Special Stats: Return of the Stats

WE ARTWORK NOW! Nah, not quite, but I did have a friend of mine (and potential game artist) doodle up some 5-minute rough ideas for our lovable Super Virgin Samurai and the evil(-ly cute?) Doombies. Check it:

Did I mention the stats? Anyway. Lots of stuff done. No really. A lot. You can now kill yourself using the K key. This is great for...I dunno...people who like to die. (It's kind of a nice way to get out of a match. Still undecided if it should cause you to lose the weapons you gained during the match).

(Programmer humor)

A few more Special stats:

Damage Block gives you a chance to negate incoming enemy damage. It's useful in a...less obvious way. It's actually saved my butt quite a few times.

Damage Reflect bounces the damage you take back to your attacker -- but you still take the damage. It's a little schadenfreude, and it's pretty fun to kill things by slamming your face into them.

Instakill gives you a chance on hit to do some ludicrous damage to an enemy, killing most weaker ones.

That's also a screenshot of another cool feature: PAUSING. YEAAAAAAH!

Something interesting to take note of is the amount of balancing I have been doing. There is quite a lot of content to be balanced even without particularly interesting levels and only 3 very simple enemy types. It's making for an interesting programming & design experience and does require quite a bit of thought to do what I feel is perfect for the game. I'm not allowing myself to cut corners with this proof of concept -- it's gotta be what I want it to be.

Certainly I can say, however -- getting a Ludicrous feels damn good.

Loot drops are a bit more varied now too; scrolls drop more often as well, and killing stronger enemies often yields more scrolls.

All in all this is shaping up to be a pretty fun project. I'm hoping it will go well on the 9th and that I'll choose to push forward with it -- if I do, you can be sure to start seeing some playable builds as well as some artwork! I will be looking extensively for alpha testers, and you might be one of them!