SF4 Game Mechanics: Focus Attacks (Balrog Emphasis)

>Proof of Concept – SF4 Game Mechanics: Focus Attacks<

Focus attacks in general is a game mechanic which changes properties depending on how long you hold it,  there are three levels when you charge a focus attack. A focus attack has hyper armor during certain points  of the move’s animation in which it can absorb a single non-armor breaking attack. Focus attacks have startup, active, and recovery frames.  Level 1 and level 2 focus attacks have hyper armor during the charging but not during the swing (animation where charging stops and the actual attack begins, this will be referred to as the “swing”) while level 3 FA’s have armor up until the attack hits. Lvl 1 can only crumple stun on CH, lvl 2 can crumple stun on hit but is blockable, while lvl 3 is unblockable, crumple stuns on hit, and breaks armor.  No focus attacks cause chip damage.

PART II – Money Woes – What a budget can/can’t do

This is more of an opinion-piece and a collection if ideas that supplement things said in the first part.  Topics it touches on include debt, stretching money, as well as my ideas on what to do with unexpected costs.  Towards the end I note some maxims, presented in bold.  Some of them are pretty far out, and were described by the word ridiculous by those who proofread.  That aside the are still applicable to financial decisions you made especially using the process lined out in the first part.

PART I – Working to Make your Money Work for you

When it comes to managing money, the argument for nature vs. nurture comes to mind.  Some people inherently know how to use money efficiently and effectively, while some simply do not.  This guide is intended to spell out methods of using money in a way to keep more of it in your pocket and also at times make it seem like there’s more than it really is.  A general tool for managing money is a budget: a cyclic plan describing how much can be spent on what with the goal of under-spending in regard to your income.  Under spending is when you spend less than you make, and over-spending is when you spend more than you make.  The remainder of this article will describe how to make an initial budget and caveats to the process as well as a sample budget.