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Hello everyone! I'm finally starting a new game project!

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ABOUT:
Merrily Perily is a game about crisis. You play as Perry, a severely dehydrated man who stumbles into a remote village in search of help, but the inhabitants respond with strange detachment to your trouble. You may think that the nearby fountain is a safe means to quench your dire thirst, but you would soon find yourself in search of aid for a snake bite. And before you know it, you will be chased by bees, fending off bears, cursed by gypsies, and most likely on fire. Help Perry navigate the deadly peril he faces at every turn in Merrily Perily on a computer near you!

PERRY:
(http://neuropod.net/imagehost/uploads/2a5f619a3349dded3c8603e035d60bd5.png)

TEAM:
Fireshaw (http://www.flancrestenterprises.com/)
JaJitsu (http://www.jajitsu.com/)

(http://tempmedia.tumblr.com/preview.zKBVwpkBgfNB5sLF/0666a1de4f8f0f7f1d841f10f6dd911c_1280.png) (http://squiddershins.com/files/merrily_perily_demo.zip)

Merrily Perily Demo (http://squiddershins.com/files/merrily_perily_demo.zip)

We have all been working diligently on Merrily Perily, and a demo (http://squiddershins.com/files/merrily_perily_demo.zip) is now available! Please bear in mind two things when playing the demo:

-The demo includes a few crises, characters, and comedy.
-The demo does not yet include final SFX, all animations, sidequests, multiple endings, credits, cake, or a bug free experience.
-The demo is PC only at the moment, but we hope to have an HTML5 version up this weekend.

WEEK1:
This week I was focusing on getting the main animations done for the main character, Perry.
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The background hasn't been worked on at all. I just wanted some sort of area to run around in.
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This is awesome! I love the wobblyness of the art.

I really like the art style, and any game where the protagonist is a 'severely dehydrated man' is worth a go. Looking forward to updates!

Interesting premise and great style. Is this planned as a short game?

Yes. This is actually my senior project for school, and will need to be done in just 14 Weeks. If you knew exactly what to do you could probably finish the game in 5 minutes, but figuring out the puzzles will obviously increase the playtime. There are also multiple endings planned.

Thanks for the comments so far! This week I'm getting the main town painted. I'll post when I get some more done.

A restaurant. I like that chicken sign.
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his dehydration doesn't look that severe, imo

(http://neuropod.net/imagehost/uploads/d01cb58041231a7aa8c0e9936ad8c718.png)

that's better. really though if you want to make the dehydration thing a thing, the physiological effects give a characteristic gaunt look and a sort of ever present lethargy in movement which could give your guy some physical character. he looks quite sprightly right now.

I would love to do that, but doubt I'll have the time to do a separate run cycle for every crises in the game. It is a good suggestion though, I appreciate that.

oh. i am bad at reading words (actually i am fairly fucking exceptional at reading words i just lack the inclination to do so). he becomes not dehydrated fairly early on, i see now. Assalamu alaikum.

I'M SO WATCHING THIS

the graphics are so lovely  :-* :-*

 :blink:

WEEK 2: worked on the town
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That's looking really nice, what program are you using to build the game?

The style is great, I feel like his feet are not giving the impression of movement though. And a simple shadow under the character might plant him in the ground a bit more.

this looks really good
that scene reminds me so much of the first village in mother 3

I got the movement going in MMF2, but I might have another programmer make it in Game Maker.


I was just thinking about a shadow last night. Good suggestion! thank you.

EDIT: yes much better!
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I've always had a lot of inspiration come from the art of Mother. Thanks!

WEEK 3:
This week I've continued painting backgrounds, which makes for a pretty boring dev log post. I really want to show off some cool gameplay stuff, but I need to get all these backgrounds painted before moving on to gameplay.

Here is a screenshot showing the gypsy vans! Red or blue, which would you choose?
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A snazzy lighthouse:
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This piece of land is very happy:
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WEEK 4: NPCs and interior maps
here are some of the NPCs
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Woah so cute. Posting to follow.

niiice

I love painted games!

Cool stuff, you have a good eye for color.

The guy looks friendly and likable. Perfect artstyle.

Actually, sorry to be the downer here, but I like the concept art far more than the in game art (what a surprise). I feel like the guy in the game is a whole different person from the concept art. He just looks worried all the time. The concept art guy looks funny. Just my two cents.

Do I recognize a certain vampire there... :D

Very nice-looking stuff, I like the painting-ness of it all.

Don't worry about it! Even though it's high res art, the space is still really small for the main character, so I can't get him looking exactly like his concept page. We do want to put in profile pictures for the dialogue bits. I want to use that as an opportunity to get some funny pics, similar to the concept page. Thanks!


yes :]
Thank you and everyone else for the praise! This week i'm going to get close to getting the bulk of the game art done, and our programmer should be starting.

WEEK5/6 Last week I was mostly working on my portfolio/resume so I didn't do much for the game. The bulk of the painting is done for the game so now it's just a million little things to put in.

here is some stuff for dialogue:
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The font looks wonderful in the context

Ooh, our friend seems to be bitten the arm by something...

I'm loving this so much, i love the character design & animation.

Following!

The bulk of the art in the game is pretty much done! I just need to do a bunch of tiny things all throughout the game.
Here's the Abbey:

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Also we have a programmer that has started putting maps into the game.
Thanks to everyone for following!

I love all of the art you've done, but especially the facial expressions. Great job!

Following! :blink:

Art looks great, can't wait to see more.

Hello everyone! Looks like I havn't posted...in....a month..
But that's okay because I've been working the whole time! A lot of work on game animations:

(http://neuropod.net/imagehost/uploads/6e3dbe0b1a88b0a0c2d9fac0c781e19b.gif)

I've also been extremely busy with school since I graduate in about 3 weeks.
Another bit of big news is that me and Ryan have created a kickstarter for our game making company, Squiddershins (http://squiddershins.com/). The reason I am posting about it here is because our first stretch goal is for Merrily Perily! We have enough to make the game rad, but with a little more we can make the game slightly more rad! (that was a joke.) Check out the video below for more!

(http://neuropod.net/imagehost/uploads/307f438efb288f3650f3fd0cf0e7cbb5.png) (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/363398398/operation-squiddershins-more-games-less-pizza)

This game looks beautiful! Please stop serving pizza and do more game deving  :concerned:

Ahah, one of the few kickstarter campaign that has made me grin. Great plan :)

I'm really liking that Abbey.    Good luck with the kickstarter!

I didn't know you were still around! This looks pretty neat.

This looks good. Real good.

Loving this to death. Amazing art style. Need more!

Hello everyone! We got up an actual gameplay video!

(http://neuropod.net/imagehost/uploads/a854db3bb849b7bd62cad2e49ecd43fd.png) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obsNolHsAko)

I love the color mood and the art, will follow this!

Man... love the art style. Keep it up!

Can you dehydrate yourself again to get rid of the diarrhea?!

Not without shitting your pants, haha.

this looks so great

We hired Clark Aboud (https://soundcloud.com/clarkaboud) to do the music for Merrily Perily. Here are the tracks from the gameplay vid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obsNolHsAko):

Dehydration (http://squiddershins.com/files/Merrily%20Perily/music/MP_Var1DehydrationM.mp3)
Poison (http://squiddershins.com/files/Merrily%20Perily/music/MP_Var2Poison_M.mp3)
Diarrhea (http://squiddershins.com/files/Merrily%20Perily/music/MP_Var13Diarrhea_M.mp3)

this looks great! the artstyle and animations are just fantastic! keep that style up!

That music from the gameplay trailer really got me. It fits perfectly to whats going on in the trailer and is so damn well made. I also love the dialog between the nurse and main character  :lol: very good job guys

(http://tempmedia.tumblr.com/preview.zKBVwpkBgfNB5sLF/0666a1de4f8f0f7f1d841f10f6dd911c_1280.png) (http://squiddershins.com/files/merrily_perily_demo.zip)

Merrily Perily Demo (http://squiddershins.com/files/merrily_perily_demo.zip)

We have all been working diligently on Merrily Perily, and a demo (http://squiddershins.com/files/merrily_perily_demo.zip) is now available! Please bear in mind two things when playing the demo:

-The demo includes a few crises, characters, and comedy.
-The demo does not yet include final SFX, all animations, sidequests, multiple endings, credits, cake, or a bug free experience.
-The demo is PC only at the moment, but we hope to have an HTML5 version up this weekend.

often an object is being drawn behind an object that it's in front of

(http://i.imgur.com/Os49e9x.png)

Yes, there are still a lot of layering issues in the demo. It is time consuming and we are still working on fixing them. Thanks for the post though!

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Within the hour Ryan and I will be celebrating Festivus with a let’s play marathon of the entire Squiddershins (http://squiddershins.com) game library (including Merrily Perily). Come by and air your gaming grievances with us! Link to be posted shortly.

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After two hours of troubleshooting, we’re live! (https://plus.google.com/events/cufpijb6vhn150squo5q55ft5us)

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3149882/lets.png) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1GOPC7ebzg)

We decided not to save the live stream from last night but here is a hilarious and entertaining Let’s Play by Scott “KuroKid64" Collins of the pre-demo version of Merrily Perily.

Oww, those color pallets are awesome :D and expressions of characters are priceless!