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Awesome Sprite Tutorial

One of the best tutorials I've seen, but I have a question, how do you make another sprite character appear on top of the background, like the first one?

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I though it was really well animated and well drawn, one fact I don't like about it though, is that it kept jumping around too much. If you could fix that, it would be great.

I'm Canadian...

so I find this offensive.

An Improvement

I feel that this game is an improvement over the previous one, SBC Is Awesome.

First of all, I loved how you incorporated upgrades and different weapons. That really prevented me from getting bored with the same old weapons. On that note, the more varied environments were a great change, providing a nice switch of scenery. The enemies in this game were also a lot more dynamic, actually moving on the y axis instead of staying vertically stationary. Incorporating a menu into the game also gave it a bit more polish.

Unfortunately, there are also a few things you could improved on. For one, I didn't feel all that awesome when shooting a laser or firing a shotgun. That is, the weapons didn't feel like weapons, they felt quite lackluster. Adding sound effects to each of the weapons and maybe tweaking the damage done for each weapon would help to improve that quality. One subtle thing that I found irksome was how the buttons didn't react when I clicked on them. I mean, they worked and all, but the buttons didn't enlarge or change in any way when I moused over them, taking away from the effect. Something to consider in future games is to change the music every so often, such as on different levels or different parts of the menu.

Overall, amazing job with SBC Is Awesome 2. It is a definite improvement over the original, so keep up the good work.

Very well done.

I really loved the gameplay of this particular game. The slow-motion feature was very fun to use and gave this game a unique.

A few things that could be improved upon for future submissions would be more varied backgrounds and enemies. I found they stayed pretty much the same colour-wise throughout the game. Something that I think would be really fun would be the addition of more weapons. An implementation of the lightsaber used by Ninja Vader would be really interesting to see with slow-motion.

Overall, very good job. I felt this game was quite polished in spite of the few improvements needed.

I really want to like this game but I can't.

While this is a good game overall what cannot be ignored are the poor level designs and choices made. For example, during the flying parts one hit from any wall will send you falling to your death, I found this really frustrating during gameplay as it meant that from one little mistake I had to start the whole sequence all over again. Another gripe I had was that there were no checkpoints for any of the boss battles. While this didn't bother me too much for most of the bosses, I had to keep redoing the battle for the last boss because I had touched a wall during the flying sequences. I hope you keep these things in mind for your next game, as I'm sure that you've learned a lot from the development of this one.