And we already support crouching, so that could be a MVP version of ‘dancing’, heh.

well, for something initial we can just make the character jumping with his arms up, maybe some side effects moving around? something like confetti or a crown, if it's for something simpler something close to the screen of among us but more "happy" with the character dancing 🧐

including the other players lying on the side while the winner celebrates I also find it interesting.

Can you tell me an ideal resolution for the screen you are using? I can start some sketches here for the victory screen

Hi! Really sorry I didn't reply for so long, been a bit swamped with other stuff the last few days In development I've been using 800x450 resolution but I think this is still subject to change as not a lot of thought has gone into it so far, so it's up to you whether you want to work with that - As an interim the celebration/dancing animation can definitely still be used though if you make one, wondering about something like the winning player could celebrate in place on the map and the UI comes up overlayed - I think this could look really good Separately, what would be amazing if you wanted to work on would be the explosion animations! What I essentially need is some 32x32px tiles, I think to make the bombs feel really impactful it would look good for the explosion to almost instantly and fizzle out more slowly, I did some testing with just red squares and it seemed like around 600ms was a good length of time In traditional bomberman style the explosions go outwards orthogonally - right now the bombs have a reach of one adjacent tile in each direction so would need 5 tiles to cover this - in future, will likely implement powerups, for example maybe bombs that have a longer reach, so that would require two extra tiles (one vertical and one horizontal as intermediate between the center tile and the extremity tiles) The explosions take effect instantly once the bomb goes off so the animation may have to break physicals slightly as the whole cross must have some explosion from the first frame as opposed to spreading out from the central tile If you need anything else or have any ideas please please let me know!

Erlend linked this video back in August which has endless examples of the kinda thing needed!

Sorry for silence lately - uni has been a bit hectic

All good 😊 plenty of buzz in the other games lately, so I didn’t really notice!

@Pit is the recording on the Bomby repo the most up to date footage we have?

We’re putting it into the Kickstarter video.

What’s already there works. Would be awfully nice to have footage with explosion effects though 😁 I guess we never got around to making custom ones? Any kind of placeholder art would be fine for starters really.

I would think it's a good idea to get another one since that was taken before the camera shake was implemented - I can probably get one at some point but I'm under a lot of exam stress at the minute - not really in a position to be trying to implement effects rn, currently working 8+ hours a day including weekends for my degree

There is an open draft PR using block translucent colours for an explosion effect while I was waiting on an animation (see ), might suit your needs? But it's really intended just for debug - not sure it would look good in a video

I can for sure get a new recording which will include the camera shake tomorrow though since that'll be quick to do

Here is the draft PR I was talking about which has the debug explosion effect:

Here I'm going to write a story idea for Bomby

Bomby's story spinning around the Fish Death Show, where fishes blowing each other up to the death to win a prize. One or more main characters (if there will be a cooperative story walkthrough) decided to participate in this show to get a prize. There also maybe should be a tragic reason why they decided to participate in this show, Well, or the main characters are only interested in the prize, why not 🤷‍♀️

Different levels in different styles can be explained by the fact that this is a show, so there may be levels to the fantasy, space style, nautical, etc.

Bomberman has various and colorful levels, I really like this part in the series.

although by that logic, Jumpy is also part of the Fish Death Show 🤔

as on TV, it's just another show

We haven’t started on any story yet so this sounds like as good a place to start as any to me. @Pit ?

That’s kind of what we have already conceptualized, which is a meta-verse, aka a series of intertwined ‘television channels’.

Nice reference pic. That’s definitely around the same level of fidelity that we’re aiming for.

What do you think of this version of the bomb? https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1014467829682155570/1112124157921087601/Bomb.ase

for comparison, I made the outline thicker and added white thing to the sparks to make it seem brighter

I don’t have a good eye for these things, but looks good to me 👌

I could also make sprites of the bomb before the explosion, if it will blushes, it will be better understood that there will be an explosion

On the other hand, it didn't blush in Bomberman as I remember