{"author_name":"Sos","cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"May 8, 2011 5:23 pm","epoch":1304893380,"text":"“No Future Mode” is from Legend of Mana, am I correct?
\n (now waiting for cake)","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"May 9, 2011 3:01 pm","epoch":1304971260,"text":"This game kicks butt.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1304893080,"likes":7,"metadata":{"p_key":"65696","p_author":"Sos","p_authorkey":"1405","p_urlkey":"101492","p_title":"Attack of The Heavenly Bats \u2013 improvement report","p_cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","p_event":"LD20","p_time":"1304893080","p_likes":"7","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"1405","us_name":"Sos","us_username":"sos","event_start":"1304035200","event_key":"6","event_name":"LD20"},"text":"

So, not being satisfied with the completion rate of my LD entyr, i decided to work on it some more and upload it to a Flash hosting site. I spent waaay mroe time improving it than I intended, and people are still pointing out bugs, which I’m trying to hunt down.<\/p>\n

Anyways, I’m pretty much satisfied with what I got now, and I already spammed some flash-hosting services with it. <\/p>\n

So, what’s changed:<\/p>\n

Level redesign<\/strong>
\n LD version didn’t even use half of the 128×128 tile grid, the improved version utilises almost all of it.<\/p>\n

Graphics upgrade<\/strong>
\n Added many new tiles, redrawn some enemies, added flickering effect to bullet to distinguish them from other stuff. Also, parallax background (yay!)<\/p>\n

Final boss<\/strong>
\n Added a boss, and a pretty hard one. Actually, it’s the only hard thing. Or…<\/p>\n

No future mode<\/strong>
\n When you beat the game, you have an option to test your skills in ‘no future mode’ (a cake to anyone who figures where this term comes from)<\/em> IMO it’s unbeatable, but who knows….<\/p>\n

Explosions<\/strong>
\n I aimed at having a lot of explosions in this entry, and all I had was some dust. I fixed this by adding loooooooooooots of explosions.<\/p>\n

Plot<\/strong>
\n Now it has an intro, therefore a plot. It might not be an epic one, but it comes with a twist \ud83d\ude09 Also, I made the character talk. Talking animation was done during the LD, but there was no code to wrap it around.<\/p>\n

More weapons<\/strong>
\n Haha, no, that’s a lie.<\/p>\n

Game balance + physics update<\/strong>
\n I updated the physics a bit, so that you have more control over the character, and balanced the game so it might actually get tough at some point. I took my time to reply the game thousand times to balance it properly.<\/p>\n

Music<\/strong>
\n Actually, music is the very same cause I couldn’t push myself to change it after listening to it so many times, even tho I know it’s shit \ud83d\ude1b But<\/del> I added intro music (not mine, tho). Ok, I changed the music track due to lots of comments saying it’s shit :P. I spent about 2 minutes making the old track so no wonder \ud83d\ude1b Anyways, the new one should sound much better.<\/p>\n

Now let me nag you with this lengthy comparison:
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And try it there:<\/p>\n

Kongregate<\/a><\/p>\n

Newgrounds<\/a><\/p>\n

Original LD entry<\/a><\/p>\n

Also, it’s awaiting approval on other sites I spammed with it. Wish me luck with that!<\/p>","time":"May 8th, 2011 5:18 pm","title":"Attack of The Heavenly Bats \u2013 improvement report"}