Hello,
Some news about the work being made over MBY.
Here is the list of what was made until now for the next update:
- Maps are now loaded from external files compatible with *Tiled Level Editor* (Using Flare format export)
- Custom tileset loading system
- Various maps improvements
- New wide deathmatch arena "The Sewer"
- New small deathmatch arenas "Fatal Tower", "Death mat"
- New deathmatch/race/deathrace map "The Well"
- Some maps have now an automatically moving camera (that hurts)
- Directional force fields now push players
- Race mode for almost every maps that were deathmatch only
- Castle war mode for almost every maps that were deathmatch only
- Water transmits electricity
- Fire does not work with water
- Ice freeze water
- There is now score
- Score powerup
- Water spike tile
- Foreground decoration tile
- Waterfall tile
- Water current tile
- Conveyor belt tile
- Red, green and blue teleporter tiles
Here is the list of what is currently being made:
- Custom character loading system
- On deathrace, when a laps is done (or every players are dead), restart at the beginning of the map
The list of what is planified:
- Custom weapon loading system
- Weight changes the way a character sink in water
- Weight changes the way a character bounce
- Make a better and wider version of "Highway"
- Very lean tile
- Low lean tile
- Animate sprite of all weapons, including enemies one
- Add single player levels
- Add animation for enemies being shoted
- Wind tile
- Sewer tileset
- Steam success
- Lock characters by default, so they have to be unlocked by steam success
- Same for weapons
- Update the character select screen so it supports a lot of characters
- A fighting bot
- A tutorial of how create custom content for Macroboy Y
The idea box, that may be added to the next update or a later one:
- New character "Damdoshi", with specific powers
- Add a transformation of "Felina" into "Felinistra", with specific powers
- Fire tileset
- Ice tileset
- A lot of steam success
I think a partial update may be done next week, instead of waiting three month. I want at least to bring all custom loading system inside this partial update (and everything that is easy enough or already done)
I am open to suggestion, if you think about anything that could improve the game, I will listen to it. Everything may not be possible to do, but we can discuss.