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Re: POINTLESS [Adventure Game/ Dating Simm Hybrid]

#16 Post by gekiganwing » Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:59 pm

"Do All The Things" would be a fairly vague title. After searching the web for the phrase, one of the top results was a Know Your Meme entry called X all the Y.

Having said this, don't worry too much about titles. It can be changed late in development if necessary. I encourage both of you to focus on gameplay for now.
thadeus wrote:Brooktown High looks neat, but I'm not terrible fond of the 3D designs. They look kinda bland.
The game had interesting ideas, but it only existed on one system. I wasn't entirely sure what audience the creators were trying to appeal to. If the data on VGChartz is accurate, it sold about 0.8 million copies. Somehow, most of the US/Canada sales happened between 2009 and 2010, over a year after the game was released. It sold slightly less copies than Harvest Moon: Boy and Girl, which was a PSP compilation / reissue of the two Harvest Moon PS1 games.

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#17 Post by thadeus » Fri Oct 26, 2012 1:21 pm

Started working some on the graphics for the UI. The mail system, mostly. You have a mailbox in your apartment building and you go there to get mail from your mom, junk mail, court summons, all that sort of thing. Special holiday stuff will be there too - like Valentines Cards from the obtainables who like you, anonymous love letters and so on.

I'm starting to really love calling the game Pointless >.>

I've also totally finished the interior of the apartment building the playing character lives in, a few street exteriors, and a shop interior :D Still have a lot to go. Backgrounds are taking up about 6 hours, characters about 2 hours for the base (no clothing included). But I do have a couple anatomically gratuitous (read: Naked) character bases, male and female.
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#18 Post by thadeus » Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:02 pm

Did a mockup for one of the events that happens in game - You basically discover a sketchbook missing all of it's pages. Then you start finding the missing pages. Once you find all the pages, it unlocks a new Obtainable and a super-awesome event that you get to play through.

Mock-up added to the first post! :D
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#19 Post by thadeus » Thu Nov 01, 2012 1:35 pm

Haven't posted in a few days, just wated to let you guys know that the project is still being worked on, I just had to pause shortly because I'm doing GISHWHES. But I'll start updating again on Sunday or Monday! :D
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#20 Post by WickedRaccoon » Fri Nov 02, 2012 12:26 pm

holy cow,WHY DID I NOT COMMENT EARLIER????? D8
anyways,this game looks amazing!!so i definetelly wanna try it when it's out.till then,i shall stalk the thread.good luck!!!! ^^

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#21 Post by MarineScripter » Fri Nov 02, 2012 12:37 pm

I have waited eons for a game about nothing in particular, and while many have come out, none have looked this good.
I like your art style, and the eclectic ideas you have gathered. GUI looks great here too.
Can't wait, can't wait at all to play this.
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#22 Post by Obscura » Fri Nov 02, 2012 3:59 pm

Wow, the art's certainly evolved in a new direction! Still love it! If there's one thing your art style suggests, it's that the game is meant to be fun.

I'm so excited for this.
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#23 Post by thadeus » Tue Nov 06, 2012 3:28 pm

I HAVE RETURNED! :D

GISHWHES ended today - we got a 24-hour extension because of the hurricane - but I'm back at the game doing stuff!

Almost all the GUI stuff is done, except the Love You Long Time meter stuff where I have to add in one for each obtainable character.

Working today mostly on player swag - stuff you use to dress up your character. And its going awesome so far. I did up a Christmas one and I'll post it in the first comment so you can see it. My fandoms are leaking into the game, ad I can promise that if you want to dress up like Cas, or Sherlock or Sam, or Crowley or Tony Stark you can.
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#24 Post by thadeus » Tue Nov 06, 2012 7:58 pm

Obscura wrote:Wow, the art's certainly evolved in a new direction! Still love it! If there's one thing your art style suggests, it's that the game is meant to be fun.

I'm so excited for this.

Ahh thankyou :D

Yeh, I redrew my character sprites like 15 times (at least). And that sort of sucked. But I finally found a style that I'm happy with. Bonus - It's not terribly hard or crazy tie consuming, and the backgrounds look really good :D My original background were reeeally horrifying.
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#25 Post by thadeus » Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:55 pm

MarineScripter wrote:I have waited eons for a game about nothing in particular, and while many have come out, none have looked this good.
I like your art style, and the eclectic ideas you have gathered. GUI looks great here too.
Can't wait, can't wait at all to play this.
THANK YOU!

This is the first GUI I've ever designed, I'm glad you like it!

I can't wait to have it done enough that you can play this <3
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#26 Post by thadeus » Sat Dec 29, 2012 2:47 pm

Still working on this! Probably will be for a while. It's a huuuge game, so lots and lots of work to do, but it'll be really cool when it's done :D Lots of neat features, a few new ones that are just amazing, but I'll keep secret for now until we have more development on them (mwahaha). Updated on the main page with a new area background that I did fairly recently. In total, when the main part is done, there will be something around 60 backgrounds. And that's just the place you live, the town streets and only some of the places you can visit.

If nothing else, my art is reeeally improving.
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#27 Post by DreamDragonHatchling » Sat Dec 29, 2012 3:49 pm

looks interesting! defiantly going to play it when it is finished!

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#28 Post by thadeus » Sat Dec 29, 2012 8:39 pm

DreamDragonHatchling wrote:looks interesting! defiantly going to play it when it is finished!
Thankyou! I hope you do! <3
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#29 Post by thadeus » Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:06 pm

Updated! Check the first post ;)
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#30 Post by Obscura » Wed Jan 30, 2013 8:55 pm

The art style looks great and I'm loving everything you've done so hard!
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