Princess of the Ring 2 [v1.02] [Toffi-sama]

So, what’s new in this update?

Unlike the last demo, which was 100% only about animations, this demo has a mixed priority. First of all, as far as animations go, the first set of grapples for Kristina are now finished. She has 3 moves she can execute after grabbing her opponent (while standing). The first I made was – of course – the German Suplex. A game with wrestling moves can’t be without. In addition to that, she also has a Powerbomb and a Lifted Stranglehold.

The addition of the grapples also made it necessary to implement the counter-system (which was the other priority for this demo). After grabbing an opponent, Kristina now has the choice of 3 directional inputs: left for German Suplex, Up for Stranglehold, Right for Powerbomb. Her opponent, while being grabbed, can also press one of these 3 buttons. If she chose the same as Kristina, the move gets countered. If not, the move gets executed. For clarification, the direction will also be briefly displayed after both players made their choice.

With these moves now in the game, all 3 types of attacks I envisioned are available (at least for one character): Strikes, Throws and Submissions. The Strikes, well, those have been in for a while. For the Throws we now have the German Suplex and the Powerbomb, for Submission we have the Stranglehold. To give each one of those it’s distinctiveness, I got rid of the simple damage-counter that was in the game, and instead added a Defense- and Damage-Meter.

The damage your character takes is visualized with a white body-silhouette, which turns red the more damage you take. The more damage you have taken, the harder it will be to free yourself from a submission or sex attack (those come much later, though). It accumulates slowly over the course of the match, but doesn’t regenerate. For now, the match ends when a character has accumulated 250 permanent damage.

The defence of your character is visualized by a shield. This represents your short-term ability to cope with submissions and sex attack. Basically, if your shield is full, you’re immune to any submission or sex attack, if it’s empty, you’ll have to struggle a lot (which gets harder with more permanent damage you’ve taken). The shield regenerates over time, and fully after each submission or sex-attack.

Strikes deal a lot of damage to defence, but low permanent damage, while submissions deal no damage to defence but a lot of permanent damage. Throws are somewhere in between.

So, what’s finished and available in this demo?

You can switch the Debugging mode on/off with TAB, pressing R resets the game. For now only “Free Battle” is available, with each character having 50 HP. Once a character goes down to 0 HP, you’ll be instantly teleported back to the Select-Screen. This is obviously just a placeholder mechanic and will be changed very soon. The buttons for Grab, Sex and Pause don’t do anything at the moment.

There is a lot of work that went into making this, but that doesn’t yet translate into much gameplay at the moment. You’ll most likely see everything this demo has to offer in a matter of minutes, so keep that in mind. Like I said earlier, it’s more a showcase of the engine and will give you an idea on what to expect in the next updates. Now that the basic framwork is done, the following updates should be more content-focused.