Sorry for the crappy gif. I had to murder this file to squeeze it into the tiny 10MB file limit. I'm not ready to put up a vid on youtube or something to link out something better quite yet. I just wanted to show a little progress and this gets the job done.

It turned out to be way easier to do this than I thought. The enemies are just palette-swapped clones of Geji right now, since I borrowed the sprite and animation data from him just to get the concept working. The palettes are actually alternate color sets I started working on for him. The green ones are "brawlers," set to run up and do basic attacks. The black ones are "zoners," trying to stay at a certain distance to just throw stuff at you. Was also a test to see how helpers handle palette remapping.

These two types are very, very basic, but it's a great start. Later on I will have multiple enemy types, as well as type-variants or something to that effect. The basic idea is that each enemy type will have multiple "jobs" and the job will be implied by their palette and/or stance. So a "Bandit" enemy type could be a brawler, ranger, grappler, cover, look-out, ect., each having their own behaviors and movesets. I'll theme the job types to what the enemy type is.

I'll also be adding in randomized "champion" type enemies. They are any normal enemy, but given a random buff of some kind that'll be indicated by a color shift, sign or other visual effect to imply what type of buff the enemy has. The buffs could be simple stat boosts or special abilities/attributes. I'll also make a few levels of these, where, lets say, a level-3 champion will have 3 different buffs.

With time, I'll have a series of levels and such to progress through, with lil story tidbits for the character being played and enemy variance as stages progress.

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