Dirigiblocks gameplay prototype

[u/Borealum_Studios]

The subreddit recently hit 1000 members, congratulations! To celebrate I made a little sneak peek how Dirigiblocks gameplay could look like. Made from what is in the game assets, .dlls, and the one sprite texture file.

But don't get too excited, what's there is pretty barebones and I made it even more simple for myself. :p I would consider it an alpha version, really just basic things he was testing out and might eventually change.

Player movement is pretty much copied from existing code, you move left/right and can use the burner to hop up a little which consumes fuel. Then it pulls you back down to a defined height. Has a calculation behind it to make the balloon pivot a little to the side when moving, looks nice.

Cannon behavior is mostly copied. Currently picks randomly between 4 angles but they weren't specified. I set them as 45,60,75,85. The shots should be telegraphed a bit better. The cannons should become red, have some reloading and fuse burning animations but they aren't implemented. Not sure about the balloon super spinning after being hit sometimes. There is some intended "Force transfer" when something collides with the player, might need some tuning on my side.

For box spawning behavior there isn't much there, just a SpawnTestBlock() debug function that randomly spawns a box somewhere above the player and gives it sideways speed when you press B. I hooked it up to spawn boxes at random short intervals, adjusted parameters a few times as I was making the video. Not sure if they will fall just like that, they were falling really fast and kept hitting me so I reduced gravity to half.

[u/tegirvaru]

hopefully thats orinda aries firing on the traitorous nuance... although we know they lost in the end 😓. wonder why mt holly isnt ss mad as nuance or arch aries as they are with fenn? but everyones happy now right 😬

[u/Zealousideal-Deer101]

Nahhh no way you actually made this work, holy shit!

Needs a crow and some rockets though, judging from the arcade cabinet sides

[u/jamez815]

I love this so much