I want to throw out so much of Uprising and start over. But it will never be perfect and we need to release it soon and yadda yadda yadda I know I've said all of this before. But yesterday one of the programmers was explaining the character moveset programming to me and I so wished we had the time and money to redo some animations. He showed me how easy it was to add a new move animation to Scotty Mac's movelist (it took less than five minutes to do) but the move itself left a little to be desired. It was a pump handle gut buster but it lacked enough impact, a common criticism of some of our moves. My first instinct was to pull the move and redo it. But then I looked at the money we had left for bug fixing. Any money spent on new animations would have to come from the bug fixing resources. I think I'd rather have an average looking gutbuster and one less gameplay bug than:
a) A great looking gutbuster and one remaining bug b) no gutbuster at all
I'll try to post a video of the gutbuster in question next week and let you be the judge.
Speaking of letting you be the judge how, about helping us pick a few new taunts? I'm not a huge fan of some of the taunts in Uprising and unlike the two player grapple moves they are super fast and dirt cheap to produce. Plus, they have zero affect on gameplay so there is no risk of a new taunt breaking the game or causing a new bug.
The characters I'd like to update taunts for are:
Tirador No Cara Cesey Canadian Destroyer
Dane, Troop, Scotty, and G-Rush are all fine in my opinion. But if you'd like to suggest any new taunts for these characters feel free to post your suggestions on the PWX forum and if we like them we'll add them to Uprising. Thanks for helping!
By the way, bonus points to Eric this week for finding us a sweet distribution partner!
2) Link of the Week ********************
With the TNA Impact game just around the corner you may have seen the recent developer Q&A on IGN. For those of you who missed it I've posted the link here for you this week. The interview certainly confirms that it won't be a terribly deep game but I'm still looking forward to taking it for a test drive myself:
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/906/906229p1.html
3) Question of the Week ************************
Last week's question about getting screwed out of money was fun and there were some great responses. This week let's come clean either to brag or ease a guilty conscience:
What was the most cash or valuables you ever stole (or 'borrowed' and haven't returned) and got away with?
It really matters if you give them a charecter then taunts would come as easy as clicking the mouse
Tirador- Fixing his mask, asking for a punch, warming up (hoping around), the kip taunt on no mercy
No Cara- Cut throat with both hands, sit in coner like raven, the arm insult thing, fixes his mask
Cesey- (I can't do taunts for girls because I watched WWE almost all my life if you know what I'm getting at)
Canadian Destroyer- (I'm guessing his finsher is Canadian Destroyer) Spining his fingers around in a cirlcer motion, Spining in a cirlce as fast as he can, stroking his hair, back flip