That was a 2015 year. When I(programmer) and one painter take part in gamejam(gamedevparty). Game was a simple beat’em up. Now i want to port this game to defold, and extend it with more features.
screenshot from gamejam version
2015 game version http://gamedevparty.ru/works/GDP%231/156/index.html
Today I make camera and states for hero/enemies.They can be in 6 states.(idle,walk,make_hit,block,get_hit,dead). I make a module that encapsulation all logic of changing states.It make very simple to change states logic in future, or add more states.
State have 2 parameters id and prioritet.
M.state_idle={id=0,prior=0}
M.state_walk={id=1,prior=1}
M.state_make_hit={id=2,prior=2}
M.state_block={id=3,prior=2}
M.state_end_block={id=4,prior=2} --work only if current_state == block
M.state_get_hit={id=5,prior=3}
M.state_dead={id=99,prior=99}
...
function M:change_state(state_id)
local state=id_to_state(state_id)
if(state==M.state_end_block and self.current_state==M.state_block) then
return M.set_state(self,M.state_idle)
elseif(state.prior>self.current_state.prior) then
return M.set_state(self,state)
else
return false
end
end
...
Tomorrow I want to add enemy and write simple ai.
Today i understand that my hit and damage mechanic is too simple. I have 2 colliders beat_zone(1) and dmg_zone(2). When hero beat_zone overlap enemy dmg_zone. Enemy is get hit and take damage.
Now i move beat zone when player make_hit. It’s ok when i have one simple hit. But i want to make a combo, it will be hard to move beat_zone, because path described in code=).
In future i want to have spine animation instead of flip book. So i think that spine timeline events is what i need. When the one move in combo is done(for example punch), i will send event with beat_zone position and enable collisions.
Today i try to find information about different beat’em ups, play them, pay attention to mechanic and gamedesign.
I play some beat’em up(Castle crashers and Rampage Knight), watch youtube videos about beat’em up classic and new games, and wrote things ,that i want to make.
