It's been a long time since we've been in touch, but we haven't been sitting idle. We were carefully working out the combat system for our first “weapon” of furious fists.

Honestly, on paper, the development of the combat system looked simple: character hits, mob flies off. But we encountered a lot of pitfalls. From how a character should hit depending on the combo accumulated, to how to make it possible to hit on the move and not get accidentally slapped.

Furious Fists has a combo system that changes the characteristics of the punches in each stage. Each stage has its own damage, range, and attack frequency. The final combo punch sends the character forward like a mini-burst. And there are also air kicks. And all of these actions can be performed while on the move.

Almost immediately we realized that the attack range in the stitched animation is too short. In such dynamics it is very difficult to accurately fit the fist to the alien face. So we decided to increase the attack range, and to accompany this action with an appropriate animation.

Initially, the stages of combos were gained not only during the mess with mobs, but also when destroying bio-blocks. But we eventually abandoned this solution, because the final combo attack, in all this green madness, it was impossible to track. And often there was a situation in which the character flew forward under the press, to certain death, without caution.

Where am I?

How hard should the mob fly off on hit? How long should it stay stunned? Do all mobs bounce back the same way, or are there some that are more resilient? And should every hit bounce back with the same amount of force? And so from the question “how hard does a mob bounce” we had a carload and a small cart of questions, each of which needed an answer. What we did as a result: some attacks, including the dash, repel mobs more strongly. At the same time, each mob has its own weight, which affects how far it will fly away after the blow.

Weight comparisons between the Hard Worker and Tvar

All these nuances can be perfectly observed in the moment when the character, without stopping, goes and hands out smacks to the right and left.

We agonized for a very long time with the combo system on the furious fists, and the result feels comfortable. It's easy to get used to. The next “weapon” we're going to start working on is a damn unstable blaster. This is the one that the development will really go easy on. There's just a character taking a shot, and the projectile goes flying. Doesn't it?

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Gennady features many classic game mechanics that we've tweaked to fit our vision. This is felt in everything from level design to individual game systems. We've always loved it when something new and different is brought into the mundane tropes of game development. In this develog, we're going to share with you a mechanic that basically came out of an old, but universally loved game. In which you just have to shoot ducks.


As the run progresses, the player accumulates full pockets underpants of all sorts of junk. And although death in the game - a fairly common phenomenon, it's a shame when all this hard-won good simply disappears. And that's where the fatal shooting gallery comes in! The idea is quite simple and, as mentioned above, comes from the game Duck Hunter.

Intermediate iteration fatal shooting gallery

After dying, the player is given the opportunity to return a certain amount of junk that he managed to collect during the run. After shooting a certain number of items in the shooting gallery, the player starts his next run with them. The cards fall at random amplitude and at different speeds. All these parameters we can adjust to smoothly customize the difficulty of this mini-game.

We hope this mechanic will help players save useful items and not get too down on themselves after accidentally dying in a long run. And yes, fatal shooting gallery is the working title, because it essentially starts when the character is already dead. But Postmortem shooting gallery sounds even worse. Do you have any better ideas?

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