Void Knight - GDKO Round 2

WAD to move, Space to slam hammer, click and hold to fly (must start from ground).  Proceed through the door for the Round 2 addition of the hammer slam mini game!

ROUND 2 Update:

For Round 2, I decided to add a "test your strength" toy to compliment the void knight.  I decided I wanted to make more use of his hammer slam / flying and made an infinite scroller tower for him to fly up, dodging dangerous fire orbs, and finally performing one EPIC slam after his energy runs out.

Technical Items:

• Infinite Scroller: I used two rotating tilemaps to keep the tower "scrolling", clamping the camera Y and moving the tilemaps and objects instead.
• Obstacles were generated using Construct 3's Advanced Random plugin.  Specifically I used a combination of cellular 2d and classic 2d noise which became "more difficult" the higher you flew.
• Leaderboard!!! This was a fun one to get working.  Managed to make a simple username login and high score / leaderboard using Playfab.  I used the Master Collection Playfab plugin from Chadori to make this work. 
• I used the leaderboard results to also determine how high you would go up on the "Test Your Strength" toy.

With some more time, I would add music / sound effects and improve the art on the toy itself. 

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ROUND 1:

Void Knight is a character where I practiced several dev items I had been wanting to try.  Below are the key items I did during the duration of the jam in somewhat chronological order.

• Artwork for character (character only! see note below) created in Aseprite
• Art exported using Aseprite Spine script and imported into Spine
• Spine (first project using it!) - rigged and animated basic animations
• Imported Spine output into Construct 3 using Spine Plugin (Thank you Mikal/kindeyegames and gritsenko!)
  • https://github.com/gritsenko/c3_spine_plugin
• Two unique abilities implemented:
  • Hammer Flying (Hold down mouse while on the ground to start)
  • Hammer Slam (while in the air, the void knight will slam to the ground.  A raycast is used to get distance, and the speed is set so that the hammer slams into the ground.  I still get the occasional hiccup from the raycast but it usually works)
• VFX: Mesh distortion on pre-existing sprites I had applied to the flying animation for the "void tunnel".
• Void Pet: Added a floating void pet which acts somewhat as a "trail" for the character.  If I had more time, I would add more abilities with the pet.
• VFX: Similar distortion effects applied to the pet and the hammer to make it more satisfying.  I coded my own tail rather than use a plugin to see if I could using mesh distortion.
• Procedural Lighting - Totally not necessary for jam but wanted to tinker with it.  It is a custom modification of two C3 effect addons from Mikal/kindeyegames  who also ported from previous developers (See references below).  I merged the two into a single effect and extended it to support up to 10 lights.
  • https://www.construct.net/en/make-games/addons/194/normalmapextended
  • https://www.construct.net/en/make-games/addons/350/normalmapprocedural
  • If you use Construct 3, I have made the proceduralLighting effect available to download and also made a tutorial video to go along with it:
    • Itch Demo / c3p / c3addon: https://foozlecc.itch.io/procedural-lighting-effect
    • YouTube:

• NOTE: I did not create the tile art during this jam (it is from an asset pack i have access to (Side Scroll Worlds set from Szadi Art (https://szadiart.itch.io/).  I also used an existing level I had access to since it was allowed and made it more fun to focus on the character :)

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