PLATYPUS II : REVENGE (W.I.P)

[royal comet]

What is PLATYPUS REVENGE?

The purpose of this mod is nothing more than to improve and polish the visual elements and sprites and design of the game to be more perfect, whether it's the level design, enemies, bosses, or even some of the graphics. The most obvious initial goal of this mod is to completely overhaul Level 5 by removing the aliens and replacing them with all Colossatropolan enemies.

• The timeline setting of this mod is primarily based on Platypus Legacy (Platypus 1), as this mod was developed before Platypus Reclayed was released.

Story

After the Colossatropolan people were defeated by the Mungolan F-27 Platypus, and their culture was devastated in the aftermath, a portion of the Colossatropolan survivors remained bitter about their loss to a single, small, outdated aircraft. This bitterness reignited their ambition and determination. They began regrouping and developing new weapons from the leftover materials, preparing themselves for another invasion.

What’s even more terrifying is that this time, they are launching a full-scale assault on the entire world for colonization, expansion of influence, territorial conquest, and to once again showcase their terrifying power.

Currently, Mungolan is developing additional technologies and aircraft to prepare for enemy forces and future threats. Although their numbers are not very large, new variants of the F-27 aircraft have been produced, each equipped with different types of weaponry. This air unit is called "PLATYPUS."

Now, you the pilot of the F-27 Platypus and leader of the PLATYPUS squadron
have been given a new mission:
"to stop the Colossatropolan invasion once more".

You are the world's final hope the last line of defense before the World is completely covered in towering structures and choked by pollution so thick it blocks out even the sunlight!

Some sample videos of this mod (beta)
https://youtu.be/XmAJ3Q7MNaM?si=MwygGXaxZT95GdAD

Level List :
(These level names are subject to change at any time.)

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1.Aurora Frozen Sea ❄️
Status: Completed ✅

Area1 : Monument ✅
Area2 : Boundary ✅
Area3 : Citadel ✅
Area4 : Ice Spike ✅
Area5 : Ocean Cobra ✅

2.Khamara Great Desert 🌵
Status: Completed ✅

Area1 : Sandstorm ✅
Area2 : Kingdom ✅
Area3 : Barren ✅
Area4 : Badlands ✅
Area5 : Sky Train ✅

3.Burning Jungle 🌋
Status: W.I.P ❌

Area1 : Jungle ❌
Area2 : Shipwrecks ❔
Area3 : Eruption ❔
Area4 : ??? ❌
Area5 : ??? ❌

4.Abandoned City 🌳
Status : Completed ✅

Area1 : Machinery Scrap : ✅
Area2 : Billboards ✅
Area3 : Abandoned Industrial ✅
Area4 : Wilderness Junkyard ✅
Area5 : The Remnant ✅

5.Colossal Stronghold 🌫️
Completed ✅

Area1 : Military Runway ✅
Area2 : Waterfront ✅
Area3 : Gateway ✅
Area4 : Capsules ✅
Area5 : The Super Weapon ✅

[unborn hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/pestrica-absolute-cinema-jester-cinema-kino-gif-5627700555368529313

[viscid prawn]

Very excited for this mod 😄

[royal comet]

Thanks ^^

[royal comet]

Meet the new weapons :
Lasershot 🔫

It's been upgraded from Sonic Pulse (after a lot of people complained about its problems at first). With its beam power, it can destroy many enemies very quickly. Now its power is even more powerful than before. Hope you like it!
Type of Lasershot
1.1.Beam
Charge up and shoot out a powerful beam.
1.2.Tail
It shoots beams from the front and back, it looks like a good weapon (if it can shoot from both sides at the same time...)
1.3.Split
Shoots a split beam of light, a highly effective weapon.
1.4.Rapid
Shoot out beams as fast as a gun, this is the blaster's time!

[royal comet]

Level 5 Area3-5 Update :

(Still W.I.P)

[royal comet]

Golden Apple
(Replaces the Bubble Shield)

[unborn hedge]

Woah that looks goooood

[royal comet]

Thank you ^^ ✨

[unborn hedge]

Np :3
Keep up the good work!

[royal comet]

Level 3 Update :
new sky and ocean color Including volcano. 😃

[unborn hedge]

And just when I thought you couldn't make something better than you already did, you make this...

holy crap this looks amazing

[royal comet]

Meet the new weapons :
Flamethrower 🔥

Burn all enemies with flames!
Unfortunately, we lost the prototype lightning weapon, but we got a fire weapon instead!

[mossy vortex]

https://tenor.com/view/sancho-sancho-limbus-sancho-canto-7-canto-7-canto-7-limbus-gif-14334152630275618064

So peak

[royal comet]

IDK

[royal comet]

I'm currently on vacation, so I might not be able to update the mod much. However, I did try designing an island for Level 3. Which one do you like better?

The islands are dark because they are probably made of volcanic ash.

[livid crane]

i would say the first one, it kinda looks like covered from the volcanic dust

[mossy vortex]

Idk both? Idk

[unborn hedge]

I'd personally go for the second one, but maybe making the green leaves a different color, like gray or the same color as the grass?

[livid crane]

now that I think of it, the green part is kinda out of place in the second image. feels like the only roasted part is only the grass

[royal comet]

Thanks, I also kind of like the second one, especially the trees. Maybe I can combine the two, with the grass being the first color and the trees being the second.

Like this :

[unborn hedge]

I meant the other way around 🤣
but this looks neat too 👀

I mean you're the one testing them ingame, so I'm sure you'll see there which version looks better

[royal comet]

There haven't been many updates to my mod as I've been on vacation, but for now I'm going to try out the island placements on level 3 and see how they turn out, then I'll start painting the islands again.

[royal comet]

Good news:
Level 5 Area 3-5 is finally complete.

While Level 3 is still a long way off, we're currently testing island locations and the volcano effect.

[livid crane]

PEAK

🔥 🔥 🔥

[royal comet]

Thanks ^^

~~ Now I'm going to take a break for a while. ~~

[unborn hedge]

Deserved break!
I can't express how much I love this mod!

[royal comet]

Thank you very much. 🥹

[fossil patrol]

[royal comet]

[royal comet]

(I did this for fun.)
Smoke trail effect

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[royal comet]

I think I just found an unused design of boss2 Sky Train in this mod.

~~ It looks like a fish that has been cut up for sashimi. ~~

[mossy vortex]

Wher did you get this unused design for 2?

Or is it a original fest

[royal comet]

Actually, I was originally going to use it as the official level 2 boss, until I didn't like the design and replaced it again, and it became the big train but flying now.

[royal comet]

List of all songs (C64) used in Platypus Revenge (most have changed, some have remained the same)

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Menu Title : Galway Is God 2000 - Martin Galway
(extended)

Ship Select : Flash Gordon - Rob Hubbard

Level Select : Shadowfire - Fred Gray

Level 1 : Ocean Loader v4 / v5 - Jonathan Dunn

Level 2 : Last Ninja - The Wastelands (Club Version) - Instant Remedy
(extended)

Level 3 : Terra Cresta - Martin Galway

Level 4 : Wizball [Title] - Reyn Ouwehand
(extended)

Level 5 : Driller - Matt Gray

High Score : Chimera - Rob Hubbard

Nothing, I just wrote this for fun.

[royal comet]

While I may not be updating the mod much right now, I might write a description of the locations and background of the levels, what they're all about, and the native population. Anyone want to hear it? If I did it.

[viscid prawn]

Oh yeah, Platypus lore 📖 🙌

[fossil patrol]

Are you hungry? 😹

[royal comet]

Maybe 🤔😋

[fossil patrol]

Also I knew why new mini boss look like Sky Serpent XD

[royal comet]

Update : Delta Victory has been replaced with Chimera (C64 Music used in Nux and includes the Platypus Reclayed ending).

[royal comet]

Hello everyone who's been waiting for Platypus II: Revenge. Unfortunately, there's not much progress at the moment, as I'm taking a break right now. So far, there are only minor sprite fixes and improvements. 😭

Fast Ship/Boomerang aka Horseshoe but Swap Color

(R.I.P.Piranha 😭)

[livid crane]

enjoy your break

[royal comet]

I'm wondering which version of smoke you guys like best when the Final Boss takes damage in each phase, between the first image (smoke that's the same color as the in-game explosion effect) and the second image (original flame effect).

[royal comet]

Thanks for the vote, I'll use the smoke effect #1 for this final boss.

[hollow stream]

Is this mod available to use?

[royal comet]

Unfortunately, the mod isn't finished yet. There's still a redesign of Level 3 and some minor Improve Level 4.

[hollow stream]

No problem 👍 . If you want a tester I can be

[royal comet]

Thank you also for your patience. Most of the time I can test the sprites I create in the game itself, but it's usually on holidays and every weekend, because during normal times I have to go back to the dorm.
Maybe I could ask you to test the sprites created in the game.

[hollow stream]

Sure no problem

[wary nexus]

Can't wait for the mod

[royal comet]

Thanks, it might take a while but we're halfway there now. 😃

[jovial geyser]

You can now add your mod to Steam Workshop - see updated docs for Workshop instructions and update any links

[unborn hedge]

@jovial geyser Heya!! :D
Sorry for the ping, and sorry for asking in this channel, but it's a somewhat related question that might help contribute to this mod...
Would it be okay to make an as-faithful-as-possible port of Platypus 2 to Reclayed Classic? Including levels, graphics, sounds and music with practically no modifications? Just wanted to make sure if you guys would be ok with that, but if not, that's fine 👍

oh shoot, sorry, I was meant to ask on #1419274495012765838 😭
I'll keep it here tho... don't wanna double-ping you
my apologies

[jovial geyser]

Go right ahead.

[unborn hedge]

Awesome!! Tysm!! :D

[fossil patrol]

L3-3 :
https://youtu.be/gpxqvFAYARc?si=orkafiCra3J31axH

[royal comet]

[compact granite]

crepe has awakened

[royal comet]

Oh yeah, I haven't done much right now, but I'll be back soon to continue this mod.

And now I've improved the island sprites of level 3.

[livid crane]

FIRE‼️‼️🔥

[mint vigil]

Ooh...

[compact granite]

That's huge progess, also more islands than caves, something unusual for the stage.

[royal comet]

The mineshard has changed a bit, as I've reused its sprite from Reclayed Classic.

(But the original sprite is still kept.)

[compact granite]

the one with the cave section is also now a minefield hell LOL, very reclayed move right there

😂

[royal comet]

The hardest thing about Level 3 customization right now for me is not knowing how to make the new Area 4 cave look like, including designing the jungle tree sprites 😭

[livid crane]

steal reclayed's halloween dlc's dead trees and edit them

[royal comet]

Interesting, but I think I'd rather create or design it myself with IbisPaintX. I might try this later.

[unborn hedge]

Wake up everyone, peak just dropped 🔥

[wary nexus]

SHEEEESH

DUDE MADE PLATYPUS 3

keep cooking chef

[royal comet]

Thank you very much! I will try my best to do this.

Unfortunately, I may not be able to update the mod anymore because I have exams in December, which makes me very busy.

[unborn hedge]

Focus on those first, then you can come back to this peak mod

You got this! 🔥

[royal comet]

It's not a mod, I just finished my exams. I'll be back soon to update this mod, including completing level 3 and making some minor adjustments to level 4.

[royal comet]

Updated : Dish (Reclayed)

[mint vigil]

Coolio

[royal comet]

Baby Red uns 🍼

[mint vigil]

Ooh... A jungle!!

[royal comet]

A Hot Jungle 🗣️ 🥵🔥💀

[royal comet]

The concept seems okay. Area 4 should be a deep forest full of vines and large branches.

[royal comet]

Ground Test

The red stalactite... I was thinking of putting it as a tree, plant, or small structure. Right now, I haven't set up the site yet to see how it might fit.

But the color of the fog wasn't very orange, and it looked strangely like an alien planet.

[unborn hedge]

RIP UF-0

[royal comet]

Sky Test

It might look better if, amidst the jungle tree sprites (sprites with a hastily drawn "P"), the background were the color of fire, like a burning forest. Because of this, I had to move Saturn/Esria (in the sprite) slightly further away so it wouldn't overlap with the background.

(Faded sky effect idea, original by Makyuni and geio0999)

While I was testing this in the game :

Maybe I need to adjust the lighting gradient or reduce the brightness of the background. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

[livid crane]

i think adding some huge/tall trees can balance out the vivid red sky🤔

[royal comet]

Yes, that's exactly what I was planning to do. The numerous tall trees that pop out of the screen will add dimension to the background, like a raging forest fire. As for the background lighting, perhaps I should add some yellow-orange light, creating a gradient of colors from the fire.

[royal comet]

This should look better now. I'll try again tomorrow.

[royal comet]

Sorry for the delay in testing, but it looks much better now.

[wispy plume]

the pingas bullets

[royal comet]

Hello everyone. Although it's been very quiet with no updates, it seems that all four levels – Frozen Sea, Great Desert, Abandoned City, and Enemy Base – have been completed. Unfortunately, only the Burning Jungle level remains unfinished. I apologize again for not completing this, and I'm currently experiencing burnout and want to focus on other things. Therefore, I'll have to announce that updates to this mod may be paused for a while until I'm ready, which I'm not sure how long. So, that's all I wanted to let you know today.

(Two sprires shows a jungle ground , I'm thinking of adding other plants to it. What do you think?)

At least now adjusting the scaling of image layers in Ibis PaintX is much easier. I also just discovered that it has a scaling system that I've changed to pixels, so I don't have to painstakingly copy and overwrite the layer like before.

[royal comet]

The official name of the level 4 Boss has finally been revealed. 🤫🤫

[royal comet]

Hi everyone! I might come back to finish this mod in the future, as I only have level 3 (Volcanic Jungle) left. The problem is, I still don't know how to design the tree sprites. I think I need a little help.

[unborn hedge]

these look crazy good tho! nice :0

[royal comet]

Thank you so much. I tried many times through trial and error to make it look good. Now the leaves are complete (though I might need to fine-tune them further). I'll have to fix the base of the tree first.

[unborn hedge]

honestly polishing the base drawing a bit, and adding shadows might make it look pretty nice :D

From experience. You can maybe look at my Sea Level from Zhark's seaweed or something, as a reference