{"id":696,"date":"2015-05-10T11:19:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T15:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootdiskrevolution.com\/?p=696"},"modified":"2015-08-23T14:26:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T18:26:10","slug":"tcaf-co-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootdiskrevolution.com\/NEW_BLOG\/tcaf-co-op\/","title":{"rendered":"TCAF + Co-Op"},"content":{"rendered":"

Woohoo! This weekend I’m exhibiting Bleed 2 at TCAF<\/a>! The show is as awesome as it is free, so come give the game a shot and say hi if you’re in the area!<\/p>\n

Something I managed to add for the exhibition is a co-op mode! In the original Bleed, co-op was basically a hack I put in at the last minute because I thought it’d be fun. I know there were a lot of issues with it as a result, so I’ve tried to improve it in several ways.<\/p>\n

Better Camera<\/h4>\n

Previously the camera followed only player one, but now it’s weighted to take player two’s position into account. It’s not an even weighting — it strongly favours the first player — but it is there, and I can always fiddle with the bias to see if it helps.
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Auto-Teleport<\/h4>\n

A huge gripe in the first game was that the second player could easily be left behind and lost off-screen. Now an indicator appears to point at the second player if they go off-screen. The indicator doubles as a countdown timer — if it hits zero, the second player is automatically teleported back to player one.
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Bullet-Time<\/h4>\n

In the original, both players shared control over bullet-time: they both needed to hold the bullet-time button to fully slow time, with a single player holding the button yielding half the results at half the energy drain. That mechanic seems a bit too ridiculous to me now, so it’s been scrapped — I was trying to promote a sense of teamwork, but I have a new idea of how to accomplish that…<\/p>\n

Better Gameplay<\/h4>\n

Finally, our dear friend Palette-Swapped Wryn doesn’t have a purple sword — hers is yellow! As you might guess, this means player two will be able to reflect the normally-unreflectable yellow bullets and attacks! Some of the minor enemies are palette-swapped in co-op as well, so player two has an equal amount of gameplay to participate in.
\n\"\"Hopefully feedback from TCAF will help me understand if I’m on the right track here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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