I ABSOLUTELY love magic in games, and the way you've got it set up here is pretty awesome. I have a few suggestions for ways forward in terms of spells and other content. These are only ideas, and may be dismissed as you see fit. It's your mod, after all!
#1: More accessibility to other races.
As adorable as magic space cats are, I prefer playing human solely because of the aesthetics. Even if you made it a separate mod, or made it ridiculously difficult to get to magical powers, it'd be nice to be able to access magic as other races.
#2: Use ingame resources to make some spells.
You could always use some in-game resources to make spells. For example, the lightning projectile that some guns have on them would be a good place to start for lightning spells, where the knockback per hit acts as if the target was stunned, but the energy consumption could be massive.
#3: Make the armor energy-focused, rather than defense-focused.
Sure, when you get to higher tiers you get higher defense, but you could make it so the higher tier armors are all robes or something mages would wear and have them grant more energy to cast more spells.
Again, these are just a few ideas I had. It's your mod, these can be completely ignored. Keep up the good work!
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Outdated Kineptic Race Mod 12-22-2015
Magician Space Cats
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Now [I]this[/I] is a review! (Make no mistake: I value all feedback, no matter how simple)
I'm glad you find the work to be off high quality! I echo your sentiments of the cookie-cutter human sprite: needs more variety. That being said, I've used the body sprite for the avali for a few reasons:
Sprite n00b: Prior to this, I never sprited anything. I did a little bit of what you see, but most of it was done by Icebelly; the coloring, shading, and animations. I did some cleanup afterward, but I don't think I could make anything from scratch besides unshaded, bland blocks.
Clothing compatibility: The vanilla races share clothing. May as well try to help out the digitigrade clothing industry, right?
I would love to give them more vanity, but... clothes are the single most time consuming thing to sprite (and the most difficult)! The vest and gloves were fairly simple, but the baggy pants... bleh. Looks more like a diaper.
As for the OPness of the weapons, I'm aware of that... but without scriptable items being a thing yet, it's hard to reliably drain hunger. That's right. Hunger. Not energy. Spaming energy has no consequence besides not being able to attack. Spamming hunger will kill you.
That's the idea, anyway. It definitely needs refinement, but I think it will make for an interesting mechanic.
I do very much intend to continue development...but it's slow going; especially when I also like to draw, RP, and have a 44 hour workweek.
Thanks again for leaving feedback!
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Read the original post in its entirety, please: I used the leg and body sprites from the avali race mod with permission from the creator, RyuujinZERO. Thanks for checking my. Mod out, though! I appreciate it!
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