Todo doing some platforming

[davidn]

Here's another GIF showing the new abilities that I put in this evening! None of which were the things that I intended to work on this evening, but still... (You might want to give it a minute, as it's 8MB - the image above is just a preview.)

I'm already beginning to see this as "Crystal Towers 2 done right" - I'm still proud of that game (after all, this one is directly based on it), but it had a lot of awkwardness in the system which came from not having any experience writing a game of that size. This time, I'm getting the opportunity to correct a lot of the mistakes - for example, the "boost"-style ability is now activated with a quick double-tap while in the air, rather than having to be selected and assigned to a spell key, and the general platforming experience is a lot more fluid as a result.

Comments

[lupineangel.livejournal.com]

I really like how this is looking. I love him dangling upside-down when he hangs on the pole!

D.F.

[davidn]

He's turned out really adorable :) He's the reason I've been working on this game so feverishly - furries are just so much more interesting to work with!

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

When you put it like that... why didn't the Crystal Towers games have furries :)

[davidn]

I never thought about it when I started the game in 2006 - I think mostly because I didn't feel that I could do them justice with my very limited pixelling skills, at that point...! I had a sort of half-go at it with Wilkshire and Cumberbatch the bouncing cat-blobs, late in the game's development.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

...I now have a mental image of Todo vs. Megacarrot stuck in my head.