Now I just need to make a little fist pumping Bastion as a rider...
Here you gomice wrote:You should get the license, can't be that expensive. With the Limahl tune and everything.
That's one possibility, yeah. If protecting the rider is a good enough gimmick to just make another character/ship out of, I might leave it at that; but if not, all kinds of silliness is possible. >_>S20-TBL wrote:I know you mentioned the riders are more of an aesthetic quirk, so maybe they could be a little easter egg you can trigger on and off or something?
That one may be quite pricey still. But the Aussie parody version should be pretty cheap though!mice wrote:You should get the license, can't be that expensive. With the Limahl tune and everything.
I've thought about the body lock mechanic before; but haven't tried it yet. Obviously it'd need something to keep you from using it constantly, like not letting you change firing direction or being limited to just a few seconds.S20-TBL wrote:I had a couple suggestions regarding the dragon tail. Could there be a possible mechanic where pressing or holding a "focus" button of some sort will cause your dragon to lock its body position? Additionally, the body could be used as some sort of melee attack, with the defender type dragon having an advantage by being able to cancel bullets (you might have to nerf its shot power though) and that starburst dragon having more melee power because of the tail projectile. Dunno how this will affect the difficulty though.
That could work. You could also slow down the dragon to prevent you from simply flying up to everything and ramming them willy nilly.Rozyrg wrote:I've thought about the body lock mechanic before; but haven't tried it yet. Obviously it'd need something to keep you from using it constantly, like not letting you change firing direction or being limited to just a few seconds.
I've actually done this with the old Gradius style options in Papilio v0.1.5 up to v0.3 before I decided to switch to the mirrored rotation thingy. They would normally follow you around, but lock themselves in position while firing. It did have a slight problem in that it caused some enemy homing shots to fly straight towards the character instead of doing roundabouts.Rozyrg wrote:A body attack might be challenging to do procedurally with how the 'dragons' are constructed (think Gradius options); but hell, I've animated stuff frame by frame before.
I bet it's faster than a laser bullet and louder than an atom bomb too.S20-TBL wrote:That's no lucky dragon, that's a metal monster breathing smoke and fire, that closes in with vengeance soaring high.
I could see it working with something roughly the size of Flea Man from Metroidvania. In fact I think they bounce around on their own skeletal dragons at some point.Rozyrg wrote:
Dragon Breed was an inspiration for sure. I kinda wanted to make one with a rider; but I didn't think it would look right with how the dragons are constructed. Might give it a try and have it as a goofy little unlockable bonus or something. <_<
Not sure what the gimmick would be beyond making the rider the one doing all the shooting; but it'd be cool visually at least. 
Well, it'd be the other way around.Udderdude wrote:Make the dragon shoot fire or something and you've got yourself a boss fight .. :p
The idea has gone out the window a bit now that I've added some weirder enemies; but originally you were supposed to be the 'bad guy' monsters fighting against humanity/earth forces/whatever. 
