development thread

[pahldus]

Well Oscar, I may call you Oscar correct, or should I call you father. We wiped out everyone we found, but you know as well I do that to be absolutely sure we had gotten them all we would need to eradicate the entire planet, yourself included.

[jack1974]

I could add an option "Kill Oscar" which leads to a short game over but very satisfying!

[jack1974]

congratulations, you have just recruited a hot babe!

Lol jokes apart the fun thing is that the sentence after that screen it's Nelson thinking:
"Sometimes she can be a real bitch, but at least I know Rebecca has my back."

[jack1974]

the character/inventory screen is starting to be too much crowded. I'll need to clean it up

[jack1974]

I took a break on this to finish Cursed Lands, and now even Love Bites is on the finishing line, so probably I'll get back to this in April. I had an interesting idea though: I'm planning to have, beside the usual turn based combat, also a pausable "real-time" combat. I need to see if I manage to code it obviously But the idea is that each party member will have some "rules" to follow while fighting. This will be possible in this game since it's going to be more simplified than Cursed Lands for example (not that many skills, etc).
On each turn the party member will keep shooting at the current target, if the target is dead will automatically pick a new one and so on. If I manage to make it work I was thinking to use a system similar to FFXII where you can define a set of rules to follow (if allied HP < 20% then heal etc).
Until now it's just a theory though, need to see if I manage to actually implement it, but while I know some of you dislike pausable-realtime combat I think for more casual players and for easier battles (in which you don't need to micro-manage everything) it could be a good addition

[grey_duck]

I could add an option "Kill Oscar" which leads to a short game over but very satisfying!

Well, Cursed Lands does have the

Spoiler:

screw you Grimoire council, I don't wanna be an envoy

option.

Which makes for a very short game.

[jack1974]

Yes, I could add stuff like that if there's time. They're always fun to write

[Franka]

I'm planning to have, beside the usual turn based combat, also a pausable "real-time" combat.

Oh crap, please don't waste time on this...

Nah, you can do what you like, I'm just unhappy that the time spent developing this could have been spent on something I'd be interested in. I won't play it in real time. If I don't want to do manual battles, I'll play in VN mode.

[jack1974]

I'll make some quick tests but if I see it will take too long, I won't do it. I don't have time to waste with all the various games in progress

[Troyen]

I'm planning to have, beside the usual turn based combat, also a pausable "real-time" combat.

I'd probably use that mode to speed up the late game grinding, but I also suspect it'll take a lot of work to implement. Manual battles on bosses are fun. Manual battles on trash mobs get dull after level 15 or so.