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The Outer Limits

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:57:00 +0000

It's been an... interesting couple of weeks. Work at my day job has been busy (and mildly stressful), I've had to drive to work several times recently (eliminating that carpooling time I use to work on stuff like MUGEN), our family vehicle was at the mechanic for a few days, and to top it all off, my (rather expensive) smartphone got stolen right out of my rental car last Friday! AARRRGGGHHHH!

So, yeah, MUGEN has taken a bit more of a back seat this month than I had hoped. Sinestro 1.0 is still coming — relatively soon, but I'm not going to give a target date. Instead, I'll get back to posting a Release Watch for him as he progresses. Look for that later this week.

Strong Guy 2.1

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:23:00 +0000

Yesterday Snakebyte and Oldboy alerted me to a couple of playability issues with our recent Strong Guy release. I've updated the download to address these problems, so you'll probably want to grab the new version from his page.

Change list


* 2 Feb 2012: v2.1
  - minor patch release to address bugs reported in 2.0
  - Megaton Fury and X-Factor Attacks both prevent premature KOs now (which can cause weird end-of-round timing issues) (thanks, Snakebyte!)
  - Megaton Fury now works properly when triggered in a corner (thanks again, Snakebyte!)
  - fixed victory portrait & added win quotes (thanks, oldboy!)

On Groundhog Day...

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:01:00 +0000

Yeah, not so much for Christmas... this may as well be a Groundhog Day release! =P I know that I said a few weeks ago that any additional releases I made in January as belated parts of our 12 Days of Christmas event would get sarcastic titles like "on the 36th day of Christmas," but I managed to drag the polishing and beta cycle into February, so here we are. :-\ (note: I do still have two more holiday gifts, which I'll blog about soon)

Anyway, after a couple of weeks of beta testing with McCready and a few of my other ScruffyDragon teammates (thanks, guys), I'm proud to present Strong Guy 2.0! He's been almost completely restructured from bottom to top, with new sounds, effects, intros & outros, attack chains, and special & hyper moves:

"Up You Go!" anti-air special

Spinning Piledriver hyper

X-Factor Attacks hyper

Megaton Fury hyper

Here's the (abridged) change set from his readme file:

* 1 Feb 2012: v2.0
  - revamped all basic attacks (changed the chain order, timings, etc)
  - MUGEN 1.0 compatibility
  - new voice samples
  - new intro w/ Lila Cheney
  - new KO animation (heart attack if KO'ed by health loss due to kinetic overload)
  - new "nearly heart attacked" winpose
  - new lose / draw game animations
  - new round-end effects (especially if winning by hyper)
  - heavily tweaked combo code
  - tweaked Touchdown hyper damage, movement, timing and kineticE effects
  - new special: Up You Go (anti-air) (F,D,DF + P)
  - new hyper: Spinning Piledriver (F,DF,D + PP)
  - new hyper: X-Factor Attacks (QCB + P and K of equal strength)
  - new hyper: Megaton Fury (F,DF,D + KK)

Anyway, we hope you enjoy him, and as always, feel free to let us know (here or over at Scruffy) if you find any bugs or unexpected behavior.

You can get Strong Guy v2.0 here, on his page.

[Release Watch] Sinestro, Day 1

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:42:00 +0000

Now that I'm all but done with Strong Guy 2.0 (expect a release very soon), it's time to turn my attention back to Sinestro 1.0, so welcome to my next Release Watch!

Late last year I posted a Dev Plan for Sinestro. That, plus a few other things I've since added to the plan, will form the outline I'll be tracking here:

Sinestro 1.0 progress

Dev Plan

~~forward jump~~
~~backward jump~~
~~taunt~~
new intro: oath scene from Sinestro Corps War #1
new intro: ???
new win pose: stand & laugh over P2
lose / draw game animations
add missing basic attacks:
- ~~crouching weak punch~~
- ~~crouching medium punch~~
- crouching weak kick
- crouching medium kick
- at least one throw
add "powered" versions (with constructs) for basic attacks that don't have them yet:
- crouching light punch
- crouching medium punch
- ~~crouching hard punch~~
- crouching light kick
- crouching medium kick
- crouching hard kick
- ~~air light punch~~
- ~~air medium punch~~
- ~~air hard punch~~
- air light kick
- air medium kick
- air hard kick
special attacks to be done:
- Morningstar
- Armored Assault (low-damage Psycho Crusher style move)
hyper attacks:
- Sinestro Corps (helper gang attack)
- Parallax Unleashed
- Master of Fear (yellow core hyper assist)

Bugs

~~sound for standing hard punch sometimes doesn't play~~
~~Tweak basic attack damage to be stronger with the constructs~~
~~Launcher needs superjump follow~~
no landing sound on jump
hair gray streak in most palettes should be toned down
teeth in most sprites should be white, not yellow/green/gray
falling axes in Fall Before Me don't have hitsparks
cpunch3 and taunt constructs need to be folded into the core palette so they can be recolored
Some animations need collision boxes:
- 240 (skick2)
- 260 (skick3)
- 660 (akick3)
- 1120 (deadly stare end)

Completed tasks: 9 of 29
Fixed bugs: 3 of 9
Total tasks remaining: 26

Still a lot to do, but my ScruffyDragon teammate Bizarro Toro is helping a lot. I'll show off some of his contributions soon.

[Release Watch] Strong Guy, Day 12

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:37:00 +0000

Guido's officially in private beta! I've gotten feedback from McCready, Magus, and BizarroToro, all of which I will be using tonight to make a final beta. Then when I have the Big Mac's sign off, maybe by tomorrow, he'll go up for download here and on Scruffy! :)

Stay tuned later for the first Release Watch for Sinestro.

[Release Watch] Strong Guy, Day 11

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:01:00 +0000

I finished the camera trickery for Strong Guy's hypers today. He's in McCready's hands now for final review, beta testing, and approval; I expect this to break loose in a day or two.

[Release Watch] Strong Guy, Day 10

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:18:00 +0000

So, this is likely going to be the last installment of Strong Guy Release Watch! I've got the perfect sound effects for Havok and Polaris now, and have revamped how the Quicksilver part works as well. Then this morning I did an audit through all of his hypers to add the KineticE damage multiplier apply to all of his physical force-based hypers: Touchdown, Cannonball (Hyper Blanka Envy), and Pinhead. Finally, I've revamped Touchdown (again) to make it more visually appealing and to distinguish it a bit more from Hyper Pinhead in terms of how it affects player 2.

That just leaves the tweaks to camera behavior for Megaton Fury and Piledriver.

Remix tasks

~~code cleanup (move basics/specials/hypers to their own .st files)~~
~~add lose on time over anim~~
~~add draw game anim~~
~~fix hypers to not give back power meter~~
~~Revamp Kinetic Energy Bar (new sprites & code tweaks)~~
~~Revamp basic attacks (strong kicks replaced with punches, reordered progression of attacks)~~
~~De-cheapify basic combo chains~~
~~Fix kinetic energy effects of grapples~~
~~new special: Up You Go~~
~~tweak damage/effects of Run Deep special~~
~~new intro: Lila Cheney teleport~~
~~tweak Touchdown hyper~~
~~add recovery roll~~
~~new audio for jacket-ripping intro~~
~~new winpose: fatigued when kinetic energy level too high~~
~~add dizzy state & effects~~
~~improve heart attack (KO via heart damage from too much kinetic energy)~~
~~new hyper: Spinning Piledriver~~
~~"Hyper Combo Finish" hyper names displayed when win by hyper~~
~~new hyper: Megaton Fury~~
new hyper: X-Factor Attacks
Quicksilver entrance/attack/get-hit/exit/sound
Wolfsbane entrance/fastball special/sound
Madrox drop-kick/exit
Polaris entrance/attack/exit/sound
Havok entrance/attack/exit/sound

Bugs reported in beta testing

~~Change Touchdown hyper's custom hit states~~
Add better camera control for Megaton Fury startup
Better camera control for Piledriver
~~Bug: Lila isn't casting a shadow in the intro~~
~~Tweak Touchdown hyper to a 2-hit attack: grapple, carry, smash into the wall~~

Completed tasks: 24 of 26
Tasks remaining: 2

I'll be giving it over to McCready tonight for final review. And then... :)

[Release Watch] Strong Guy, Day 9

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:28:00 +0000

Welcome back to our ongoing Release Watch for Strong Guy! I had to drive to work Monday, effectively eliminating my MUGEN time for that day. Yesterday, I spent some time tweaking things here and there, adding missing "lost by timeout" anims, aligning messed-up custom hit animations for the Piledriver hyper, that sort of thing. As for the final remaining hyper, X-Factor Attacks, I've been hunting down appropriate sound effects; developing during my commute means I've been testing him with the sound off, and didn't even notice how quiet the attack seemed until last night! :-P I've got Polaris's and Havok's part done, so the sound effects are all that's left there. So close now I can almost taste it!

This puts my remaining task count at 0.2 subparts of the hyper (sounds for Quicksilver and Wolfsbane), and 2 camera bug fixes (which really are both the same issue in two different places, so when I fix one the other will be trivial):

Remix tasks

~~code cleanup (move basics/specials/hypers to their own .st files)~~
~~add lose on time over anim~~
~~add draw game anim~~
~~fix hypers to not give back power meter~~
~~Revamp Kinetic Energy Bar (new sprites & code tweaks)~~
~~Revamp basic attacks (strong kicks replaced with punches, reordered progression of attacks)~~
~~De-cheapify basic combo chains~~
~~Fix kinetic energy effects of grapples~~
~~new special: Up You Go~~
~~tweak damage/effects of Run Deep special~~
~~new intro: Lila Cheney teleport~~
~~tweak Touchdown hyper~~
~~add recovery roll~~
~~new audio for jacket-ripping intro~~
~~new winpose: fatigued when kinetic energy level too high~~
~~add dizzy state & effects~~
~~improve heart attack (KO via heart damage from too much kinetic energy)~~
~~new hyper: Spinning Piledriver~~
~~"Hyper Combo Finish" hyper names displayed when win by hyper~~
~~new hyper: Megaton Fury~~
new hyper: X-Factor Attacks
- Quicksilver ~~entrance~~/~~attack~~/~~get-hit~~/~~exit~~/sound
- Wolfsbane ~~entrance~~/~~fastball special~~/sound
- Madrox ~~drop-kick/exit~~
- Polaris ~~entrance~~/~~attack>~~/~~exit~~/~~sound~~
- Havok ~~entrance~~/attack/~~exit~~/~~sound~~

Bugs reported in beta testing

~~Change Touchdown hyper's custom hit states~~
Add better camera control for Megaton Fury startup
Better camera control for Piledriver
~~Bug: Lila isn't casting a shadow in the intro~~

Completed tasks: 22.8 of 25
Tasks remaining: 2.2

I may have good news for y'all tomorrow or Friday. :)

[Release Watch] Strong Guy, Day 8

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:06:00 +0000

Welcome to today's Release Watch update for Strong Guy. I've finished the segment of the X-Factor Attacks hyper involving the Madrox clones, tweaked Quicksilver's (again, I think for the last time now), and started building out the stubs for the final segment of the hyper, with Havok and Polaris, which should be pretty straightforward, because they're both just beam attacks, and I've done plenty of those. Oh, and as I promised yesterday, I have screenshots of the finished portions of the hyper:

This puts my remaining task count at 1.6 of 5 sub-parts to the hyper, and the 2 camera bug fixes (which really are both the same issue in two different places, so when I fix one the other will be trivial):

Remix tasks

~~code cleanup (move basics/specials/hypers to their own .st files)~~
~~add lose on time over anim~~
~~add draw game anim~~
~~fix hypers to not give back power meter~~
~~Revamp Kinetic Energy Bar (new sprites & code tweaks)~~
~~Revamp basic attacks (strong kicks replaced with punches, reordered progression of attacks)~~
~~De-cheapify basic combo chains~~
~~Fix kinetic energy effects of grapples~~
~~new special: Up You Go~~
~~tweak damage/effects of Run Deep special~~
~~new intro: Lila Cheney teleport~~
~~tweak Touchdown hyper~~
~~add recovery roll~~
~~new audio for jacket-ripping intro~~
~~new winpose: fatigued when kinetic energy level too high~~
~~add dizzy state & effects~~
~~improve heart attack (KO via heart damage from too much kinetic energy)~~
~~new hyper: Spinning Piledriver~~
~~"Hyper Combo Finish" hyper names displayed when win by hyper~~
~~new hyper: Megaton Fury~~
new hyper: X-Factor Attacks
- Quicksilver ~~entrance~~/~~attack~~/~~get-hit~~/~~exit~~
- Wolfsbane ~~entrance~~/~~fastball special~~
- Madrox ~~drop-kick/exit~~
- Polaris ~~entrance~~/attack/exit
- Havok ~~entrance~~/attack/exit

Bugs reported in beta testing

~~Change Touchdown hyper's custom hit states~~
Add better camera control for Megaton Fury startup
Better camera control for Piledriver
~~Bug: Lila isn't casting a shadow in the intro~~

Completed tasks: 22.7 of 25
Tasks remaining: 2.3

Nearly there, folks. :)

[Release Watch] Strong Guy, Day 7

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:41:00 +0000

Today was a reasonably productive day for progress on Strong Guy. I've finished Wolfsbane's part of the X-Factor Attacks hyper, tweaked Quicksilver's, and made the changes McCready suggested for the Touchdown hyper. That puts the remaining task count at 3 of 5 sub-parts to the hyper, and 2 bug fixes:

Remix tasks

~~code cleanup (move basics/specials/hypers to their own .st files)~~
~~add lose on time over anim~~
~~add draw game anim~~
~~fix hypers to not give back power meter~~
~~Revamp Kinetic Energy Bar (new sprites & code tweaks)~~
~~Revamp basic attacks (strong kicks replaced with punches, reordered progression of attacks)~~
~~De-cheapify basic combo chains~~
~~Fix kinetic energy effects of grapples~~
~~new special: Up You Go~~
~~tweak damage/effects of Run Deep special~~
~~new intro: Lila Cheney teleport~~
~~tweak Touchdown hyper~~
~~add recovery roll~~
~~new audio for jacket-ripping intro~~
~~new winpose: fatigued when kinetic energy level too high~~
~~add dizzy state & effects~~
~~improve heart attack (KO via heart damage from too much kinetic energy)~~
~~new hyper: Spinning Piledriver~~
~~"Hyper Combo Finish" hyper names displayed when win by hyper~~
~~new hyper: Megaton Fury~~
new hyper: X-Factor Attacks
- Quicksilver ~~entrance~~/~~attack~~/~~get-hit~~/~~exit~~
- Wolfsbane ~~entrance~~/~~fastball special~~
- Madrox drop-kick/exit
- Polaris entrance/attack/exit
- Havok entrance/attack/exit

Bugs reported in beta testing

~~Change Touchdown hyper's custom hit states~~
Add better camera control for Megaton Fury startup
Better camera control for Piledriver
~~Bug: Lila isn't casting a shadow in the intro~~

Completed tasks: 21.5 of 25
Tasks remaining: 2.6

Tomorrow I should be able to post another screen shot or two.

[Release Watch] Strong Guy, Day 6

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:44:00 +0000

I've been busy dealing with non-MUGEN stuff the past few days, so haven't had a ton of time to work on our Strong Guy release. That said, I've finished the Quicksilver part of the X-Factor Attacks hyper, coded most of Guido's part, and started doing the segment with Wolfsbane. So now I'm down to 3.5 of 5 sub-parts to the hyper, and 3 bug fixes:

Remix tasks

~~code cleanup (move basics/specials/hypers to their own .st files)~~
~~add lose on time over anim~~
~~add draw game anim~~
~~fix hypers to not give back power meter~~
~~Revamp Kinetic Energy Bar (new sprites & code tweaks)~~
~~Revamp basic attacks (strong kicks replaced with punches, reordered progression of attacks)~~
~~De-cheapify basic combo chains~~
~~Fix kinetic energy effects of grapples~~
~~new special: Up You Go~~
~~tweak damage/effects of Run Deep special~~
~~new intro: Lila Cheney teleport~~
~~tweak Touchdown hyper~~
~~add recovery roll~~
~~new audio for jacket-ripping intro~~
~~new winpose: fatigued when kinetic energy level too high~~
~~add dizzy state & effects~~
~~improve heart attack (KO via heart damage from too much kinetic energy)~~
~~new hyper: Spinning Piledriver~~
~~"Hyper Combo Finish" hyper names displayed when win by hyper~~
~~new hyper: Megaton Fury~~
new hyper: X-Factor Attacks
- Quicksilver ~~entrance~~/~~attack~~/~~get-hit~~/~~exit~~
- Wolfsbane ~~entrance~~/fastball special
- Madrox drop-kick/exit
- Polaris entrance/attack/exit
- Havok entrance/attack/exit

Bugs reported in beta testing

Change Touchdown hyper's custom hit states
Add better camera control for Megaton Fury startup
Better camera control for Piledriver
~~Bug: Lila isn't casting a shadow in the intro~~

Completed tasks: 21.5 of 25
Tasks remaining: 3.5

Tonight should be a good, productive night. As always I'll post my progress as I go.

SOPA/PIPA and MUGEN

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:27:00 +0000

You may have noticed that my site was offline yesterday in support of the protests against the SOPA/PIPA ~~internet censorship~~ anti-piracy legislation being drafted in the U.S. Congress. If you're an American citizen and you haven't gotten involved yet, please consider doing so. If these bills pass, there's a very real chance that fan gaming — including everything we do at ScruffyDragon — would suddenly become illegal under U.S. law, and we'd be shut down. :(

I know a lot of my readers are not U.S. citizens, and you might be a little irritated with all this nonsense. Why should you care? Well, the fact is, other nations often take cues from the United States on this type of law, so if these bills pass here, there's a nonzero chance that your country will consider passing something similar. And the Internet would be a sadder, grimmer place if that happens.

We now return you to our regularly scheduled broadcast, already in progress.

[Release Watch] Strong Guy, Day 5

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:02:00 +0000

I didn't post on Friday, partly because I drove to work instead of carpooling, so didn't have morning/afternoon MUGEN time. But when I got the kids to bed (after the requisite Wii time), I tackled a couple of things on my to-do list for our upcoming Strong Guy release: I've almost finished the Quicksilver portion of the X-Factor Attacks hyper, and fixed a minor bug McCready found with the new Lila Cheney intro. That leaves 4 of 5 sub-parts to the hyper, which I'll start splitting out as fractions of the main task, and 3 bug fixes:

Remix tasks

~~code cleanup (move basics/specials/hypers to their own .st files)~~
~~add lose on time over anim~~
~~add draw game anim~~
~~fix hypers to not give back power meter~~
~~Revamp Kinetic Energy Bar (new sprites & code tweaks)~~
~~Revamp basic attacks (strong kicks replaced with punches, reordered progression of attacks)~~
~~De-cheapify basic combo chains~~
~~Fix kinetic energy effects of grapples~~
~~new special: Up You Go~~
~~tweak damage/effects of Run Deep special~~
~~new intro: Lila Cheney teleport~~
~~tweak Touchdown hyper~~
~~add recovery roll~~
~~new audio for jacket-ripping intro~~
~~new winpose: fatigued when kinetic energy level too high~~
~~add dizzy state & effects~~
~~improve heart attack (KO via heart damage from too much kinetic energy)~~
~~new hyper: Spinning Piledriver~~
~~"Hyper Combo Finish" hyper names displayed when win by hyper~~
~~new hyper: Megaton Fury~~
new hyper: X-Factor Attacks
- Quicksilver ~~entrance~~/~~attack~~/~~get-hit~~/~~exit~~
- Madrox drop-kick/exit
- Wolfsbane entrance/fastball special
- Polaris entrance/attack/exit
- Havok entrance/attack/exit

Bugs reported in beta testing

Change Touchdown hyper's custom hit states
Add better camera control for Megaton Fury startup
Better camera control for Piledriver
~~Bug: Lila isn't casting a shadow in the intro~~

Completed tasks: 21.2 of 25
Tasks remaining: 3.8

I've got the day off tomorrow but I'll be helping my daughter paint her bedroom. If I get some time to do new Guido stuff, I'll for sure post it here.

[Release Watch] Strong Guy, Day 4

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:22:00 +0000

So I shared my in-development version of Strong Guy with McCready last night to get his feedback, and he's provided it. That adds a few more minor bugs/tweaks to my list, but Megaton Fury and Touchdown will be better for it. I've also started the X-Factor Attacks hyper, but there's not really enough to show off yet, maybe tomorrow.

Remix tasks

~~code cleanup (move basics/specials/hypers to their own .st files)~~
~~add lose on time over anim~~
~~add draw game anim~~
~~fix hypers to not give back power meter~~
~~Revamp Kinetic Energy Bar (new sprites & code tweaks)~~
~~Revamp basic attacks (strong kicks replaced with punches, reordered progression of attacks)~~
~~De-cheapify basic combo chains~~
~~Fix kinetic energy effects of grapples~~
~~new special: Up You Go~~
~~tweak damage/effects of Run Deep special~~
~~new intro: Lila Cheney teleport~~
~~tweak Touchdown hyper~~
~~add recovery roll~~
~~new audio for jacket-ripping intro~~
~~new winpose: fatigued when kinetic energy level too high~~
~~add dizzy state & effects~~
~~improve heart attack (KO via heart damage from too much kinetic energy)~~
~~new hyper: Spinning Piledriver~~
~~"Hyper Combo Finish" hyper names displayed when win by hyper~~
~~new hyper: Megaton Fury~~
new hyper: X-Factor Attacks
- Quicksilver ~~entrance~~/~~attack~~/get-hit/exit
- Madrox drop-kick/exit
- Wolfsbane entrance/fastball special
- Polaris entrance/attack/exit
- Havok entrance/attack/exit

Bugs reported in beta testing

Change Touchdown hyper's custom hit states
Add better camera control for Megaton Fury startup
Better camera control for Piledriver
Bug: Lila isn't casting a shadow in the intro

Completed tasks: 20 of 25
Tasks remaining: 5

See you tomorrow!

On the 17th day of Christmas

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:19:00 +0000

Feeding Frenzy special

Quick Snack hyper

Yeah yeah yeah, I'm slow and irresponsible and a promise-breaker for not delivering my "12 Days" gifts during the 12 days. Love it or hate it, it is what it is this year. So everytime I release stuff over the rest of the month of January will make fun of my lack of schedule-timeliness. Thus, today is the 17th Day of Christmas.

Earlier this month, I released an update to Parasite that wasn't quite as done as I'd hoped for. Yes, there are still quite a few unfinished power sets -- that's my next focus with him -- but I had a couple of things I wanted to do for better playability. Today I'm releasing a version that accurately captures that vision:

* 11 Jan 2012: v2.2.1
  - new level-1 hyper: Quick Snack (QCB + PP/KK), steals a random powerset from someone off-screen
  - fixed this readme to include the command for Feeding Frenzy (weak kick + hard punch or weak punch + hard kick)
  - bugfix to Feeding Frenzy: air version didn't have any sound effect
  - bugfix to re-enable palettes 7 through 12 (which got accidentally disabled)
  - changed command for Power Overload: now it's F,D,DF + punch & kick of equal strength

Like I said, there's a lot still to be done with him, but I'm pretty happy with the playstyle changes made possible by the new Feeding Frenzy and Quick Snack attacks.

You can get Parasite v2.2.1 here, on his page.

[Release Watch] Strong Guy, Day 3

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:16:00 +0000

Sweet! I think I've got Strong Guy's new hyper, Megaton Fury, done! That just leaves one more hyper, X-Factor Attacks, left to finish.

~~code cleanup (move basics/specials/hypers to their own .st files)~~
~~add lose on time over anim~~
~~add draw game anim~~
~~fix hypers to not give back power meter~~
~~Revamp Kinetic Energy Bar (new sprites & code tweaks)~~
~~Revamp basic attacks (strong kicks replaced with punches, reordered progression of attacks)~~
~~De-cheapify basic combo chains~~
~~Fix kinetic energy effects of grapples~~
~~new special: Up You Go~~
~~tweak damage/effects of Run Deep special~~
~~new intro: Lila Cheney teleport~~
~~tweak Touchdown hyper~~
~~add recovery roll~~
~~new audio for jacket-ripping intro~~
~~new winpose: fatigued when kinetic energy level too high~~
~~add dizzy state & effects~~
~~improve heart attack (KO via heart damage from too much kinetic energy)~~
~~new hyper: Spinning Piledriver~~
~~"Hyper Combo Finish" hyper names displayed when win by hyper~~
~~new hyper: Megaton Fury~~
new hyper: X-Factor Attacks

Completed tasks: 20 of 21
Tasks remaining: 1

See you tomorrow, hopefully with at least a first shot of X-Factor Attacks, and maybe more.

[Release Watch] Strong Guy, Day 2

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:13:00 +0000

Welcome to our next installment of Release Watch! I guess by now you probably noticed that I took the weekend off. If you don't like that, well, there are plenty of other places on the internet where you can take your clicks. -_-

I've been hammering away at Strong Guy's v2.0 release, trying to get it ready to release. The problem is that it's hard to show you progress when I'm just fine-tuning complicated level-3 hypers now. I could break it down in finer-grained detail and tell you that, since Friday, I've managed to get this much done on the new Megaton Fury hyper:

got the timing right on the first half (the superpause was in the wrong place, and I didn't realize it at first)
got the behavior of the Sentinel mostly done (he still needs boot jet anims)
got the flying rock debris showing up and doing damage
got the sentinel explosion coded and timed more or less where I want it (probably still needs a little fine-tuning, honestly)

That just leaves a couple of things to be done with that hyper:

figure out why all of my explods (for the ground smash etc) aren't showing up
code the sentinel shrapnel projectiles
fix the move startup so it's easier to execute, but also possible for the opponent to block

Plus I still need to code the X-Factor hyper, which I haven't started yet, and which could be just as complicated. Worth it, I hope, but still way longer to finish than I had expected.

~~code cleanup (move basics/specials/hypers to their own .st files)~~
~~add lose on time over anim~~
~~add draw game anim~~
~~fix hypers to not give back power meter~~
~~Revamp Kinetic Energy Bar (new sprites & code tweaks)~~
~~Revamp basic attacks (strong kicks replaced with punches, reordered progression of attacks)~~
~~De-cheapify basic combo chains~~
~~Fix kinetic energy effects of grapples~~
~~new special: Up You Go~~
~~tweak damage/effects of Run Deep special~~
~~new intro: Lila Cheney teleport~~
~~tweak Touchdown hyper~~
~~add recovery roll~~
~~new audio for jacket-ripping intro~~
~~new winpose: fatigued when kinetic energy level too high~~
~~add dizzy state & effects~~
~~improve heart attack (KO via heart damage from too much kinetic energy)~~
~~new hyper: Spinning Piledriver~~
~~"Hyper Combo Finish" hyper names displayed when win by hyper~~
new hyper: Megaton Fury
new hyper: X-Factor Attacks

Completed tasks: 19 of 21
Tasks remaining: 2

See you tomorrow, hopefully with a second shot of Megaton Fury and the news that it's done and I've moved on to coding the last hyper.

[Release Watch] Strong Guy, Day 1

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:56:00 +0000

Since this is taking longer than I had anticipated (real life complications mostly), I've decided to reinstate a practice I started on the march to finish Blackest Night Hal Jordan last year: the Release Watch. So here's what's left to do / finish before I feel Strong Guy is ready for his v2.0 release:

~~code cleanup (move basics/specials/hypers to their own .st files)~~
~~add lose on time over anim~~
~~add draw game anim~~
~~fix hypers to not give back power meter~~
~~Revamp Kinetic Energy Bar (new sprites & code tweaks)~~
~~Revamp basic attacks (strong kicks replaced with punches, reordered progression of attacks)~~
~~De-cheapify basic combo chains~~
~~Fix kinetic energy effects of grapples~~
~~new special: Up You Go~~
~~tweak damage/effects of Run Deep special~~
~~new intro: Lila Cheney teleport~~
~~tweak Touchdown hyper~~
~~add recovery roll~~
~~new audio for jacket-ripping intro~~
~~new winpose: fatigued when kinetic energy level too high~~
~~add dizzy state & effects~~
~~improve heart attack (KO via heart damage from too much kinetic energy)~~
~~new hyper: Spinning Piledriver~~
~~"Hyper Combo Finish" hyper names displayed when win by hyper~~
new hyper: Megaton Fury
new hyper: X-Factor Attacks

Completed tasks: 19 of 21
Tasks remaining: 2

Hopefully this provides you a little perspective of how much is changing, and why it's taking longer than I anticipated. So, yeah. Keep it tuned to my RSS feed for updates as they happen.

On the 8th day of Christmas...

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:55:00 +0000

What's a Buyog event without a Parasite update? :)

Tonight (this morning?) I bring you an updated Parasite. He's mostly bug fixes and added support for our new Flash character, but I also gave him a new special, Feeding Frenzy, designed by Jet the Phoenix. It's got both air and ground versions, and allows Parasite to pounce on his opponent for a quick "snack" to boost his power. Took me a while to balance it, but I think it's in pretty good shape now.

You can download Parasite v2.2 on his character page.

Change list:
* 02 Jan 2012: v2.2
  - new special: Feeding Frenzy
  - bugfix to Superman/Heat Vision special
  - bugfix: Lobo clones / Elektra shadows now behave properly on round end
  - bugfix: Erradicator hyper beam wasn't being removed if you got hit out of it
  
Power set updates:
  - added support:
    - Wally West Flash

  - new moves for existing power sets:
    - Fernus the Burning (Martian Manhunter hyper)

EDIT: Added a link to the release thread for this version over at the ScruffyDragon forums.

On the 7th day of Christmas...

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:49:00 +0000

Tonight we kicked off a week-long spriting contest with a twist—it'll take two spriters to win! We think it's a cool idea (Danilokao's, actually), and I'm interested to see how it turns out. Even if you're not an excellent spriter, go give it a shot! The tag team aspect means anyone has a shot at winning, whether they're a long-time expert spriter or not.

On the 6th day of Christmas...

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:07:00 +0000

Tonight one of Scruffy's most talented and prolific spriters, Danilokao, uploaded an awesome e-book tutorial on how to get started with pixel art / character spriting. It's really, really well done, and worth your time to go check it out.

On the 5th day of Christmas...

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:53:00 +0000

Tonight Magus put up a bunch of preview pics of his & McCready's upcoming War Machine character project. It's been slow going due to McCready's work schedule and Magus's broken arm, but they hope to have a release coming up soon.

On the 4th day of Christmas...

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:22:00 +0000

Today we started a new educational / newbie outreach initiative at ScruffyDragon.com we're calling Scruffy University. It includes a dedicated section of the forum for help, FAQs, and (this is the really new bit) tutorials. The first one up is a rewrite/update of the "how to make your own DCvM" post I did here a while back. More coming soon.

On the 3rd day of Christmas...

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:37:00 +0000

Today x-boy released a preview of his MUGEN-based Dungeons & Dragons beat-em-up. It's pretty awesome, go check the release thread and try it out. :)

On the 2nd day of Christmas...

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan Corradini) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:28:00 +0000

Today over at ScruffyDragon we released a stage McCready built a while ago for our co-owned Mandarin character project. It's pretty awesome; superjump-enabled and, like Loganir's stages, it's really, really large.