Slope-based surfaces are very hard to program in games like this, especially if your knowledge of trig is as limited as mine. Refactoring the flat surfaces will dramatically improve Lilac's interactions with terrain overall, as well, because of all three characters, she make the in-fighting between the two surface types the most evident! There are three ways I'm currently prototyping to unify the two surface types, so that the game's collisions are more robust, and thus, have less bust, like the edge case in your screenshot. You're not wrong to feel this way about the current iteration of the game, which despite all of its functionality, may as well count for a demo of what it will become.Ĭlick to expand.This is an unfortunate consequence of the game, from the earliest point in the project, having a distinction between flat surfaces and sloped surfaces. So, if more people would rather wait for the final 1.1 version of the game, I totally understand that. Think of all the times Serpentine appearead in-game in FP1! Things like this.)Īs the package stands for now, there's plenty of potential for good, fun levels to be made with this thing already, and there's a lot of appeal in tasting the cookie dough for many people, but that's not going to be for everyone, and that's okay. (As well as exciting event-based sequences within the stages exclusive to story mode. This means a proper built-in package of levels that put all of SMA's various gimmicks on display through fun, engaging levels that follow FP's stage design conventions, and consequentially, shows users what is possible with the editor.

The reason I say that is because our 1.1 milestone is where the game will be what I want it to be: A full-fledged Freedom Planet stage builder with a short-and-sweet story mode, complete with FP1-styled hub areas and NPCs to talk to.

(Our main composer, benjistring, approached me after our public reveal, for instance!) And I've benefited so much from the extra feedback that releasing it has provided! People have been so kind with their suggestions and even contributions.

In a way, you could see its current public distribution as 'early access', because it's been in dev for so long that I got tired of keeping it to myself. Even as the main fan developer, I agree with this post.

Click to expand.It's really hard to gauge the game's identity as it is now, yes.

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