Hi, i was wondering if anyone would be able to offer any help, opinions etc in a dilemma I'm trying to figure out at the moment.
You see i'm planning to make a Castlevania inspired patform game and most of the castlevania games take a directly side on view, i can think of only two games off of my head that aren't mostly straight on side view - those being Super Castlevania IV and Castlevania Dracula X for the snes. However i really like how the 2 snes games platforms are not directly side on because it feels like the player is more inside the terrain rather than sitting on top of it.
As a very basic example this is sorta the kind of platforms i'm going for
as opposed to this
I wanted the level design to be similar to Castlevania SOTN but I'm having some difficulty creating stair shaped slopes that are suited to this kind of platform view without it throwing things off considerably, and making the overall view look awkward or the platforms strange.
so i was wondering if anyone has any ideas or could offer some advice as to how i could approach making levels with stairs like this - even if you know of some games that might be close to what i'm after that i can look at it would be a graet help.
Or perphaps i should drop the stairs idea completely? i've seen quite a few castle themed levels in other games that either have no slopes at all or just use ramps instead
any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks