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Hi, I am happily announcing a Zolionline-Lazycow cooperation for the 2017-compo.

planned features:
- It should be a 64k-UNROM with CHR-RAM. (it's ok to use CHR-RAM, isn't it?)
- horizontal scrolling
- 16x16 pixel tiles, but collision detection for 8x8-pixel blocks (8x6, 8x4, 8x2 blocks are possible, too)
- heroine is a werewolf (or is she a wolfwere?)

screenshots:


The 1st test animtion:

First off, nice wolf animation! It's also good to see something out of the ordinarie on the nes regarding hit detection / slope elevation.

Secondly, this.

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Impressive camera movement. I look forward to more updates!

The scrolling looks great - but be advised of the potential frustration when a player character is closer to the end of screen it is walking towards than the other. Generally, you want the camera to catch up quick enough to prevent unfair hits.

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Loving the animations! Really solid work.

Cool! Looking forward to seeing more.


The character literally runs offscreen, I'd assume this GIF isn't supposed to be representative of a gameplay camera.

Yeah, the gif canvas is 192x88 pixels so it's not representing the full screen width.

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Classically, changelings are children swapped out by the Fair Folk. I suppose multiple recentish pop-culture things have used them as shapeshifters instead, though (Star Trek: DS9, MLP:FiM).

Lovely, smooth animation- except for the transformation. Reminds me of a much-better-rendered Milon.

"There wolf! There castle!" Will there be a castle in Changeling? I don't know...

Yes, the start of the scrolling has been a bit late. (good point) I think I could improve it a bit. But when it reacts too fast, it will lose its smooth movements. (it's a balance act)

Yes, the morph-anim could be improved. Currently, the morph just recycles animation frames from other movements. Anyway, ALL graphics are test-graphics only to check out the gameplay!


Testing charged attacks for Ling as wolf. (test-dummy-enemies only)
Should it be possible for Ling in human form to attack?

Try this: instead of scrolling toward the player, scroll toward a point in front of the player. Either a fixed distance in the direction they're facing, or position + velocity*N for some fixed value of N. The smoothing you already have should take care of the rest.

@Rahsennor: Hm... I think my formula for prescrolling does not consider the velocity... Nice hint, I might give it a try!


update: As only moonlight turns a wolfwere into a werewolf (?!?), the gameplay's a bit too boring when Ling is unable to fight. So I gave her some kickboxing abilities.
I also made some tests with throwing daggers, but that somehow felt wrong. (also, silver daggers are dangerous, aren't they?)

Looks really cool.

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Awesome animation.
I wonder how many patterns are currently in use. It's so smooth!

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There're 19 animation frames for the girl (8 frames for running). She's 16x20 pixel -> 114 sprite images (or a little bit less, because some sprites can be reused)
There're 12 animation frames for the wolf (6 frames for running). Wolf's 24x14 pixel -> 72 sprite images

New working title for the game: "Wolfling"