ah... finally a good question^^

the gameplay remained basically the same. kill people or collect items to get score. the battle system was changed, as well as the score system. the last demo had the problem, that you cant attack during walking, thus those basatards ran away. this has of course been changed. not only does every monster now have three different attack sequences (all activated via the CTRL button, to make them look better), every monster has a walk attack, where the monster attacks during walking. this really lightens up the game, since now you get those people even if they run away.

you can now collect bonus items, hidden items and scare people. also, there are more or less victims, that just stand around being hamrless, like cows for example. if you kill those, you loos points, same if you kill someboddy you should usually scare.

scared people or cars or whatever will, after being scared, not only add points to the score, they will flee in a straight forward direction. if they run into anything, they explode, completely sense free but adding even more score if they kill people when they explode...

basically thats it. i will release a demo before christmas however^^

sounds good...i like the run away feature

is there anything that can harm your player? other monsters aso?

cheers

well, in fact yes.

for the first few levels, there are not many things that can harm you. if a scared thing runs into you, you loose some health, as well as if you try to walk into something you were not allowed to. then ARMSTRONG will "guide" you out (takes half of your health though)...

but lateron, humans will fight back if you hit them, and in the last levels, there are only humans who fight back or even worse, cops and army personell who are jsut there to kill you. so its getting pretty heavy lateron.

lucky for you, you are not allone. some sick feallas, mostly wearing makeup and a long leather coat, stand around and well, they kinda like you. so tehy aid you with some energy, points or whatever you are in need (depenind on your health and score. if you have full health and enough score to win the stage, tehy give you somethign special. if you miss one of the two, they will give the missing, if you miss two, they will give you just energy).

also, not only are there many hidden objects to find, liek health, score or stuff, but also every now and then there is a hidden stage. find all of them to unlock a special ending

Wow i really love the style of this game.. Looks really great...Keep up the good work spike.. the style kinda reminds me of Edgar & Ellen / gothic style cartoons...can't wait to play it

Daniel

I guess you know monster mash, which is very very euqal to your game.
What I am wondering about, Monster Mash has impressive good sexappeal (hot chick with breastbounce!!! I must have this game)! What about your game?

in fact, i never heard of monster mash. i kinda liek rampage, and thought in a way smaller scale...

and, while im all for pornography, nudism and exibitionism, no sex in this game. dont ask me why, but i doubt the style woudl fit. yet, i could imagine bringing some more breasts in...

Well its good to see your game is almost complete. I'm a great fan of Cellshading, though i don't like the style here. The textures are too un-cartoony to fit with cellshading (for my taste).
Anyway, looks like lots of fun. Can't wait for the demo

i actually like the style, its about time that a cel-shaded program stopped working in cels (im starting to get tired or games that look like several geometric shapes with the paint fill applied), and used some texture, hooray for changing it up a bit, and i think it looks pretty nice

Oh sorry, you are right. Monstermash... I must have mixed up that name with something else. I mean of course Monster Madness: http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?fs=1&id=2117
there Trailer 2 HD. The video is prerendered. Check out the blonde chick There are also drawn images of the blonde chick which are fantastic.

Your game is more beetle juice style. So I guess it´s realy difficult to add sexappeal to it Even if you can turn into a monster in MonsterMadness I think the player victim thingy is upside down in your game. I mean in Monster Mini Mayhem you play the bad guys... So you could maybe add sexappeal to the victims. Last but not least it´s your game. So you must know what you do

i heard of monster madness and i was prety upset when i first read the title on ign to be honest

about the style:

i have chosen the style for very obvious reasons: im a huge fan of toon shading, and while at first i wanted to make it look like your average toon shader, i just realized it does not fit to the style of the characters. as huge burton fan, i wanted to pay tribute to his style, so i did. that basically makes sex appeal impossible, but adds more strange fun. also, it softenes the violnce^^