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Training with Jet, boss battle and new area<\/h2>\n
You might not know it, but Jet is pretty good at throwing balls, too. This is why Lea gets an extra training session with him, going through some advanced combat mechanics. In contrast to the tutorial in the cargo hold, this will all happen on the deck of the cargo ship. The idea is to give the player a better understanding of mechanics so he can pummel enemies more effectively. It is also a part of the plot so we aim to create a good mix of both tutorial and story. If you already know the mechanics you will be able to skip through the tutorial bits, while new players will get an optional “how-to” part. <\/p>\n
How this looks, you ask? Something like this: In this task, your goal is to hit the target-bot 10 times in quick succession. If you have too many misses or take too much time, the captain will show you how you can quickly fire multiple shots while retaining your aim.<\/p>\n For the boss battle we do not have that much information for you. We sketched out its design and discussed on how you fight this boss (hint: attack its weak point for massive damage). Over the coming weeks we plan to actually integrate the boss into the game. However this comes with a new addition to our engine which enables handling animations and entities with multiple parts or sprites. So it might take some time.<\/p>\n As for the new area is the first one outside of the cargo ship. It’s in a very rough state as of now and we just started creating assets for it. This means our graphics artist work on creating the environment and details. We will show you more of this area as soon as we got something more fleshed out. Until then we can already tell you that the region is influenced by Japanese gardens mixed with a futuristic setting.<\/p>\n The circuit menu comes along nicely. We pretty much finished the overview menu. Here is a quick picture of the current state of the menu: As you can see, there are already 2 element trees done. Adding the other 2 is basically nothing more than adding one line of code for every tree. <\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nCircuit menu and something familiar<\/h2>\n
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