Version 0.6.0 of Potion mod.

[Artman40]

I wonder should the effects of the "mess up your controls" potion be temporary or permanent until stunned?

[marsgreekgod]

I thought it was until end of level.

[gummybears123]

Can someone list all the potions and effects?

[Enrymion]

How about a Potion of Lust that makes every (1 tile)enemy (and item?) look like stationary damsel until you rescue a real one? It could be combined with potion of love maybe without guaranteed damsel spawn at next level. That way it'd have both positive and negative effects.
What does potion of love do when given to the one damsel?

Using potions on others isn't very intuitive I think it should either always work on whatever it's thrown at regardless of target's state consciousness or by "buying" a potion while carrying someone.
Also bubble should work on others maybe confuse should too at least visually.

Making water cure confusion could be nice.
There should be some sound effect for drinking potions.

Full bottles don't break but empty ones do? I might want to refill that empty bottle!

Can someone list all the potions and effects?

red, green, black
confuse, bubble, -5 health, +1 health

[Artman40]

I think -5 health to +1 health isn't really a good tradeoff. Maybe, if getting that bad potion, you can avoid the worst of it, but you'd have to be quick somehow.

[marsgreekgod]

or -3. so you know a starting health of 4 can live, but be almost dead

[Enrymion]

animation for being confused is awfully large and kind of weird. IMHO it should stay above spelunkers head and be around the same size as stunned animation.

[Delver]

First of really appreciate the feedback 

I wonder should the effects of the "mess up your controls" potion be temporary or permanent until stunned?

It's permanent right now (0.5.1.1). If it was on a timer; people would stand still at much as passably, and I really don't see Spelunky as a stand still and do nothing game.

I think I'm going to lessen the effect, right now there is no choice; when confused go to a high place and jump! If the effect was less shuffle and more reversing, like left to right or jump to whip. You could decide to keep it, until stunned (that way not losing a life to nothing) or "cancel stun" it in fear of falling in to spikes or just losing life to non stunning enemies.

I think -5 health to +1 health isn't really a good tradeoff. Maybe, if getting that bad potion, you can avoid the worst of it, but you'd have to be quick somehow.

It's not really -5 life to +1 life, but to negate the dmg. from any attack (even instant death). But -5 life really isn't that great, I'm going to change it to 4 life over 2 minutes (even over lvl ends), so if on full life (4) you have 2 minutes to get 1 life without losing any.

Maybe put in a 3 lvl passed until effect removed, or a cancel system; if under a negative effect from a red potion a black potion would have no effect, but will cancel the effect of the red potion. Black cancel red, green cancel black and red cancel green.

Using potions on others isn't very intuitive I think it should either always work on whatever it's thrown at regardless of target's state consciousness or by "buying" a potion while carrying someone.
Also bubble should work on others maybe confuse should too at least visually.

Making water cure confusion could be nice.
There should be some sound effect for drinking potions.

Full bottles don't break but empty ones do? I might want to refill that empty bottle!

The first version had enemies drinking on contact, but you really don't what to lose a potion because it touches a enemy, when dropped for any reason. Also when was the last time you trowed a beer on some one? Did he drink it on contact? 

water dispelling confusion it pretty nice 

really likes the idea of bottles being refill, maybe you could mix potions to make another; if mixing green and black you get red?     


           

[Sudonimus]

I played the game...
I can't seem to find the potions
something wrong?

[Delver]

I played the game...
I can't seem to find the potions
something wrong?

Teddy... hmm I mean gummybears123 said he had the same problem, and haven't heard if he was just unlucky. it's very unlikely it doesn't work (actually almost Miracle unlikely). try going to the editor and make some chest... you might as well make some potions too (under tap one)... there is about a 25% chance of no potion from chests.

ps. anyone played P4?    

[gummybears123]

They come up now....

And what does the bubble potion do?

[Delver]

The Bubble potion Spoiler 

It cancels one hit, if you get touched by a spider no damage (but the bubble will burst) the same if falling, even spikes. You can survive the bomb even    [/color]

[gummybears123]

How about shotguns?  Or arrowtraps?

[Delver]

Hmm... it should do shotgun (if not implementing now ) and yes

edit:
do shotgun, actually pretty nicely 

[Enrymion]

It's permanent right now (0.5.1.1). If it was on a timer; people would stand still at much as passably, and I really don't see Spelunky as a stand still and do nothing game.

A lot depends on the timer, if it took longer than ghost takes to appear it might not encourage standing still so much but just having enough safe ways to remove it would be better than timer at least for an effect coming from potion if it was caused by something else it could be very brief. Maybe rescuing a damsel could cure it too?

Maybe put in a 3 lvl passed until effect removed, or a cancel system; if under a negative effect from a red potion a black potion would have no effect, but will cancel the effect of the red potion. Black cancel red, green cancel black and red cancel green.

Seems a bit weird for colour to matter for effect cancelling when effects are random. Effect based would be more logical.

The first version had enemies drinking on contact, but you really don't want to lose a potion because it touches a enemy, when dropped for any reason.    

You could make it require enough velocity. Or even better you could make it so that it just breaks when thrown and creates a cloud of potion that causes the effect for everyone in touch with it. Cloud probably should have different effect than drinking in some cases.

Also when was the last time you threw a beer on some one? Did he drink it on contact?  

Does throwing one at unconscious person work better?