User blog comment:Smash The Echidna/Splice The Hedgehog Updates Blog/@comment-1942179-20120626211508

I may or may not have mentioned this, but I lost a lot of data on my main computer. I was set back just a tad on this project, but it was still enough to almost completely null the last update I made.

However, I did manage to recover Speedy's victory pose, and can very easily recover Smash's defending sprites.

But as the main things I'd been working on prior to the data loss were things that wouldn't take place until the end of the game, I'll probably be focusing on recovering other mandatory stuff and moving on.

Moving on, I'm working on adding some new weapons in the game, and arranging the weapons usable for each character. There isn't too much to say about this yet, but I can show you the designs I made for each of the Dagger weapons.



If any of you looked at this part of Splice's page, you'd recognize the Gladius. It's the penultimate dagger, and you get it by progressing through the game normally. But I'm not telling you how to get the last one.

Now for my main update, progress as of today. Y'all probably didn't know, but I had planned to have the characters learn skills from eachother.

Well, I don't quite remember how I planned to do that. And seeing how those extra skills won't leave as much room for their own stuff, I'm probably gonna scrap that idea--save for a few.

But I've just now realized that it's actually far easier to learn skills from enemies, than it is from your allies. And seeing how that would be a bit more unique, I decided to give it a shot. Who was my volunteer? Why, the main person who learned first learned skills from others: Violet. To do this, I gave her a new skill called "Observe Battle". You might recognize this as a possible enemy skill, in which they basically do nothing and watch you. This is essentially what Violet does, although it has much more purpose behind it now. When an enemy uses a certain skill, one that's possible for her to learn, she'll catch onto it and make a comment about it before adding it to her skill list.

However, certain moves must meet certain requirements; such as needing an elemental ring to pull them off. And of course, if the attack is targeted towards her, she has to survive it to be able to learn it.

I've just tested this, and it seems to work just fine! I'm rather excited about this, because it makes Violet a much more interesting character.

By the way, I mentioned that some enemies can observe battles as well, though it doesn't do anything. If they both do it at the same time, then...



Let's see which one of them blinks first. ;)