jack1974
Jun 06, 2017
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Can I romance the new enemy zombies!?!
Going to do a separate art thread so I keep the development one more clean (I'm probably going to spam more faces as I make progress with the character creator system).
jack1974
Jun 06, 2017
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lol first attempt at generating a random head after I put all the female human data and I got this. NOT BAD
Katicflis
Jun 06, 2017
I'd bang her!
Nice work. Cant wait to buy this one. <3
Madance
Jun 06, 2017
Those ladies are looking so hot xD I'm going to romance myself if keeps like that!
And those zombies are neat! Somehow, they gave me a Left4Dead feeling...
jack1974
Jun 06, 2017
Heh I should include the option "romance yourself" indeed
Zombies are cool indeed, it's same artist who did QoT enemies, but I asked him to do a more detailed lineart (those were a bit basic).
jack1974
Jun 07, 2017
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A random female half-elf. Notice the pointed ears, similar to the elves but not as long as theirs
jack1974
Jun 07, 2017
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Got first male, an half-elf too. Artist is going to do the dwarves as last, because are harder to draw (they have beard too). Will be cool
Rebly82
Jun 08, 2017
Nice art! The character creator is shaping up to be looking quite lovely.
jack1974
Jun 08, 2017
Yes and since it's drawn at higher res, I'm going to use it also in the character screen like this:
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originally I only wanted to display it big during creation and then much smaller in the battle screen. But would be a pity I think
jack1974
Jun 09, 2017
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you get a new talent based on your answers to Apolimesho "psychological test" at beginning of the game
Now I have to code the main game screen and passing of days (there will be about 100 days before the final events of this game, but I might tweak that number).
I know several people here don't like passing time (I got some complaints also for SOTW), but for plot reasons there must be it in this game. There will still be plenty of time to do everything though, and only those playing in Hard/Nightmare levels will need to be very careful with time.
DarkWolf
Jun 09, 2017
I was a bit worried with how will customized characters look as I haven't seen many (more like none) games in witch 2d character customization turned up very good. Now my worries are gone.
mastro
Jun 09, 2017
Jack, what you're doing is unique in indies. I may be wrong but, I don't see many Others who not only offer boy or girl protagonist, but even so many romances. The "more bisex romance" is a good choice. Not realistic? what matters? better if game was "realistic" so then you get complaint like with SOTW because of few romances? No, you're on the right way.
jack1974
Jun 10, 2017
Thanks, and yes I think it's the only way. I'd rather someone think "it's not realistic" than someone like a recent Steam review who played SOTW for 48h and then basically put a negative rating just because didn't like to romance Jariel. I bet if I made all the SOTW characters bisex, I would have got a much higher rating
Anyway back on Cursed Lands I'll start coding the "main hub" screen today, it's not hard on itself but must plan carefully since basically all game events happens in it:
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Exizel
Jun 10, 2017
I don't think everyone should be bi just because of SOTW review, It should depend on how many romance option they are in the game(SOTW should but game with a lot of romance option shouldn't) and honestly SOTW's romances were just bad(after Loren) , no choice, romance only in a few scene in the main game and the hardest boss was lock behind one romance, even if everyone was bisex they would still be complain
People are complaining because they aren't satisfied but after Loren even if everyone in SOTW were bi, I think people would still complaine about it, just because it is so much inferior to Loren's(be it in number of romance or scene)
jack1974
Jun 10, 2017
That was an example I made because I think explained it well. And it wasn't just one review: in a lot of them and comments in my forums I read stuff like "if I could have romanced Krimm as Althea" or "why Chalassa was yuri only" etc etc.
But of course it's not because ONE game, but because I think overall is a good compromise. In Cursed Lands for example, I'm thinking if to have also Nuala and Vaeril being bisex. I'm not sure yet if I'll do that, but I think would only please players, without much (any) negative feedback. Of course I wouldn't do stuff like making an Amazon bisex and so on
DarkWolf
Jun 10, 2017
I don't think everyone should be bi just because of SOTW review, It should depend on how many romance option they are in the game(SOTW should but game with a lot of romance option shouldn't) and honestly SOTW's romances were just bad(after Loren) , no choice, romance only in a few scene in the main game and the hardest boss was lock behind one romance, even if everyone was bisex they would still be complain
People are complaining because they aren't satisfied but after Loren even if everyone in SOTW were bi, I think people would still complaine about it, just because it is so much inferior to Loren's(be it in number of romance or scene)
I would actually say that romance in SOTW was way superior then in Loren. Nobody is complaining on quality of romance in SOTW, The reason people complain is simply because character that they like isn't available for a character they played with. The less romance options, more likely it is for this to happen. On one hand people want the character they like the most to be romancable by gender they play as, on the other they like that some characters are specifically gay/strait and not all are bi.
BobTheMob
Jun 10, 2017
Of course I wouldn't do stuff like making an Amazon bisex and so on
Loren was.
Just felt like putting that out there.
jack1974
Jun 11, 2017
I would actually say that romance in SOTW was way superior then in Loren. Nobody is complaining on quality of romance in SOTW, The reason people complain is simply because character that they like isn't available for a character they played with. The less romance options, more likely it is for this to happen. On one hand people want the character they like the most to be romancable by gender they play as, on the other they like that some characters are specifically gay/strait and not all are bi.
Haha I'm not saying anything since I think depends on people's tastes. Really I have some people saying "Clearly SOTW is superior in every way to Loren" while others "Loren is clearly better than SOTW"
What I got reading a lot of comments, but of course could be just my impression, it's what you said - with more variety of romances SOTW would have been on par with Loren (while gameplay for some is superior, others prefer the simpler RPG system of Loren).
It's hard to make everyone happy
Of course I wouldn't do stuff like making an Amazon bisex and so on
Loren was. Just felt like putting that out there.
HOW DARE YOU SAY THIS!!!!!!!!!!!
Haha yes I know, but she was a sort of exception, the forbidden fruit! In my future games it will be very uncommon for an Amazon to love men
jack1974
Jun 12, 2017
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scripting the Amazon's path, which includes the new amazon character of Leena. She makes quite an entrance!
Well, after all, she is Loren's trainer... oops I'm speaking too much already
Haha I missed those amazons in my games
