Improvement of the week

Hello,

Some news about the work being made over MBY. Here is the list of what was made until now for the next update:

• Improve graphics variety

• Wide race, castle, eggs and deathmatch wide area "The underwater bunker"

• Update the character select screen so it supports a lot of characters

• Custom weapon loading system

• Custom character loading system

• On deathrace, when a laps is done (or every players are dead), restart at the beginning of the map

• Maps are now loaded from external files compatible with Tiled Level Editor (Using Flare format export)

• Custom tileset loading system

• Various maps improvements

• New wide deathmatch arena "The Sewer"

• New small deathmatch arenas "Fatal Tower", "Death mat"

• New deathmatch/race/deathrace map "The Well"

• Some maps have now an automatically moving camera (that hurts)

• Directional force fields now push players

• Race mode for almost every maps that were deathmatch only

• Castle war mode for almost every maps that were deathmatch only

• Water transmits electricity

• Fire does not work with water

• Ice freeze water

• There is now score

• Score powerup

• Water spike tile

• Foreground decoration tile

• Waterfall tile

• Water current tile

• Conveyor belt tile

• Red, green and blue teleporter tiles

Here is the list of what is currently being made:

• Very lean tile
• Low lean tile, for ceiling and floor
• Add single player levels ("The drowned laboratory")
• Add race, castle and deathmatch wide arena ("City Hall Towers")
• Wind tile
• Sand, background sand, and water sand tile
• Sand cascade tile

The list of what is planified:

• Make a better and wider version of "Highway"
• A tutorial of how create custom content for Macroboy Y
• Learn to integrate steam workshop

The idea box, that may be added to the next update or a later one:

• Animate sprite of all weapons, including enemies one
• Add animation for enemies being shoted
• A fighting bot
• New character "Damdoshi", with specific powers
• Add a transformation of "Felina" into "Felinistra", with specific powers
• Fire tileset
• Ice tileset
• A lot of steam success
• Weight changes the way a character sink in water/sand cascade
• Weight changes the way a character bounce
• Sewer tileset
• Steam success
• Lock characters by default, so they have to be unlocked by steam success
• Same for weapons

The scope of the next update is becoming quite precise now. In a few days, certainly friday or saturday, the game will be updated.

As you may have noticed, several things that were planified have been moved to the idea box: most of them will be replanified for the next update.

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I am open to suggestion, if you think about anything that could improve the game, I will listen to it. Everything may not be possible to do, but we can discuss.