/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

Looks terrible

Porn games are shit

>>18353

>Porn games are shit

thanks the lord someone else dislikes porn games

I'm pretty sure tons of people dislike porn games. I'm not making it for those people.

>>18356

It was a bit assholeish for me to post on your thread if the game is not for me, so yeah, don't take it personally, I'm sure people who like porn games will find your thread eventaully

>>18353

>>18354

I like (Japanese) visual novels but pornographic text adventures are pure cancer.

>>18362

I don't like Japanese VNs. They're better when you just rip out the art instead of having to mash the next button a thousand times.

>>18362

>likes VNs

>dislikes text adventures

What's the difference?

>>18365

Better writing, hopefully.

Having some actual impactful choices instead of mashing "next" every second or two just to get the next sentence, phrase, or "................" that comes up 5 times in a row.

I imagine VNs work better in actual Japanese with its more condensed alphabet that might have more on a line. Light novels tend to be good, after all. I just don't think they translate well directly to English. I think text adventures work better in English.

>>18368

Well, people said some similar things in the beginning with LEWD.

Some of the left over content from that is Kayleigh. Yep. Huge block of text for her sex scene. It'll be reworked.

But since then, I've tried to have some balance between when things should be quick and snappy, and even when there could be large walls of text to try to break them up with player choices instead of the PC just being "along for the ride". Maybe I'm not fully succeeding, but I've taken not of it and I'm trying.

Also, for some unknown reason, most IF games just delete the previous text so you can't go back and what read what happened before the current thing. I think leaving the previous stuff alleviates some of what you said. Did you play it?

I do thing a game that's more light novel style, maybe a picture for each paragraph, changing/animating as you scroll through, could be really nice. Not for LEWD, though, but just as a response to your last line.

>>18364

Stop playing nukige and play ones with actual story that can stand on their own without the porn.

>>18365

Western text adventures are infested with shit writers, trust fund kiddies, bizarre fetishists and/or furfags, and tumblrcunts with agendas to hamfistedly push. It's pretty much an excuse for fanfic-tier writefags to call themselves "game developers" and get that Kotaku coverage/furfag dosh.

Western visual novels aren't that much better but the skill/$ barrier to entry of the visuals keeps at least some of the cancer out.

Sorry for shitting all over your "game," OP, but I really think writefags are the useless ideaguys of porn.

>>18368

I'll agree that ero scenes never translate well into English, but the point of (non-nukige) Japanese VNs is not really to be fap material, but to tell a story, engross you in the setting through the self-insert MC, and make you fall in love with the characters. The porn is just icing on the cake, and in fact many of the most popular VNs are either non-ero or sold best in versions that didn't include it.

Of course there are countless examples of poorly written garbage amongst Japanese VNs, but as a whole they do a much better job of providing interesting settings, stories, art styles, and waifus, having been perfecting the craft for decades before hipster retards played Ace Attorney and spontaneously decided that VNs and dating sims didn't have to be "problematic" or "gross."

>>18371

Er. Did you actually try the game, either?

What's the point of saying they're bizarre fetishists or furfags if none of that is actually in the game?

I didn't mean to start a VN vs IF war.

>>18352

Is it normal I don't see any sprites on the map? It's just numbers on a few tiles.

Looks kinda promising - or maybe I should say "reads" kinda promising, because, as I said, I haven't seen anything except character portraits. Those are cool though.

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You did the things the Resilient guy saw. (The second time you spelled it correctly.)

I know what you mean, but it's trying too hard to be cool and just comes out awkward. Is English your first language? Either way, you need to have an editor. Considering, especially, that this is based on writing, you'll need to make sure the engine itself is free of errors or else people will ... heh... write you off quickly.

>>18805

Pretty much. Wanted it to be like a MUD. Might add them later.

>>18807

I've brought on writers a few days ago. Working on an alpha now.

Don't know what you mean about an engine itself being free of errors when writing isn't engine level stuff, though.

>>18812

How about using words instead of sprites then? Having empty tiles is kinda weird. Those numbers make it even weirder - I suppose they represent how many entities are on that tile or something?

If a distant tile says "Small figurine", at least I know why am I going all the way to that tile, having multiple potentially unwanted encounters on the way.

>>18863

Well the problem, in LEWD at least and not an engine problem itself, is just how to handle moving NPCs.

If someone has a scene going with an NPC, and it's not finished and excited, but another player does something that triggers the NPC to walk away and leave the area, that makes a massive continuity error.

Writing in scenarios for what's happened to them differently for whoever and imagining it works a lot better.

>>18866

You mean, it will be less like MMORPGs where everyone can talk to some NPC or interact with an item as long as they fulfill some conditions - but one player interacting with it makes changes for everyone else?

Like if I talk to an NPC and it goes away, it will move for everyone else simultaneously?

>>18916

Is this for real? Doesn't OP know that there are only two fucking genders?

>>18916

>>18920

>Not playing a lewd robot

Check your read/write permissions, meatbags.

>>18867

Well no. That's not how it will work with not having visible NPCs, because you can fudge things around with different descriptions for different people.

But that is a large part of why I don't have sprites for them, because I'd lose that.

MUDs typically do not have them for the same reason and they seem to work fine.

I do not like how MMORPGs are almost always just a single player story but filled with lots of other players. They tell you you're the hero or some shit and have to defeat the big bad protag, making a crazy disconnect when you can clearly see that hundreds of thousands of people have already defeated it. It makes no sense.

>>18352

I just started the demo and this immediately reminds me of something from years ago. How long have you been working on this?

You have an uncomfortable obsession for me to read about concerning your undefined white and black jacket and normal clothes and normal shoes etc etc.

>>19061

I haven't really touched what is on that prototype in over a year. I had been working on the engine. You very well may have seen it long ago.

>>19066

Is fixed in the alpha that's coming. That's a client and not a engine thing, anyway.

>Pre-alpha is no longer available. The first alpha will be released in September. Follow playlewd.com to stay updated.

You should probably release it before the Shemitah occurs.

>>20707

wot

Make a lifeweb clone op, would love an mmo based off that byond game.

>>21009

Never played it.

I played a few minutes of SS13 but that's about it for Byond stuff. The lag and the engine itself makes playing those games usually pretty unbearable for me.

>>21009

I looked at a video. Yeah similar to SS13.

I was really hoping some people could get a team together to make a better successor to SS13 on my engine. Could handle hundreds or thousands of players, maybe have procedurally generated other worlds and such. It's not something I actually want to make myself, though.

I like solving the big problems with programming. I don't like the busy working of making a ton of different items and interactions.