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I worked a lot on the visuals of the boss battle (see the second attachment), i made the dialogue UI smoothly glide in, and i added cinematic bars that appear during the boss fight. I also added dust effects when he lands. Other than that, i also added decorative piles of barrels, so when he throws barrels at the player, he is no longer just pullign them out of thin air.

I also improved the lasso visuals, made it connect to the actual ring, rather than the centre of it, and change the texture of the hook when the lasso connects, to show the lasso wrapped around it.

I also decided to sort levels in to different “worlds”. I dont really want to call it worlds as its all in a single tower, but they just correspond to different visual themes of levels with different relevant mechanics, like the second world has machinery, pipes and lava, and introduces the horse mechanic and lasers.
I want each world to end with a boss battle, and the boss i previously made is now the boss for the first world.

I also spent roughly 2 hours debugging some visual bugs that i only got on Windows. On my linux laptop which i have been developing the game thus far, everything looked good. But on this windows computer, there were flashing at the edges of some tiles, there was a gap between the player’s torso and legs, and pixels werent pixel-perfect. I havent really fixed the root of the issues, but at least i fixed the symptoms of it, so i think its fine?

Added LASERS!! I can place laser cannons around the map that fire a laser ray every couple seconds. I think theyre really fun! I also added a new death animation for lasers (see video attachment 2). I also made a new system for my level editor where i can mark the delay of enemies (including laser cannons) which took a really long time to implement but now allows me finer control over enemy behaviour.

I also made horses omnidirectional (vid #3). They can be placed as such to climb walls, or even walk in the ceiling! I think thats really fun :>

I also made horses return to their spawn point after having being ridden, to prevent soft locks on some levels. I can however in my level editor mark a “no return” zone, where the horse will not return to its origin while the player is inside, because on some levels i’ll want them to stay by the player to for instance boost the player to a higher platform.

I also made a new level utilizing vertical horses and lasers, and as usual ill continue working on more levels!

Added enemies and firing projectiles! The enemies cant currently fight back and just randomly move left and right. I made the player animation be split in to two animations, one for the torso and one for the legs. This makes it possible to show ex. a shooting animation independently of the legs’ animation.
Will work on making enemies shoot back at you!