{"id":1146,"date":"2013-09-23T00:49:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T23:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2013-09-23T00:49:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T23:49:44","slug":"weekly-update-33-fire-effects-plans-for-battle-techs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/?p=1146","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Update #33 – Fire effects + Plans for battle techs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello and welcome to another weekly update!<\/p>\n

Before we go on, an important message: Since we’ll be more busy with studies, we will post biweekly updates from now on. We still might have some posts in-between, but not necessarily with game updates. Of course, we’ll continue with weekly updates, when we find more time for CrossCode again.<\/p>\n

For a change, we thought we’d make the whole update a bit more personal. So who exactly is doing what?<\/p>\n

Technical Stuff<\/h2>\n

R.D. is currently working on the menu, making progress with tedious stuff like scroll panels (it’s too bad we can’t simply use HTML here, but nope: no support for blocky pixels D:).<\/p>\n

I (that is… Lachsen) started working on the technical foundations for a guard option during battle, next to some integration work here and there. Also some optimization (our menus caused some serious slowdown – even when invisible).<\/p>\n

Music and Graphics<\/h2>\n

Intero is continuously working on improving the (actually already pretty neat) soundtrack of the tech demo. Here you find another preview of the BGM<\/a> running during all those puzzle segments.<\/p>\n

We also got a couple of pixel artists who contributed a lot this week: T-Free and TQ… who we kinda missed to properly\u00a0introduce so far. We’ll catch up on that later! (avatars are WIP~)<\/p>\n

T-Free already helped us a lot already before the release of the first tech demo. He contributed some some really amazing effects. Now he’s back and sets our whole ball-throwing business on fire… quite literally with some\u00a0“cool” heat element-mode effects:<\/p>\n

\"heatbash1\"<\/a>\"heatbash2\"<\/a>Looks good? You gotta see that in motion. Yeah… we’ll provide a video once we have some more effects done and polished.<\/p>\n

TQ\/Teekuh\/Vintal is another pixel artist helping us with environment graphics. This week he created some fancy text and logos for our new cargo ship scenario:<\/p>\n

\"cargoship-logos\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So… what do you think that logo is? :D<\/p>\n

Planning around<\/h2>\n

We also had a really productive planning session this week, discussing aspects of the story as well as gameplay.<\/p>\n

For instance, we decided on how exactly we want to integrate special techs into the battle system. That’s right, next to “real-time element change” you’ll be able to perform specials skills apart from the usual ball throwing – but those won’t be for free. You’ll consume Special Points (SP) whenever you execute a special skill – kinda like mana or magic points (MP). However, you will only have a pretty limited amount of SP and many ways to regenerate them quickly. Thus, there is little advantage in saving SP. The whole idea is to avoid the usual “MP saving” behavior that you find many classic RPGs.\u00a0Because where\u2019s the fun in battles if you ignore all the fancy stuff to preserve your MP<\/p>\n

Actually we’d like to know your opinion on that one.
\nWhat kind of “special skill\/magic cost system” do you like?<\/strong>
\nClassic MP? Cooldown? Or something else entirely?<\/p>\n

That’s all for this week! Again, progress updates will continue biweekly from now on. In between we plan to have some other posts, discussing some design decisions of CrossCode and maybe game design in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello and welcome to another weekly update! Before we go on, an important message: Since we’ll be more busy with studies, we will post biweekly updates from now on. We still might have some posts in-between, but not necessarily with game updates. Of course, we’ll continue with weekly updates, when we find more time for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crosscode","category-weekly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}