I'm in your castle.

No, you're not

What vidya character should I make a template for in the new DLC? The more obscure the better

painter boss was my 360 icon for the longest time

>>715545603
Do Brad from Lisa the painful, give him fire

https://www.newgrounds.com/album/castle-crashers-soundtrack
>relisten soundtrack
>start to realize everyone from NG stopped making internet toons
>behemoth stopped making new games just rehashing their existing ones
>feel saddened by the lost creativity of internet animators

>look up Dan Paladin interview
>he says that while short air combos were intended, extensive L-L-H-H juggling/flying and infinites were not
So how the fuck DID they intend people to beat Insane Mode then? Did they really originally think players were meant to hit everything with stray hits/magic and 5-hit combos 50,000 times until enemies eventually die one or two at a time?

>>715545929
The classics will always exist anon. Recently played a group Castle Crashers session and felt nothing but joy

>>715545942
You can beat insane mode without constant juggling, it just takes quite a bit longer. I beat it years ago by just lining everyone up in the path of red knight's lightning magic, run around until it recharges, repeat.

>>715545942
To my knowledge, insane mode was just rushed and they didn't think ahead

>>715546015
maybe im just too black pilled on the current state of newgrounds, ive played this game 3 times almost 100%'d on the 360, once on steam, and once on switch

>>715545942
insane mode could just be unfinished like some other things
apparently a lot of the playable characters should've had different attack patterns and apparently the only vestige of that idea is green knight's backflip

what confuses me is why they never went back and finished this before, and why they're now going back to castle crashers after 16 years. the game is old enough to drive lol did their money run out?

>>715545942
>>715546094
>>715546235
>>715546447
isnt the new update going to fix this?

for me it's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeYaFJZH44g

>>715546646
for me its
https://youtu.be/bo9rdocLAAo
or
https://youtu.be/SDHZgVf8xsU

>>715546447
>what confuses me is why they never went back and finished this before, and why they're now going back to castle crashers after 16 years. the game is old enough to drive lol did their money run out?
This was a time before update overhauls in the console space was considered common practice and when updates did happen they were almost exclusively patchs for bugs

>>715546562
No. It's graphic overhaul only (and my guess a bigger thing with the painter boss with how long it is taking)

>>715545603
The silhouettes are okay, but I really wish the template, the guide, and the tutorial video were less vague about what they actually want in a panel. The blank face is understandable, but what difference do they want in pic related? Do they want him to blink? Are the torsos supposed to be in motion? Help me, art students.

>You now remember Necromancer Insane mode

>>715546646
>>715546971
Nah
https://youtu.be/zxz3DP8v9ko?si=517R2WeahSJDlqKM

>>715547083
Ring under the image, it's a rotation.

>>715547083
The first three in the head section are part of an idle head animation that they added with the dlc. Every character I think now rotates the head slightly if they're standing still, that's what these 3 frames are. They included a ring at the bottom with the dot representing the very front of the face, and you can see it change slightly. From what they said in their videos, you don't NEED to do a head rotation and can just treat it like a 3 frame idle, doing whatever you want with it. Make him blink, open and close his mouth, or literally just copy and paste the first frame if you don't give a shit

>>715547879
Same anon again. I want to add that it's still unclear what each frame is supposed to be, and until the dlc is actually out it'll be hard to know how every part actually fits together and what looks good and what doesn't

>>715547083
ask jeff

>>715548303
UGH, I NEED TO WATCH MORE ANGRY JOE

>>715548538
ugh...i wanna fuck chris instead...

>>715546646
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK_mZFdo-hY

>>715546646
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wMjq58Fjvo&list=PLaEhyKrOpBW1VT_UlbQxGy8YMlk-tVwDX&index=17
you just cannot beat it, you can't

>>715547879
it doesn't help that the official dlc video is just him copy-pasting the same head 6 times in a row

>>715548727
This song has haunted this artist, its actually funny in a sad way

>>715549187
Maybe I'm spoiled for knowing this but it's pretty helpful to see that animating the idle is completely optional and it won't look wonky.

>>715545942
was it in the game at release? I have this vague memory it was added with the PS3 port.

>>715549503
>people start making mods to remove the looking around idle animation of the default characters

>>715547005
specifically microsoft charged a huge fee for every update pushed after the first one. that's why most XBLA titles shipped exactly one big update and stopped.

>>715545189 (OP)
So did he swap the orange princess with Tricky the clown and then killed her or not?

>>715545189 (OP)
Why do they keep coming back to this game? Did losing Stamper really kill their creative drive?

>>715545929
They've been bogged down by Nightmare Cops for almost a decade now. Hopefully it'll be worth the weight.

>>715550329
worse, they keep coming back to it and barely improving it at all

>>715549929
I think at one point Dan said he'd upload defreshed characters.

>>715545189 (OP)
When that DLC's out I'm just gonna play Painter and then uninstall probably lol.

>>715545189 (OP)
Stop crashing it you blackguard

>>715550329
One, pit people and invasion iirc didn't do well
Two, castle crashers did so well that it pierced the mainstream for a little bit
Between these two this is probably testing the waters for their "break glass in case of emergency" project (an actual sequel)

>>715550329
every game after Battleblock Theatre's been a flop, i think they're just playing it safe
what i don't get is why they don't lean into it and actually revitalize castle crashers. give the spare characters some actual ability/attack variety, make more dungeon-type levels like industrial castle, or just do a sequel

>Don't do arcadey platformers
>Kill your studio

Just keep pumping out pseudo flash games.

>>715550794
It's actually more to try and re-establish themselves. The friday night funkin website isn't quite so popular with people these days and a lot of people don't know about the behemoth, so they're trying to take advantage of the shit state of gaming right now to point people to their back catalog of good games.
Also, pit people was sort of always screwed because tactical rpgs are wildly unpopular whenever people aren't paid to pretend fire emblem and advance wars aren't shit.

>>715550794
They haven't been doing too hot in general over the past decade
>latest game is mobile shovelware tier

>>715545189 (OP)
bump

>>715545603

>>715551534
It's truly awful, i have no clue how years of work went into it

bumpp