Topic: Just another Castlevania fan-game...

[darkmanx_429]

Dude your shadows are all over the place in the first section in that video. You need to darken the scene more so that when the lighting hits those areas in the the room is lit up and it's fairly noticeable. Simon should not be fading in and out of shadow so frequently, it's pretty distracting. I do like your stage progression and set up though. You need to work on your lighting for the first part though, just keep at it and you will get it. You are on the right track! You lit the storm section of the room fairly well. It's just the natural sunlight on the first section that is off.

[BMC_War Machine]

I agree with Darkman, the shadows look great but are a bit much. Maybe adding an oval shapped alpha that follows Simon to lighten it up a bit while he's in the dark could remedy that. And I like the thunderstorm,  but the flash comes on a bit too strong in room, I would try to make more alphas like you have for the windows, drop the lightning flash in another layer below those and make the flash gradually fade, not as sudden as it is now. No offense to your work at all man, its looking great and very smooth so far, just trying to point out things that I would add if I were in your shoes 

[piscesdreams]

I think it's very moody and you are on the right track, but I think you should always be able to distinguish the player sprite from the scenery at all times.  Perhaps the oval of light darkman suggested will help.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Looks awesome!  I like what you're doing with the light sourcing.
I thought one of those armors was gonna come to like like in Akumajo Dracula X68000.

Remember that my spritesheet has a sprite for Simon jumping "Straight up".
It may help in those instances when you're jumping straight up and then controlling your jump.
The one you're using is from when he jumps forward from the start.

[Las]

Looks neat, i like how he has to walk in dark areas where potential hidden enemies can lurk or pop out from. The lighting areas bring realism to your game. That's cool. I would say in some areas it's too dark or maybe simon himself can be a bit lighter so you can see him a tad more. Though enemies could be hidden you'd still need to see the player to know where you are. Very cool concept though!

[Lanforse]

Jorge D. Fuentes, thanks for reminding me about Simon's jumping! I've almost forgot about it.
Also, as a lot of people advised me, I've made some changes with the "darkness".

[darkmanx_429]

Jorge D. Fuentes, thanks for reminding me about Simon's jumping! I've almost forgot about it.
Also, as a lot of people advised me, I've made some changes with the "darkness".

That looks waaaaay better and more natural. Great Job!

[Lanforse]

Here I am!
I've been very busy with my two jobs and college, so I've tried to do something different.



As it can be seen, there's my game running on android phone. It was really simple to make, the hardest part was to learn how touch controls works.
Everything works great, on my device it's almost always 60fps with no errors or glitches at all.
It's only an experiment though, I have no intention to maintain android version.

Anyway, back to work!

[Inccubus]

Neat. Looks like it's coming along well, too.

[Lanforse]

Mini progress report. Castlevania entrance, part of the main castle and prisons are done. Now I'm about a half way to finishing the project. Still can't find a decent name for it...

[Lanforse]

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[KaZudra]

those look amazing

[zangetsu468]

Saw the last image, went from 6 to 12 

[Lanforse]

Saw the last image, went from 6 to 12 

Man, I can't describe how much time I've spend to make that location. Most of the levels were done really quickly, but some of them took almost unacceptably long time to develop.
I'm really happy to hear that this time wasn't wasted to nothing.

[Lanforse]

Well... Why not?
It's time to take the Big F*ing Whip and beat some demons!