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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0009684 | Shattered Haven | Suggestion | Oct 7, 2012 9:33 am | Jan 19, 2013 10:44 am | |
| Reporter | GameMaker24 | Assigned To | Chris_McElligottPark | ||
| Status | closed | Resolution | no change required | ||
| Summary | 0009684: Pick-ups to float back down. | ||||
| Description | I like that pick-ups such as money and items float upward and disappear when you collect them. When money floated above my head, my knee-jerk reaction was "money, come back!" before I mentally decided the coins are just behaving like they do in Mario when you hit a "?" box. When a valuable tool floated above my head, I questioned it for a split-second because it felt like the item floated up and away from my grasp. I knew it was displayed in the sprite's hand, but it's still kind of jarring. It would be cool if the animation could make the item float upward, and then downward again, so that it disappears on top of the sprite. That way the player instinctively knows "they got it." | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Internal Weight | Polish Tweak | ||||
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I think lots of games use this sort of animation, and they don't tend to come back down. One problem with characters in motion is that the money or whatever would come back down not on top of them and look really odd. Not to mention that doing the acceleration nicely on this would take a lot of work and still not really look that nice in most cases; doing abrupt about-faces in movements like this tends to not do well. |
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Yeah, I've gotten used to this animation. :) |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 2012 9:33 am | GameMaker24 | New Issue | |
| Oct 7, 2012 9:33 am | GameMaker24 | Status | new => assigned |
| Oct 7, 2012 9:33 am | GameMaker24 | Assigned To | => Chris_McElligottPark |
| Jan 18, 2013 12:15 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0029894 | |
| Jan 18, 2013 12:15 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | assigned => closed |
| Jan 18, 2013 12:15 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Resolution | open => no change required |
| Jan 19, 2013 10:44 am | GameMaker24 | Note Added: 0029957 | |
| Apr 14, 2014 9:28 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Category | Suggestion - General Idea => Suggestion - General |
| Apr 14, 2014 9:30 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Category | Suggestion - General => Suggestion |
