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Gameplay Mechanics: Pinkie Slots


SuperWriter

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Of all the characters, Pinkie Pie has probably been the most problematic of them all. This is due to her random nature, something that just took me a while to figure out how to recreate. I considered giving her a list of moves that would alternate randomly, but then it just made her seem unreliable and useless, since it would be impossible to plan a strategy around her. I also considered giving her a large moveset, but that made her too powerful, good for any occasion, along with eliminating the random factor.

Finally, I came up with the solution.

In battle, Pinkie Pie has only one move, Pinkie Slots. It works similar to Setzer's abilitiy from FF6, except it can be upgraded.

By default, it is very limited, four options, two of theme kind of suck.

Edit: Those 4 options sucked in a practical sense, so now she has 8 by default.

However by upgrading her ability, she can actually pull off some of the deadliest moves in the game, provided you are lucky enough to use them.

Through this and her decent speed, she will not only remain useful, but will also retain her random nature.

And I'd be lying if I didn't say she wasn't my favorite design so far.

* One of her Pinkie Slot abilities is literally throwing her enemies a party.

It does damage... somehow. And confuses them. It's also one of her

best attacks.

** The enemies shown are stand ins for the Pre-Alpha testing.

*** Try not to get 3 Pinkie Pies in a row, it will crash the game, hee hee.

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It's still in the pre-alpha stage. After completing Pinkie, I'm considering going back and re-working some of the characters, so it may take a while. I'm hoping to have a demo out by the end of the summer though.

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