[GAME] Ninslash - v0.5.0 (Page 7 of 13)

Thanks for efforts Pelya, highly appreciated!

My only requirement is that I'm happy enough with the game. And I'm not happy yet.

I need to finish new flamer, add new levels, rework parts of GUI (at least add new main menu), fix all crashing bugs, add new buildings, rework some sounds...

Next update in a week or two, bigger release in a few months.

Sounds like 'in a few years' by the amount of features. Where are you getting all that free time to both code and create graphics?

On my side, I would like a single-player campaign, which you can play in cooperative mode with several people. With huge maps, dialog, NPCs, several endings, and a big war mech boss, that you need to defeat piece by piece

This will reasonably take around 200 years of development for me alone, or 175 years if I won't include voice acting.

Are there any single-player Teeworlds mods, that I can 'borrow' from?

BTW I want to simplify jetpack mechanics, to improve touchscreen controls, and to fix this bug when you have two jetpack jets at the same time, if you hold both Space and right mouse button. I will create a pull request.
Siile, how flexible are you to changing gameplay or physics? I'm not going to make any big changes, just make controls act less random when you are trying to shoot and run away at the same time.

A feature.

In a heartbeat... if I like the changes.

Will you support my battle droids?

Last time, you told me that Ninslash use only classical entities/tiles format. I've just saw that you added a skeleton layer in the map format. Is it used for something in particular? Anyway, I've already implemented skeletal animation and a custom GUI to animate everything. It's just disabled for now until I've done the rest and refresh the code a little. So I don't see a particular limitation

Ragdoll corpses would be nice, but we'll have to live a while with a cheaper alternative. I have 6 new hairs for next version, done with a bit different style. They're made solely for Ninslash, and I hope we'll get some new bodies soon as well.

The blinking of hearts is a result of changing to spectator mode if you wonder.

I don't actually use the skeleton layer. BeaR fulfilled my wildest dream and wrote it to Teeworlds, and I copied the main parts for characters. I don't use it for levels, which is a shame.

True, but leaderboards as done by Google Play game services are proven to be useless, they are hacked in a week after any game is released.

I would imagine something more like 'player X killed player Y 10 times last week', which is more robust to hacking, since it also depends on player Y auth data, sending fake results or killing fake players is not going to work.

You also can have automagic algorithm determining top players by kills each week, but only among people that you have personally played with, so you are sure they are not bots, and if some player inflates kill count using bots, those kills will be ignored in the leaderboard you can see, because you did not play with these bots, and even if you did, you bested them, so killing weaker players does not influence your relative rank that much.

I think we will end up with good old 1vs1 knockout matches in the end, but these have to be organized beforehand, this requires much more effort for players than just opening game and accumulating prestige points at any time.

Oh, and we then need a centralized authentication system. And a robust web server. I don't think my ARM dev board in a shoebox that I'm using to host a dedicated server is reliable enough for that task.

This looks so awesome !

Nice! Now I only need someone to do the maps.

I like new flamethrower, it looks much better.

But you did not merge my jetpack pull request :'(

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Dear Teeworlds community,

Which server configs (vote on / off) would you like to see?

I added a server config for one hit kill and for forcing weapon as the only available weapon, so now iDM, gCTF and such "modes" can be added as votes to server. Survival mode is next on my list, and there's already couple of more experimental settings, like infinite jetpack fuel and random buff on spawn. So, in-flight chainsaw tdm is already there, but which variable would take it to the next level?

I agree, I'd like to play with the classic "tee" equipped with hook and standard weapons and fight against those jetpack equipped guys