Lemma Soft Forums

It's been a few months, and I probably owe an update! Nothing much exciting to report -- as I mentioned in October I've been editing the 'true ending' of the game, so while I've been getting decent work done it's been spoilery stuff I can't post or discuss. Suffice that I chopped out 15,000 words of...

I'd second KittyKatStar's Mass Effect recommendation; the exposition there was handled very well, but I think the methods they used would only work in a walkaround game. To elaborate on her description: in Mass Effect 1, your main exposition dump comes at the Citadel, the second area of the game. Yo...

Aside from VN work; I'm a postgrad media studies student (so I write a decent number of essays on games; currently working on a Borderlands essay), I sew (mostly for cosplay), and I voice-act in a few comic dubs. Don't have any links for the first two things, but the main group I work with for comic...

I'm a sucker for apunkalypse/desert punk mash-ups (Borderlands, Mad Max, True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys...) settings because the varieties of it I've seen to date have an optimism inherent in them which other -punk genres (cyberpunk in particular) tend to lack. I might be generalising -- or unc...

Phew, time for the usual monthly-ish update! I've finished editing 4/5 sections of the script, as such, I'm down to the last one. This one needs the heaviest editing of the lot since I'm really unhappy with some of the scenes/endings in it right now, but hey, it's still a good feeling being onto the...

If PAXAUS EVN dev meets became an annual thing, I'd probably make an effort to go next year. I keep meaning to attend PAXAUS since we don't have anything like it in NZ, but I haven't had a real incentive to go along yet -- an opportunity to hang out with other people into the EVN scene would definit...

Phew, been a while since I last updated! I made a resolution not to post again until I'd finished editing Alasdair's route, just to ensure I'd have some decent progress to report when I did... but finishing Alas' route took longer than anticipated so, here we are. New things since last time I checke...

I think one way of making this trope acceptable which hasn't really come up is when you reach the 'Princess', only for the protagonist to realise she wasn't the conclusion they wanted. Something similar got brought up by Kuiper in relation to Star Wars, but to better explain it with an example I enj...

As has been mentioned above, if you're looking for testers, it should be for general feedback on your game, not proofreading. I don't think getting good testers necessarily depends on paying them, though that's one way to ensure commitment. As I've been alpha/beta testing for my current project, I'v...

I played through the demo a little earlier, and what you've got so far is really cool and polished! : D What did you like about the demo? I think the art style and the GUI for the game are nice and appropriate for the plot/tone so far, and I like the character designs for Orion, Vincent, and the pro...

I'm with ketskari and trooper on the hatred issue; I don't think hate for old work is particularly productive. Hate, I think, implies a denial of anything valuable or interesting in your artistic past, which means you can't (or won't) learn from what you've done before -- or if you do learn, it'll b...

Oop, haven't updated since May. Nice work me. What's been achieved over the better part of two months? Mostly a lot of editing. The game is split over five parts (common route, bad route, Alas' route, Shell's route, and the extended ending), and at this point I've finished the editing on 2/5 parts (...

Provided I'm not too busy with other stuff at the time, I'd love to participate in this game jam! I really want to get a game about queer ladies done, but since my only project with them is way off completion, it'd be nice to just jam one in a couple of months for fun. I've filled out the survey, an...

I'm normally a pretty meticulous planner, but the time it takes to actually get my overly-detailed plans down varies. I work best when I'm planning on paper, and if I'm doing a handwritten plan I can normally get a 20,000 word route plotted in about 2-3 days. If I'm working on a computer, I find thi...

I think that true endings can be utilised well in certain, more plot-focused games, where there's an obvious 'best outcome' or an outcome which is more interesting and needs more development. Much as we can complain about a game putting more into an ending we would not receive from our organic choic...