Well, I just finshed the core battle engine (turns, basic attacks, health etc.). A lot more still has to be done, though. Here's the updated GUI:

At the moment, the robot looks quite bland, but I have been working on a simple script that will procedurally shade the robot according …

Here's a screenshot of the interface I'm working on for SpiritLess:

I made a video to document my progress:

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The game's graphics will be entirely made in the draw event and will not use any sprites or other image files.

I've also been creating and designing some terrain …

SpiritLess will be spriteless.

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I have just completed the 2nd version of my fully automated, spriteless, running animation. I 've decided to release it as an EXE 'cause I'm thinking about making game using the engine.

I still have to do a little more tweaking on the pelvis. After I 'm finished I think …

I was inpired by Excalibur333's platform example to try to animate a running cycle using GML.

I first used Excalibur333's code as a base for the person's upper leg animation:

//Right upper leg

angle[0] = 270 + (50*(sin(incr[0])))

incr[0]+=0.2

end_x[0] = x + lengthdir_x(50, angle[0] )

end_y[0] = y + …

WIP-Sprites:

<— Which one is better?

<— weird legs.

<— Finished Idle

Still to be done:

- Left Jab

- Left Hook

- Right Upper-cut

- Right Hook

- Walking Cycle

- Special Moves

Swine

If you haven't already noticed, I didn't submit the game I was working on for …

As you can see, a lot has changed since my last blog.

-For one, the pigs follow you instead of the walking pills.

-Now the game is based more on exploration/finding than shooting.

-The character sprite has changed dramatically.

-The disease is not called "Health" anymore.

[Various other changes have …

Above is the title screen for my competition entry, Swine.

Story:

You are a scientist living on a distant planet where the "Health Disease" is spreading throughout the land, infecting the many pigs that roam the grass-covered hills. Because you need pigs to test your experiments on, you invent a …

Has this ever happened to you?

After spending good portion of you're life on an engine, you come back from a break and gaze up at the wall o' code on your monitor. You are disgraced to see how horribly organized and commented your code is, and you suddenly realize, …