Untitled Sword Platformer

Kiori

@Ross I have to say, I love the art. :hushed:

Ross

Hey guys, thanks for all the nice comments! This project is on indefinite hold while I push further on my other project, which is significantly more humble in scope, and is already more of a complete game than this project. I did develop this project a bit further since the previous posts. I made it so you could sheathe your sword (with cool effects :smile:), and added little boxes that you can pick up. The point of the game would be to go out, find these objects, and bring them back to your base, without getting killed in the process of course. The picking up boxes feature unfortunately added a ton of complications to the animation, which Godot isn't really equipped to handle (despite my brother creating and fixing half the AnimationTree code as best it could be without redoing everything.) Frustration with that definitely fueled me to start another project without those issues. :tongue: I'm not ditching this forever though; I'm pretty happy with how it is so far. Maybe C# integration will let me build more framework stuff myself without the performance issues of GDScript? (serious wishful thinking)

Sam

<blockquote class="Quote">@WombatTurkey - Thanks! Yup, particle effects, and a little bit of shader work. The default "Particles2D" is kind of terrible, so I wrote my own particle emitter in GDScript. Unfortunately GDScript seems to be really slow, so I only use my custom emitter when I really need it. </blockquote>Maybe it would help if you use a C++ plugin for this part, to improve performancesOtherwise it's a nice project, it runs very smoothly even on my laptop intelHD gpu, which is greatSam

Kiori

Ross said:

</blockquote> I think this is a smart move, plus the other project looks really cool atm.

Ross

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Sam</a> said:

Maybe it would help if you use a C++ plugin for this part, to improve performancesOtherwise it's a nice project, it runs very smoothly even on my laptop intelHD gpu, which is great

</blockquote> Yeah, I'm sure a C++ plugin would work well. The trouble is I don't know C++ (and everyone says it's a pain in the butt) and from what I understand, building everything from source for each platform is another significant hassle. Good to hear it runs well. I may be a bit overly concerned about getting it to perform on low-spec machines, but I don't like the idea of people not being able to run my game. I have an HD 4000, and that's better than what most people I know have. Actually I just looked at Steam's survey results yesterday and 8.4% of users have integrated Intel chips. The game gets down below 60fps on mine if I spawn more than 5 or 6 enemies I think. Though that may be CPU work dragging it down at that point. These performance issues drive me nuts. Here we have these computers thousands of times faster than the ones around when I was a kid, and yet half a dozen enemy AIs start giving me issues. I can understand GPU bottlenecks somewhat, since screen resolutions are so high these days, but not CPU issues. rant over haha @Kiori I hope so! Thanks! @Avencherus Thanks! He's absolutely a robot cat assassin, because what could be better than that? I never got around to animating the ears, but the bones are in the rig, waiting . . . Looking at this project again is really good. I've really impressed myself with how well the graphics came out, haha. I'll try to do something better with the graphics in my shooter project.

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