New character poll concluded! Ocean Boss rundown. New Hscene sneak peek.

Heyo everyone! Here we are again. As you see here, the winner of the poll is the Merchant, this means that the next level will likely be a Desert level. We'll be sure to cover her more when the next build begins development. Until then, let's plunge into the progress report, and a rundown on the new boss.

I didn't have quite as much time as I would have liked, as the work on SpunkStock's translation this week took a little bit longer than I expected, but regardless, the boss is finished. He just still needs a bit of polishing, but here we go.

The new boss's name will be Saber.

The captain of a ghost ship that haunts the planet on specific nights.

To start off, Saber will charge towards you, and submerge, shortly after surfacing will barage you with a pattern of cannons.

Chances are, I will look to brighten the cannons to properly show that they are the targets here. Upon destroying all 4 cannons, Saber will submerge again.

After emerging, he will fire blasts of lasers at you from a distance. Once he reaches 50% HP, he will once again charge at you and flip to his other side.

The left cannons act a bit differently. They will fire one at a time, but much more rapidly. Destroying the final 4 canons will bring Saber to his final, desperate phase.

Now hovering in the sky, he will fire sonic waves much like the large enemies that you will need to fly through. This one will likely need to have some more time in the oven to ensure it's balanced, looks readable, and still feels fair.

That being said, the final phase will feel like a scramble as you try to finish him off.

On top of doing up the boss fight, I put together a rough set up for the intro sequence.

(She will likely actively be getting hit here, and also shooting)

It's still rough around the edges, which I will likely be cleaning up.

That mostly sums things up.

I'm going to be working over the weekend to flesh out some of these cutscenes, and visuals. I also want to polish up timings in the level, and possibly add a few more enemies in sections. I'm hoping to really have the active level finished up before next week.

Next week's objective is Siren's first Hscene! I will be breaking it up, and animating it all. Here is a quick look at what will be animated.

With that, I will be getting back to it! Thanks again everyone, and I hope you all look forward to facing off against Saber, and recruiting Siren! Catch you next week with some motion on this picture!

-Regulus