Superstatic is a top-down shooter where you're given the ability to possess and control your enemies. Using "copies", you're able to perform a variety of skills including killing enemies within a certain radius, chaining kills together based on your current combo, teleporting to your copy's position and more.

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Pretty odd title for a first devlog. The jist of this week's devlog is that we've updated the colours of some of the menu stuff and we've added legs to the sprites. The best way to demonstrate the desaturation is to do a before and after.

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Pretty odd title for a first devlog. The jist of this week's devlog is that we've updated the colours of some of the menu stuff and we've added legs to the sprites. The best way to demonstrate the desaturation is to do a before and after.

Before:

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After:

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As you can see, these colours fit a lot better with the general palette of the in-game tiles and sprites. Another advantage is that these colours invoke more of a 90s feel which we were going for in the first place.

The next change is adding legs to the sprites. Sprites felt a bit floaty since you could never see the legs that were causing the sprites to move. We've also improved the player sprite a bit - we've made the backpack a lot more obvious now:

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Tomorrow we'll be releasing a video tutorial on how to use the level editor in which we'll make a map from start to finish.

Haven't had a chance to try out the demo yet? You can download it for free below!


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