FPA: World 3, Report 3 - Level design, more combat

[sonic7184]

Why Don't You Ask People To Make A Movie About FPA

[2001Randomkid]

Can you and EA make a Xbox and PS3 disc of all the fancy pants games?

(Not including Fancy Pants Adventures)

[Happyboyee]

I think that the new pencil jab is AWESOME!!!!!!!!

[AJC0MICS]

Misplaced Cave!

[SantaWithHumor]

i wonder if fancy pants would make it into SUPER SMASH BROS BRAWL 2!

[metalsonic71]

that speed is like in the first game where you go in this 0 trophy room(second level)

and when you keep running you go at sonic speeds

[cooluigimariofanad]

Mr.Borne You know what today is! It is Spring! FPA is coming soon!!!!

[keggie09]

Fancy Pants Should Have Been A Unlockable Character In Super Meat Boy

[DrNeroCF]

@keggie09: Heh, how cool would that have been?

[explode167]

wow this is awesome and, Mr Borne what is the fancy pants console gonna b like? ps: FPA is my fav stickman series!

[DrNeroCF]

@explode167: I'll be uploading another report sometime later today, you'll see a lot more of the console side. Hope you check it out!

[Chatterboxx900]

at first i thought what he meant was fighting: punch,kick,throw!! the pencil is great too!

[Tronnixx]

yea stabbing and charging both is great

[sasukeGL]

you know you have a good game when its kinda hard for you to get around in it! lol Fancy Pants Rocks!

[APPleBUMful]

THAT PENCIL JAB TINGY IS COOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheDisneyUser]

I prefer both! stabbing and charging because they are awesome!

[Rockyslammer]

also in answer to the question of the stabbing combo... i think in a game as build up as this, the more things to discover and find out and generally play around with makes a game way more interesting. I even found the things in world 2 when you tapped down lots he rocks out and when you press against a wall he goes bond style really awesome.

[Rockyslammer]

cant wait for this to come out. any ideas when? (no rush)

[Flowtail]

Honestly, I'm okay with whatever you come up with. You're the one who gets paied to do this, after all. I'm obsessing over it for free.

[tinkred9]

i hope the old underground music will come back

thats my fav theme in the game

[Soccer333bc]

i think the jab is cool it adds to the "messing around part of fpa" i think you should keep it.

[hope0hurts]

he should eventually win the heart of some fancy skirted vixen.

i can't wait to play!

[MakingNoobMovies]

you got the talent to make a perfect prince of persia game with this engine.

by the way is there a beta or something that i can download for this game.

[buga903]

hey what if you can add a level editor so we can have more fun playing both your and our levels. thumbs up if your with me:)

[K33p3r99]

Having more than one path to finish a level offers increased replayability to your game. If you can manage that for each level or one at least, you might double the number of plays from your previous one.

I also think the stabing animation is fine and if players don't like it, they just have to use another attack.

[Coolio8823]

Kewl new animations :P

[wiseman2131]

This is gonna be so fun. Got a release date yet?

[FancyPantsMan100]

I ment to get combos for killing enemies like x1 x2 x3.. for killing enemies

[SoulReaperOnimaru]

Keep the jabbing in it's own "Rapid A" area, but edit it so that the longer you jab the faster it goes and the stronger they get, and at a certian point at the maximum time for susession of jabbing you could add a really powerful slide thrust.

[SoulReaperOnimaru]

I think you should keep the jabbing in it's own little "rapid A" place, but the longer you tap it the faster it jabs and the stronger they get, and at a certian point at the end of the jabbing there could be an insanely strong slide-thrust type thing?

[galactamarx]

I think it would have like some "Race to the Finish" minigame.

[conquerer329]

the section at 2:30 i sugest shells and bonus scenery

[FancyPantsMan100]

i think u should add points 4 doing combos. Maybe u should make it so FPM get new gadgets like maybe put there a part where FPM has to hang glide of fly with a jet pack or use a car, guns! it would be pretty kewl.

[DrNeroCF]

@FancyPantsMan100 You do get points for combos... Not in this video though...

[guygie1994]

you should add some thing in the front of the level!

[DrNeroCF]

@guygie1994 Like what?

[doubleact15]

THE STABBING ISNT GREAT. Fpm is less of a fighting game, its a fast game so why not just do run hits?

your choice tho

[DrNeroCF]

@doubleact15: I address that in report 4, not uploaded yet though, should be soon...

[doubleact15]

@DrNeroCF seen it now

=p

[doubleact15]

@DrNeroCF  seen it now

=p

[rolln2013]

@doubleact15

u see that's the point. brad made the games to played in whatever way you want. in world 2 for example, there were so many places to explore which players can decide to go to or they can simply run thru the lvls and beat the game quickly. if that's the way you think it should be played then by god nothing will keep you from playing it that way when it comes out.

[earweatwry46u7uy5i68]

@DrNeroCF.

Mr Brone,

can you add mini bosses so that the game can be more challenging?It is not that the previous FPA and FPA:world 2 are too easy though:)

[DrNeroCF]

@earweatwry46u7uy5i68:  Check out report 4 once it's uploaded...

[bjhjr07]

1. Can't wait for fancy pants.

2. 1:38 ..thats what she said.

[DrBrian5000]

I like the combo, I think it's super duper. also i'm pumpded for the game

[robotsourus4]

yeah guess so,i get tired of taking such a long time on a spider.

[DrNeroCF]

@robotsourus4: You can still just heavy stomp a spider to defeat it instantly.

[22darthmaul22]

Any chance of a demo? Even the current parts of Squigglyville? I know, I know...original question...

[pudinthemushroomhead]

it's squggleville not squigglyville

[CrazehGamer]

Oh of course! Spoiling is never fun, yet one can never keep themselves from watching, I made that mistake with Super Smash Brothers BRAWL, I didn't want to see the characters, but I somehow forced myself to, and I sort of spoiled a great game, same for this. :P

Know your limits dude, no need to go all out on this one, I think you added the perfect amount of "add-ons" for this installment, the levels count too. ^^

[Strikerx20]

what do you use to make these games?

[DrNeroCF]

@Strikerx20 Adobe Flash

[robotsourus4]

I realy like the pencil idea,But Wouldnt it take away from jumping and kicking?

[DrNeroCF]

@robotsourus4 Well, you can either spend half a minute wailing on the spider, or 3 seconds stomping and kicking him. It's fun in an overkill sort of way, but it really makes sense to use the pencil on sworded baddies and stomp spiders and such.

[rednekus]

Looks good, but, naaah... I didn't really like the level design in mirrors edge 2D - because whatever path I have chosen, I felt like I have left the others unexplored, and so I had to return and see what's there too. This was multipled by the fact that you had to collect stuff, because you couldn't just leave them there. It wasn't that much fun by the way.

But I STRONGLY like the hidden locations, if you could just stick to that! it would be a lot cooler!

[DrNeroCF]

@rednekus I'm going to make sure that the levels are more easily navigable than ME2D, there was a bit more finding the perfect line in ME2D, but the main line wasn't as apparent as I want it to be in World 3. I know the feeling, though, I'm a bit of a completionist myself, but I would hate going back into a game to find more and not having anything left to find...

[mrhonk123]

i think the more addins the better ^^

great job man cant wait to play

[number9ninja]

this is so awesme i sware im going 2 have a heart attack the day it comes out,its already better than half of my wii system games and i have only played the first 2 worlds

[Skelymage]

Is there going to be directional attacks with the pencil? Eg. slicing upwards or downwards.

What would happen if Fancypants decided to use the eraser? :P

[DrNeroCF]

Probably not, unless I have a ton of time left over to focus on little things like that. The combat animations take forever to do, since they repeat so many times I have to make sure that they don't look awkward if you see them over and over again.

[bingo2895]

I love the idea of the combo and it looks pretty sick, are you thinking of adding water levels in to this because it would be pretty cool also I think there should be a portal bonus room where you get the portal gun and have to solve a puzzle to get to the end I know i'd enjoy that but its just a suggestion

[bingo2895]

@bingo2895 Ignore what i said about the water I just looked at one of your earlier vids and you showed swimming

[AATCfan]

you could have a lot of secret areas and invicible platforms to get there =D

[22darthmaul22]

@AATCfan

You mean "invisible"?

[aeddan1]

add signs of where the finish is so people dont get lost in the "fun" areas =)

Also the combo looks great!

Also I like the idea of adding vehicles or something.

[nintagacom]

Yeah the stab is a good edition for bosses for the most part in multi-shots & I want to see swimming & vehicles for the next video.

It would be nice.

[siim686]

I hope theres a a power where holding the pencil attacking button while running will make fancy pants take out the pencil and run like seen in the video and when you release the button hel do a small charge depending on how long you hold it(3 secs and youl charge for 2.5 secs or so)

this is a suggestion so please tell me if you already have something similar tought if you answer to my idea at all.

[Luigi2446]

you should make a split screen for multiplayer.

and mini bosses

[jimb0connolly]

Great stuff!

[TheRedOktober]

This is looking pretty sweet keep it up

[FedeMetro]

Your game is fantastic, man!

[KazzoTV]

Nice :D

but what about the water in combitation with the pencil?

[KazzoTV]

what about the water in combination with the pencil?

[WishYik1]

I think it would be nice to have a fake pants =D

[Pedruh47]

Looking good!! Keep it up!!

[sackboy024]

the combo attack is win.

[TooCooLFoRYou123]

Yes you should definitely keep the new pencil combo.Love all the new jumps :P

[bmx65]

Hey Brad, World 3 looks amazing and I cant wait for it to come out, I just dont want you to add to many things that take the originality away from Fancy Pants, like squiqgleville and the pencil? to me they just seem like a little bit much. To me the game is mostly about the Parkour style of moving around the level, I always got a real kick outta that. But hey, thats just my 2 cents. Id just hate to see my favorite game series become less enjoyable than what I remeber from worlds 1 and 2.

[DrNeroCF]

@bmx65 I think any game is going to be about different things for different people, and I'm really trying to play up the parkour aspect with the new wall jumps and score combos, so I don't think it will feel like anything missing for you. What part about Squiggleville do you feel takes away from the original FPA, though?

[bmx65]

@DrNeroCF To me, Fancy Pants was a guy that ran around, collected little swirlies. and pwned spiders. I guess I never really imagined him as having a place to live or go home to if you know what I mean. Thats why Squiggleville kind of upsets me, but believe me I am going to play the heck outta that game when it comes out. :)

[earweatwry46u7uy5i68]

Mr DrNeroCF, will you add the snail shell golf back to FPA:world 3 ?

[DrNeroCF]

@earweatwry46u7uy5i68  I'm sure it will be somewhere, but I don't know if there will be a hole on every level like in World 2.

[RnetTV]

Thanks 4 thinking about it

[YourFace180]

Release Date?

[DrNeroCF]

@YourFace180  No idea.

[razorkid95]

Also, what about some mini bosses instead of just one like the last one.

[DrNeroCF]

@razorkid95 Something I've been considering, since World 1, heh. I'm following an actual plot all the way through this time, so if it makes sense, I'll add it.

[razorkid95]

I have a recommendation (again). Uh, I reeeally don't expect this but, what if there was an online multiplayer version, with chat :D People would be playing all the time... Then again I don't expect this anyway.

[DrNeroCF]

@razorkid95 Yeah that would have to be an entirely different release, haha.

[razorkid95]

@DrNeroCF Well, what about a split screen where player one is the arrow keys and the other is wasd keys.

[CrazehGamer]

I'm really impressed with how smooth the wall running is, it would be very interesting to use in a game, parkour is my main style of gaming, and your "branching out" ideas are very creative, "Something someone thought of but never really got to doing."

How many more of these "reports" before you finalize the engine for World 3?

[DrNeroCF]

@CrazehGamer A lot, heh. We'll see how much content I can keep showing off, don't want to spoil the whole game.

[Ninja1Ninja2]

I can see it now: FPM3-Siege of Squiggleville!

[Daosdh1]

I only have one recommendation for this game: vehicles.

[Ninja1Ninja2]

No. Gadgets! Put stuff on FPM's back and let him fly, do heavy melee attacks, and even see in the dark!

[DrNeroCF]

@Ninja1Ninja2 He already does heavy melee attacks :/

[LineriderMasterDX]

oh!! keep that wall run and flip!!

[SoraBeatzRoxas]

I realy looking forward for this game *-*

[misterfiredude1]

looks epic!!!

[nathanisbored]

I like the "branching out" idea. Keep it up!

[RnetTV]

can u pick up sword, please do tht i pirates drop there sword can we pick it up??

[DrNeroCF]

@RnetTV Hmmm, maybe. I built the system with that in mind, enough people have asked about it that I'm considering it going with it. To a stick figure, though, a sword is a far worse weapon than a pencil... Maybe you drop it after a few hits? I'd have to play around with it. Good material for a later video, though.

[Satire55]

I think the shell could be controlled a little better. I barely got 1 color in World 2. Maybe you could set up separate levels just for the shell golf, or set up a different system for the colors.

[DaxterSpeed]

Simply, Amazing!

[jesusminime14]

AWESOME!!

one thing i really want to see in world three is some more "kick" control. i find the shell is really hard to maneuver in world 2,

its really funny seeing all this secret stuff here because me and my friend were just complaining the other day that there wasn't enough of this kinds stuff in world 2.

keep at it man! LOVING the new stuff!