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[melos]

hey Devlog! missed you devlog this weekend

was busy this weekend
jon did some stuff though!!

we can't show you though..
.

It was WORKING ON A LEVEL. Oh yeah and I WORKED ON A LEVEL too I will do more today. NPC stuff and all that jazz.

Oh I thought up 4 entities too the other day! Ineed to program those

[kittakaj]

Working on some writing. Like I was complaining about earlier, trying to keep together all the threads of trying to make everything relevant and make sense despite not knowing the order of everything or whether or not people read or remembered all the stuff.

Basically I try to get every bit of text to
1) Advance the themes of the area OR the overarching narrative (both occasionally)
2) Build/describe the character speaking
3) Be a little surprising or at least not super predictable

If it doesn't meet all three of those things, i usually try to rewrite/rethink. And I think in terms of building/describing character, it can be easy to fall into ruts of kind of giving characters a shtick and having them blatantly interpret any situation through their shticky personality. The opposite problem is not making anyone distinct enough by trying to make everyone complex. Maybe what I should be trying to shoot for is that characters deepen or surprise you a bit if they have enough dialogue to get there. There are some NPCs that just say one thing. But trying to have at least 1 or 2 in each area that are a bit more developed.

I dunno, we'll see how it goes. I reallly want the dialogue to be good and worth reading.

[melos]

Ambient NPCs and Melodic NPCs

It's good to have those 3 things in mind. I'm writing for a few areas (yay) and well...it is hard. Ambient NPCs feel easier since you know they're not being developed too deep, and thus if they fit alright with themes you're good. It's more of if you have good thematic planning and coherence, then they work pretty easily. (Like ambient music...if you have strong ideas going into it and don't have too much trouble finding the correct sound palettes, you're usually good to go...) melodic is harder...structure is harder..metaphors...can't make this metaphor work...

~music analogy~

~NPCs are the vital connecting forces for thematic material~

They make concrete ideas from the
PARKOUR
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/04/14/parkour-and-recreation-even-the-ocean/
and
Recreation
aspects of the game.

As well as lend a better framework for listening to the music and looknig at the art. Probably. 

Read jon's post it was better

[MallowyGoodness]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/04/14/parkour-and-recreation-even-the-ocean/

"The fruits of a cursory glance suggest that the game is a lo-fi platformer with survival and crafting elements – a genre most of us are intimately familiar with, whether through exploring Terraria or bounding between the stars."

Whoever wrote this article sees a 2D platformer and thinks it's Terraria? What?

[melos]

IIRC later he mentions that's not the case (i think he was jsut mentioning what he thought from looking at a picture? which, as goes for games in general, visuals don't tell much about specific gameplay). I thought that at first and panicked a bit.

[kittakaj]

I feel like most of the press gives a lot of sorta strange explanations of the game which is fine because the whole 2-games thing is confusing and there's a lot up in the air still. I think it's fine to be sort of weird and confusing and once people actually play the game I think it'll make more sense and seem a lot simpler than it sounds.

[mushbuh]

I just made a small NPC. It "smokes"...sort of.

Just a reminder: Even the Ocean will corrupt your children

does it vape

[melos]

I feel like most of the press gives a lot of sorta strange explanations of the game which is fine because the whole 2-games thing is confusing and there's a lot up in the air still. I think it's fine to be sort of weird and confusing and once people actually play the game I think it'll make more sense and seem a lot simpler than it sounds.

I like this anyways, hard to describe is a nice trait for games in general.

The Even and The Ocean thing really is best described sort of like a Side A/ Side B thing of a tape. Even if that's not the best metaphor it's a nice metaphor  (..analogy?)

[melos]

http://tindeck.com/listen/cwrc

Musicc


Migrated from github to bitbucket because FREE today. renewed EVENTHEOCEAN DOMAIN
worked on LEVELS and CODED THINGS
AND MUSIC

[melos]

Whoa I did not post an update yesterday


Added some dialogue Jon wrote for...I guess I'll just say Area 2. I'll jus tnumber these by the order we've been finalizing stuff, not necessarily the order you play them in The Ocean.

I spent a bit too long in the morning listening to hip-hop/rap from Chicago , which actually is pretty nice. The hard part about it is there are always multiple producers on songs so you never know who did waht, like with this song it's hard to tell whose idea was the for the main dark atmosphere. Kind of like small indie games which is interesting now that I think about that...

https://soundcloud.com/wscsounds-1/nicki-minaj-chiraq-ft-lil-herb

Anyways I feel like this sort of stuff might work well for a song in one area (just that sort of dark energy, the area won't really be totally dark but...anyways)

I restructured An Area's Gauntlet and also worked on Another Area .

[melos]

I was going to do more music stuff at night, but I took benadryl and then also ate mcdonalds and then passed out for a few hours..then had to go to bed

[mushbuh]

I like that post

[melos]

im programming dialgue box

[melos]

i hate programming , but it's necessary. so meh

[melos]

http://tindeck.com/listen/vyeo

[melos]

hey go reblog and like this on tumblr for me eh

http://seagaia.tumblr.com/post/83719943130/just-hanging-out-in-this-power-plant

[William Chyr]

These new industrial areas seem to be a lot darker in tone compared to the earlier nature scenes. I, for one, am intrigued.

[Jondog]

I love those industrial backgrounds.

[melos]

All will be revealed!

That GIF looks darker in tone than the actual area b/c of the context it's missing, visually (it's at night in that area). The industrial parts do have a different tone than the nature parts though!

[melos]

http://tindeck.com/listen/jkda