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[kspr]

delayed til the weekend. i keep having to work late

[kspr]

Edsel's coming to town! chibi chargens made dwarves a snap.

 

[lazlo falconi]

Where's my demo?

[kspr]

im still working on it

[kspr]

Snot Bubble Autotile wip

 

[kspr]

i threw out half the writing from this demo earlier. it was too caveman to be any good. i'm really trying to paint a picture, but it's not coming out right.

[lazlo falconi]

Are you trying to make "them" not civilized, or just not accustomed to the main character's culture? Perhaps start with them speaking a different language or something, and slowly changing to English.

...Or just go the Saturn Valley route and make a weird font.

[kspr]

not the tribes, the way the main story is being told. it's just like *bam here it is*

 

boiling blood autotile. i'm really happy with how it turned out

 

[Xteven Xavier]

I know what you mean exactly, you want the people to warm up to the  world rather than being thrown into the deep end, I'd love to help you with this if I could.

[kspr]

i got it figured out. i had to make some animation files and a bunch of tiles. you become invisible, and float down a really tall map. the floor is black, and there are a series of pictures that explain how the game's universe works. in the space between pictures, the animations show how it's all put together. it can scroll the map to make it look like a slide show.

[kspr]

whatever medicine i'm taking, it's the right stuff. i rewrote the endings completely, and now have the clearest idea of what needs to come in between.

 

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kasper/strayer=heroes
lena=angel that exists outside of existence
clymidius=villain
stigma=villain
general capricorn=plot device character
ghost soldiers are bound to the island after having been killed in pursuit of the seeds.
Arboreal Appleheart=  combined form of the seeds. a sort of embryonic/brainlike material. it absorbs clymidius, who controls it like a mech battle suit, in the shape of a gorilla. it solidifies and compresses him, and imprisons him for maybe all time. 

good ending- tree portal, portal opens at zero point. everything has to happen because the universe is a matrix containing 99.9999% of possibility. the only thing that cannot happen is that it can't destroy itself. clymidius master hybrid is the final boss. the tree disintegrates into dust. pan out to the atmosphere, the solar system, and the universe. dust appears to create nuerons in the brain of a ladybug.

meh ending- the opening of the portal is interrupted by the onrush of the ghost soldiers led by general capricorn. strayer grabs the seeds and throws them into the ocean. clymidius/stigma hybrid erupt into an enormous green energy-dragon (giygas pt.2) zoom out beyond the moon and the dragon engulfs the earth. in the green haze, the party sees the seeds rise up out of the water to form the Arboreal Appleheart. clymidius is sucked into it, and it acts as a mech suit. towards the end of the fight, clymidius struggles to control it. the appleheart compresses around clymidius, crushing him and creating a black hole. scene change to pod room on spacecraft. characters and npc's have just experienced 100% universal possibility during a fourteen year stasis. characters that are suggested to be the party struggle with their sudden lack of self, and commit suicide.

bad ending- stigma/clymidius want to take the seeds through the veil, plant them, and destroy it. this would free them from the master, but the negative world's collapse would also unravel the positive reality. clymidius angel is the final boss. after he kills lena and absorbs her, she passes through the veil where all four of her forms work together to tug the portal shut. clymidius is exposed, but trapped. nobody ever dies again, but nobody is ever born. kasper loses his mind to the repitition that numbs everyone else.

[kspr]

back to work on this i guess. i'm making a bank. it will have special unlocks as part of their "store all your money here" grand opening event. other than that i can't think of much, but i'll get a storyline out of it

[kspr]

that feel when a 4chan thread asks for god tier games, i post my title screen, and get two new likes on my fb page. it's like i robbed some kind of bank or something.

[kspr]

im going to try to do an autotile per night to get them banged out really fast.

 

[kspr]

are those flowers too bright? i feel like my tileset is too bright. i'll post a map later tonight.

[Stars]

I don't think they are, but I may change my mind when you post that map.

[kspr]

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everyone will be the same size in the end

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edit: ouch. that's all pretty obtrusive. i fixed it

 

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[kspr]

yay or nay:

 

Cutscene collector: a device that records cutscenes that the you are involved in. some cutscenes are activated by sidequests. some cutscenes unlock at points where a trophy or achievement would be earned, that will be displayed in the character's vault that i'm adding to his house. when you unlock a trophy, you get a sidequest key item for use in "stranger" type missions you get from talking to people in towns.

[Stars]

If the cutscenes are interesting enough to want to rewatch, I say yay.

[kspr]

all my npc's have names. i think what i'll do is make that into an item trading/where's waldo game. the clues will be in the cutscene. i might have to find a day/night system to make this more challenging.