Juice for Roguelikes

• Basic rule: Do not block the player
  • Double speed for each queud animation so the player can play as fast as they like
• Use a nice color palette
• You can rotate the screen a tiny bit
• Let character slide or jump when moving
• Camera movement: Move with character or better lerp towards target position
• Some silly movement modes:
  • Bouncing or hopping when moving
  • Squash before jumping (anticipation) and the jump
  • Lean into the direction
• Bump attack
• Screen shakes:
  • Random or directional
  • Rotate and displace the screen everytime you are hit
• Flash white when hit
• Damage numbers
• Permanent corpses
• Animate projectiles
• Flying corpses
• Blood spray
• Sound effects & Music
• Other effects (use with caution):
  • Walls/tiles being repelled from you
  • Bouncing tiles

References

• Jeremiah Reid - Juice your turns

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Backlinks

• Juice and Polish