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[Super-tux-devel] A few thoughts

[Christopher A. W. <cr...@li...>]

Quite a few of you have already seen the work I've been doing developing
concept art and what will soon become actual sprites for the game.
(for example: http://www.lingocomic.com/gfx/goodies/wingling_color.png )
A few questions and comments.  First of all, some data would be helpful
to we who are desiging sprites, like the general sprite size.  Provided
that's been finalized by now... it seemed earlier that it hadn't been.
Also, has anyone else yet designed the "Mr. Iceblock" sprite?  I'd like
to take a crack at it if not... either way though, I was reading on the
"enemies" section of the milestone 1 page, and I noticed it said that
Mr. Iceblock should flatten when stepped on.  I think a better idea
would be that he shatters... after all, he is ice.  And it would be a
cool effect.

Christopher Allan Webber


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Re: [Super-tux-devel] A few thoughts

[Ingo R. <gr...@gm...>]

"Christopher A. Webber" <cr...@li...> writes:

> Also, has anyone else yet designed the "Mr. Iceblock" sprite?

I have a iceblock and bomb sprite ready, but I am not to happy with
them. They are useable, but the animation could be a lot better, I
would also like to have the block 'rotate/swing' a bit while walking,
thus giving more natural movement.

http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/mrbomb.gif
http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/iceblock.gif

My plan for Mr Iceblock is to go KO when being hit and then to be
kickable or carryable. For the flattening thing I'll try to design
another shape of iceblock or probally a mr.snowball.

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Re: [Super-tux-devel] A few thoughts

[Ingo R. <gr...@gm...>]

Ingo Ruhnke <gr...@gm...> writes:

> My plan for Mr Iceblock is to go KO when being hit and then to be
> kickable or carryable. For the flattening thing I'll try to design
> another shape of iceblock or probally a mr.snowball.

Added a few sketches of MrSnowball and described the behaviour and
interactions of the badguys a bit:

http://super-tux.sourceforge.net/milestone1/gameplay.html

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Re: [Super-tux-devel] A few thoughts

[Christopher A. W. <cr...@li...>]

> > My plan for Mr Iceblock is to go KO when being hit and then to be
> > kickable or carryable. For the flattening thing I'll try to design
> > another shape of iceblock or probally a mr.snowball.
Cool.  I took a look.  I like it.
I know this means upping the baddy count again, but I think there should
be an alternate "Mister Crystal" with spikes coming out of it.  One that
you can't jump on.

Re: [Super-tux-devel] A few thoughts

[Christopher A. W. <cr...@li...>]

> Cool.  I took a look.  I like it.
> I know this means upping the baddy count again, but I think there should
> be an alternate "Mister Crystal" with spikes coming out of it.  One that
> you can't jump on.
I took a look at the gameplay section again.... though I like the
snowball rolling idea, at first I was failing to see why it would be
useful.  Well, I don't know if you've thought of this, but what if when
a rolling Mr. Snowball hits another Mr. Snowball... could they combine
into a larger Mr. Snowball?

Re: [Super-tux-devel] A few thoughts

[Ingo R. <gr...@gm...>]

"Christopher A. Webber" <cr...@li...> writes:

> I took a look at the gameplay section again.... though I like the
> snowball rolling idea, at first I was failing to see why it would be
> useful.

Its usefull for chain reaction, have three snowballs in a row, kick
the first one and have them all knocked out (first knocks out the
second, second the third, etc).

> Well, I don't know if you've thought of this, but what if when a
> rolling Mr. Snowball hits another Mr. Snowball... could they combine
> into a larger Mr. Snowball?

Size of the snowball doesn't matter, so it wouldn't be too usefull I
think to have the snowball grow.

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