So, I've been developing something over a couple of weeks, as well as some weeks earlier this year. I just really love the idea of fighting games, or other type of games in general, with a character roster. A roster where each character is unique, and the excitment of adding a new character to the roster. You get the idea. So I've been trying my best to make a flying-type-fighter. Where you fly in 8 directions, and have a set of moves. I've reworked the engine several times now, to try to make it smoother and better. My ultimate goal for this game, is for it to become good, unique, big, and maybe get it on Steam in the end (I'm scared to say that, as I have no idea if this game can be good, or if it's really bad. But I'm trying my very best :) ) How it works, is that you have health, but knockback is still important, because if you get knocked into the edge of the screen, you take damage, and the damage you take depends on how fast/strong the knockback is. So trying to stay in the midle of the screen is important. I've tried my best to program Computer AI, where he flies around, uses random moves, but also uses specific moves in specific situations (for example using a melee attack when he's up close to you) and fly up or down to dodge projectiles. Each character (4 characters for now) have 6 moves: 3 specials and 3 normals. They also have a rechargable dodge, which makes you invincible for a second or two. Keep in mind that a lot of things in this demo you find below is not final. Music, game backround, HUD, etc. are all placeholders. This demo is mostly for testing the main gameplay. Furthermore (if this game is recieved well and I continue it) I want to give it as much content as replayability as possible; for example a Singleplayer mode, with a hub where you can do challenges, do a Story Mode, earn points to use on unlocking new characters, etc. For characters, I wanted to remove the barrier of "nah, that doesn't fit in this game", and instead implement as absurd characters as possible, where anything can work. So for now, here are the 4 characters so far: -Toilet Jr. -Mr. Pizzaman -Captain Bigbelly -Queen Donut the 3rd -Dr. Gasrat (a planned character) Below are pictures and a download link to the demo. I advice maybe playing against Player 2 first, so you can freely test the movement and engine, and then try against CPU player to see what you think. I really hope you like it! (I'm a bit scared, since I have literally NO idea if this game could have big potential, or if it's a gigantic piece of trash of a joke...) DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/file/hqbiib8zt4wn4ix/Project_PizzamanFighting+0.5.exe [img]http://i.imgur.com/lnZk0AU.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/KoGHLJ0.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/8FkmoG9.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/HgJ3LNk.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/VRXZ7nX.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/ACU22C6.png[/img]

It's a pizza-themed fighting game, yet there's no Noid from Domino's Pizza? I'm disappointed.

intriguing concept, i'll give it a try later have you checked out other air-based fighters for inspiration? psychic force, windy x windam, arcana heart, maybe even melty blood

[quote="BlasterMaster"]intriguing concept, i'll give it a try later have you checked out other air-based fighters for inspiration? psychic force, windy x windam, arcana heart, maybe even melty blood[/quote] Thanks! Please tell me what you think of it afterwards :agree: :biggrin: I actually haven't, no... never heard of them :whoops: My main inspiration was actually a bad Draonball fan game I started on many years ago, that is lost somewhere.

i tried the toilet character and the donut, here's my impressions normals are way too slow. in a game like this normals should be a "get off me" move for interrupting the opponent. the toilets normals are extremely slow. a jab in a 60 FPS game tends to start up in 4 frames, your neutral normals should be about as fast specials can also be pretty slow. the game is almost more of a shooter given how free your movement is, so i think locking the player in long animations is generally unfun. that could require more tuning though. i played as the toilet first, and his water attack cannot be repeated unless all water leaves the screen. this makes the move nearly useless in the upper area of the screen, and it already does poor damage and is hard to hit with. projectiles should either be freely spammable but have longer uncancellable animations, or else have a cooldown timer. similar note, projectiles disappear if they even get close to the edge of the screen, which means that hanging out near the top or bottom and shooting makes your projectile instantly disappear. projectiles should still be active in a short area off-screen in the first post you mentioned that ring-outs are supposed to be a big thing, but attacks seemed to have very little knockback in most cases? if knocking the opponent around is a major part of gameplay, attacks should bounce characters around more i think. this is also something that requires fine-tuning. characters can phase completely through each other. this makes normals extremely difficult to hit with as characters can get too close and end up inside each other swinging at air. there should be an area roughly the size of a jab around every character that opponents can't pass through characters can move and attack while dodging. if it's a dodge they should be locked in a dodge animation i would think? or at least be unable to attack. depends on what you're trying to accomplish there

[quote="BlasterMaster"]i tried the toilet character and the donut, here's my impressions normals are way too slow. in a game like this normals should be a "get off me" move for interrupting the opponent. the toilets normals are extremely slow. a jab in a 60 FPS game tends to start up in 4 frames, your neutral normals should be about as fast specials can also be pretty slow. the game is almost more of a shooter given how free your movement is, so i think locking the player in long animations is generally unfun. that could require more tuning though. i played as the toilet first, and his water attack cannot be repeated unless all water leaves the screen. this makes the move nearly useless in the upper area of the screen, and it already does poor damage and is hard to hit with. projectiles should either be freely spammable but have longer uncancellable animations, or else have a cooldown timer. similar note, projectiles disappear if they even get close to the edge of the screen, which means that hanging out near the top or bottom and shooting makes your projectile instantly disappear. projectiles should still be active in a short area off-screen in the first post you mentioned that ring-outs are supposed to be a big thing, but attacks seemed to have very little knockback in most cases? if knocking the opponent around is a major part of gameplay, attacks should bounce characters around more i think. this is also something that requires fine-tuning. characters can phase completely through each other. this makes normals extremely difficult to hit with as characters can get too close and end up inside each other swinging at air. there should be an area roughly the size of a jab around every character that opponents can't pass through characters can move and attack while dodging. if it's a dodge they should be locked in a dodge animation i would think? or at least be unable to attack. depends on what you're trying to accomplish there[/quote] Thanks a lot for the feedback! Normals should be faster, you're absolutely right. I've done that just now, made some of them faster. I have also started to try to give them more of a combo game: I've started with Toilet Jr, and given him a Down Normal, which is a quick downwards swing (similar to his Neutral Normal, just a sommersault instead of a backflip, and much faster). This attack is weaker, but doesn't send the opponent far at all, so you can follow up moves after it. Additionally, I've made it so you can cancel his Side Normal (where he fly forwards) into a normal attack that doesn't send them far up. This means you can for example do Side Normal -> Neutral Normal -> Up normal, if you hit correctly. Specials are slow, too, yeah. I've yet to find the balance between speed of projectile moves, speed of normal moves, damage of moves, and movement speed. But I can try to make them faster. I will try to find a solution to the projectiles getting destroyed near the edges. I've made it so that projectiles are destroyed if they hit an obstacle (edges of the screen) or an enemy projectile. So I'll need to find a solution to that. Toilet's water is also something I'm in doubt of. As you say, you can't use it until they're all gone. I made that to prevent spam, since the move is very fast, so a move you can just throw out to create some hindering projectiles. But maybe a cooldown is a better solution, yeah. I've also just recently given the water drops more hitstun, so if you're up close and use the water, the hitstun is so long that you can follow up with another move. But I will experiment around with this. I can also give them more knockback, for sure. I think that's a good idea. The thing with the characters being able to pass through each other is a good point. I can try to maybe make their hurtboxes collide, if that can work. Will again experiment with this. The idea of the dodge was that it's not spammable since it has to recharge, but that you can move and use attacks while invincible. This way you can for example go straight towards a projectile they're about to send out, use the dodge, and fly in with an attack. Or go in, they use a Normal attack, you use the Dodge and don't get it, and you hit them instead. But again, not spammable, since it has around 15 seconds of cooldown. But not sure if this is the best solution? Again, thanks! I've also added another new feature: Dash. You can use it to get a quick dash in the direction you're flying, using some new Stamina in the process. The Stamina is recharged by damaging your opponent. So I've added that, I've made some characters slightly faster now, and I'm adding more moves (like I've now done with Toilet Jr.) as well as trying my best to make combos a thing. I hope the game can turn out to be good and big, but as of now, I'm not sure at all :confused: Maybe it's trash.. But I'll keep working on it and update here when another update is ready!