Comments on: Living la vida Stranglehold http://www.patrickcurry.com/thoughts/living-la-vida-stranglehold/ A new game idea every week and other ramblings on game design from an upstart game designer. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:47:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Living la vida Stranglehold by: Patrick http://www.patrickcurry.com/thoughts/living-la-vida-stranglehold/#comment-3737 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:00:10 +0000 http://www.patrickcurry.com/thoughts/living-la-vida-stranglehold/#comment-3737 Yeah, pretty much. We don't do the over-the-top "KEWL!" thing that Devil May Cry does, but the mechanics are similar. Every time you take out an enemy your kill is ranked, given a number of "stars" (think movie ratings). The stars show up in the corner of the HUD as to not be too distracting. The more stars, the more style points you get, and the more your special-move meter (aka Tequila Bomb meter) fills up. Get enough style points, and you unlock each of the four abilities. We're trying to find the right balance between letting the player know when he's doing really well, and having it become distracting or annoying. There's been a couple nice side-effects to this system. For example, since the game is so chaotic, having the audio cues when you earn stars lets you know an enemy is down for good and you can move on to the next. Yeah, pretty much. We don’t do the over-the-top “KEWL!” thing that Devil May Cry does, but the mechanics are similar. Every time you take out an enemy your kill is ranked, given a number of “stars” (think movie ratings). The stars show up in the corner of the HUD as to not be too distracting. The more stars, the more style points you get, and the more your special-move meter (aka Tequila Bomb meter) fills up. Get enough style points, and you unlock each of the four abilities.

We’re trying to find the right balance between letting the player know when he’s doing really well, and having it become distracting or annoying. There’s been a couple nice side-effects to this system. For example, since the game is so chaotic, having the audio cues when you earn stars lets you know an enemy is down for good and you can move on to the next.

]]> Comment on Living la vida Stranglehold by: Christopher McArthur http://www.patrickcurry.com/thoughts/living-la-vida-stranglehold/#comment-3734 Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:48:21 +0000 http://www.patrickcurry.com/thoughts/living-la-vida-stranglehold/#comment-3734 So when you get a double kill in stranglehold, or something else cool like that, does it recognize that and say something special? Or is it just reward more style points for that kind of thing and thats? So when you get a double kill in stranglehold, or something else cool like that, does it recognize that and say something special? Or is it just reward more style points for that kind of thing and thats?

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