{"author_name":"pkenney","cat":"LD #28","comments":[{"author_name":"Kroltan","time":"December 15, 2013 2:46 am","epoch":1387093560,"text":"Try simply disabling the collider component, instead of setting it as a trigger.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1387093320,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"35381","p_author":"pkenney","p_authorkey":"30865","p_urlkey":"70945","p_title":"Brisk but Tactical Monster-Smashing \u2013 Playable Link","p_cat":"LD #28","p_event":"LD28","p_time":"1387093320","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"30865","us_name":"pkenney","us_username":"\/author\/pkenney\/","event_start":"1386892800","event_key":"20","event_name":"LD28"},"text":"

It seems I’ve created a popcorn monster-smashing game!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Each level takes something like 5-15 seconds and it doesn’t waste any time getting right on to the next one.\u00a0 But you’d better use the few seconds of break to study the layout of the next challenge!<\/p>\n

http:\/\/ricefrog.com\/LD28\/WIP\/3\/hammercontrol.html<\/a><\/p>\n

This build improves on the personality of the monsters and introduces two new ones, the snake and the skeleton.\u00a0 And now you actually die when you get hit.<\/p>\n

Pictured here is the recurring tension moment that I was shooting for in my design… when you’ve thrown your hammer across the room, and you need to get past the monsters to retrieve it.<\/p>\n

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The difficulty ramps up quite a bit in this build and probably needs some real smoothing out.<\/p>\n

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TECH TALK:<\/p>\n

I also really need to fix a bug where once in a while the hammer hit doesn’t register!\u00a0 The hammer bounces off the enemy, but no OnCollisionEnter2D event is fired by Unity.\u00a0 It’s occasional but very frustrating if it causes you to die.\u00a0 It seems mostly to happen when the enemy is touching other monsters, as if the monster-on-monster collisions are crowding out the hammer collision, which gets skipped somehow.<\/p>\n

Or it could be related to the way I toggle the hammer between a trigger and a normal collider.\u00a0 That’s how I made the player able to carry it on his back, and why spinning around and touching monsters with the hammer while you carry it does nothing.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>","time":"December 15th, 2013 2:42 am","title":"Brisk but Tactical Monster-Smashing \u2013 Playable Link"}