FPA: World 3, Report 2 - Combos and Science

[Allreck4ever]

thumbs up if you watched this in 2011!

[AJC0MICS]

"See you guys next Fri-" ...

[Jaden1291]

@AJC0MICS He turned off the camera by accident!

[TheBlackout64]

can the pants change color like in the second game?

[DrNeroCF]

@TheBlackout64: In the console game, you can earn new colors, and even patterns for your pants!

[RTZStudioMember]

have a look at the borne games forums for psn fpa games

[LivvyGranger]

Obviously, lacking any significant mass, stick figures would be amazing at such gravity-defying feats of parkour. It makes perfect sense.

[Nulono]

2:14 How do you get into that thing at the right, with the six squiggles in it?

[L0l71]

@DrNeroCF Can you us pencil too on sneak peek (beta version of FPA 3)

[MultiForce9]

Way cool...when will it come out? I've played adventure 1 and 2. 1 was cool and 2 was awesome. This time adventure 3 is going to be amazing! Also, I like to make games too. I just got done playing fancy pants adventure 1 and got all the trophies

[Lual567]

i think it sucks how u cant get squiggles unless u do tricks

[L0l71]

PLease brad what button do you press to use a pencil?

[dimzaiboom365]

@L0l71 the 'A' button :)

[Yuna9182]

what about the music to it? is it gonna be the same?

[DrNeroCF]

@Yuna9182: You can hear some of the new music in the demo, I think it's pretty great.

[MIAandMATT]

@DrNeroCF wait this is world three? or adventures because all of these awesome things i realized say world three and i was look forward to adventures

[Yuna9182]

awesome!

[RaKachar43]

It's looking like the best Fancy Pants yet... Apart from the XBLA version. Can't wait for that.

[TheFil47]

2:02 The cake is (a lie?) :p

[DrNeroCF]

@pivotannihilator: Haha. Brad Borne, aka DrNeroCF.

[pivotannihilator]

@DrNeroCF cool!!!!!!what are you doing now? working on the game?

[DrNeroCF]

@pivotannihilator: Indeed. A LOT going on behind the scenes right now. Some I can talk about, a lot I can't, hopefully I'll have another report this Friday.

[thunderkid24]

man i cant wate i love the fancy panse game so fun... going to play now

[Vilnius3run]

@DrNeroCF it would be really reaaaly awesome if you threw some more flips (like at least front flips) then we could like do running front flips, front flips off walls (like inward) front flip off a ledge.. would give the player more freedom, and less repetetive movement...

[MarioSonicFan101]

Brad how do you make a flash? I've been searching it and I get a VIRUS each time so I need to know how

[HollowsnShinigami]

lol the dog :)

[tinkred9]

keep working on the game

when its done you will publish it on ur website....right?

[reice360]

2 questions...

1. Is there going to be a 2 player Local co-op?

2. Can you switch who you want to play as?(fancy or cutie) or do they get designated parts in the game

[vermontmom]

when is this game going 2 be released???????

[jakobie51]

@vermontmom i think it was july 29

[Shanicify]

I love the new moves and animations, please tell me when will you make the demo.

[K33p3r99]

I think you can get an extremely high score just by wall jumping and sliding from side to side between two wall sections like you showed us. Should the score lower if an action is repeated too many times or would this be the best way to earn points?

I'm pointing this out because it might be abused.

[hiynastrike]

can you have a level editor

[clarinetprodigy]

need this game to freaking come out!!!!!!!!!!!

[conquerer329]

one problem people will keep doing wall jumps to get infinite points you should put in a repitition system if you have ever played burnout paradise you will know what i mean

[bingo2895]

I can't believe how awesome this looks I would pay money to play this game because it looks like it could be released for xbox live or psn

[rednekus]

Well, if you're so hasty about paying, you can always donate something through his blog. I bet he would appreciate it, and from your side, it's like paying for the game.

[glb1995]

make a demo!!!!!!!!

[asmircar1]

Your video editing sucks !!

[DrNeroCF]

Funny, since video editing used to be a pretty big hobby of mine. I'm still trying to do these in one take, I'm still editing these in Final Cut, though. Guess I just spend more time making World 3 than editing video nowadays :P

[Flowtail]

@DrNeroCF Which we want you to do XD

Fancy Pants man > the update videos

[luffy435]

@DrNeroCF ummmm dont u have to work get cash work?? or is this work...

[DrNeroCF]

@luffy435:  This is work, thanks to EA publishing the XBLA and PSN releases. Otherwise I'd have to get another job and World 3 would never be released.

[pitogohin73]

@asmircar1 you suck

[KreoTheHedgehog]

i think this flash sizes more larger than before as i think.

[DrNeroCF]

@KreoTheHedgehog Well I'm stretching the window out to record the videos in HD. World 3 is still 720 x 480, right now at least, same as 1 and 2.

[JulianCheese]

Liking all the moves and stuff but...

Where's fancy pant's sister?!

[razorkid95]

3:54 glitch with the spiral point.

[DrNeroCF]

Heh, that's most people's first impression, but those squiggles' sole purpose is to up your multiplier, so letting the player get them before they have a combo going would be wasting them.

[razorkid95]

@DrNeroCF but what if you're hurt and you need to heal?

[DrNeroCF]

@razorkid95 Well unlike normal squiggles, the blue squiggles will always be there when you enter the room or reset, so it wouldn't be fair if they could help you out any other way, I don't think. Plus, there's not much to hurt you in that particular bonus room. If there was, I would probably put normal squiggles in there as well.

[razorkid95]

@DrNeroCF Oh, I had not know there were different squiggles...

Thats fine with me if that was on purpose.

However, have you thought about a multiplayer feature?

And what about the girl version of fancy pants, is she going to come up again?

[Frankranintostopsign]

looks awesome brad are you gonna release a beta anytime soon?

[DrNeroCF]

Not too soon, pretty sure there will be one a good deal before launch though.

[liphttam]

Finaly!

[emjay1264jr]

the new animations look awesome!!!!

[Pedruh47]

Loved the score idea!! Pretty Awesome!!

P.S: The cake is delicious!! :D

[DrNeroCF]

NooooOOoooo!  Heh.

[wjuk]

Is the scoring system going to take into account repetitiveness?

[DrNeroCF]

Definitely.  Pretty aggressively, actually.

[NiallTL]

The cake is DELICIOUS

[DrNeroCF]

Resist!

[sobeita]

I think maybe the points should be lower for each move... I mean, maybe it's blandly enjoyable to get a score in the trillions, but the reward is just too high for simple jumps. You could beat a point-based level by running back and forth.

Scoring based mostly on chain events could be better, like maybe... for N consecutive wall jumps, the trick score would be 25+2.5*10^N. If N=1 to 50pts, N=2 to 275pts, N=3 to 2525pts, etc. The timer should be much shorter, too.

[DrNeroCF]

Ya, that's exactly what I'm doing. The timer gets much shorter as the multiplier goes up, also, so doing long moves is far better than doing many quick easy moves.

[sobeita]

@DrNeroCF

Maybe some actions should break the sequence, then. If they have a chain of wall jumps, then wall climbing would break it. I'm not trying to be stingy with points or anything, I just feel like it's going to be too easy this way.

[DrNeroCF]

I'll definitely need to play around with it and adjust all the values. Right now bumping your head doesn't even break the sequence, so this is something that will take a bit of tweaking and play testing.

[sobeita]

@DrNeroCF

Come to think of it, in the spirit of Tony Hawk, shouldn't getting hurt or falling down ruin the entire string?

[DrNeroCF]

Indeed.

[freelancerpowers]

haha, great job brad. i would LOVE to see the forum members arguing over bonus room scores. and will the scores be just in the bonus rooms or in all levels?

[DrNeroCF]

Cause they need more to argue over, haha. There might be some sort of challenge mode for some of the main levels, but it's mostly for the bonus rooms.

[freelancerpowers]

@DrNeroCF oh, and hey, i lost my forum password, would you mind PMing it to me? its something like "Fancy_Pants_Isnt_Wearing_Pant­s" i don't know, it's not letting me log into the forums.

[TooCooLFoRYou123]

Brad,all the new jumps look amazing.I can't wait :P I also like the new combo system makes randomly jumping around even more fun.

[Ninja1Ninja2]

Still, pretty awesome

[Ninja1Ninja2]

You have no self-esteem, do you? Why force yourself to do what you enjoy when you can just take it like a man and do as you please?

[DrNeroCF]

@Ninja1Ninja2 Huh?

[Ninja1Ninja2]

@DrNeroCF You seem negative. "I want to force myself into doing something good this week" Sounds funny, but makes me scared for wheter or not you might finish the game. Don't mind me, I'm not the smoothest talker around. Rock on!

[DrNeroCF]

Haha, okay, I see what you mean. Yeah, this is the boring 'work' part of the job. I have a pretty aggressive schedule to get the game out ever, left to my own devices I'll obsess over the smallest details and never make any sort of progress. This is just another way to force myself to move on so I'll actually have made some progress tangible progress.

[nathanisbored]

I can see that being very competitive...

[WalkAroundDude]

It's really looking great! I like the animation and idea of the wall run. Thanks for promising to put updates on every Friday, too! Now I have another thing to look forward to every week.