "Game over, press R to try again" - even if I'll never be able to hear it without wincing.

The spike sound is quite heavily modified from one in the Phoenix Wright sound library (shh). I've heard the same general meaty "bish" sound effect in Soul Blade, Trauma Center, IWBTG and so on... and though it sounds painful, I'm still not sure what it's actually meant to sound like.

Anyway, you could be right.

[kjorteo]

It's a Guilty Gear Isuka song title, obviously! Those are almost always even weirder than Guilty Gear XX titles, though there are exceptions.

And ... goodness.

Also, hooray for meaty bishes