Windjammers 2 will have a few interesting new features and one of them was shown at PAX West. Windjammers 2 will feature an “EX Move” bar shown at the bottom of the screen. This will make it more like a fighting game, where players can pull off a move that will be difficult to defend once the bar is maxed out.
Also of note is that for Windjammers 2 is that Kevin Delbrayelle, who was the lead programmer on the Windjammers port coming to Switch later this year, will be returning for the sequel. According to DotEmu head of marketing Arnaud De Sousa, Delbrayelle’s understanding of the original code and how it works will be extremely beneficial for the sequel.
“Kevin spent months retro-engineering the first game just to understand how the game works. There’s a ton of things going on in Windjammers: the frisbee moves and all the character moves. There are a lot of mechanics you just don’t see, like balancing for instance.”