So, what do I mean by music control here?
In Godzilla: Monster of Monsters, the music works like this: When you start on the board, like the Earth, it plays the Earth theme (duh). When you move and start the levels, the music stops so your monster's initial sounds can be heard (this was due to NES limitations, but it works well overall). It then plays the Earth theme there as well. Then as you played through the levels, the music would continue playing even as you walk into the next level, and even the board screen.
If you're about to head into a boss fight, the music stops and the monster walk in sounds are played again, and then the Boss music plays, as expected. Funnily enough, the boss music persists into the Board screen, until you make your next move. Why the hell does this matter?
Because my Engine didn't do this. Every time you moved from one screen to another, it would pause and play the music again, even if it was the same track. I don't think this has bothered anyone else, but to me, who is trying to recreate G:MOM as faithfully as possible, it's been a bother of mine.
With music control added, you can expect the game to feel even closer to the original G:MOM, if you've played it before. And with this feature done, I'm going to begin work on making it so enemy opponents can finally move after your turn.
Music Control has been added to the engine! It should be obvious what this is, but I go into depth on what I mean by Music Control in the article below.
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Started work on who I call "Fake Manda", since Manda appears as a boss in Dementia later on. Shouldn't take that long.
You know what? I think I've got a theory on why Not-Ghidorah's a Dorat. (SPOILERS FOR THE STORY)
Still The Best, 1973. Hell yeah. I can now say Extus, from the content side of things, is done! Next, I've gotta playtest the game myself, and then I'll be getting feedback from other playtesters of mine, looking for bugs. Only then will Extus be ready.
I've implemented smooth scrolling for the ground and BGs, and now it'll just smoothly move to the next costume (if there's any at all). This also gives me more dynamic level lengths. Here's a video showcasing it. It's more obvious in the second level.
"The battle wasn't over yet. The real fight was against the Chimera, a monstrous hybrid of all the Replacement beasts." -Zachary
I got it.
* Insert Out Of Place reference here *
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