Beat-em up game

[dave]

Continuing the discussion from Introduce yourself:

@awake

Hi, I’m Dan and am new here. I’ve been “working” on making a game for many years now. I’m actually a mechanical engineer but would rather be a paleontologist. I made some progress in Unity3d with collision boxes and player controls but think that Playcanvas may be a better fit. Working on a beat-em-up with nes/arcade style controls. Blender for the 3d modeling. I also like playing music, especially on the bass.

If anyone else is working on an old school style beat-em-up and wants to collaborate on the basic game prototyping let me know.

Great to hear you are giving PlayCanvas a go Dan. I’ve personally never worked on a beat-em-up before. Are you thinking 2-player head-to-head or more Streets of Rage style?

[will]

Hi Dan,
Just a little tip for you. If you’re looking for cool animations for a beat-em-up, check out Mixamo (www.mixamo.com). You can upload any character mesh and their service will rig the mesh for you (if it’s not already rigged) and you can then apply animations from a huge library and then export to FBX (which can be dropped directly into PlayCanvas. Most of the anims aren’t free, but they’re very reasonably priced. Check 'em out!

[awake]

More like streets of rage. If it becomes two player, it would be co-op.
Mixamo looks good. I’ll definitely consider it to save time.