The Epic Battle Fantasy Collection will include a folder of old prototypes and unused stuff. A lot of it was only published on DeviantArt, and nowhere else, so there’s sure to be plenty of people who haven’t seen it.
Either way, it’s a little look into how I learned to code and animate, and a chance to think about what might have been. Nothing too exciting, but there may be one or two things in there that I’ve never shared.
Hey guys, I’m almost finished Mecha Dress Up Game v2.
I completely remade the interface, and it almost feels like a new game.
A lot of sounds are new, because the old ones were painful. There’s a couple of new parts and backgrounds. An export to jpeg button. A bunch of pre-made mechs to give you ideas and help you find some cool color schemes. And a new soundtrack with 4 tracks!
EBF1 and 2 have sequels, so there’s not much I wanted to add there, and Brawl Royale is such a simple game that there isn’t much you can change. But Mecha Dress Up definitely had a lot of stuff I’ve wanted to add ever since I first published it.
In other news, Epic Games are suing Apple for having a monopoly on their devices, and not letting developers sell software directly without giving Apple a cut. I’m rather excited about this. No company should be able to dictate what you can install on your computer, and where you’re allowed to buy software from. PC operating systems have been open forever, but for some reason people think smartphones and tablets are an exception – they’re general-purpose computers and should be open just like PCs!
Oh, and I feel the same way about consoles too. They’re all general-purpose computers, and there’s no technical reason that exclusives should exist – only business reasons. When I was a kid, consoles could only play games specifically designed and programmed for that console – but that’s not been the case for a few console generations now. Oh well, at least we’ll always have illegal mods and emulators.
Anyway, if Epic gets better terms for developers and customers, or even just pushes the conversation in that direction, I’m all the way behind them. Let the legal battles begin.
Free your computer.
Hey guys, I made my first attempt at recording VR games.
This is the hardest Beat Saber level I’ve managed to beat so far, at 6.18 notes per second.
On one of my earlier attempts, my Valve Index controller got snagged on my shorts’ pocket, and the joystick was completely ripped out.
Expensive mistake to make.
Valve said they’ll replace it, but they don’t have any stock at the moment. Oh well. Now the only VR game I can play is Beat Saber, as everything else requires two joysticks.
Anyway, this is how I’m staying fit during lockdown.
Hey guys, I’m currently working on what will probably be the most time-consuming addition to the Epic Battle Fantasy Collection – adding color changing to Mecha Dress Up Game!
This is something I wanted to add to the game when it was first made, but it seemed like a lot of hassle to get working. Turns out it is indeed a lot of work, mainly because I need to specify which exact sections on each part change to which colors. It doesn’t help when a lot of the parts are animated.
The game’s been re-programmed in ActionScript 3, so this means it can finally use the right and middle mouse buttons to make navigation easier. For a many years, Flash could not use those buttons. I’m also gonna add a screenshot button, and a new soundtrack!
I’m really looking forward to seeing what people make in this, as Steam makes it incredibly easy to share screenshots.
Hey guys, the next game I’m updating for the EBF Collection is Brawl Royale. I opened up the source .fla file to find that it’s been slightly corrupted by the ages, and won’t open in any version of Flash besides Animate 2020, which does not support ActionScript 2. Long story short: I’m reprogramming the game in ActionScript 3, which luckily isn’t very hard, since the game is basically a short slideshow.
Anyway, being in AS3, it does mean the game could quite easily run on mobile in Adobe AIR, and it only needs one button to play, so maybe that’s something for me to consider later.
But not yet.
For now we’re sticking to the desktop, and the two major changes you’ll see in the game are:
• The copyrighted stuff will need to be replaced; including music and a few characters.
• I’m adding 4 difficulty modes, and you won’t be forced to play on the stupidly hard one. You also won’t be able to cheese the game by remembering the exact timing of the stages.
