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Came up with and implemented one of the special abilities you’ll be able to unlock, called Slingshad. Your shadow will extend an arm towards you and slingshot you towards their position. The little HUD icon disappears then fades back in as the cooldown resets.
Right now this ability is input by pressing X (shadow button) and C (attack button) together while in the air,
Added coins, shadow coins, and hearts to be dropped by enemies on death. Coins will be used to purchase items like the lamp, flashlights, and other various things. Shadow coins will be used to upgrade your Shadow’s abilities. Hearts replenish your health, as if there was anything else for them to do.
Added more interactions with walls. Running into a wall causes a pushing animation, and holding in towards one while in the air will allow you to cling and jump off.
Completely redid the shadow system because I was unhappy with how difficult it was becoming to generate a shadow on walls/ceiling with my original method.
In other news, the shadow can now be properly cast on walls and ceilings!
Finally back to working on engine stuff, decided it was about time to get the shadow to function on walls so I can more comfortably get started on level design. Haven’t implemented many cases yet, but was generally satisfied that I threw some more trig into the code and it worked as expected.
An extra addition to the site refresh, I updated and animated the old SELUNA title card!
This ended up being a little more work than I expected, mostly because I didn’t have a lot of the parts in the original image separated in a way that would support animation like this. Photoshop to the rescue on this one.
