Lightsaber Combat Testing Help
Cutscene Entertainment
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Hello, everyone!
I've been challenging myself to create a challenging, fair, and realistic-looking lightsaber combat game for Star Wars fans.
I wanted it to have really simple controls, and have the combat look as much like the movies as possible.
This what I have so far:
However, before I get too deep into production, I wanted to create an extremely bare-bones version and get it tested by the GS community for flaws and/or things that could be improved upon. I've uploaded it here in the attached file if any of you are interested in helping me test it.
If you do, please remember to let me know you tested it so that I can include you in the credits as a tester when and if the game comes out.
Regardless, thanks for reading, and good luck on your endeavors with GS!
Oh and it's mac only right now. -__- Still no .exe publishing support on GS. The game will be for iOS when and if it comes out.
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Oh and by the way... if you get an error saying something about "unidentified developer", just right click on the application and then select "open" from the dropdown menu as opposed to opening the application regularly.
Looks really, really good. Did you use the animate behavior for that? (I mean, most of it. Not the health bar, etc.) I will see if I can try it out soon! Hope so.
Btw, look at that smiley. This forum has quite a few I have been fortunate to find out.
21.3 mbs, that is interesting.
Thanks, Twayne! And yes, the sabers are fully animated with the animate behaviour (in pieces that change depending on where the enemy hit is coming from, etc.).
It would be a shame if it were to fall into the wrong hands.
And I definitely have not seen that smiley and I'm kinda happy most people haven't.
Yes. It is interesting.
Which smiley?
I was talking about the second one. I wouldn't want it to restart an unnecessary epidemic.
I deleted mine.
@Cutscene Entertainment wow!
How you do that!?!?!
These are prerender images? these are 3D?
Sorry, but doubt kills me!
Thanks
These are gifs taken straight from the game. You can download it for free right there in the link. ^^
The sabers’ offensive and defensive moves are animated in sections, controlled by randomized algorithms that vary based on the movements of the other player.
It’s all in the timing I suppose. Thanks for asking.
By the way, SOS defense is extremely impressive. Well done and congratulations on seeing it through to the end. Not many people can do that, even with help.
Looks really slick, love it.
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Thanks!
Awesome! I'm impressed. The tutorial is a great idea, the gameplay was smooth and I didn't notice any problems or glitches. I'd be interested in seeing how you set up the collision shapes. Do you have an interface planned out yet?
Thank you so much for the feedback, Rainwater Studios. I'm really glad that it worked out for you in a smooth manner.
As for the collision shapes, I actually set them up roughly like this:
I needed them to have the ability to naturally slip off the cliff while still keeping a little over a saber's distance away from the enemy. And the asymmetrical nature of these collision shapes didn't matter since these actors have fixed rotation enabled.
For the interface I don't have a real plan yet. Perhaps tapping in the top half of the screen is attack, while the bottom half is defend. But that's off the top of my head. I just needed to put this bare-boes module through a decent amount of community testing and get some feedback on whether or not it was FUN or WORKING on a basic level before continuing on to UI design.
Thanks again. Unless you deem otherwise, R a i n w a t e r S t u d i o s ™ will be listed in the credits as a tester when and if the game comes out.
Thanks!
It is a very nice lightsaber combat game. I would say you should add more different lightsaber colors to the lightsabers so that it will become more fascinating and insteresting specifically for Star Wars fans. However, it is looking great.
Yeah I totally agree with you they should add replica and rgb lightsabers in this lightsaber combat games to get more recognition from the star wars community. This game deserves to be trending.
How did this end up?
That's Interesting. You should add RGB lightsaber as well in this lightsaber combat. I love RGB saber and I bought it recently.
https://rxsabers.com/collections/rgb-sabers