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Here's a quick preview of the new combat scene for Ardent Flame Lucia! I still need to fix a polish a lot of things, but I think overall it looks and feels pretty nice already. How do you think I could improve it? Let me know! youtu.be/hxeqllpapKM #solodev #indiegame #godot #pixelart

The new scene uses the same isometric sprites as the overworld ones, and I'm still missing proper animations for attack, ability, spell, damage, etc. But I like this perspective way more. I'm SUPER happy with the twisting motion, this one was quite hard to do...

The idea here is to have this large diamond as the battlefield and then draw multiple background and foreground pieces that will populate the rest of the scene and make each environment: forest, ruins, city, cavern, dungeon, etc.

The high resolution UI elements give me much more flexibility and space to work on. The positioning and scaling is not perfect, but things are close-ish enough from where I want them to be, I just need to figure out spacing and the dynamic action panel positioning better.

One goal was to make information readable and available. I'm not sure how much people will pay attention to the battle log, but I really like it. Still, I need effects for the actions taken as well as numbers appearing on top of target when taking damage or healing HP/MP at least.