Whenever I'd been testing Pixeltail, Alex had not been working the way I intended because I had to change the way he worked from the previous games. Someone here said they wanted me to add an 8-Way Movement behaviour to Alex, which did not turn out so well.
A common complaint I have received about the released Poppytail games was Alex's control scheme; arrow keys to walk and N, M, Z and X to run. Although most people ask me why I didn't use W, A, S and D, I thought of a potentially better way to go about this.
Now, instead of having to use eight different keys to make Alex move, you only need the arrow keys. I now have the X key to swap Alex's speeds from walking to running and vice-versa, as well as an HUD actor in the top right left of the screen, showing a pixelated figure which turns blue for walking and red for running, as well as text underneath telling you what mode Alex is on.
Making Alex's controls was also difficult because I have decided to make one character invert the controls, so that made things a little more complicated. This character who inverts the controls is Pork Chop, since the game's colours would be inverted in Poppytail 4 when her minigame was entered during Custom Chapters mode. Her AI isn't finished, however.
I also had another idea. The other character along with Pork Chop who was introduced in PT3's CHapter 2 was Orangu Tan*. Since Pork would invert the controls whenever she appeared on screen, I thought Orangu Tan* could make the screen shake violently whenever he was on screen. What do you guys think about this idea?
*Also, I'm not sure anyone understood why Orangu Tan was named how he was. In case you didn't figure it out (no one I know had figured it out before I told them), those red spots over Orangu Tan's body are meant to be sunburns (which is also fitting since the chapter in which he first appeared was outdoors). He is meant to be a primate-like creature, hence "orangutan", but the "tan" makes up the other part of his name's etymology, since tans and sunburns are commonly linked.