"suggestion on how to make it to when an enemy uses there "grab" the camera zooms, and it plays an animation loop and depending on the enemy, it does a specific little struggle mechanic (button mash being the standard for games like this, but I'd also like to do a press the matching button chain, where screwing up plays a little animation, and prevents you from retrying for a few seconds?) Any help, or tutorials are really helpful too!"
Hello, the behavior is independent of the engine. Here's an example:
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To keep it simple, let's say that the
Player is on the left and the
Enemy on the right. Both have a health bar, a position (in the X axis) and strength value. So let's call their valuest
PH, PP and
PS as well as
EH, EP and
ES.
In this game, the player can either grab (
PP+grab range
- EP < 0) or gets grabbed if an enemy touches her (
EP -
PP < 0). This is a simple test, just check the distance and do the appropriate animation(s).
At that point the game enters a separate state and the
struggle bar shows up, acting as you described. The bar goes to the right by
ES, every second and, while that happens, a combination shows up and entering it pulls the bar to the left by
PS. There's also a cool-down before the next combination shows up, it's just another timer that starts when the combination was entered.
While this happens both
PH and
EH decrease depending on the
struggle bar's position, Once either runs out of health the
struggle stops in either
Game Over or the
Enemy cumming then fainting.
Does that help?
