#mecha stardon

[sketchshroom]

Goodness, where are my manners? I haven't even told you what the game I'm working on is about!

The game is called "Mecha Stardon" It's a top-down roguelike mech shooter thing The goal is to capture and secure cities around an island Of course, enemies are gonna try to stop you The longer you go on, the more dangerous the enemies will become stronger and stronger Also would it be cool if the mechs were styled after vinyl art figurines?

[sketchshroom]

Hey so remember that game that I kept forgetting to make updates of? Well I didn't stop making it! Quite the opposite! The game is out now! Play it on Itch.io or NewGrounds

[sketchshroom]

Sorry there haven't been many updates recently, I've been busy with other stuff, but I have gotten a lot done

Attacks now use fuel, which you get more of from specific tiles with the cool wave shader that I got here

There are these goal tiles (The tiles with the green circles on them) that give you some skill upgrade when you touch them. You're supposed to only be able to get one upgrade from the tile but that hasn't been implemented yet

The game has swapped from the Godot Engine to Redot, which is a fork of Godot, and it has a lot of cool new stuff in it.

Also I added the ability to block but I didn't show that in the footage

[sketchshroom]

I added two new things :0 1. Both the player and the enemies have health and don't die in one hit now

2. The enemies move towards you when you enter their bubble This was pretty hard to get working, to make an object move around an environment generated at runtime

[sketchshroom]

I added camera shake and hit stop when the player hits an enemy

It's one of those things where I didn't think it would make that much of a difference, but my god hitting enemies is so much more fun now

Never underestimate game juice, people

[sketchshroom]

Dang, sorry I haven't updated y'all in a while, I've constantly been forgetting to post updates here I have still been working on the game, quite a lot actually I've been messing with the graphics to try and find some sort of visual style, as you can see in the footage But I've done a lot more than that, as you'll see in other posts soon