One of the hardest things about adding baddies to this game is, surprisingly for me, not actually drawing things!
With NeonPlat I've created a weird skewed world, where nothing looks exactly as it should.
This gives me a little artistic license with my artwork. .. or rather, I can be shit, and nobody'll notice!

If something looks a little too odd, I simply make it look odder in the animation, and it somehow cobbles together nicely.
Want an example?
The Bats don't flap, they kinda invert-flap, with their wings flopping down instead of up.
It's a very bizarre style of movement, and yet it somehow works.
It's been that way since NeonPlat 1, and nobody's ever complained.


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The problem, instead, is coming up with the darned things!
I currently have more than 15 baddies in the game, each with (for the most part) a different kind of ruleset, so they all interact slightly differently to each other. (..but with a few that are kinda samey, but faster/slower/jumpier..)

As well as this, for some mindbogglingly dumb idea, I decided to make each one into a "hat" so you could have a whole bunch of powerups.
This means, not only coming up with the baddies, but coming up with some kind of logical skill that the associated hat would give to NeonPlat.

It's a tricky situation, and is one of those times where I should probably be grabbing a notepad and jotting some stuff down!

I'm now scrawling through my archive of games, so don't be surprised if you end up seeing a few familiar faces along the way.
Practically everything I can think of is being crammed into here.
In fact, it's getting so bad that if I were to give up doing AGameAWeek, this would make one heck of a fantastic best-of final episode montage/clip show type thing!

In fact.. If you watch the trailer from yesterday, you'll spot a couple of familiar faces.

So much more to come, lots more to draw, and I'm having a hell of a lot of fun doing it, too!
Awesome!
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... On the downside, my iOS development seems to have come to a complete and total stop.

whoops!