Bacon2[All Romances/Adv/Humor] Remake w/ New Character Pics

[MudkipTheDestroyer]

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[MudkipTheDestroyer]

By the way, here are some pictures from the novel so far (not revealing too much, yet, eh?), just so you can have more of an idea of the graphics of it.















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[gekiganwing]

Will the player be made aware of statistics and variables? In other words, will there be on-screen text saying things such as "Your Intelligence has increased by 1" or "Your friendship with Bob has increased by 1"?

It's not a bad idea to use a lot of stats. If you want to create a short story with many branches and options, that's fine. Just as long as they're easy to understand. Improving them should not be a matter of random chance or constantly saving and loading.

It will have lots of jokes, swearing, and maybe some vulgar images.

I've had some negative experiences with games that focused on tasteless comedy and constant profanity. I believe it can work. But at the same time, I think you'll benefit by making sure you pay attention to characterization and plot. I don't think you want to end up with a story which is just vulgar comedy, and shallow in other aspects.

[MudkipTheDestroyer]

Will the player be made aware of statistics and variables? In other words, will there be on-screen text saying things such as "Your Intelligence has increased by 1" or "Your friendship with Bob has increased by 1"?

It's not a bad idea to use a lot of stats. If you want to create a short story with many branches and options, that's fine. Just as long as they're easy to understand. Improving them should not be a matter of random chance or constantly saving and loading.

First off, thanks a lot for your interest in the game.

In regards to your question, there will not be any on-screen displays of changing point values. Hopefully this will not be a letdown to players, but I chose to do it for two main reasons:

1. You do not need to keep track of your point values, because the choices are not so heavily weighed that it will determine pass/fail the outcomes of the game. It is meant to be played as a story that you dictate, not really quite like an RPG-style game. So far, the variables just occasionally give you side options or different routes, not really inherently dictate if you’ll succeed in the game or not. It’s pretty hard to describe.

2. All of the options are obvious, even if you are concerned about keeping track of point values. For instance “Going to church = Positive religious points” or “Watching a documentary = Positive intelligence points”, whereas “Not going to church = Negative religious points” and so on. It’s meant to be pretty straightforward.

I've had some negative experiences with games that focused on tasteless comedy and constant profanity. I believe it can work. But at the same time, I think you'll benefit by making sure you pay attention to characterization and plot. I don't think you want to end up with a story which is just vulgar comedy, and shallow in other aspects.

About your second question, the game certainly has a lot of humor, and since it was made by teenagers for teenagers, it shows. “Vulgar” is kind of a strong term, and I won’t deny it because it was just made for fun and entertainment and is meant to be pretty lighthearted, but I don’t think that the “raunchiness” of some of the characters’ personalities will really jeopardize the plot or story.

[MudkipTheDestroyer]

Main Characters Pictures Up~!



**Shows Cody King the picture**

Cody King "Beautiful."

Me "Not really. Why?"

Cody King "'Cause I'm in it."

[MudkipTheDestroyer]

Character Descriptions~!

These are the ones that I know I'm going to write romance paths for. I'll probably add a couple more, but it just depends on how lazy I get, haha. I'll put up some pics of the possible characters, and you can let me know if you're interested in seeing any paths with them. If there's interest, I'll do them(most likely for sure).

Those that already have romantic pathways forming:


Those that I might end up making:





As for a status update~:
-Storyline: 30% (Slightly below 4,000 lines of coding)
-Graphics: 20% (Have pics for most of the storyline but need to download a program better than MS Paint to touch them up)
-Music: 10% (Since this VN's weird, most of the music isn't ambient soothing noises and such...it's hardcore rock >.<)
-Sound: 0% (Thinking about not doing sound, but who knows?)

I hope that you guys have a lot of fun playing this VN once it's completed. I know I'm having a lot of fun making it (that sounds terrible because VNs are mostly mindless coding). And after it's done, I'm going to need some beta testers if anyone's interested. :0 It's a pretty large game already, so it'd take some time to do.

Hope to get you kiddos' opinions on the character paths and beta testing soon~! ;D

[WhitePuma]

It looks really interesting. I've been doing the vn thing for a while and I gotta say this looks special to say the least. I'm really interested in this "Cody King" guy. I think I'll be going down his path first when released. LOOKING FORWARD TO IT!!!!

[MudkipTheDestroyer]

It looks really interesting. I've been doing the vn thing for a while and I gotta say this looks special to say the least. I'm really interested in this "Cody King" guy. I think I'll be going down his path first when released. LOOKING FORWARD TO IT!!!!

Ha, thanks~! Yeah, it's definitely really different from most of the VNs on here, and I was thinking that it might be TOO different for people to actually like it. However, I'm glad that's not the case and that there are actually people looking forward to it^^ Cody King's definitely a fun path to go down, I started it yesterday and I think I'm going to get his actual input on how he would like it to turn out. Also, if you like him enough, he mentioned possibly making an account on here in the future, so you might have the chance to talk to "the real thing" XD haha

[MudkipTheDestroyer]

Bacon2 Update!!

Playable demo now available!!

Link to Bacon2 demo testing: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... 45&t=21381

Download For All Platforms: http://www.4shared.com/zip/gX9A2Q13/Bac ... 1-all.html
Download For Windows Only: http://www.4shared.com/zip/KRYuqguU/Bac ... win32.html
Download For Mac Only: http://www.4shared.com/zip/cCP6FJnc/Bac ... 1-mac.html
Download For Linux Only: http://www.4shared.com/file/jhhFgQ2R/Ba ... 86tar.html

Link for more information on the game and it's creation: viewtopic.php?f=43&t=19776#p255620
Official website: http://imnotsayingitwasaliens.webs.com/

Lint scan: The game contains 4,076 screens of dialogue, and these screens contain a total of 36,363 words, for an average of 8.9 words per screen. In addition, the game contains 116 menus.

Please let me know how you think it is coming along!!

[silverpikachu99]

First of all, i want to say that i absolutely LOVE your vns! Especially the summer camp one~ SO--- I am SUPER DUPER excited for this to come out! Good luck!

(p.s, I will be stalking this post :3)

[MudkipTheDestroyer]

First of all, i want to say that i absolutely LOVE your vns! Especially the summer camp one~ SO--- I am SUPER DUPER excited for this to come out! Good luck!

(p.s, I will be stalking this post :3)

Wow, thanks very much!! It means a lot to have somebody who's a "regular" to my novels, especially because I'm just starting off and I singlehandedly do all the work for my projects .-. lol. I hope you enjoy playing this and continue to play my future VNs

[MudkipTheDestroyer]

Greetings, everyone!

Wanted to put up an update on the progress of Bacon2. As of the latest Lint run, it's looking like this:

Statistics:

The game contains 4,202 screens of dialogue.
These screens contain a total of 37,373 words,
for an average of 8.9 words per screen.
The game contains 117 menus.

I think I should finally sum up the game, since I am getting a bit tired with it (since it has become so long!)

As for the endings and progress on those:

Completed
--Battle Endings
--Death While On Main Path Endings
--Strength, Cooking, Intelligence, Laziness, Wakefulness, and Religious Endings
--Hah-mez's Romantic Endings

In Progress
--Cody's Romantic Endings
--Sonic's Romantic Endings
--Shaniqua's Romantic Endings
--Short One's Romantic Endings
--Damien's Romantic Ending
--Jermama's Romantic Ending

So, what else needs to be done before the game is released of you kiddos to play?
--Music needs to be added in
--Bugs need to be etched out
--I've gotta have some beta testers run through it to make sure all the routes line up (with over 100 branching menus, it's rough to keep track of it and test through it all on my own .-. lol)
--About 30-40% of the main route needs to be written and coded
--Credits need to be written and put somewhere...maybe in a word doc or in the game itself...

By the way, here are some more preview screenshots:

[MudkipTheDestroyer]

Hey kiddos!

Just stopping by for another update!
Latest Lint Statistics:
The game contains 4,848 screens of dialogue.
These screens contain a total of 41,829 words,
for an average of 8.6 words per screen.
The game contains 122 menus.

So, as you can see, about 4,000-5,000 more words and a couple new menus.
Still working on summing up the game, so it should be heading home soon.

It's so crazy....

As for an update on the progress of the endings:

Completed
--Battle Endings
--Death While On Main Path Endings
--Strength, Cooking, Intelligence, Laziness, Wakefulness, and Religious Endings
--Hah-mez's Romantic Endings
--Shaniqua's Romantic Endings
--Short One's Romantic Endings
--Damien's Romantic Ending
--Jermama's Romantic Ending

In Progress
--Cody's Romantic Endings
--Sonic's Romantic Endings

So, once again, what still needs to be done before the game is released?
--Music needs to be added in
--Bugs need to be etched out
--I've gotta have some beta testers run through it to make sure all the routes line up (with over 120 branching menus, it's rough to keep track of it and test through it all on my own .-. lol)
--About 20-30% of the main route needs to be written and coded
--Credits need to be written and put somewhere...maybe in a word doc or in the game itself...

[MudkipTheDestroyer]

Lint!! Gaah, there's so much lint everywhere!! Dxx (Ignore that...) August 31 Update!!!

The game contains 4,848 (now 5,084) screens of dialogue.
These screens contain a total of 41,829 (now 44,255) words,
for an average of 8.6 (now 8.7) words per screen.
The game contains 122 (now 125) menus.

Progress of the endings:

Completed
--Battle Endings
--Death While On Main Path Endings
--Strength, Cooking, Intelligence, Laziness, Wakefulness, and Religious Endings
--Hah-mez's Romantic Endings
--Shaniqua's Romantic Endings
--Short One's Romantic Endings
--Damien's Romantic Ending
--Jermama's Romantic Ending

In Progress
--Cody's Romantic Endings (Now Complete)
--Sonic's Romantic Endings (Now Complete)

So, once again, what still needs to be done before the game is released?
--Music needs to be added in
--Bugs need to be etched out (There was a crash-bug halfway through, depending on your choices. I believe I just got it straightened out, but my beta testers are going over all the options to make sure.)
--I've gotta have some beta testers run through it to make sure all the routes line up (with over 120 branching menus, it's rough to keep track of it and test through it all on my own .-. lol) (Recruited two new betas, and they should be looking over it over the next week)
--About 20-30% of the main route needs to be written and coded (This is optional now because the game can live without it if I don't feel like writing it)
--Credits need to be written and put somewhere...maybe in a word doc or in the game itself... (Done)

Only a couple more weeks now!!
(Here's the link to the beta presently being tested if you want to help beta [you will be credited; download is only for Windows at the moment]: http://www.4shared.com/zip/l0nXS-_X/Bac ... win32.html [and keep in mind that when the game is actually released, I will put the link up after a short while on the Renai website so you don't have to sign up for a 4shared account, which only takes two seconds and is free, anyway :p]).
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[MudkipTheDestroyer]

Basically done with the game. It's technically in need of some more beta-testing for random spelling errors and such but it should be playable. Posting it soon.