Hey what's going on guys, we're excited to talk about the progress we've been making with the new Arcade Mode for Mayhem ZX! Just a quick disclaimer though, first off, Sorry for the quality of the gif's you're about to see, we need to find better ways of creating them. And secondly, just about all the art you are about to see are strictly place holders. Also, we post full blog post about development on our website as well that you can find here .
Alright, one of the first things we wanna show is a glimpse of the cut-scene system we've implemented. There won't be very many of them, or if there is, you'll be able to skip them, but we wanted some form of showing a backstory (albeit very loose backstory). The gif directly below show's how a cut-scene will transition into the 'pre-stage' screen, which will show the player which weapon and grenade they currently have equipped, how many lives the player has left, and your current score plus your highest score. It also shows you which stage your about to play, and last but not least, the little infinity sign towards the bottom center with a '1' in it is your current game repetition!
Cut-scene progress:
Next up, I wanna talk about how we plan to add little basic things that should probably have been implemented a long time ago. Such as... Platforms! All great platformer games have these in them, and honestly, we're not entirely sure what took us so long to implement them haha. As you can hopefully see from the gif below, the player can jump up through the platform, as well as jump 'off' of it. We've also made the weapon collision recognize these platforms as walls, so you cannot shoot through them. I do believe we're going to let grenades pass freely, though.
Platforms!
The last thing I'm going to talk about today is our Portal system. It's nothing to fancy, but it is pretty cool. You basically traverse the world of Mayhem by jumping in and outta these bad boys. I should probably clarify a little here. You won't be able to select where you go, this is all randomly generated for you. You also cannot back track, cause why would ya want to? The basic setup of how Arcade Mode will work is simple, You gotta conquer five (5) randomly selected stages containing three (3) levels within each stage, then the Final stage. Oh, there's a nice little surprise at the end for ya guys and gals as well!
Portal Progress:
Thank you guys for all the support you've given us with our game, without you guys we would've stopped development quite some time ago. Stay tuned for more to come!
-Cheers!