Enemy Progress

We're not only making progress with the stable patch, there's been a ton of progress in the enemy department as well! Let's take a first look at our set of enemies, starting with the sword-wielding sailor: 

As you can see, his sword is part of the physical world and can harm you even outside of the ghost world. Unfortunately, you can't damage the sword, so you'll have to toggle into the spirit world, where his ghastly form is visible, to do damage to him!

On this ship we also have a new and improved version of the Ghosty, which leaves a trail of some kind of ectoplasm on the ground. The ectoplasm doesn't do anything in the 'regular' world, but once you enter the ghost world it will slow you down a lot! Both the Ghosty and the ectoplasm will probably be recolored, the ghost so it'll look more unique compared to the Pumpkin Woods version, and the ectoplasm because.. red ectoplasm seems weird!

In the gif above you can also see something we've been playing around with: a line of skulls that do damage in the ghost world which you can only avoid by toggling back to your own dimension.

And this leads us to the third enemy so far, the sailor mage! These fellows have two main abilities - they can damage you, and they can turn another enemy into an elite. Below you can see our first iteration, where the mage channels a spell at you, which is basically a lightning blast that will hit you for sure unless you return to the regular world, as well as it channeling the make-elite spell at the sailor swordsman: 

Since we felt this could be improved on quite a bit, we made a bunch of changes, merging the mage with the skull-line ability: meaning we removed the channeling lightning blast and instead having the mage cast the skull line we played around with in the Ghosty gif. 

We also changed the spell type of the make-elite spell from something that channels on top of the enemy to an orb that is released from the mage and flows into the enemy it's buffing, in this way making the battlefield much less cluttered while the mage channels his spells: 

We're also working on a third type of attack for the mage, where he'll be able to pick up items in the regular world and hurl them at you from a distance - like some kind of poltergeist! Needless to say, working on these enemies around the the time of Halloween has been great.. :)