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* New Gimli Special Ability!
* New Gondor Warrior Special Ability!
* New Stage - Tower of Orthanc
* New State - The Shire
* Range Attack Revamps for most Characters
* Arcade Mode for Single Player and Co-Op
* Farmer Maggot Enemy AI
* Fixed Bugs with Platforms
* New Attacks for Aragorn, Eowyn, Legolas
Lord of the Smash is a PC game based off two entirely different worlds. Lord of the Rings and Super Smash Brothers. It is made in the program Game Maker as a solo project with graphics based off a DragonballZ gameboy game. The Website is coming soon that will tell you all the characters and their special abilities.
What is the Beta?
The Beta is testing for Balance, Gameplay, and Bugs. It is also for getting ideas. The Beta has all the characters (including the 6 unlockables) so if you like surprises then please wait to play the full version in a month or so. The Beta right now is missing Single Player where you fight against Evil Enemies from the Lord of the Rings Series. The Beta will be updated over the next few weeks with whatever I do, including CPU difficulty, many more stages, and more.
How can I help?
Well i need many things. I need you to list all bugs that you run into.
Some known bugs are:
-Oddly Falling through the level and not being able to respawn. (If this happens press 'P' and Backspace to end the match)
-CPUs walking in place and acting funny.
-Not being able to rush attack up slopes.
I would also like to hear your guys' (smash masters) take on Balancing. Make a full tier list with a scale out of 10 of how good you think the character is, so i can help even out the game alot more.
Come up with Special Ideas. Many characters have Specials
i.e. Rohirrim's Shield, Eowyn's Down+ Shoot Heal or Charging Legolas's Arrow
but some are lacking them and I can't think of good ideas. High Elf
Hobbit
Gondor Warrior
Gimli
All need specials so if you have an idea that would work let me know.
What are you working on now?
Well other than the specials, there are alot of character things that need to be tweaked.
Some Animations / Moves I am reworking 1.) Gandalf Air Attack - Changing it to be a teleport like Zelda's where there is an explosion at the end that does damage.
2.) Lothlorien Elf - Standing Attack. New Animation with alot more range.
3.) Lothlorien Elf - Up Air attack. New Animation
4.) Gondor Ranger - Up and Down Air Animations (Maybe even whole character redone / changed into something else haha)
5.) Legolas - Down Air attack - Needs some tweaking.
6.) Eowyn - Rush Attack needs to be more interesting haha
7.) Rohirrim - Up or Down attack changed to give the character some more playability.
Let me know if you absolutely hate any animations.
Well there are 4 availabe slots where all of them can be CPUs so its fun just to fight as yourself. But the game really shines with friends. If you have a USB controller go dig it out of your basement or closet and plug it in because with the Joy2Key application that comes in the Zip file you can have 4 people playing at once (with two controllers.) I even including a controller scheme so you can jump right in. Plug in the controller first, then load up JoyToKey.
Player 1
Move: Arrow Keys
Attack: Control
Shoot: Shift
Player 2
Move: WASD
Attack: F
Shoot: R
Player 3 (Use JoytoKey)
Move: Y(Up) G(LEft)H(Right) B(Down)
Attack: U
Shoot: T
Player 4 (Use JoytoKey)
Move: I(Up) J(LEft)K(Right) M(Down)
Attack: L
Shoot: O
Haha this is really cool! I love Super Smash, and LOTR, so yay!
For P1, I would change the 'Shift' for shoot. It turns on 'Sticky Keys' on my pc if I press it enough time, and the warning becomes annoying. Just an idea.
Otherwise... NICE! It's really good so far. Someone is gonna have to port this to the Wii, and make it playable through Homebrew.
Last edited by Hooblah2u2; 07-23-2009 at 12:57 AM..
Haha this is really cool! I love Super Smash, and LOTR, so yay!
For P1, I would change the 'Shift' for shoot. It turns on 'Sticky Keys' on my pc if I press it enough time, and the warning becomes annoying. Just an idea.
Otherwise... NICE! It's really good so far. Someone is gonna have to port this to the Wii, and make it playable through Homebrew.
I get that alot, and i hate Sticky Keys soo much (you can turn it off but its a pain), but the reason for Control and Shift is that so I can keep the same keys for when player 2 is on the other side of the keyboard playing WASD and you can bring your hands to the right Control and Shift.
I could always change it to other keys when the second player is a person. Any ideas on what I would do for that then?
And thanks for the compliments!!! Haha if someone could port an .exe that would be something else =P
Well, I can't download it at the moment (9MB?! With Game Maker? What did you do?) so I'll give you my input later. Why did you post this here before posting it in the GMC? lol
Good luck with this, I'd like to see ONE good SSB game done right in Game Maker, hopefully this will be it.
Well, I can't download it at the moment (9MB?! With Game Maker? What did you do?) so I'll give you my input later. Why did you post this here before posting it in the GMC? lol
Good luck with this, I'd like to see ONE good SSB game done right in Game Maker, hopefully this will be it.
Haha very good question. Well mostly all the sprites (including the Single Player enemies) are in the game maker file.
Also, i have some songs that i'm in the process of removing as I won't be using them from my previous attempt at this game. And I posted it at the GMC not long after haha. I find them not to really ever be that useful for developing games as their comments are usually either negative or just pointing out minor things that don't move the game development forward.
And the game is going to be pretty big when its done. I would say 14-15 MBs, which is alot i know, but there is a lot to this game =P.
Just tried it, it's lookin pretty good so far. Keep it up. Could use some music though, you know. You should be able to add that in the beta
You'll be happy to know that Music and Sound Effects will be in the next upload since they are done now. I'm going to get a little more done before i upload.
Also here are some things that I could add that im not sure about yet.
1.) Down to drop through platforms -
I like right now how you can stop to down attack, also what if you wanted to use eowyn or gondor ranger's special on a platform.
2.) Variable distance on some attacks (ie some will knock you further based off damage, as some will do .5 the knockback based of the damage and others would do 1.5)-
Im not sure about this because I like right now how everything can kill you and you have to be really careful to stay away from edges.
3.) Slowing down some characters jumps
- Will make it difficult for those characters to get to platforms
4.) Shortening the Arrow cooldown time on some characters
- Could make Legolas/Gondor Ranger/Loth Elf overpowered if they can spam range faster.
Let me know if you guys think any of these ideas definitely should be in the game.
i'm asking this cause i'm in no position to try it at the moment... do you have a double jump? if so... how the h*** did you get a double jump?
Haha, yea i have double jump, and air attacks that you can do only once while in the air.
Its about making variables such as
var jump;
In the Step Event
//If you are on the ground
If (position_meeting(x,y+1,ground_obj){
jumps = 0;
vspeed = 0;
move_contact(270);
gravity = 0;
}
then in the press Up key do
If (jumps < 2){
vspeed -=8;
jump ++; // add 1 to jump.
}
Anyways, the next Beta file is in development and should be out in a few days.
It has
Sound Effects - Done
Music - Done
CPU Levls - Done
A couple more stages
A few new animations
A Front Menu Screen
What i do need help in is Balancing though, so let me know if any characters seem way weaker than the top dogs of Gimli, High Elf and Aragorn.
I agree, I wasn't even sure if I was going to post the idea of it because it is one of the first things to figure out in Game Maker. Anyway, Beta v2 is due out soon and alot of it is done including:
-Music
-Sound Effects (for attacks and getting hit) (landing and jumping to come later)
-CPU Difficulty
-Stock Change on the Selection Screen
-Aragorn can no longer move around when charging his Standing Attack
-Legolas Shooting works for P4.
-Gandalf gets a new sound when his Magic Ball hits. Things that are on the update list soon
-Gondor Ranger's Terrible Up Attack
-Lothlorien Elf's equally terrible standing attack
-Specials for Hobbit and Gondor Warrior =)
Expect Beta v2 sometime late next week. (or next weekend).
Beta v2 Features
* New Hobbit Special Ability
* New Up Attack Special for Gandalf
* New Stage (Pelennor Fields) (4 stages total now)
* Fixed some bugs
* CPU Difficulty Levels
* Sound Effects for Attacks and getting hurt.
* Music for Menus and stages.
* Shorter Cooldowns for Range Attacks for Ranger, Lothlorien Elf, Legolas.
Linear Mode
