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« Reply #20 on: October 19, 2015, 10:18:45 AM » |
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  skulldude talking blinking glowing neon green and also having a highly overshaded body actual size and game's default size. |
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« Reply #21 on: October 19, 2015, 02:43:08 PM » |
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partial about that little portrait box, it does give the characters a nice video gamey place to reside in, but it also looks like one of those unnecessary neat little things.  |
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« Reply #22 on: October 19, 2015, 03:18:29 PM » |
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This might be interesting:  |
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« Reply #24 on: October 20, 2015, 08:54:49 AM » |
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I'm enjoying seeing this game come along. Are you planning to release the game quite widely, perhaps on Steam? Are you concerned that because the presentation is very retro, and because it's not following a classically standard kind of gameplay, that it might be a hard game for players to approach? I've read the devlog thus far, and if you were to ask me what sort of game it was, I'd probably say "an adventure-type game?" What was the reaction to the first Skulls game like?
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« Reply #25 on: October 20, 2015, 05:08:53 PM » |
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Hey there. Very interesting questions. I've been worrying about most of your questions a lot myself.
I'm planning to submit the game to Greenlight once it's in a fairly presentable state and get it on Steam that way.
With games like Undertale, LISA or Downwell fairing quite well on Steam, I'm not particularly worried about the retro aesthetics, especially since I've noticed a lot of design flaws that I've spend a lot of time preventing, like inconsistent pixel size in Undertale or the apparent RPG Maker engine of LISA.
The gameplay, as it is now, might be more of an obstacle, though there's a bunch of big elements that will be a while from now until they become apparent. If I may speak verbosely:
The first game was a point'n'click, well, more like choose'n'pick adventure, focusing on telling a story with lots of choices that ultimately didn't matter and a fake rpg-like fight right where the regular gameplay got a bit boring. I spent about a month developing the original game, with almost no coding skills whatsoever.
This game will be the same, just that I'll take way more time while having gathered a lot of experience since. There'll be the big storyline at heart with lots of choices that will matter greatly this time around. Say, you start on a dirt road, you have 3 directions to go and depending on your choice, you'll experience an entirely different story in a different area with different characters depending and will again be able to choose stuff within those alternate paths, all of which ultimately leading to, say, a city, with your initial choice then having a mild impact on what's to come.
The fake rpg-like fight from the original will turn into a bunch of actual rpg fights, with your characters having stats'n all, though all of which will be somewhat scripted, with no meaningless fight, e.g. random encounters, as I don't want them to serve as filler to the game but a concise addition to the core adventure-like gameplay.
Weirdly, the reaction to the original Skullz was great. I didn't expect anything from it, though it got tens of thousands of plays wherever it was uploaded with loads of favorable comments. That's why I'm confident in this game being successful, as it's basically gonna be the first game, except everything that was fake the first time around is gonna work the way you'd expect it to now, and then some. On top of that, I'm spending ridiculous amounts of time just setting the stage and making sure every detail is perfect. That's why this dev log has been pretty boring thus far. I hope to be done setting up everything and getting to developing the meat of the game soon. Fingers crossed that I'll be satisfied with the font before the 100th iteration.
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« Reply #26 on: October 22, 2015, 04:11:33 AM » |
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Been able to make my textbox tell when there's how many choices. I feel like taking so much time to set the stage will assure that everything will go way smooth once I'm working on the actual game part.
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« Reply #27 on: October 24, 2015, 04:52:22 AM » |
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« Reply #30 on: October 26, 2015, 07:23:49 AM » |
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Wow, this game looks beautiful!
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« Reply #31 on: October 27, 2015, 04:20:33 PM » |
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The recent mockup, now ingame with lots of detail refurbishing  |
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« Reply #33 on: November 01, 2015, 12:10:51 PM » |
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Working on the title screen atm, but meanwhile was able to decide on a dither pattern to go for basically the whole game's backgrounds by asking a bunch of people over a couple days:  |
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« Reply #35 on: November 02, 2015, 03:25:23 AM » |
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Just wanted to drop and say I'm watching this thread, I really like the visuals  |
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« Reply #36 on: November 02, 2015, 04:17:14 AM » |
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hey thanks, I'm happy for any kinda response. Slightly improved and even bigger title screen:  people kept complaining about the gradient of the cliff, never crossed my mind to change it before. Seems like it feels unfinished and badly looking? |
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« Reply #37 on: November 02, 2015, 05:39:32 AM » |
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Oh hey there! :D
Glad to see this!
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« Reply #39 on: November 02, 2015, 08:07:05 AM » |
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 it'll all make sense in the end |
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