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hey Zedi! I was planning to make the force shield do more stuff to make it more worthwhile, so now it has a pushback effect so it can create space if you feel pressured (or force your opponent further into the corner).

The attacking and stuff during first round is something I might fix later on. It was just low priority as far as things went while I was planning to submit by the game jam deadline. The being able to move around during round start text is cool, but I feel like that's mostly an anime game thing where the actual movement is cool. This game's movement is meh so I might not bother with that. (I miiiiight add forward/back dash if I feel the movement is currently too restrictive - the other fighting game I made already has it so it won't be that much work to add in t this one). 

I was looking at the player 1 spawn positions and I think there was a bit of discrepancy. I've changed that now.

hey so some of the versions got flagged for a trojan virus. Sorry about that. I've resurfaced an older version that should be ok, but it has no sleep margin enabled so it runs slow on my computer and possibly yours too. I'll upload a new version, and test that it's safe, hopefully very soon!

I'm pretty close to being ready to call my game done, since I'm going to be busy over the next two days. I absolutely can't work out what's wrong with the whole "player 2 can't jump left when player 1 is crouching" business, but I recall having a weird issue in Street Fighter IV as well where I couldn't use my keyboard arrow keys to down-diagonal kick with Chun-Li for some reason. I'm sure these aren't related at all but...I dunno. I should swap around some buttons maybe to see if that's where the issue lies. I'm also still not happy with how jumping and jumping attacks work, but I might just leave it as is. One play-tester specifically said they liked the feel of the jumping attack so maybe that's good enough after all.

Anyway, I spent most of the day working on the AI, which I'm quite happy with now. When I first implemented it as a proof-of-concept, it basically reacted to the player's actions in a frame-perfect manner and it basically destroyed me. I implemented a sort of randomness to the AI's actions to both increase its variety of actions and also to make it easier for the player to beat. What's happening under the hood is that the AI will periodically choose between one of two states, and depending on its current state, will make an action responding to the player. The states are weighted so that the option that is more passive/less optimal is more likely to occur. For example, in the neutral state when the player is far from the AI, the AI will choose to either throw a projectile, or simply move left or right. When the AI is under attack, it will either crouch and block the incoming attack...or again just move left/right which leaves it open. 

Besides that, I've touched up the presentation of the game, adding an updated background image (it still doesn't animate, unfortunately), adding a splash screen with a short story blurb, and also display the controls on-screen at the beginning of the game. I've also recorded a few lines for the usual announcer stuff. I received some feedback from a few play-testers and also implemented the following changes based on this:

• characters will be pushed away from each other when they are overlapping, to prevent the issue where characters are punching past each other
• further to this, most hitboxes have been increased in size to allow players to hit targets closer to their body (i.e. a punch hitbox now covers the entire character's arm rather than just her fist)
• fixed some more bugs like the characters being able to launch projectiles while in mid-air and "stuck" in the idle pose in mid-air

Is the player character going to have a body or will they be a floating camera? Either way looking forward to checking this out more :)

So I haven't fixed those two major previous bugs yet. I want to rehaul the jumping system to allow more flexibility with when you can do a jump attack. The current system is a huge mess involving an animation timed to the duration of the jump, rather than a state that your character is in when you're in the air vs when you're on the ground. I still have no idea what's causing the player 2 can't jump to the left if player 1 is crouching bug. That's sorta really shitty tbh, especially since player 2 starts on the right.

I've implemented the HP bars, countdown timer, and multiple rounds. Just need to round out the packaging with the rest of the stuff I mentioned earlier. Oh and I definitely need to update the background image, and hopefully give it a bit of animation (maybe just a shimmer on the water surface or a bit of sway in the tree). I've also decided that the characters' names will be Ashley and Mina.

I also want to implement a simple AI to fight against. It will likely be a script that checks for the player character's state, and chooses one of a few options (even maybe as simple as act/don't act) and then proceeds with a flowchart before returning to neutral. For example, if it reads the character is within X pixels distance away and begins an attack, it will crouch to block, then retaliate with its own attacks. It might open a round by jumping in, or it might throw a projectile. We'll see how far I get with this.

Hi I'm making a fighting game. It's gonna just feature two almost-identical characters; two lady friends who are sparring on the beach at sunset :3 

I've got a WIP video up for ya folks to peep.

• light attack
• heavy attack
• crouch light/heavy
• jumping light/heavy
• special attack (projectile)
• crouch special (anti-air)

Whether the "anti-air" works as an anti-air remains to be seen. I'm sure all the current frame-data is bonkers bad. The characters are final, but I'll work on the background in the next few days. There are a few fun bugs, some of which include:

• jumping immediately upon landing causes you to jump in the "idle" stance, allowing you to perform grounded actions in the air and crouch mid-air indefinitely
• the brunette cannot run and jump toward the left if the blonde is crouching

Still to do are: splash screen, start screen, actual HP bars, a countdown timer, multiple rounds? and a finish screen. But the core of the gameplay is there so I'm happy with this :)

I just released version 1! Check it out by following this link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zidplr128rcdlwj/AABu5SOuFASrXT8U56OhVsq5a?dl=0

I suppose I should also figure out how to go about submitting the game to the jam itself instead of having an exe floating about.

Edit: https://superhiero.itch.io/cheese-and-wine I got the itchio page up!

Since there's still basically a week left to go, and I'm happy with how the game itself runs, I'm gonna spend the rest of my time updating the graphics of every sprite in the game. Here's an example of before/after:

Hey! I uploaded a gameplay video for my game :D

I've implemented the changes I set out in the above post, plus some more! I'm close to calling this finished :)

The file in the dropbox link above has been updated to the newer version.

I'm really happy with my progress. Here's a dropbox link with a WIP of the game! There's still a bunch of tweaks and bug fixes I need to fix.

Just putting them here for me to find later:

• swap gun sound needs to play only on key press
• recovering from drinking wine bottle should give shotgun 8 rounds, not 15
• add more cheese after 4000 and 6000, etc. points
• refine sprites of some elements, like shotgun crosshair, and increasing player's arm length
• tweak cheese spawn location and direction to prevent some cheese disappearing too quickly

and here's the link:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zidplr128rcdlwj/AABu5SOuFASrXT8U56OhVsq5a?dl=0

I've made some good progress on my game in the past few days, so I should show off some of the things I've made, I guess?

Here's some sprites I made for my wine and cheese game. Shoot the cheese. Drink the wine. Also shoot the wine?