"no friendly NPCs were harmed in the making of this game"

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((peak 17th century bloodloss prevention))

this is what i call the 'run jitter' smoothness test

idle sprite rework + transitions

goddamit I should've done this earlier, turns out you only need like 3 frames for transitions and its so much smoother. I think I actually prefer less transitions frames to keep it snappy.

#pixelart #gamedev

sprites allll done!!

I finally have an enemy with all of the counter mechanics: shockwave surfing, sword binding, and grab attacks (not seen here, checkout older vids)

but now I need to do the part I've been dreading and create a proper stage for this guy (preferably with better color contrast xD)

yeah in my case it's attack-dependent, so some attacks are interruptable and others aren't. it'll be a part of the learning enemy movesets to know when there's an opening

some slower enemy might be completely interruptable, while faster ones will get interrupted often but be more aggressive

it actually just lets you kill or disarm an enemy. my game is deflection heavy so it's an alternative way to deal damage and rewards aggression. Poise regens more slowly as HP decreases so you'll still need to do both.

Pretty much the same mechanic in Sekiro if you've played that.

got this flaming sword effect working with some hacky implementation to get dynamic particle emission shapes in godot

not sure how I feel about the performance cost of loading a 3MB emission mask or updating the shape every single frame, but thats an issue for future me XD

iruruu's idle sprite has finally bothered me enough that I made a new one. it was in a perpetual unfinished state anyway but so was like half the old sprites so I never got to it haha

grab counter: if you time a kick into grab attack you'll do a tomoe nage and deal a fuck load of posture damage

this was one of the few ideas I had when I started working on this game years ago, feels great to finally implement it

ok this has zero gameplay purpose but I added a score tracking system.

of course I won't show it in game, this is for debugging, but I'm considering making a 'result screen' at the end of a run where you can check your score like a rhythm game

short piano piece, i was thinking of a very cold place when writing this for some reason

I feel like I should do more but its so hard to finish songs...

me and my revenant friend waiting for a 3rd rando
#NIGHTREIGN

should've done this earlier but visualizing the deflect timing is sooo helpful for debugging

I've been making slight timing adjustments to the deflect window and it's quite hard to feel out the difference, but when u visualize it it's very noticeable
#gamdev #indiedev

been a while since I made fanart but Nightreign has reunited me with the pile bunker so I must pay respect

I'm getting more and more tempted to just add mikiri counter