Please ignore all of the other nonsense that is currently in this level as it is my go to level for testing various player mechanics :). Let us know what you think!

For those interested in how the combat system was created, there is nothing super complex here; the system is composed of only a few things:

-A couple transition animations
-A couple swing animations
-A front flip animation
-A ribbon particle effect to make the swing have that cool visual effect
-Animation notifications which tell when the swing particle effect should start and stop
-A launch character node for the front flip animation
-Some trigger box's attached via sockets to indicate if the wings hit an enemy (in this case the enemy being a floating cube)

Due to the lack of progress I was making in Juda over the past week, I decided to take a short break to refresh my mind before returning to the large project. As such, I challenged myself to make a full game in one day. And guess what??? I failed...

But! By the end of 36 hours, I had a pretty darn good game regardless. Just took a little extra time to sort out some issues :)

Anyway, if you would like to play this game for free, simply join our discord and I will make it available there. Discord link: ​discord.gg/r6PK3Cv

I had an unfortunate series of things go wrong as of late; I spent about 20 hours trying to fix a very particular bug that I was having. I even contacted outside support for help and he was equally stumped. Needless to say, this past week was a little frustrating, but onward we go! If I can't figure out this particular issue, I will simply have to go a different direction.

Let us know what you think! Description of how this was achieved below.

This effect was fairly simple to create, but I love having things like this to make the game more immersive and just feel smoother to the player.

Essentially, when the game is first loaded up, I reduce the camera arm length of the character to about -2000 (so the camera arm length is in front of the character at that point) and instantly add the start menu widget. I also ignore move input for the character so that the player can't make the camera do strange things during the transition. From there, once the player selects "New Adventure" I lerp the camera arm length from -2000 to the default camera arm length for my game (which I believe is 800). From there, it is just adding back player movement and voila!
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If you like this explanation or want to see more of the game, I would be honored for you to join my discord or my twitter. Thanks for reading!

Every time Juda collects one of these glowing polygons, he gets a new ability!

For this update I had a little help from cool people on the internet. The material for the glowing light was created by following two tutorials on youtube:

Erode tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaElxD9dDlI

Gradient tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN9un3Wf5Xo

The animation was created in blender. As for the blue spinning particles, these were created in cascade in UE4, by using an orbit module with upward velocity and drag (so it spreads them out vertically). I probably could have used a cylinder location to make this work but I couldn't get it looking how I desired. From there, when Juda hits the material, (on collision begin overlap), I have created a dynamic material instance so the blue particles have downward acceleration (fall down to the ground) and the material erodes. Then, I add another burst particle with cone velocity to make the cool sphere particle effect.

For the glowing eyes, that was simply using a material on the eyes that blends between an emissive material and the normal black one. Then I just lerp the blend value between them to change them smoothly!

If you are interested in this game's development, we would love to have you follow us on twitter or discord. Thanks for reading!

If you like top down RPG's, puzzles, making decisions that vastly change a story, or you simply want to feel not very special, have we got a game for you!

This is the new wallride ability that we have added to Reky Studio's current game-in-development, JUDA. If you want to see more cool updates like this, head on over to our discord or follow us on twitter.

Just a new effect to the landboard to make it feel a little more lively and stylized. Let us know what you think!