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When animation goes wrong (heh)

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Started 2 years ago by friken
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friken
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So I've been working on making my game objects function in Fatty: Get the Princess, a puzzle game I'm making. Sometimes, things don't quite play out the way we imagine in code and it is worth a laugh. I got a good 15 minute laugh out of this one and wanted to share it. The game object I was making the code for is cake. Cake, Fatty can't pass up and sits down to stuff his face with the tasty goodness, wasting valuable game-time before the next clone of himself. So.... he does sit down...

warning: please don't play the video if you don't have a good sense of humor or are easily offended.

http://www.gravityride.com/Opps.mov

Posted 2 years ago #
crmagicxxx
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He he, obviously cakes reminds him of a princess :)

Posted 2 years ago #
chrisco
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And instantly the game gets an M rating...

Posted 2 years ago #
jd
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lol. Nice. Why is there an slightly invisible one?

Posted 2 years ago #
friken
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@jd, the gameplay replays time and you have to work with your previous selves to solve puzzles. The video doesn't really have a puzzle setup as I was just testing a couple objects I'm working on. In a real level you'll have to use one guy to step on a floor trigger to unlock something for another sorta puzzles.

Posted 2 years ago #
Cypher
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Very cool concept, especially the time-based puzzle solving. Haven't seen that done on the iPhone I don't think.

How many "clones" deep are you allowing to go to solve each puzzle/level? Keeping tracking of all actions must've been an interesting thing to solve..any thoughts on how you did it? :)

Regards

Posted 2 years ago #
Codemattic
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Maybe "princess" is the name of his right gauntlet?

Posted 2 years ago #
jonathan0382
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rofl instant hit

Posted 2 years ago #
Mitch Lindgren
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Is the music from Bitey Castle?

Posted 2 years ago #
friken
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Here is what the animations were SUPPOSED to look like :) I added a simple puzzle too to show the concept of working with other selves to get to the princess.

http://www.gravityride.com/Fatty.mov

Posted 2 years ago #
friken
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@cypher, There isn't a technical limit that I know of yet as far as how many clones I can do, I've gone as far as 10-12 and seems to be fine from fps/gamelogic. The puzzles can get pretty mind boggling when you need a ton of clones. Yes, tracking actions and object states is a challenge. Every time I think I have everything tracked just right I find some case where you can make something funky happen. Paradoxes can be a bit of a mind screw... ie clone 1 goes through door and flippes a switch, clone two hides the door before clone 1 can go through it, clone one no longer flipped the switch he did last time. etc.

@codemattic.. lol@right gauntlet.

@lindrenM, not sure what/who BiteCastle is? The music is from a sound library. Little pricey but it fits the theme well I think?

Posted 2 years ago #
Mitch Lindgren
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Yeah, I took another look and the music is similar, but not the same. I was thinking of this: http://www.biteycastle.com/theYuyu.html

Incidentally, did you buy the sound library from one of those royalty free sound repository sites, or somewhere else?

Posted 2 years ago #
friken
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@lindrenM, thx for the link.. cool music and animation. I bought the music from one of the online sound repositories. I'd rather have new music made for the game, but think it fits well enough to not increase the costs.

Posted 2 years ago #
Codemattic
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@friken, the music you have now fits well with the theme of the game

Posted 2 years ago #
Mitch Lindgren
Member

Yeah, I like the music you're using. Music is definitely an expensive feature. For my game I've been forced to go with the old standby of letting the user play his or her own music, as I can't really afford to spend the money on decent music... even from a repository.

Posted 2 years ago #
friken
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cool, glad you two like the music I picked. I go back and forth, I think I've heard it way too many times in testing.

I welcome any feedback on a first mockup puzzle:

http://www.gravityride.com/Fatty.mov

I definitely feel it needs some more game objects to play with. Any thoughts as to puzzle objects to make the clone/time replay mechanic more fun? I'm trying to draw the line in the sand of endless features, but in the end it has to be fun or the whole project is a waste of time.

Posted 2 years ago #
Mitch Lindgren
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If you haven't already played it, check out Braid - lots of great time manipulation ideas in that game.

Posted 2 years ago #
shw
Member

don't you think it would be easier just to replace the cake with photo of the princes instead of changing the whole animation? :P

btw. where did you get the music from?

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