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Hope you enjoyed the spotlight ^^

Re building my studio so couldnt do any composing this round, still great to hear all the contributors

No worries ^^ hope the rebuilding goes well! What kind of set up are you going for?

Retiring the imac for an i9 12 CORE beast pc!

Fantastic!

Glad you enjoyed it ^^

Cool.
Big thx to add me to the spotlight. I did not think they would show me.

I always get excited hearing music from new composers/musicians for the spotlight. Gets me excited to listen to the kind of music they make!

Some nice songs featured in this. Congrats to those that made the spotlight!

Thanks for listening to the spotlight!

Thank you so much for the feature and amazing comments~! I'm glad that you enjoyed the piece and it could help you out ♥

It's great hearing your music, especially since I got to work with you on a song a while back :)

Ohmygosh, I feel so bad that I don't even remember ;;;;

Hey there, thanks for featuring me! Loved all your picks, brilliant stuff!

No problem ^^ I hope your project goes well :)

Thank you for including Nach in the spotlight! And I can confirm that no, the bad guy is not going to be a wolf XD

I can root for the bug guy without getting in trouble, awesome!

Yeah,  Artan118 did a truly fantastic job with the main theme. He got the feeling of old 3D platformer nailed right on the head with this track.

There are some questions in the spotlight that I think I can help answer:
Just as the music would suggest, the environment is going to be very tribal. Nach starts out in the jungle and works his way through a volcano, snowy mountain tops, a desert and finally the evil lair where he fights the big bad guy and saves the princess.
Nothing about this is truly original, but I thought it would be a good start as my first major game project.

As for the bad guy himself:
His name is Warral. You'll never know exactly what he is, as he'll be dressed in a robe and have his face covered in a skull mask (so who knows, he might just be a wolf). His motivation for capturing the princess is to collect three crystals of power with which he can summon an army to take over the whole world. Basic villain stuff.

The last dev video is from a month ago as I've hit a hurdle... a wall, so to speak, in programming my character and I'm still figuring out a solution. Either way, here's the vid:
https://youtu.be/fy5CSCMCzLI

You can never go wrong with making your protag's goal to saving a princess! Has me wondering how the 3D platformer will work, like what actions you'll be able to pull off.

Thanks for assuring that I might be in trouble with the bad guy lol if they turn out to be a wolf, then I'll feel no shame as I'm a wolf seeking justice for villains such as them!

I hope you break down that wall, I have the same walls come up while making music at times. I will watch both dev demos the next morning, I want to watch it all at it's fullest :)

As my first game project I'm not going to do anything super complex like wall running, or other such advanced movement features.
Platforming will be pretty simple, with the first levels not having too much in platforming challenges and it getting more difficult as time goes on.
Basic platform hazards are the idea: a pit full of spikes, endless drops, lava. Things you need to generally jump over. In the meantime you'll also be fighting enemies, which will be the more modern aspect of the game since the intention is to have attack combos (light attack chains and heavy attack chains).

There will also be something hopefully more challenging in the game, something that compels players to replay levels or to try out more difficult platforming routes: Each level will have exactly 100 coins. Coins you have picked up will not respawn, meaning you can go back and collect the coins you have missed. Every time you have picked up 100 coins the player will gain a health upgrade. Basically you can survive one hit more every time you collect 100 coins. So this means you could make later levels easier for yourself by hunting down all the coins in earlier levels so you can survive getting hit more.
Otherwise the player starts with just 5 lives/health. 5 times your player can get damaged before game over and starting over from last save.

I like the health upgrade idea, don't know if another game has done it before. I really want to be up to date with this as you work on it :3

Well, I upload a video on YouTube every once a while whenever I've made any significant progress on the game. I guess you can sub me there.

What an epic start to the spotlight with Artan's piece! Lots of really unique choices! Great spotlight as always, your commentary was really fun and expressive!