This week, we’re continuing our efforts to put new skills into the game! This time we’ve been focusing on the one-handed weapon skills, and put together two entirely new ones for you to try out!
The first one is a spell which summons shadow clones of yourself who will follow you around and deal damage to whatever you hit with your normal attacks.
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On level one you’ll get a single clone which deals 33% of your normal attack damage, and at level two you’ll gain another clone which deals 25% of your damage. The spell type works pretty much like the Cloud Strike spell for now: after you cast it once it reserves part of your mana pool and stays active until you cast it again.
The second spell is an area of effect spell in which your character channel his or her inner power and deal damage to all enemies within a target circle.
Clickety-click!
As you level this skill you’ll notice that the target circle becomes bigger and that you’ll be able to hit the enemies within it an additional number of times.
Next up we hope to finally finish the dungeon, so get ready for some epic boss battle(s)!
AWESOME! Even more skills!
I got a question going through my head since last tuesday: Is there a way to craft things or to forge swords and armor? That would add a really cool feature to the game!
As always, great work!
I’m so badly waiting for your game :D
I wonder if any SDK will be available too ?
Awesome stuff. I have a couple of questions.
Can you have more than one active skill taking up a portion of your mana bar or is it limited to one?
Also, with the shadow clones, does each clone have its own collision detection or does their damage just get applied to your main character?
I’m just interested in the decisions you’ve made on how you’ve implemented a lot the mechanics in this game.
I’m liking the new nameplate-as-HP-bar thing we’re seeing here. I didn’t notice it in the weapon throw gif before, but I suppose it’s been in for a while. :P
Theodore (administrator) wrote at 27/06/2013 00:21:@Sogomn: As unK said, there’s a bunch of crafting in the game! Here’s an old blog post about it: https://www.secretsofgrindea.com/index.php/blog/1437
@Mic: There’re no plans for it for the initial release. If the gods are willing (and I’m not dead), perhaps after!
@Adam: 1) You can use as many mana reserving skills as your mana pool allows! If you want to, you can have a bunch of them on at the same time, and stick to basic attacks (since you won’t have any spare mana to cast more spells).
2) Each clone has its own collision rather than just adding additional delayed damage. If this proves to be overpowered (because of extended hitbox time) or annoying (because clones can miss), we’ll change it around!
The skills look amazing! Once again, I’m really impressed by the smooth animations, they look so good!
Awesome! I love crafting! Cool animations from Fred yesterday, by the way! :)
Looks pretty good =] but with the Spirit Slash, would it be possible to make your character flash between enemies? because I think it would make the player feel like they are doing more damage and it would look cooler ;D just a suggestion.