Finish line is just a step away!


Last week there was no upload, this was because we had a special week at school in which classes were cancelled and other activities were done. This does mean that after two weeks something should have changed... right?

Yes!


In the meantime the arena got remade. The old one consisted of many parts which were prone te getting the characters stuck and glitchy. The new arena is mostly built out of one mesh which also accomodates the lines which show who is on what side.

 Talking about the new lines; The old arena and characters had the difficulty of seeing which team you were and on which side you had to score. The new arena makes it more clear which colours goes where in the goal. 

The new arena, or more the lack of the old one, has a new issue where the game gets stuck when characters fall down for a bit when jumping out of the arena, we wil have to find out what leads to this. 

 

Also the surroundings got a nifty upgrade; the signs on the stands are now filled with commercials and in a futuristic text, can you find out what it means?

And then onto player feedback. We got a few particles to show you what is happening; A player hit, a goal and a revive particle have been added.


A few new features have been implemented. The menu UI has been re::developed. You can now select play in the main menu and this opens the character selection screen. If a player wants to join the game they have to press X on their controller. And a game can only start when 2 or 4 players are registered. In the main menu you can also find a help button. This button pop-up a screen where you can see what you can do in the game. And you can view the control scheme. We also changed the end of the game, A game will only enter Death match when there is a draw between the teams. There is a minor adjustment to our grab so that it works better, but at the cost of "being less realistic". In game there is now a proper UI. Well It does need some non-placeholder art but players can now see what the ui indicates. To increase immersion we have removed the game timer from the UI and placed it on a billboard.


This update was our last feature update. We will now start to polish the game and we hope to have finished by the end of the jam.

Files

DropKick_V0.7.5.rar 24 MB
May 09, 2018

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