Weekly Update December 20th
Added 2015-12-20 20:32:18 +0000 UTCSo here's what I was working on this past week.
Now that I've got a couple characters, I wanted to start getting things into a game environment.
Meridiana is now in Unreal and running around. She has a teleport ability and two spells to choose from.
The control scheme and how everything works is going to be changed quite a bit, but now at least she can move around and cast some spells.
The Goblin enemy is also now fully rigged, and also has been put in engine. I was able to get a walk animation done for him last night, and will be able to have him walking around patrolling for booty soon enough.
I also ended up writing a lot of stuff down. There is a lot of character and world building stuff that I never bothered to put down to paper, and I did a lot of that this week. It doesn't make for an exciting update, but it will help me get a plan for fleshing things out more clearly.
edited to include break-dancing goblin pic
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I don't want to get too into detail yet, but I have what I think are some cool reasons for her getting around, and she will hopefully be doing a little bit of tracking! I don't know how successful I'll be, but my goal is to make a game that people might want to play even without the sex stuff.
Mithos56
2015-12-22 04:48:35 +0000 UTCVery exciting to hear! Too many porn-y games end up either being glorified visual novels or having the entire game focused on incentivizing failure in such a way that, even if the rest of the game design is fun, the game itself becomes completey inconsequential. Another potential idea, this time for the overall concept: maybe Merdiana is on a quest to bed the most attractive heroes/villains/monsters of the land (whatever "attractive" might mean to her at the time), but to do so she has to successfully retrace the hazardous monster-laden paths they've traveled to catch up to them? That setup could potentially act as a decent narrative incentive for Meridiana herself, which then justifies players trying to skillfully make progress with as little impedence/failure along the way, but still caters to people who want to see sexy stuff (also allowing people who don't want to lose to see some sexy stuff). It's maybe not the perfect solution, but it's at least one potential setup to have people want to progress and actually win instead of just faceplanting in the first room to see a couple sex animations then uninstalling.
Tinybone
2015-12-22 04:31:49 +0000 UTCI do want to make it focus on rewarding the player. I know exactly what you're talking about from metal gear, and I'd like to make you work a little more if I can! Its important to me that the game is fun to play even if its not one of the sexy parts.
Mithos56
2015-12-22 02:56:23 +0000 UTCAs a totally separate idea in the costume side of things, maybe you could explore a simple texture-drawing toolset in-game? Like something you could use to literally just paint on Meridiana's skin and/or clothing that you could maybe export/import as a simple png to easily share on forums or what-have-you. Again, just a blue-sky idea, but user-generated-content is always a good way to get motivated fans to do work for you ;P
Tinybone
2015-12-22 02:47:00 +0000 UTCJust spitballing an idea: making sexy stuff a postive part of the gameplay loop would probably be fun and still reward people who want to play a "flawless" run. When you mentioned MGS I immediately thought of the classic "attract and isolate" loop where you attract a lone guard, and eliminate/loot/capture them by intentionally offering yourself as bait. Perhaps Meridiana could recharge magic/unlock hats/get coins/whatev by isolating an enemy and doing something alluring?
Tinybone
2015-12-22 02:41:57 +0000 UTCThat really is quite the list of questions, which is definitely cool, so don't worry about it. While I can't answer all the questions yet,(some of it I want to try some different things on, some of it I'm truthfully unsure), there are a few questions here I can answer. I do want there to be a bit of exploration, and actually want to have stealth be important. I enjoy games like assassin's creed, metal gear, the Arkham batman games for the element of tactics that can go into it. I don't want to just use the lose to monster and they rape you thing, but I will have a bit of that cause its fun. There will be collectables and treasure, and I'd like to have costume options, but that's an extra as I'm a one man shop right now. Magic will vary in how its used depending on what it is. Spells are not a one time cast, but managing your magic is important. Running out of magic power will be bad, as your magic is your health as well. And I don't think I'll have any monsters in the final game that will only attack by raping the player. That's all I really feel like I can answer at this time, but keep the questions coming!
Mithos56
2015-12-20 22:04:56 +0000 UTCNo worries, it was a fun unintentional thing, and it shall be remembered. (psst easter egg animation)
Vargh
2015-12-20 21:58:37 +0000 UTCI added a pic, but I have a pretty hard time capturing gifs in the unreal editor, it freezes when you're doing other things
Mithos56
2015-12-20 21:54:07 +0000 UTCSuper cool! With more and more updates I'm getting more and more questions... So forgive me when I just dump this huge list of questions on you. Feel free to not answer anything you wish to keep as a surprise. ^^ So how do you envision your game working? I played your early demo of the dummy running around. Do you plan on making a game around exploring an area and avoiding/ fighting rapey monsters? Seems like you plan on something a bit more than just move forward - fight a monster and move on to the next monster, fail = get raped theme. Like are their going to be collectibles and treasure chests? Different clothing options? I'm also interested in the systems you plan to have in the game. Like what are your plans on how magic functions? Like is magic going to be a limited usage thing? Or will you have a slowly regenerating magic bar? Also will your protagonist be able to fight back if she uses all her magic? Another thing is how do you plan to do health in the game? Will you have fighting monsters? Or like enemies that fight with their dicks (meaning they just try to rape). Will the rape do damage or will they only rape once the heroin is downed? I got a whole bunch of other questions but I'm getting quite the list. ^^
QuestionablyInsane
2015-12-20 21:17:21 +0000 UTCNo break dancing goblin gifs ? :P
Vargh
2015-12-20 20:56:14 +0000 UTC
