Huzzah for enemies appearing now.  And I haven't corrupted the stack this time around either!


- Just need to make 'em recognize solid walls now, but the appearance is the main thing.

Update:  I might have a demo video later today.  Just need to get the balls to hit the walls.

You need to put the balls to the wall!

...couldn't resist.

Speaking of enemies and objects, got another very important part of the game implemented just now:

- Password or continue quantity will be written under the message, but that time won't come for a while now.

Have you been to the Excalibur in Vegas?
Huzzah for Midevil times....

Video now available to be seen.

saw the vid..damn awesome. I can't wait for the release. Any chance it'll be CIB?

God, I didn't think it was possible, but that looks harder than the first already. Hopefully that's just some testing screens and not the first level. If, not I'm scared to see where this game goes in later levels.

Awesome non the less

Lets call it a tie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keij...



Holy shit! cant wait "..I'm squealing like a little girl"

Nice video Sivak, looks pretty cool, I was like viewer 129 or something

Game looks to be coming along nicely

Wow, you really have made progress with BK2! I have a quite important request for the gameplay. Alot of people that saw the first game said that the physics of Timmy seemed a little bit to unreal. Even though I agreed with those comments I defended your game with "It's supposed to be like that". But after playing the game more and more I have to agree with those people. A little bit of "jumping up and when starts falling you fall little slower first and then fall at full speed after a short while". I tried to find something to demonstrate what I was meaning on youtube and something like this:

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I have also played the game on my PAL system, just to make it a bit easier, and every time I try it on my NTSC system I think the game is too fast! Perhaps even som accelerating physics would take away this feeling. I mean that you gets to the fastest speed after running a little bit. Now you run at the same speed all the time. I am not talking about that it should take like 5 seconds to gain speed, just a short time, to make it feel a little bit more like in Mario etc.

Another thing that would be great in some places would be a sneak function, holding down a button or something, alowwing you to go forward at half speed. Taking it easy sort of...

How many pixels are Timmy moving each frame right now?

Anyway, keep up the great work, and I am really excited about this sequel!

In-game maps are really good ideas.

I really like the new terrain changes like the laders and ice. The only thing I found dissapointing were the screen changes. I'd prefer scrolling or quick fade-outs/ins over those annoying "black-out/in" transitions.

same here with the screen change. It's kinda dizzy sometimes..

Can't be done feasibly.

Man you are cookin. Looks great. The ice looks to be working fine. Everything looks awesome.

damn bk has killer balls!

Will Timmy be able to climb up and down the wall grip walls? Or will he only be able to hold onto one point without jumping or dropping off?

They won't be like ladders, no.  You CAN hold the directional button into the wall and tap jump to ascend in a weird way though.

Double post, but I uploaded an NSF of some of the soundtrack that's been written.

http://famitracker.shoodot.net/fo... - This forum post elsewhere has info about it.

Looks great so far. I can't wait. As far as the map goes if you had something simple like this:
http://media.photobucket.com/imag...
It would work great, I would think that if you ended up doing branching pathways in the game, something similar to the above map would be helpful. Maybe just brought up by the pause screen.

I like the idea of the grip walls as an upgrade in the game. In my opinion a ladder like grip wall would work better, example would be Metriod Fusion or Metriod Zero Mission. I only say this because of the amount of precision most of the jumps in Battle Kid take, this would allow adjusting your height to exactly where you want. Just a thought though...

Well, we'll see.  I think just having it so each sector has its own map piece would work best.  There are 7 sectors of the main mountain planned.  I'd leave secret areas off the maps though. 

I had a design choice question here...  What do you guys think about this situation:

In BK1, the save rooms had their own music track.  I was thinking of removing this for BK2 and just have the area's theme continue on.  Save rooms are also indicated by stars outside the entrance.

You think this is a good move or do you prefer having some calming music in-between sectors?

I thought the calm music was kind of nice (reminiscent of the silent comm rooms in Bionic Commando)

i prefer the calm music..it feels really good reaching the save point after you manage to pass the level

Honestly, I like the different music, but I found it a little grating.