Keatz The Lonely Bird Indie Game Development Update September 16-2017 - Introducing Parallax Effect

 

Hello world,

From today, I, the developer of Keatz: The Lonely Bird game, will continuously post new topics instead of posting in the same page which becomes hard to scroll down and see all the updates again and again. There will be different kinds of blog posts at least once per week with new content, updates and patches. Since, I am the only one operating both anamikmajumdar.net and amaxang-games.com websites, it becomes hard to get some time to keep them updated but I try my best to find out an ideal time for this. 

September 16, 2017:

Development Progress: 50%

Game Page: http://www.amaxang-games.com/2017/05/keatz-lonely-bird-indie-pc-game.html

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Today, I have introduced Parallax Motion effect which seems to be one of the best feature of a platformer. I actually got this suggestion from one of the Facebook groups which let me to believe that it would be a cool feature to have especially in outdoor levels. 

The benefit of adding Parallax motion effect to the levels is that it makes the motion effect realistic and gives it a 3D feel. I have also noticed this effect in the old school games like Mario, Sonic and it was an important feature which I missed when I had worked on my first game.  

Here is an example of a gif without parallax effect and another one with parallax effect demonstrating one of the levels in Keatz: The Lonely Bird indie game:

Without Parallax effect:

With Parallax effect:

 

According to gif images shown above, the differences are distinctively visible. Besides, the second one looks realistic and far better than the first one. This concludes that the feedback which I had received from one of the users on Facebook was really helpful and at the same time, I have learned something awesome and it will be helpful for my future projects also. 

Game development process is all about learning new stuffs, experimenting with new features and game mechanics. The parallax motion effect was initially introduced in cut scenes way before I received any feedback and I was not ready to introduce that feature in levels that time. To be honest, I introduced it at the later stage of development when I was going through the feedback/bugs list.

Here is a gif showing the parallax effect in one of the cut scenes of the game. This might look better because I have introduced three different layers of parallax motion effect in the background:

Finally, the parallax motion effect has changed the look and feel of the game completely. I will keep this feature in mind while making my next platformer with outdoor levels or even in some weird levels. Who knows? I make weird games too.

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NightmareZ 2D Platform Action Retro Indie Game - Screenshotsaturday

NightmareZ is a side-scrolling platform action game with lots of fancy features, multiple enemies and retro visuals.

You can get NightmareZ game here:
1. Buy on my site(Direct through my site) = http://www.amaxang-games.com/nightmarez.html

2. Buy on Itchio( A indie game store) = https://amaxang-games.itch.io/nightmarez 

Screenshot Saturdays:

Saturday Post - 15th October, 2016:
This is the first #screenshotsaturday post of NightmareZ game.

"Multiple mode of the Player"
Description: The gif given below shows the multiple firing mode of the player named as Razor in NightmareZ indie game. The player kills multiple enemies at once but it requires the enemy positions to be accurate. Otherwise, the bullets will be useless. It is quite effective against Bosses and other formidable enemies.

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Saturday Post - 8th October, 2016:
This is the first #screenshotsaturday post of NightmareZ game.

"Single Firing mode of the Player"
Description: The gif given below shows the single firing mode of the player named as Razor in NightmareZ indie game. The player kills the enemies one after another. However, the player can use other firing modes to kill Bosses and multiple enemies at once!

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