Beat-em-up Improvements (jumping and other features)

[Luxnolucas]

the work accomplished is impressive. Truly, well done !
And to answer :
1 Down and attack
2 must fill up a bar by defeating enemies
3 a full screen attack

 

[mileco]

I am hyped with your future custom module.

1 select
2 fill up a bar to charge the attack
3 a full screen attack

 

[acaudel]

Had time this week, so I've been knocking a lot off my checklist.
One of the fancier things I did was combine the jump and the jump attack into 1 single action step. That frees up an entire player action step for another purpose. I'm thinking of a super move, since most beat-em-ups have some variation of a power/supermove

But I'm stuck, cause I can't decide the best way to implement a power move. The goal is to make the module as flexible as possible for people to make their own, but still work with little to no coding. of course coders can make up their own, but what should it be out-of-the-box?

1: what button or button combo should I use?

• A+B at the same time
• select button
• Down and attack

2: how do you enable/limit power move?

• timer to replenish
• must fill up a bar by defeating enemies
• collect a pickup
• cost HP per use

3: what should the power move be?

• a projectile (shoot, throw an object)
• a dash attack (a forward jump)
• a radius attack (hurt enemies in range)
• a full screen attack (hurt all enemies on screen)
• a period of invincibility/extra damage (like a rage mode)

One idea :Maybe hold down the attack button for a couple of seconds until the character flashes, then you can do an extra strong attack?

 

[Bucket Mouse]

I like that idea, acaudel. Not too complicated, not as likely to be done by accident.

When I think of a "power move," the terminology suggests a lot of damage, so I'd think the radius attack or full-screen attack would work best.

And if you go that big you can't let them do it all the time, so filling up the bar would be the best option.

 

[SciNEStist]

lots of updates this week.

 

[JamesTall2024]

That cool

 

[SciNEStist]

added the picking up stuff feature, that will act as both the "enemy grappling" and weapon feature in one.

 

[JamesNES]

So slick!

 

[Vasyan]

Excellent mechanics for this genre.

 

[JamesTall2024]

maybe is it 2d or 3d

 

[SciNEStist]

uh oh. time to start moving stuff around.

 

[tbizzle]

@SciNEStist This saved me like 9% in the static bank.......

[4.5.9] Move Physics out of Static Bank

This will move your physics routine out of the static bank since the only reason it's there is to be able to get info out of 1C. If we just duplicate 1C's object data in another bank and change the labels, it doesn't need to be in the static bank. If you don't have many objects or animations...

www.nesmakers.com

 

[SciNEStist]

yup, currently moving a whole lot of stuff outta 1F. It's not a problem, its just funny how it got away from me. Was too busy adding features without keeping an eye on the banks. I added 3 more lines to a script, and was getting vector errors.

 

[baardbi]

All of this is not only super cool, but I'm very impressed that you implemented all these features and the game still looks very smooth and bug free.

 

[SciNEStist]

*looks*
i still have a collision bug to fix, and it seems to max out objects at 4 on screen at a time.

 

[Vasyan]

How did you implement the punch and kick?

 

[SciNEStist]

How did you implement the punch and kick?

Instead of the brawlers method, which involves spawning an attack object (like a fist or leg that damages monsters) this module uses a system that just draws a sprite on the side of the object to show the attack. by doing this without creating more objects, it should help with slowdown. The attack collision is handled by comparing where the attack is against monster collisions.

or are you asking about controls?
if so, this is the default:
B-punch
B,B -lefthook
A,B - jumpkick
B,A - uppercut
A,A,B- super ground slam

 

[Vasyan]

Thank you, this is exactly what I meant, I suppose for this method there is no need to check which direction the player is facing?

 

[SciNEStist]

working out the details on some of the more complicated features.

 

[Vasyan]

working out the details on some of the more complicated features.

Is it possible to make a separate topic describing how the strikes are implemented in your module?