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Caramel Trample Initial

Once Caramel's run Tex down, she turns around and goes back to show that weasel who's boss. 

Caramel Jacks Lasso Counter End

Jacks sure is handy with that lasso, huh?

Caramel Jacks Lasso Counter Mid

Nothing too fancy here. Just a really simple mid piece of Texas getting gassed in her predicament. The end piece will be more exciting.

Caramel Jacks Lasso Counter Initial

I'm so happy to be back to animating. I've had this in my brain for so long. Gotta thank Squiddy62 for the original idea that this then spawned off. 

Updates 24/02/20

Howdy, y'all!

As you may have seen, the base demo has just been finished and uploaded for $10 Patrons.  This is the boss fight without any of the grabs that will be in the final fight, but is completely functional and playable from beginning to end. It also has controller support added!

With that out of the way, I move on to the fun stuff: the grab animations for the bossfight. This means we should be back to regular animation uploads going forwards. I'd like to thank you all...

Level 3 Bossfight BASE Demo

Here is the base demo for the level 3 bossfight, meaning that this is the boss fight without any of the grabs implemented. It does, however, have all of the moves you can expect to see in the finished fight, as well as a completed Game Over screen. 

In addition, from this point onward, the game has working controller support, for those who prefer that to mouse and keyboard.  

Update 7/02/20

Hey everyone!

Just a quick update on the state of the game at the moment. Caramel has been giving me a LOT of issues and various vexing bugs, but as of about 5 minutes ago, the vast majority of her code is done. Now all I have to do is code Smiling Jacks's segment in the boss fight, which I don't forsee being particularly taxing, and send it off to my bugtesters (and work on the sound effects, music and the game over screen while they're testing). Come hell or high water, I will get th...

Update 13/01/20

Hey everyone,

Just a quick update to let you all know where I'm at with the game progress and what you can expect coming up. At this point I have finished all the basic animations for the level three boss fight, which is to say, everything necessary to make it functionally playable, and so I am currently coding them into the game. My hope is to get a functional demo out either late this month or early next month, but as it currently stands, it is more likely to be the latter than the fo...

Caramel & Jacks Bellyflop/Steamroll

The completed version of this animation!

Also, this will be the last animation uploaded for a little bit, as I've moved onto coding the basic version of the boss fight! Expect a demo late this month or early next month.

That demo will also have controller support!

Caramel & Jacks Bellyflop/Steamroll WIP

I reckon I'm on a roll, but there's still a bit to be done on this one. Mostly just getting Jacks sorted out.

Caramel Bellyflop

Still a lot to do on this, in particular a KO version and a version with Jacks on her back, but I'm pretty happy with how this came out, especially considering I try to avoid drawing perspective like this at all costs.

There will be more of this animation to come next week, and when that's all done, I can start coding the basic stuff into the game and get a basic (No grabs) demo out!

Caramel Front View

The chonkmeister from the front! She's going to have a single attack that uses this view, and it was an utter pain to draw, but hopefully it'll all be worth it.

HUGE thanks to JigglyJuggle for helping me out with this, and showing me what needed fixing. It would have looked like utter trash otherwise. 

No Streams This Week

 Hey everyone,

Just letting you all know I'll be taking a week off streaming. With the holidays coming up I've got a fair amount on my plate, and in addition I can feel myself starting to get quite burnt out. But some time off is a sure fix to that.

Thanks all,

-SF 

Caramel Uber Slam Hit

And the other half of the uber slam. I'll actually need to go back and fix up the miss one, because I noticed while doing this that her slide was far too long originally. 

Also, just a heads-up but there will be no streams next week. Just going to take the week off to help prevent the burn-out that I can feel building up. Hopefully we can get all of the basic animation stuff done by the end of the year though!

Caramel Uber Slam Miss

Sprint, leap, slam, slide. This will be Caramel's one-hit KO move. If Texas gets hit by that she's gonna be smeared across the ground by the titanic cow ass. There's no way even she could survive that.

But afterwards, Caramel will be exhausted, allowing Texas to knock Jacks off and beat her up, at least for a little bit.

Caramel Kick Counter (KO)

Had to make the background black otherwise you can't see the flattened Tex. Will be more visible in game (or I'll redo the animation)

Caramel Kick Counter (no KO)

She's bigger than you. Don't try it.

Caramel Lasso Counter

Yeah, she's a bit stronger than Texas.

Jacks' Attacks

Here's Smiling Jacks' basic attacks! More windup than most enemies, but Jacks isn't really a fighter. That's what she's got her animals for.  Still, she'll do her best, and will have a grab if that third attack hits. But we'll get to that when we get to that.

Bunny Booty

Bunny.

Booty.

Caramel KO/Mount Up/Jacks's Escape

More necessary animations for the fight. Basically all the stuff to do with Jack's transitions to and from Caramel. Next up I'll be doing some solo-Jacks sprites.

Caramel Butt-Slam Size Reference

Jigglyjuggle asked for a size reference with Tex in the stream, and I decided to have some fun with it. This isn't how Tex getting hit by the butt-slam will look in the game, by the way, this is just a miscellaneous off-cut.

Caramel Butt-Slam Miss

Wasn't planning to do this one for a little while yet, but I was talked around to the idea of doing it now, just because it's one of the more fun animations, and we'll be stuck on boring stuff for a while.

Caramel's (Slightly Less) Boring Sprites

A bit more exciting now, as we have her attack, lassoed and run sprites. Also, I hate walking/running animations. This one took me two and a half hours of constant revisions before I was even slightly happy with it.

Caramel's Boring Sprites

So, with the completion of the background, we can get on to some animation, starting as always with the boring sprites: Walk cycles, idle animations, getting hit, getting thrown, etc, etc. The unremarkable stuff that all the enemies have. Luckily, Caramel doesn't have many of these, as she lacks a lot of behaviours the basic enemies have. Such as the ability to be thrown, lassoed, or sprint kicked.

Jacks's Barn

I hate doing backgrounds. They just take waaay too long. But they're sadly necessary. At least now I can move on to the good stuff.

No Stream Tomorrow (3/11/19) + Updates

 Hey everyone,

Unfortunately I won't be streaming tomorrow. It's going to be quite a busy week for me I'm afraid, but the Wednesday and Friday streams will be as normal. In other news, the lack of posts the last week has been due to me working on getting the background for the bossfight arena done, which always takes me ages, but I should have that completed by the end of this week, and can jump into planning/animating the fight itself, which is always far more enjoyable (both ...

Caramel

M O O .

Smiling Jacks

The leader of the bunny livestock rustlers, and first shortstack character I've really done. Wasn't actually going to have her fight in the boss fight, but after giving her that ass, I think I might have to give her a grab or two to utilize it.

Week's Break

With the demo released, I'm going to be taking a break from game work for a week, just to get some other bits and pieces in order, and also just to avoid burnout, which has been nipping at my heels for a while. If those of you who have played the demo encounter any bugs, please post them in the comments of the demo post, and I'll look into fixing them first thing when I get back into it. 

Naturally, there will also be no streams this week, so the next stream will be on the 21st, at...