It's been about roughly 7 months and a couple of days since my last post. If you haven't played it yet Etehfowr Against is playable on Newgrounds! However, I highly recommend playing the downloadable version from Itch.io.
Since then, the great Andrea Demetrio who's made the really awesome schwarzerblitz (that just had it's trailer shown in the Evo 2022 showcase!) wrote an article about my game here. I agree with the article, as it's clear from the reception that it seems like everyone finds the game really interesting. Etehfowr Against was my first "Real" project and I'm happy to see that it had some good reception. I'm currently working on another fighting game, this time, based on the manga Chainsaw Man!
The process for this new game is one I'm looking to employ for all of my games in the future. Animation took a really long time for Etehfowr Against to some subpar effect. So I decided to utilize 3d modeling and animations this time with using Dust3d, a low-poly modeling program meant to help speed up the modeling and rigging process. This actually has been a very fast process. My reasoning for making this game is because I really really like chainsaw man, but also, I want to take what I learned from Etehfowr Against and refine a simple fighting game around that.
Chainsaw-Man is a game that is just a lot simpler. Etehfowr Against's various resources is kind of daunting for people new to playing fighting games, so the idea this time was to create a much easier to approach game. The game's combat is taking some inspiration from killer instinct, but to note, it isn't something like opener-->linker-->ender. I wanted to capture something like ultras and etc. I'm looking to show off some more later before school starts later in the month. The gameplay has been good so far, I'm just mostly trying to finish rough art assets + menus and when i get to it, AI.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">ok I actually got the 3d model to rotate indefinitely lmfao. Also, Denji can block by holding the attack button and walking back. this is just a test on a blocking system <a href="https://t.co/hYoZ0skyja">pic.twitter.com/hYoZ0skyja</a></p>— Pochita's Dog Food (@Pooptiesquat) <a href="https://twitter.com/Pooptiesquat/status/1553758346771046401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>