There is much to tell, so take a seat and get ready!<\/p>\n
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Circuit Menu Progress<\/h2>\n
R.D.<\/b> was busy implementing the detailed view of the circuit menu and managed to finish a large portion of the work!<\/p>\n
And what better way to show this progress than with a time laps?<\/p>\n
![\"wip-small\"](\"http:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wip-small.gif\")
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When navigating the menu with the mouse, we can click and drag to change the point of view.
\nAt the same time, when hovering a node you get a tooltip with more detailed informations about the skill.
\nOf course, you can have tooltips and dragging at the same time. And we can’t have tooltips simply popping in and out, now can we?
\nSo this is what we got:<\/p>\n
![\"circuit-detail\"](\"http:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/circuit-detail1.gif\")
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It was challenging to implement, but navigation the skill menu this way feels really nice indeed.<\/p>\n
The final steps for the circuit menu are proper node descriptions, the actual node (de)activation and gamepad support.<\/p>\n
The Tutorial Battle<\/h2>\n
In recent updates we have shown excerpts of the tutorial as well as the large turret enemy that will be part of that tutorial.
\nDuring CrossWeek and the week after that, I continued working on this end, completing the large turret enemy and implementing most of the tutorial itself!
\nSo here have some screenshots of the current state of the tutorial:<\/p>\n
We start the tutorial by testing the players throwing skill.<\/p>\n After that, it’s time to dodge! Ever tried to dodge in CrossCode without losing your aim? That’s what we want you to do here.<\/p>\n Captain Jet explaining the guarding skill that you just acquired.<\/p>\n And to round everything up: a battle to test your skills.<\/p>\n As this tutorial is interactive<\/b> it took a bit of time to get all the sequences right. However, we hope that it will help many players to better understand the battle system of our game. After all, it is kind of unique, in some ways at least.<\/p>\n And now, the big thing that everyone (or maybe just some?) have been waiting for!<\/p>\n Introducing the Cargo Crab<\/b>:<\/p>\n That monster was quite a piece of work. This is how the Cargo Crab looks like in the animation editor:<\/p>\n![\"tutorial-1\"](\"http:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tutorial-1.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nThe first Boss<\/h2>\n
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\nIt helped a lot that all of us have been at the same place during CrossWeek as it was quite some collaboration!
\nT-Free<\/b> created sprites and poses for all the individual parts, while I was assembling all the animations in our new editor, which I had to fix and extend quite a lot in the process.<\/p>\n