Improvements 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:

• 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:

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

The list of what is planified:

• Custom weapon loading system

• Weight changes the way a character sink in water

• Weight changes the way a character bounce

• Make a better and wider version of "Highway"

• Very lean tile

• Low lean tile

• Animate sprite of all weapons, including enemies one

• Add single player levels

• Add animation for enemies being shoted

• Wind tile

• Sewer tileset

• Steam success

• Lock characters by default, so they have to be unlocked by steam success

• Same for weapons

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

• A fighting bot

• A tutorial of how create custom content for Macroboy Y

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

• 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

I think a partial update may be done next week, instead of waiting three month. I want at least to bring all custom loading system inside this partial update (and everything that is easy enough or already done)

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.