Big update of Shinobi Match


A good amount of time has passed since the last devlog and tons of changes have been done in the game. So this will be a big one!

New Levels and Missions

Now the game has all the levels I wanted it to have. A total of 120 levels split between 20 missions with an updated difficulty curve to fit better the player skill evolution.

New Mechanics

A new mechanic was introduced, now enemies leave traps when they make groups. These traps have different but predictable effects so the player can understand and plan to avoid or even use them. They appear in the more advanced levels when the player already has more skill.

Smoke

Spikes

Bola

Scroll

Dart

These provide more depth to the game, requiring the player to do much more planning to be able to win even against all this types of elements.

Improved visuals

New animations for level unlock, mission win, level lose and beating the game.

Improved Game State Feedback

Visual feedback of the state of the game was improved all around:

  • Feedback about the player progress after each level he beats by sending him to the level select.

  • Weapon select animation to improve the notion of the player of which weapon is selected.

  • Extra background highlight of the characters to protect to fix the regular mistakes of killing them by accident.

  • Animation of the characters that are in the place that will be hit by a weapon to improve the player notion of what he is hitting.

  • New animation with coins and orbs to display much more clearly that the player is winning or loosing score, and from where.

New Settings Menu

Allows the control of sound and the resolution of the game window.

Others

  • Added restart level button in the corner of the play area so the player can restart the level if he doesn’t want to continue with the current try.

  • Now 4 characters cannot fall directly in a row, this was a case that made the player predictions useless.

  • Removed the level start screen since it only added more click without any real advantage.

Next Steps

The part that is now missing the most work is the UI all around the game. HUD elements, some sprites where done as development art and need to be reworked, animations, texts, some screens need to be reorganized, etc.

Other than that most of the game is reaching the point for me to consider it done, so the next version will probably be the release one.

Files

shinobimatch-win32-x64.zip 101 MB
Apr 23, 2022
shinobimatch-linux-x64.zip 99 MB
Apr 23, 2022
Shinobimatch-darwin-x64.zip 243 MB
Apr 23, 2022

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