Indian style 2D platformer created using XNA Thread

Hi,

We are working on a 2D casual platformer game using the XNA framework. The game is a mix of Indian style minature paintings with the old 2D prince of persia and mario. You can know more by visiting our MODDB page here

Game Videos:

Game features:

• Exquisite hand painted 2D Art with stunning 2D graphics never seen before.
• Chic and cute characters each with their distinct personality and AI.
• A forgiving gameplay providing for a unique player experience while encouraging the player.
• 15 Stages with 4 distinct locations and each location giving an exotic feeling of fantasy of being in medieval India.
• Achieve 5 goals to win the princesses hand while battling it out with 14 different enemies.
• Use the bow with 5 different types of arrows or jump on the enemies.
• Stylized Particles and FX amidst a soothing soundtrack.

Edited by: Zatun

Hi. The artwork is very beautiful, but the animations really bugged me. They all look very stiff and clunky, and the jump animation looks really odd (I think it's because the character's head is bowed when they jump) This gives the entire game a very slow and jerky feel to it, which looks to be really distracting. If you look at games like the old 2D Sonics, their animations were very smooth and usually blended into each other, which therefore made the gameplay feel a lot more fluid. Once you've got the movement and animation all smoothed out, it'll be great.

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The current style of aiming animations kind of puts me off, it's too restricted. It seems when you aim within a certain area of degrees (i.e. 15-35 degrees) it displays one image of the player, and a new image for the next set of degrees (i.e. 35-55).

Maybe instead of having a particular image shown when the the player aims in a certain area, you can have the top portion of the body rotate to align with the mouse pointer, just restrict it from bending too far, so you don't have the body bending in between the legs, or any other odd position.

It's a good start, but there are a couple of changes I would implement to make it feel a little more solid. First, being able to change direction in mid-jump looks awkward; 'locking' the player into a trajectory dependent on the length of time the jump button is pressed would solve this problem. Second, why not have default aiming positions such as forward, up-forward, and down-forward? This would allow you to aim while moving.

Just thought I would share this.
 
My girlfriend was listening when I watched the game play video, and she said: Are you playing Rayman 1? I said no why? She said: The sound I heard was the sound you get when you complete a level in Rayman 1.

I checked it out, lol. Sure enough the Monkey sound in your game sounds exactly the same as the level complete sound in rayman lol.

Youtube.com   @6:50. And alot of other sounds are from Rayman.

The game looks good, but as others have said the animations were a bit Jery. I think you have fixed this now after watching the latest videos. It looks alot better.

Thanks for your replies.

- Plus1 - Wow. I never knew that the monkey sound was excatly like Rayman1. We have used the sound from an online library. I will recheck the sounds. Thanks for bringing it to my notice. We did fix the animations a lot of ppl found them to be crappy (for a lack of a better word). The problem was both the animation itself and the lack of physics in the jump.

-CenterMassStudios.  Thanks for the positive feedback. I will check into the run animation and see if it can be improved. Thanks again.