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<\/a><\/p>\nSome of these maps will also feature special landmarks such as buildings:<\/p>\n
![\"autumn-observatory-wip\"](\"http:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/autumn-observatory-wip.png\")
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Note: This observatory is very much WIP. We still need to add proper shading and details.<\/p>\n
Also, you finally find more enemy variety in the area. After all this time, I finally implemented the buffalos and meerkat enemies:<\/p>\n
![\"meerkat-battle\"](\"http:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/meerkat-battle.gif\")
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Both of these enemies require a different strategy. While the buffaloes will continuously walk towards you, do stomps and occasionally dash in your direction, the meerkats will keep a safe distance and throw rocks at you. For the ranged combat of the meerkats I (of course…) had to improve the path finding and navigation of the enemy AI. It’s still not perfect, but in general it works rather well already.<\/p>\n
![\"unreachable\"](\"http:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/unreachable.gif\")
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Mostly…<\/p>\n
Intro Cutscene and Battle Tutorial<\/h2>\n
No, we did not forget about the intro! Since the last update, I added the first couple of cutscenes which also feature a very quick and interactive combat tutorial:<\/p>\n
![\"battle-tutorial\"](\"http:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/battle-tutorial.gif\")
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Martina<\/b> also helped a lot by adding more important graphics and props. Such as this mysterious workplace:<\/p>\n
![\"inside-office\"](\"http:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inside-office.png\")
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Quick Menu and Flying Icons<\/h2>\n
Wait… that can’t be. An update entirely about content and without any new fancy feature stuff?
\nNo, of course<\/b> we worked on features, too… Stefan<\/b> started with the Quick Menu<\/b> which can be used at any time (even during battle) to perform simple actions such as using items, looking at the map or analysing the surroundings (more on that another time). Here is how it currently looks like:<\/p>\n
![\"quick-menu\"](\"http:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/quick-menu.gif\")
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However, even though we are working on this feature, we unfortunately can’t promise that you’ll be able to use it in the next demo release. Time is just a bit too short for that.
\nHowever, what you will<\/b> get are flying icons.<\/p>\n
![\"treasure-icons\"](\"http:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/treasure-icons.gif\")
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From treasures.<\/p>\n
![\"treasure-icons-2\"](\"http:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/treasure-icons-2.gif\")
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… That’s pretty cool too, right?<\/p>\n
Music<\/h2>\n
Intero<\/b> is working pretty fast these days. That’s mostly because he has to. :P Deadlines and such.
\nYou can find three new songs in his SoundCloud playlist:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/interovgm\/sets\/crosscode-original-soundtrack<\/p>\n
Dangerzone is played during an escape sequence and CrossCounter… well… we can’t tell you without spoiling things. You’ll find out soon enough! Finally, there is a new version of the challenge theme.<\/p>\n
And that’s all for today’s update! 4 more week, then you will be able to play it all yourself. Until then!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hello again! The demo release date is approaching (30th November – in case you missed it). So obviously lots of things are happening right now. We extended the Autumn Area with new enemies and maps, implemented several cutscenes in the intro sequence, started working on the entirely new quick menu and more! But before we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crosscode","category-weekly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","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=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2784,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions\/2784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalfishgames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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