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Smik posted:You're finishing off the Dakka Orkgirls! Pissing off Chuds works for me! Thanks!
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Sep 10, 2023 09:50
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So just a little note that I know I missed today's update but it's really late/early and I got caught up working on the game jam but rest assured I'll finish off the list soon. AFAIK the to-do list is: Anderson Koopa Karate Bastard Speleothing
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Sep 10, 2023 11:51
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Anderson Koopa posted:I'm down to be some kind of villain. This one was kinda tricky. I was a bit tired today and would have liked to get it out earlier but here we are. The VN is going well at least.  Name: Kamerson Cooper Team: Renegade Skulls Role: Major Reoccurring Character Kam is a mercenary working for the Renegade Skulls. Nobody's quite certain what she is: she has horns, she wears a sort of turtle shell, and she's got a prehensile tail. Kam works well in the water, on the ground, or even in the air (with help). She's not especially loyal to anyone; she doesn't do anything unless it's been paid for. That said, she keeps her personal and professional life quite separate; when she's off the clock she's quite personable and charming. She's most utilized against Team Tentacle -- she seems to have a better understanding of their operations. In Season Two, the Tentacles realize she's an Depthchor addict -- a kind of drug produced within the Deep which has a number of unique properties on surface dwellers. Kam stars in a spinoff Mercenaries game series which lets you work for all the major factions of the games in various missions (except the Legion) against the other major factions (except the Skulls; they have a special agreement).
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Sep 11, 2023 09:56
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Smik posted:So just a little note that I know I missed today's update but it's really late/early and I got caught up working on the game jam but rest assured I'll finish off the list soon. 
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Sep 11, 2023 20:25
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Karate Bastard posted:Heyo this is awesome can I be up in this thing? I know you had a bunch of silly ideas in mind but with the handle of "Karate Bastard" I figured your character needed to be part of the Youxia Monkeygirls, and since they need a leader character you got the serious leader type instead. Sorry I just couldn't work cows into it. Maybe I'll give her some cow-print clothing later. Part of your handle's still there, sort of.  Name: Fei Hundan I put "Bastard" into Google Translate and got "Hundan" Team: Youxia Monkeygirls Role: Main Character (Leads) While some of the Youxia get badass later, Fei starts out the most badass from the get-go. Initially focused entirely on combat, strategy and tactics, she had no appreciation for the arts and little time for manners. After getting beaten down by the Skulls in Season Three and shown up by Toxi, she learned humility and wondered if her focus on combat was actually detrimental to her ability. She began to learn art, to prepare tea, and to partake in various pranks and play like her sisters and in the process discovered that her combat flowed better as a result, no longer stiff and predictable. Side note: The Monkeygirls are kind of tricky to draw because of their longer arms. I have to fight my brain on the proportions. I'm still not sure if they're not long enough.
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Sep 12, 2023 07:48
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Awesome! I get to be a lead, a dumbass karate lead, trying to develop their softer sides for the entirely wrong reasons  She looks tough as poo poo as well. I may have to change my av
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Sep 12, 2023 08:05
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And yeah, if you want to lean hard into monkey then you could probably do the arms much much longer. I don't think there's an upper limit. Or maybe twice the body length or so would start getting a bit much. I mean what you did looks good and totally monkey, but you could try and do a long rear end arm hypermonkey and see how it feels?
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Sep 12, 2023 08:08
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Reject bovinity, become monke
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Sep 12, 2023 08:10
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On second thought, to make proper long rear end monkey arms work, you might need to round over the back a bit, to nail that sweet gamer girl / monkey posture
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Sep 12, 2023 08:16
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Speleothing posted:I need a creature to fit my name The rolls say you're the Youxia Monkeygirl master. Did my best attempt to kinda fit your handle in.  Name: Shi Lian Ling Role: Master Team: Youxia Hero Monkeygirls The oft put-upon master of the Youxia Hero Monkeygirls. Raising and training the girls has left her with frayed nerves, a short temper, grey hairs (all over her body) and an interest in becoming a "drunken master" at times. Knows many ancient techniques and devised quite a few new ones to boot. Is the primary reason for Fei Hundan's overly serious attitude, who is her favourite albeit least talented student. She'll never let that on to Fei as she pushes herself to her limits as is, and doesn't need any more motivation to work harder than she does. She is of course hardest on Toxi, who has the most natural talent yet least discipline. She supposedly dies in an attack by the Legion in Season 4, only to return in astral form to lead the girls to the secret Legion base where her body is kept in suspended animation. This wasn't any particular plan of her own, but when she realized the situation she also used it to their advantage. The Youxia destroy the hidden base, steal their research, and redistribute it to the city's allies.
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Sep 13, 2023 08:32
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Smik posted:The Wild Hero Catgirls needed their 4th and that's what you rolled. I have somehow missed this until now, having been sure I was missed. Should have known better. I humbly accept the mantle placed upon me. Thank you, I love her to bits.
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Sep 13, 2023 08:47
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Smik posted:The rolls say you're the Youxia Monkeygirl master. Did my best attempt to kinda fit your handle in. I'll do my best to be a good astral form mentor
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Sep 13, 2023 13:39
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Are there any slots left? I'm loving the combination of original art and storytelling.
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Sep 13, 2023 17:10
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That's some good arms right there. And I'm saving that quote for later. I'm saving that face for later too. I may phrase it as "you idiots better be doing what I think you're doing" though. I hope we destroyed the hidden base, stole their research, and redistributed it to the city's allies completely by misadventure. Karate Bastard fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Sep 13, 2023 |
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Sep 13, 2023 23:27
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Karate Bastard posted:That's some good arms right there. And I'm saving that quote for later. I'm saving that face for later too. Post up a color scheme or suggestions, some goons like coloring.
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Sep 14, 2023 10:02
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AmishSpecialForces posted:Are there any slots left? I'm loving the combination of original art and storytelling. Sure. Will be sometime later this week though, not the best day today.
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Sep 15, 2023 05:58
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Mistle posted:Post up a color scheme or suggestions, some goons like coloring. Good idea! Though that is not me. Far be it from me to comment on a fellow monkey's color scheme, for I do not have a fashion sense. I suppose that should be reflected in my color scheme, which I suppose should be proportionally intense. This is me: Smik posted:
However, since I'm a ~hundan~, I suppose it would behoove me to comment on a fellow monkey's color scheme anyway, which then I suppose should be "boring and ugly", unless as in this case it concerns my master, in which case it should be considered "boring and uglyouch!". Karate Bastard fucked around with this message at 09:01 on Sep 16, 2023 |
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Sep 15, 2023 21:41
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Previous post aside, I think Fei Hundan would look positively dashing in primary colors, like green tunic, red cape, yellow belt, and blue scarf, or whichever color garment wound up within her long arms' reach when she got out of bed this morning I guess. I think Fei Hundan has brown fur. Oh, and I guess them pants are a color too.
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Sep 15, 2023 21:54
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Karate Bastard posted:Previous post aside, I think Fei Hundan would look positively dashing in primary colors, like green tunic, red cape, yellow belt, and blue scarf, or whichever color garment wound up within her long arms' reach when she got out of bed this morning I guess. I think Fei Hundan has brown fur. Oh, and I guess them pants are a color too. If it helps, she's based partially off a character from Romance of the 3 Kingdoms.
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Sep 16, 2023 03:05
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AmishSpecialForces posted:Are there any slots left? I'm loving the combination of original art and storytelling. Just got all my backgrounds done (for now) for the VN so I thought I'd do a quick bit of character art.  Name: S.A.F. Megabeard Role: Main Antagonist (Mystic Slime Girls) to Reoccurring Villain Team: None It's a little known fact that the decedents of the Amish will come to clash with the Mystic Slime Girls. Over time, the Amish will develop a team of special forces specifically geared at stopping any influence they might have. The mightiest of the Amish Special Forces is SAF Agent Megabeard. Armed with an Amish Bowcaster -- a little known weakness the Slime Girls have -- he is their main antagonist throughout Season One, and while not officially working for any side he allies himself with the Royal Order. With his defeat at the end of the season and the real threat of the Legion becoming known in Season Two, he goes from the main foe to just a reoccurring villain instead. Megabeard is less evil and more an extremist with an agenda against the Slime Girls. Slime Girls are kinda fetishy, so I guess they'd have a natural enemy against the Amish? I don't know, I just thought it would be funny if for some reason their main foe was a ripped Amish dude)
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Sep 18, 2023 07:18
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He's so jelly inside and angry that he can't show it
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Sep 18, 2023 08:20
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  Your wonky bowgun thing gave me some unexpected difficulty.
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Sep 18, 2023 09:41
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Smik posted:Just got all my backgrounds done (for now) for the VN so I thought I'd do a quick bit of character art. This is amazing, thanks! Irl I'm a beefy dude who used to rock a huge beard so this is perfect. Thanks to the color version as well. Time for a new profile pic on various things.
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Sep 18, 2023 16:42
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By popular demand posted:
Yeah, I was tired (I did the Terry Fox 10KM run/walk for cancer research, a big deal here in Canada) and also a bit elevated and thought a weapon with messed up perspective would be appropriate for fighting mystic slimes.
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Sep 18, 2023 17:51
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I thought of something. I should probably do kung fu rather than karate. Also, I think I should be saying "watch it, or I steal your peach" a whole lot, real menacing like.
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Sep 21, 2023 18:55
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So I was taking a look at how many characters I created over time, and chose August because it was my only full month (having started mid-July and not doing more than 1 per day while working on the visual novel in September) I did 62 characters in August. I had no idea I did that many until now. Now I bring this up because of the visual novel I'm working on for Spooktober. I've submitted it but until the hard deadline hits participants can still edit and improve. I'll paste the link to the game jam in case anyone would like to give it a play test and drop feedback. It takes about 15 minutes to run through the story. https://itch.io/jam/spooktober-2023/rate/2282301 The point being is I'd like to find out if anyone might be interested in an expanded story that continues past the ending with more characters and flesh out the protagonist beyond working poor. (The original concept let you obtain traits but having never used Ren'py before, or written a VN before, I scaled back the scope a lot) Since I think I've demonstrated I can create a variety of interesting characters, I just thought I'd gauge interest in a more robust (and less time-constrained) visual novel featuring new and interesting individuals to interact with. I'd also like to get a feel for what kind of story people might be interested in. The submitted game jam novel is "anti-horror" and I'd like to continue that theme, but obviously I need to go beyond the initial twist. The idea I have right now is "Human for Hire", but it could go in a lot of directions since jobs could span a large spectrum: from as mundane as helping with shopping to as dark as murder (which would go from anti-horror back into legit horror). If you're interested, let me know by either dropping a comment or sending a PM. Also if you give the game a shot and have feedback, by all means let me know and I can add you to the credits as a playtester up until Saturday when the jam closes. I'm going to be spending October passing the VN around to see if this is something I might want to take a real stab at.
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Sep 26, 2023 19:30
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Smik posted:I'll paste the link to the game jam in case anyone would like to give it a play test and drop feedback. It takes about 15 minutes to run through the story. The completionist in me thanks you for eventually just going through all the options in the house. I liked the twist at the end and the mood building up to it being completely shattered once Yeeryie asks wtf is up with you. Also big thanks for doing darkness right, in that it's actually possible to see what's going on in the backgrounds without having to crank the gamma up to eye-searing. I think it'd be interesting to see more along this line. Helping the supernatural live in our world is a novel angle to take. fake e: poked through the script a bit and saw that I could've run into the end earlier if I'd picked more 'big' horrors? Makes me glad I bumbled through the entire week. Having to replay to see a bunch of the non-fluff content is my one big complaint about VNs.
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Sep 26, 2023 23:53
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Geemer posted:The completionist in me thanks you for eventually just going through all the options in the house. I liked the twist at the end and the mood building up to it being completely shattered once Yeeryie asks wtf is up with you. I'm glad it seems to be worthwhile. Originally I had planned on putting in a bigger variety of events to adjust the player attributes but when I realized the pace I was making I did some serious scope reduction. I had hoped to add some more assets before the closing date but my energy's dropped off and it's taking awhile just to do the extra scene for the credits. If I can get the energy up I want to add to a couple of spooky scenes. Thanks for giving it a try! I'll add you to the playtesters. E: I just figured out how to archive the files so they're less easily examined, thought it would have done it automatically. No offence, but I don't think I should leave it quite that open. Smik fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Sep 28, 2023 |
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Sep 27, 2023 02:27
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Spooktober Game Jam has entered judging phase! If you liked my stuff and would like to help, this is the time: https://itch.io/jam/spooktober-2023/rate/2282301
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Oct 2, 2023 08:08
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Smik posted:Spooktober Game Jam has entered judging phase! If you liked my stuff and would like to help, this is the time: https://itch.io/jam/spooktober-2023/rate/2282301 Downloaded, played, and rated! Very cute and I actually was getting spooked when the shadow starts crawling out of the box, very creepy!
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Oct 2, 2023 09:06
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Punkinhead posted:Downloaded, played, and rated! Very cute and I actually was getting spooked when the shadow starts crawling out of the box, very creepy! Thank you! It's funny you mention that, I always felt it was kinda weak. It's good to know it's better than I thought.
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Oct 2, 2023 10:56
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There's a thread over in games for goon-made games. You should post over there to let them all know about your work.
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Oct 2, 2023 14:50
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Smik posted:E: I just figured out how to archive the files so they're less easily examined, thought it would have done it automatically. No offence, but I don't think I should leave it quite that open. None taken whatsoever! It's perfectly normal to not want the script just out in the open, which is probably why you assumed it'd be archived to begin with.
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ultrafilter posted:There's a thread over in games for goon-made games. You should post over there to let them all know about your work. Thanks for the heads-up. I've bookmarked a game development thread but didn't know there was another like that.
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