As we start tidying things up and thinking about our Kickstarter, it’s time to knock out some particles and effects! These are Molera‘s flame spaces, little death traps she can plant that murder anyone unlucky enough to step there. You can avoid them, sacrifice an injured minion to clear them, or you might even get pushed in by other characters’ abilities.
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She’s all rigged up and starting to be animated! Sorry for the poor frame rate, my old computer struggles with these video captures sometimes. Can’t wait to get the effects for her Dash ability ready to show off.
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Here’s a look at some of the ability icons I’ve done so far to give you a hint at just what your Soldier, Runner, and Defender will be capable of. Each character comes with three abilities. One is usually a melee (but not always), and the other two can do all sorts of useful stuff.
But you already knew that, so here’s something new: your character’s strongest abilities won’t be available on turn 1. As your match progresses, they’ll gain access to their craziest moves to ratchet up the madness in the late game. A skilled strategist can even leverage a few turns where, say, their Defenders have access to moves that their opponent’s Defenders don’t yet. Later we’ll tell you exactly how that works (don’t worry, it doesn’t involve a store or an upgrade tree; it’s super simple and fun).
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Our Runner class has achieved the third dimension. The texture is a placeholder to help me animate her, she’ll look much nicer once I get her in Unreal. It’ll be exciting to have more characters running around the map than just that lonely Soldier!
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Making their triumphant return from Outwitters are the Runners, your fast-moving, lightweight class of minion. You get a limited stock of each unit based on how strong the character is, and these disposable Runners add more troops to your squad than any other class in the game.
They’re not much good for fighting, but their Dash ability can practically take them from one side of the map to the other without counting as a movement action. That makes them great at surprise attacks, or exploiting any holes in your opponent’s pillar (base) defense. Tapping your enemy’s pillars for Victory Points is one path to a win, and Runners are great at that if you can keep them alive.
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We’ve learned that with 3D, it’s one thing to get your character animated, but it’s a whole other thing to tie it all together in-game. Here’s our latest “running around” tests for the soldier. Used to be when he turned around, his head would spin 180 like the exorcist. But no more!
And here’s us goofing around with some rag doll death.
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The Defender’s death animation, death particles, and spawn state are ready to go! Just about time to move on to my next minion.
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Here’s the animation for our Defender’s Shield ability, which bonks teammates to grant them a little armor. His shield is for friends, but his club is for enemies.
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While we fill in Hex Gambit’s minion artwork, we’re also picking away at some nifty particle effects. We didn’t have the luxury of a particle system in Outwitters, so this has been a lot of fun to play with.
Above is a little blizzard for Bjorgolf’s Cold Feet power, which reduces all of your opponent’s movement speeds by 1 for a turn. And if their movement speed happens to be 1 already, you can count on that enemy staying put. Also Alex clicks a few things we haven’t shown off yet, so you get a tiny peek at a few of the other minions.
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Our 1-4 player co-op card adventure Space Food Truck is just a hair over 1 year old today, and we’re celebrating with a 60% discount all this week on every version of the game! That’s our $19.99 game marked down to just $7.99!
The discount starts today at 10am PST through April 17th at the same time on PC or iOS and Android tablets. You can even pick up a four pack of PC keys for your entire crew for just $23.99! Good space cuisine just doesn’t get more affordable than this, you guys. You can even get a taste for how the game works with our quick tutorial series right here.