applecinnabun

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game dev/sk8r grrl/guitar/flute/tree liker/indie game obsesser/basic autumn bitch. working on hoptix!

<3 @static-echo <3


play the latest (free!) hoptix demo!
sonicfangameshq.com/forums/showcase/hoptix.1948/
hoptix on twitter (not active, some cool dev posts there though)
twitter.com/hoptixGame
profile pic by @cottontailcat
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applecinnabun
@applecinnabun

i've been working super duper hard all week on camera stuff and i think it's finally far enough along that i can show it off a bit! it's still WIP, and i expect i will be making little changes to it about twice every single time i sit down to work until the game comes out, but i think it's starting to feel more dynamic and physical!

what do we think, gang? :3


applecinnabun
@applecinnabun

ok actually, for "work" today i just played through the whole game so far to see how i felt about the camera and i ended up pretty happy with it the entire time. maybe it's further along than i thought lol

one fun fact is that because the parallax code for the backgrounds responds to camera motions, and because the gif camera has different (smaller) camera effects because it's a different size, i now have to have two copies of the background running, one only normally visible, one only visible to the skate photographer. they are living in a separate world, but the borders are thin between them...


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yeah this stuff is really tricky to balance! it's possible that the effects in the first gif are a little too small rn, i can definitely imagine myself trending that way after a week of motion sickness from working on this lmao. but idunno, maybe it doesn't need to be noticeable to feel good? it's hard to say...

i'm liking the small slowdown as you go near things in the first gif. and i am liking the speed boost ability in the second one. that seems like it could lend itself to a lot of cool tricks

i have this system named "skatephotographer" in all the files and stuff after the tireless heroes who keep up with skateboarders with their little handheld cameras and their own boards. i think camerabunny has a backwards baseball hat on, and stars in their eyes...