Gemma & Blake - IwaflorChars

Gemma & Blake - IwaflorChars v1/Gemma BM v3.0.3

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This add-on is made with v2.2.15 in mind. Older versions of SRB2 are no longer supported and you may encounter errors if you attempt to run this add-on in older SRB2 builds. Please make sure your game is up to date.
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After witnessing Dr. Eggman's swift vandalization of Greenflower Mountain right next to her and Mom's house during a rather mundane day and witnessing the arrival of the famous Sonic the Hedgehog & co. on the island, Gemma hops in to follow the Blue Blur (and co.)'s trail with her buddy Blake by her side.

Meet the characters

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Gemma the Tarsier-Cat
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Gemma (pronounced "JEM-ah") is a 14-15 year old ½ Tarsier-½ Cat hybrid and an aspiring adventurer born with geokinesis, a kind of power the lets the user control and manipulate earth at their own will.

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Ability
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Tera-riser:
Double jump to drop downwards with enough force to break the floor beneath your feet and ride it upwards. You can jump or spindash off this newly created platform at anytime.
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Tip: Hitting an enemy or hazard with the rock platform will allow you to perform the move again. Chain multiple together to gain maximum height!
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Gemma is also Co-op friendly. You can use this ability to take your friends to a lift.

Otherwise, she pretty much plays like your traditional Sonic character. She can perform the classic Spin Jump & as mentioned before, the Spin Dash. Y'know, the usual stuff.

You can configure how Gemma's ability controls using the "gemmastyle" command. I/O support is included.

Hold (gemmastyle 1): Let go of jump while riding the platform to hop off of it.

Triple Jump (gemmastyle 2): Press jump while riding the platform to hop off it.

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RingSlinger NEO
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Gemma also sports her own weapon loadout in RingSlinger NEO.

Main weapon:
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Stone Ring
Offhand weapon:
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Scatter Ring

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BattleMod (Separate Patch)
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In order to play as Gemma in BattleMod, you must load the new "L_GemmaBattle" file after loading Gemma herself.

In BattleMod, her Tera-riser ability has an exhaust meter, which drains if used excessively. Her ground pound debris and Rock Platform also tumbles players unless they have no defense. Additionally, spin dashing while on the rock platform increases your gravity, making you fall faster.

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Rock Wave:
Jump and hold Fire to charge a powerful cone-shaped wave of rock pillars that either tumbles or instantly damages players depending on how long you charge the ability before releasing the Fire button. Pressing FireNormal while charging simply cancels the ability, while Pressing Spin while charging lets you perform a quick short dash.

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Earth Wall:
Hold Fire while grounded to determine the spot you want to create a wall made of rocks, then release the button to create it. It has 6 health points before it gets destroyed. You can also destroy the wall yourself by pressing Fire while grounded again.

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Blake the Tamaraw
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Joining Gemma in her quest to chase Sonic's trail is her best friend Blake, who's 15cm shorter and almost half a year older than her. This little V-shaped-horned dwarf buffalo is a whimsy but also awkward kind of boy who ironically happens to possess the power to control shadows, which allows him to summon various shadowy animal forms, or use his shadow powers to destroy foes directly. He may not be able to Spin Jump and Spin Dash like his primate-feline hybrid friend can, but his dark power more than makes up for it.

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Abilities
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Phantom Dragon & Phantom Eagle:
Double jumping summons a dark shadowy dragon that you can ride upwards, while pressing spin after jumping summons a dark shadowy eagle that you can ride forwards. You can do one after the other, and both Phantom creatures can destroy enemies and walls, even walls that only the roughest of echidnas can break through.
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Co-op feature: Up to two other players entangled with Blake can ride the Phantom Dragon when he summons it. After the dragon dissipates, you can still perform your ability(ies) out of the dragon.

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Phantom Slash & Phantom Dash:
Press spin while grounded to perform a shadowy slash that you can lunge into your foes, or break walls & floors. This works two times, but once you press spin for the third time, you instead perform the Phantom Dash, where you not only dash forward into enemies and walls, but even break spikes, too!
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Tip: If you wish to slash without moving forward too fast, don't touch the directional input (be it WASD, D-Pad, or Analog) while pressing spin on ground.

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RingSlinger NEO
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Main weapon:
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Explosion Ring
Offhand weapon:
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Accel Ring

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BattleMod
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Blake does not have support for BattleMod at the moment.

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Gemma & Blake
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Like Sonic & Tails, there is a Gemma & Blake option, where you can play both characters together as a team! Standing on the same position as the Blake bot will make a "Flight Call" arrow indicator show up. Jumping with this indicator present will make him summon a Phantom Dragon that you can ride with him upward in the air. You can still perform the Tera-riser after the dragon dissipates, to reach maximum height.
Little tip if you have all the Chaos Emeralds: If you want to perform Flight Call while Gemma is in Super form, try not to jump too high by simply tapping the jump button or just not holding the jump button for too long.

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Other Features, Secrets and whatnot
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Bonus skincolor: Bumiflor. Based on Gemma's colors in non-SRB2 styled artwork.
A fully-sprited Super form for Gemma only. Go get those Chaos Emeralds first, though. Blake cannot go super.
Full TeamKinetic compatibility (Both Frozen and Surf sprites).
HorizonChars Compatibility (Kazotsky Kick).
Full SUGOI Trilogy compatibility.
"Trick fail" sprites for Frostiikin's CrossMomentum mod.
Jetski support with RushChars.
2nd-tiered run animation.
Freedom Planet references in some of Gemma's poses and animations. Don't ask why I added 'em. Also don't even think about pressing Custom 2 while standing.
Hug. (Custom 1)
GEMBLAKE FOREVA (Hug Blake in either Gemma & Blake mode or in Multiplayer)

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Changelog (Gemma Standalone, Pre-Xenforo Era MB only)
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v1.2.2c & v1.2.3
- Changed the color of Gemma's Shorts.
- Fixed a long unfixed oversight that is the offsets of FALLA5 & B5

v1.2.2b & v1.2.3PR1
- Revamped Rock Platform Sprites. (Special Thanks to Biggy-π#4819)
- Also fixed a typo in the CSS Description lol
- v1.2.3PR1 only: Replaced the "Hole" Graphic again. Use this version for the v2.2.9 pre-releases.

v1.2.2a
- Revamped CSS art

v1.2.2
- Added Hugs support because bored

v1.2.1
- Added a new "Hole" graphic when you perform the Tera-riser.

v1.2
- Removed "Mixed" (gemmastyle 0) playstyle.
- Gemma no longer performs the Tera-Riser if you land with the drill without holding jump. The small shockwave of rocks that you emit after landing with the drill now destroys enemies.
- You can now Spin-Dash while riding the rock platform.

v1.1.2
- Fixed a lua conflict with characters like Skip and Yoshi losing stomp damage.

v1.1.1
- added "Trick fail" sprites for Frostiikin's CrossMomentum mod.

v1.1
- Most Sprites had been touched up.

v1.0.1
- minor offset tweaks with RIDE sprites

v1
- initial release

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Credits
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- Project Lead, Main Spriter, Owner of Characters, "Ideas Guy" -
RalphJeremy65 (me lol)

- Spriting Assistance -
Biggy-π#4819 (Rock Platform Sprite Revamp)

- Programming -
- Gemma -
Main:
SMS Alfredo
reverbal

Battle:
SMS Alfredo
reverbal
JABSphere

- Blake -
Main:
Frostiikin

Other:
Push & Wind Animations by DirkTheHusky (Used with permission)
Icezer - Push & Wind Animation fixes
Fav - Wind Animation expansion, BattleMod Guard frames
Great Glass - DASH sprites implementation
MysteryMiles - "Iwaflor" skincolor
Mylo T. & WhisperVII - FP1 Fortune Night Dance code

- Reusable Content -
Hugs by Tatsuru

- Other Content -
Long Whoosh - Sound by LordSonny (pixabay.com)

- Beta Testers -
The Adventurer's Guild
BattleMod Community
SRB2 CSCS

- Special Thanks -
Mylo's Workshop
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  2. v3.2.1

    - Upgraded Gemma's idle animation to take advantage of v2.2.15's newly added SF_FASTWAIT skin...
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Happy to see this mod get continuous updates, now with a new character!

Gemma is as great to play as before. There's greatness to find in the simplicity of things, and her moveset is as simple as they get. Her Tera-riser is just a fancier bubble shield, but what makes it work for her is that it also functions as a pseudo triple jump and stomp. Let go of jump, you stomp. Keeping hold jump, you bounce back up, functioning as your double jump. The higher your initial height was before initiating the Tera-riser, the higher your bounce will be. Bouncing on an enemy increases your height greatly. Destroying an enemy while riding the rock platform resets your Tera-riser, allowing for chaining, which I love! Jump off the platform, you get a triple jump. You can spindash while riding the platform, really neat. And that's it, a simple ability with a lot of use cases. Sprite work is amazing! There's so much of Lilac in her and I love it. Smooth animations, badass transformation... Definitely one of my favorite SRB2 OCs! 5/ 5!

Blake, on the other hand... Gotta be honest, like many other people shared, I'm not really feeling this one. He doesn't feel that unique compared to other shadowy characters, like Willo or the recent addition Echoes & Abyss for instance. He plays pretty much like Willo, having a dash, but Willo shines by having his dash be momentum-based. The faster you go, the higher you'll dash up and down, but here it's very stop-and-go and you don't have a downward dash that makes everything flow better. I feel like the slash should break spikes, not just walls, but the dash does tho. I'm not sure if it's just me, but his sprite work feels a lot lower quality compared to Gemma. Still good, but could be better. It seems you went for the "minimal animations" approach, meaning lots of animation and pose reuse. The walking cycle is exactly like Sonic's. His slash is just his forward running pose. Even his design and animations just feels like a combination of Dirk and Whirl. His personality just doesn't really show in his animations. Overall, and I hate to say it, but ehhh Blake's a bit bland at the moment. Shadowy characters have a lot of potential for unique abilities and animations, I feel! They don't always have to be given a dash... 3/ 5.

Cool that Gemma loves short kings tho. Respect lol
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fun visuals, boring gameplay. i just don't really get much out of these two, moveset-wise. i wanna have more to say, i wanna like them, because there's so much going on here, i love the idea of there being ringslinger neo and battle support, i just. can't be bothered to play more of the game than i have to with these two.
it might just be with blake, because i've had gemma long enough to not have quite the level of interest with her that i do with other characters when they come out, but on the other hand, vanilla sonic still feels fresh and exhilarating every time i come back to him, knowing his tech, so gemma's moveset is... alright at best
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Gemma is pretty much perfect, I genuinely don't see how anybody could have any issues with her.
10/10 American flags, God bless, amazing sprites btw love it

My issues come with Blake. No offense, it just doesn't feel original, this is the 3rd shadowey spirit character that we got and its moveset just feels kind of boring to me. I feel as though a lot of effort was put into this though, and I'm not trying to come off as rude I just don't like the character.

8/10 American Flags, God bless
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Iwaflorchars (I hope I'm spelling that right) is very well made. I kinda prefer playing Gemma though, for reasons I will soon bring up.

Gemma: Pros Great character design Geokineses is pretty unique, as I haven't seen other characters who have this ability. She actually has a spindash soooo, that's great. No cons.

Blake: Pros Again, good character design. Just a dislike it a tad bit. Cool shadow powers. Cons I've seen three goats in SRB2 mods, and it's getting repetitive. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just getting boring. While I like the shadow abilities, I've seen other characters (Echoes, Willo) who have does as well. He seems a bit rushed. He has a lot less than what Gemma has. No spindash. I just REALLY like the ability, and now it isn't here.
4/5 I just think that Blake needs a little more love. He has a lot of potential that has been missed here. Great job!
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Blake is my first ever time designing a "No-Spin" character, so I can feel people who think his moveset right now is a little lacking.

I had a few peeps during development suggesting a few cool ideas for a moveset revamp/partial redo (not a full redo), but I rather save all that for a future update.
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It is an amazing character to play as and an awesome design too! My one question is if you can make the rock larger with commands? I don't mean with scale since I definitely would like to carry more people with the rock at once in a small environment! If there isn't that's alright! It's an awesome mod!!!
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peak mod, gemma have fun abilities to play with! its creative the tera-riser is fun! this is my favorite mod forever.
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The only OC addon I've downloaded. Absolute peak gameplay. Very fun to bounce around with.
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she dancing for real
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a character that can earthbend?, for me that's enough to consider this the best mod, and also, the plataform working in coop will be cool since i'm trying to invite some friends that have never played a sonic game before to play together, this can help them thanks :)
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The character is great, her ability is pretty unique, but that doesn't stop you from playing as her. Gemma has cool sprites and is a pleasure to play as.
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