{"id":1406,"date":"2016-05-22T14:07:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T18:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootdiskrevolution.com\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2016-05-20T17:16:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T21:16:48","slug":"finishing-the-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootdiskrevolution.com\/NEW_BLOG\/finishing-the-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Finishing The Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news. Due to a setback, the trailer won&#8217;t be out for a little while. Sincere apologies to anyone who was excited for it, or is frustrated by the delays &#8212; I&#8217;m right there with you and I&#8217;ll make it happen as soon as I can. The only other productive thing to do in the meantime is to hammer away at the remainder of the game, and that&#8217;s what&#8217;s gonna happen!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">What I Did This Week<\/h4>\n<p>Much of this week was spent preparing submissions for PAX Prime (they&#8217;re trying to call it PAX West this year, but I ain&#8217;t buyin&#8217; it!!) I&#8217;m trying to get Bleed 2 into either the PAX 10, or the Indie Megabooth, so I can exhibit there and have a grand old time. Wish me luck!<\/p>\n<p>Besides that, I plan to have the game at &#8220;beta&#8221; by mid-June. Meaning, I want all these stickies gone except for &#8220;Bugfixing&#8221;, &#8220;Playtesting&#8221; and &#8220;Polish&#8221;! So when I wasn&#8217;t preparing festival submissions, I was working on getting rid of these bad boys.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1407 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootdiskrevolution.com\/NEW_BLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/moreStickies.jpg?resize=473%2C357\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootdiskrevolution.com\/NEW_BLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/moreStickies.jpg?w=473&amp;ssl=1 473w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootdiskrevolution.com\/NEW_BLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/moreStickies.jpg?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What remains in those stickies? Well, leaderboards were, and they got knocked out this week. Before leaderboards were just a mocked-up, non-functioning menu &#8212; now it&#8217;s 100% working! I&#8217;m using data from the original Bleed, since there aren&#8217;t any entries for Bleed 2 yet.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1408 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootdiskrevolution.com\/NEW_BLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/workingLeaderboards.gif?resize=480%2C270\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootdiskrevolution.com\/NEW_BLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/workingLeaderboards.gif?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootdiskrevolution.com\/NEW_BLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/workingLeaderboards.gif?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since there&#8217;s so many entries displayed (up to 100), I added special movement code just for this menu. Pressing left\/right scrolls up\/down in batches of 10, and holding any button scrolls in that direction. Nothing too fancy, just details you gotta think about. There doesn&#8217;t need to be a selector for individual entries unless I get replays 100% working, but you can see I&#8217;m ready and hoping for that.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1409 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootdiskrevolution.com\/NEW_BLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/playerPanel.gif?resize=480%2C270\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootdiskrevolution.com\/NEW_BLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/playerPanel.gif?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootdiskrevolution.com\/NEW_BLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/playerPanel.gif?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also got a co-op interface hooked up! It improves on Bleed 1 in a lot of ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s no in-game drop-in\/drop-out anymore. Maybe this sounds like a negative, but it means co-op players can have their own leaderboards, because it ensures co-op play was done the whole way through. In the original Bleed, having a co-op player at any time disqualified you from the leaderboards&#8230; yeah. It was dumb.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s clear which character you are, and you can easily switch characters! Just in case player one wants to be yellow for a change. Why not?<\/li>\n<li>You can easily play co-op with only one controller! In Bleed 1, you had to find some obscure option buried in the menus if you wanted to do this. Now, just press X on a controller and bam. It&#8217;s the co-op controller!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">What I&#8217;m Gonna Do In The Coming Weeks<\/h4>\n<p>How about going forward? What else needs to be done? Well:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Story Mode: A few last things need to be stitched together, and I want a screen showing what&#8217;s unlocked when you beat the game.<\/li>\n<li>Extra Characters: There are 5 unlockable characters. Maybe they don&#8217;t have to be perfect, but I need all their sprites, weapons, abilities, etc done, as well as a character select screen.<\/li>\n<li>Achievements: I have to code and test them all! Certain little things, like health pickups in Arcade Mode, need to be coded so their achievements are possible to get.<\/li>\n<li>Arcade Mode: I need to add special code to lots of little places for Arcade Mode. It needs to track and upload scores properly, shorten cutscenes, have a final score screen, restrict characters\/abilities in &#8216;New Game&#8217; mode, etc<\/li>\n<li>Challenge Mode: I know it&#8217;s in the menu in that gif up there, but it actually doesn&#8217;t exist yet.\u00a0\u00a0 :D<\/li>\n<li>Replays: The big one. If I have time, I&#8217;ll make sure they properly record and play back all characters\/weapons\/abilities, work across all platforms, upload and download to the leaderboards, etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aaaaaaand that&#8217;s it! Can I do it in a month? Let&#8217;s find out!! See you next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news. Due to a setback, the trailer won&#8217;t be out for a little while. Sincere apologies to anyone who was excited for it, or is frustrated by the delays &#8212; I&#8217;m right there with you and I&#8217;ll make it happen as soon as I can. 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