Studio3_Week 11_WIP

By Margaret Wong

New features:

Added a short period of invincible time after recovering from being shot/ stepped
With an animation of shield
To avoid spam kill problem raised by Jeremy & Yao
Limited the maximum speed of the character
So that the character won’t accelerate infinitely
The players can control the landing of the character more easily after a long fall
Make the flashing platforms’ image remain there after the platform disappeared
Add effector to all the normal platforms to keep the consistency

Playtesting & problems:

Usually get big laughter after the playtester saw the jumpscare when the character got shot
Better show the number of bullets left on the screen for better strategic planning
May make some changes when the level has changed/ going to change
Better indication at the last level of tutorial

Yao:

There's one minor bug I've noticed, one player can actually sit on top of the other constantly if the position is right (or wrong lol), which leaves the latter stunlocked, but this looks only possible if one of them is static.
Also at the result screen, it would be awesome to have some sort of response from the player character, maybe the loser explodes to tiny bits or simply turned into the stunned animation

Jeremy:

I'm enjoying the control of the player character more in this version - especially in the jumping.
At the moment it seems that I can't jump when I go into the slide animation on the rotating platform.
Also, it looks like you can spam kill an opponent - fire at them multiple time, they die multiple times.
Finish one jump scare first before the second one pops up
Though I do rather like the death animation - though i suspect it's a placeholder.
Outline, cut out the background for the jump scare
Different backdrop for different levels
Variation in the visuals
Different visual backgrounds
Ending - reward animation
Cover
AI player for solo play, may try a random AI

Sdust:

The limitation of rotating platform is very good.
You should keep the "Disappearing platform" visible although it is disappeared. So that player can know there's a platform and they can jump to it in a right timing. Otherwise they must memorise the position which they will prefer to ignore it.
Rigidbody on character causes character's velocity keep increasing when they are falling. That must be fixed and character should fall in same speed so they can catch the timing and move to other platform correctly. Get your character rigidbody2D in any of script in your character (Movement is better)

Add this line in FixedUpdate. You can change 2.0f to any value you want. This is the max speed of velocity

     rigid.velocity = Vector2.ClampMagnitude(rigid.velocity, 2.0f);

I found you added platform effector on some of normal platforms. But not all. That sometimes confused me. I think it is still good to change the texture to help player know what kind of platform they can jump through. (Like the level below. Top platform doesn't has effector but other 3 have)

Chris Jones:

This looks like it will be a lot of fun to play the look of the solid platforms reminds me of Alex Kidd
having not seen the previous versions of this what i would say is that i think the movement and jumping feels fluid, but with moving platform it feels strange that you slide of at the same speed as you can run up it
I agree a previous comment that you should keep the disappearing platform in the scene and
I would also consider making the speed of the disappearing/ reappearing of the platforms more random as at that the moment it to me that it is to easy to predict this

Reflection & suggestions:

Useful links:
How do I change the transparency of objects?
https://answers.unity.com/questions/863381/how-do-i-change-the-transparency-of-objects.html

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