Painful Shadows 2 :New beginning

[kartanonperuna]

I moved the discussion from your original story thread to this one since it largely concerns the development of Painful Shadows 2: New Beginning.

Thanks Juke for the huge review.

-The sounds will be better in the sequel
-I try to not use block boxes as much now
-In the sequel,if you go too close to he guards,you will get caught,killed,and have to restart.At least in some situations.Sometimes,even if you step on something loud,you get caught.
-There will be cutscenes in sequel but much much more interesting.The camera is moving and all that.
-I have thought about animating the guards and them being actual real enemies but things would get really complicated then.
-The finnish songs are just reminder that the storycreator is finnish hahaha.Plus I couldnt think of any else good tavern song that I wanted.
-The kids...lets just not talk about them.I kind of just pulled them in for the joke.I guess if you think about it,they were taken away from him since he started drinking and propably was not seemed fit for fathers role.

About the guards and in fact other NPCs I think if they had even a simple idle animation it would make them look so much more alive despite being stationary all the time.

You could also mix the two by having the usual guards that just hangout and mobile ones that could be used in specific cases like chases where you have to just run away on the alleyways and rooftops and what have you.

Normally in custom stories you tend to run from only one monster, as having too many of them would be the death of the player. So I got the idea that you could have one guard (monster) chase you while at the same time avoiding stationary guards (the ones used thus far) that block your escape route. This would open up so many more avenues to the story and give it a thrill that was somewhat lacking in the original story.

I understand though how this could get complicated like you said and getting your hands on animated guard models could prove difficult. My knowledge of the map editor is nonexistant, though I have a sudden urge to learn these things to fulfill my own ideas.

Actually some characters now DO have animation in the sequel.Guards do not.Maybe they will.If someone volunteers to do them.That would be greatly appreciated!

And about the chase Ive actually thought about something like that.But yeah I would need some animations for the guard chasing you then.