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blankd posted:As thanks for all the resources, here you go thread, some "fanart" of Rabies and the weeb. Sorry(?) about the squirrel, I don't draw them often. This is amazing.
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What does the shirt say? I thought it was 'Mai Waifu Is 4 Laifu' at first glance, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Bucktoothed cog is the best fursona in any case though ![]()
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Obligatum VII posted:The thought of someone making a fursuit with embedded animatronics is terrifying to me and I blame you for giving me the mental image. Well, not technically a fursuit... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lhFNzTHPaI but it's very expressive and tech that normal people do have access to. CommissarMega posted:What does the shirt say? I thought it was 'Mai Waifu Is 4 Laifu' at first glance, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Pretty sure it says "My Waifu is my Laifu"
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Anoia posted:Choice of Games has a pretty sketchy business model, given nearly all their games are pulled from contests. Any game they host also only gives the author 25% of royalties, which is never much with games like this. Whenever they promote their writing contests game devs and writers alike shout from the rooftops to avoid them like the plague, same as any other contest. The cash prizes average out to being below industry standard PPW as well. Wow, I didn't know about any of this. This is a shame, since their first-party games are pretty well written and they have a lot of smart things to say about interactive fiction. As far as I know, you can still use ChoiceScript and publish your game independently, and there's a GUI in the works for ChoiceScript, so it's not all bad. blankd posted:As thanks for all the resources, here you go thread, some "fanart" of Rabies and the weeb. Sorry(?) about the squirrel, I don't draw them often. Stuff like this is exactly why this thread exists. ![]()
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senrath posted:The game UI, not the builder's UI. It's barebones with a generic sans serif font. Ren'py did have a recent update that's supposed to make UI customization easier, although I haven't tried to use it yet.
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Perfecto, even down to you using the background image from Dreamstime. Originally, the game used backgrounds purely yanked from GIS, a fair few of them with dubious or misused copyright status, so eventually all Dreamstime, all the way. Curus Keel fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Dec 27, 2016 |
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blankd posted:As thanks for all the resources, here you go thread, some "fanart" of Rabies and the weeb. Sorry(?) about the squirrel, I don't draw them often. I much prefer your version of Kila to that hollow-eyed original version. Can you do a version of CogFace that's exactly the same except with teeth all around his mouth like a lamprey? Because that's how I pictured him.
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blankd posted:As thanks for all the resources, here you go thread, some "fanart" of Rabies and the weeb. Sorry(?) about the squirrel, I don't draw them often. I want this VN instead, somebody please make it and then LP it, thanks.
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Hello! I hope you all had a Merry Christmas, because we're plunging right back into the pit of piss! This update will also have special guest Curus Keel as co-commentator! His commentary will be in bold. Thank you, thank you. For those unaware, I actually ended up tied to this game since its original Steam release, thanks to the initially angry review about it I made on Steam for it. What followed was a can of worms that involved so much bad behavior on part of the developer and even a few things within the game of questionable copyright - stuff that I’ll bring up when it becomes more relevant. I’ll start with this: Every character is someone’s fursona, all but one of the females excluded. Since I’m not sure we’ll be meeting with said female again, I’ll say that Dazz is the exception. The kicker? Dazz was originally a male fursona, only in this game is she a busty wolf. I can only assume that the reason for her gender change is so that she can be used on the Steam banner and promo materials for this game, because barely naked wolf tits sell. ![]() How many times does Rabies have to repeat themselves? Either use the first sentence or the next two, using all three just has the narrator talking to the player like they're an idiot. ![]() ![]() Konrad? Endymion? Did you smuggle us into a gay bar? ![]() This line is surprising because, as far as I can tell, it's been the only instance in the game so far where someone's species is brought up. Heterochromia is love. Heterochromia is life. Also, about the intro poses: On the first release, the game didn’t even have them. Literally the only reason they exist is so that the creator can claim that this game has “multiple expressions”, something that I and others have called him out on not including in the past. This is a dumb excuse for technically satisfying that requirement. Supposedly, these poses were to be used more often, when the respective character was talking, but that never happened. They are used once and discarded, just like what happened with the artist for this game. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yes Rabies would like a few beer bottles to break over Konrad's head please! I’d play that game. ![]() You know what would make you blend in even more? Not looking like two failed attempts at being furry Final Fantasy characters. The only reason Konrad gets away with being sneaky is that he camouflages well within Terra’s natural colors of rocket red, jet black, and neon blue. They just can’t show the true colors ‘cause it would be an eyesore to us. ![]() ![]() These two directly work for the king to carry out his dirty work, but he doesn't even pay them enough for drinks. And it can't be a money issue, since Velasquez said to Bojack Horseman earlier that their treasury is full. Nah, that makes perfect sense. These assassins have a 0% success rate. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pink Bunny. I guarantee you it stands for Pink Bunny. Or Pink Bastard. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Never would have guessed you dislike formality, what with your raver outfit and exposed midriff! ![]() ![]() Going by the general quality of life outside, it's probably legal for kids to smoke meth. ![]() This place is the immigration office for Terra? Hold up. You can’t just drop that in and not expect a bunch of questions. Like, why would one combine the immigration office within a bar/tavern? What happened to the past immigration office, if there is one? Why is this a private business, when you’d expect immigration offices to be part of the government? Why doesn’t this place seem to have high standards? Are you seriously expecting people who come to Terra to have their papers handled by waitstaff who looks more in place at a Hooters? Are those outfits really in taste, especially when there’s very likely to be children around? Is what we’re experiencing the same immigration process for everyone? Klace, you did not think this through. As a writer, it is your job to think things through. ![]() ![]() Please do. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Major\Minor: There's Always More And It's Always Worse. Hey, at least this outfit looks in-place if this were just a fantasy tavern. Not spectacularly great, though. I question the stripperiffic nature of it, though. ![]() ![]() ![]() Phidget's defining character trait is that his mom is dead. That might sound like a joke, but I'm dead serious. This’ll be fun. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is it me or do Phidget's ear piercings look like they're so heavy that they're the reason his ears are drooping? Well, it would make PB’s ears magic, they have more piercings and stand up straight. How can you explain that? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How the hell did this place 'explode in popularity' when its barmaids are terrible at their jobs? The same barmaids who have to act as immigration officials, presumably? Aren’t many people that could really fit, unless you really want a royal assassin to handle your paperwork. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My god, Klace managed to fit more than two characters on the screen. Maaagic. Here’s something you should know, for each character there’s a separate image with their art positioned left and their art positioned right, for the two poses they have. The images are the same rough size and ratio as the game screen itself, therefore tons of white space. Couldn’t this guy have figured out how to dynamically position images so that more than 2 characters can be put on a screen? Amateurish. ![]() This really reads as if he’s literally floating above the table like he's possessed. Hey, if he was a freaking wizard or a ghost, I’d actually be more interested. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Konrad and Edymion: assassins that don't actually assassinate anyone, and blow their cover on a regular basis by starting bar fights. Come on, it would be more interesting if we actually fought in one of those barfights. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This implies that Endymion's piss-poor excuses have worked in the past. ![]() Master assassin. ![]() ![]() REALLY RABIES YOU JUST NOW ARRIVING AT THAT CONCLUSION? ![]() ![]() You know what's even more expected? Actually killing someone. gently caress off. Don’t use “assassin” because it sounds cool, have that ACTUALLY MEAN A drat THING for the character. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wait, PB lives in this poo poo bar? Hey, it’s on par with living in a poo poo arcade. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Two things: One, holy loving poo poo Endymion you're supposed to be on a top secret mission, stop revealing it to everyone that asks. Two, how little does Velasquez pay these two? There is literally a line earlier about how his treasury was full, so it's not like he can't afford to cover their costs. Then again, they might be so incompetent that they never get paid by Velasquez. But then why would these idiots be hired again and again? Beyond there being nobody else written for the story to do it. ![]() Wait, where did Konrad go? He met up with Martin Walker and went on a treacherous rescue mission in Furry Dubai, only for war madness to occur alongside mass death and destruction. ...I wish. ![]() ![]() ![]() I can only assume that Endymion has a habit of blabbing about secret missions, so you'd think PB would actually believe him when he not only says they're on another mission, but the king himself has hired them. You know, the king that they said can't be connected to their work in any way? And of course PB knows they're assassins. The king will never work with assassins because of these two incompetent fools. It makes sense. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The more we're around these two "assassins", the less I'm angry about them being terrible at their jobs and the more I question what kind of idiot Velasquez has to be to actually trust them with sensitive intrigue. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To be fair, that's because the guy who gave us said powers thought the best way to explain it would be to show us four sad clipart earths. And to be fair, Reiyo was on really short notice that day. ![]() ![]() I dunno, it's been pretty well established that those two aren't very good at keeping information to themselves. ![]() ”The left and right hand of the King”. I find that really hard to believe. Are the three related in some way, is that why they have the job? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH KILL IT I’m sorry, what is that character design? Is that supposed to be some sexually deviant 6 year old’s interpretation of a Pokemon? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I've honestly lost count at this point. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe people come to this bar because they just have to see its trainwreck of a staff. It’s a tavern, an immigration office, and an improv comedy club at once! Watch the slapstick antics of PB and Trish’s many hilarious cleaning attempts! Laugh at the rabbit whose mother is obviously dead and she doesn’t know it! All at the Wayfarer’s Tavern! ![]() ![]() Flashbacks? Like Vietnam-style "you don't know man, you weren't there" flashbacks? ![]() I like how she doesn't even give a poo poo that she's wasting the bar's glasses. Cleaning up the bar glasses is ![]() ![]() The only way Phidget's mom is coming back is if someone makes a trip to the local graveyard with a shovel. ![]() She won't recognize you anyway, what with her brain having decomposed and all. ![]() She went to the great cabbage patch in the sky, and also the great six-foot hole in the ground. She went to her second home in Sovngarde, and didn’t leave you the directions. ![]() ![]() You're probably gonna be waiting even longer than that, considering how your mom once topped a Buzzfeed list of 'most deadest people'. ![]() ![]() Going around telling everyone you're assassins in the employ of the king will do that. ![]() ![]() ![]() Probably under a tombstone somewhere. You know, what with her being dead and all. Velasquez will tell Phidget about the rabbits again. All he has to do to see his mom again is to let that weird black thing’s barrel push up against the back of his head. ![]() I feel like this game owes me an apology. ![]() To be fair, Phidget's Mom being dead is probably common knowledge. Isn't that right Phidget? How old are these characters anyway? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As far as Phidget's mom goes, she went to a farm out in the country. And also died. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Woah now, that line came dangerously close to having personality. We can't have that! Burn it! Burn it in hell! We don’t want good writing here! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hi, guy. Here to steal our honey? At least he looks genuinely cool. And in place. ![]() ![]() If you want to shut them up, be my guest. ![]() ![]() Offer's still open to make them shut up. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Alright, credit where it's due: that was kind of funny. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Righty I'm not going to beat around the bush anymore: please kick their asses. This had better be a really long build-up to a bar fight. ![]() ![]() Getting drunk with a bear in a basement isn't the absolute worst idea we've had all day. It comes close, though. We already had that worst idea: It was making friends with Kila. ![]() ![]() ![]() I hope he's able to afford some armor that doesn't look like bondage gear. Or some more tasteful street/work clothes, at the very least. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No reason to lie other than to avoid paying the massive tab they've apparently accumulated. The assassins were saved by the ultimate force: Forgetful Creator. ![]() ![]() Wouldn’t “trot” be more appropriate if it was Trish? ![]() Righty seems to have common sense in regards to not blabbing your plan to everyone in town, so maybe that had something to do with it. ![]() ![]() Must be a really cushy job, since you two don't seem to kill anyone anyway. ![]() Maybe he saw giving you guys missions to actually kill people was kind of a lost cause so he decided to try and salvage what he could. Alright, I think the assassins and Velasquez are related by blood. That’s the only thing saving these assassins from their own execution. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So let me get this straight: you're okay with the person you're supposed to personally escort to the king going down alone in the basement with a person you've told us is your bitter rival? ![]() Then why not have the two fools bring the player along with them to the immigration place or wherever they are going? Beyond having to make new characters and art for this, I mean. ![]() This seems like a missed opportunity to add an actual choice, ‘cause I do want to try and go with Righty. I want nothing to do with these two fools. ![]() ![]() This paragraph writes a check the game can't cash. How is everyone in this bar 'intertwined'? Righty knew Endymion and Konrad beforehand, and apparently Konrad and Endymion regularly trash PB's bar. That isn't exactly a thick web of connections. ![]() ![]() ![]() Friends with the bottle, huh Phidget? If you love it so much, why don’t you marry it? Your mom would love to see the ceremony, if her eyes weren’t rotten out of her skull. ![]() Probably to remind us not to start any forest fires. Blarghalt fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Feb 18, 2017 |
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THE WINDS OF CHANGE HAHAHAHA loving HAH
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I think that character's suppose to be a pony. Is there a reason why everyone's dancing around the fact momma's dead? Because that's exceedingly assholish and cruel to do. Why is everyone doing everything? I had the brief idea of spite rewriting this, but realize that means throwing everything out and writing something completely new.
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Righty looks reasonably normal, in that the design could exist in a fantasy game as a fantasy bear race barbarian dude, which makes up in no way whatsover for the blue dolphin horse woman and the exceedingly creepy raver twink rabbits
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Today on nitpicky faults that are making my hair fall out:![]() "Nomenclature" refers to the entire system of specialized words, not a single word itself. I think the word the writer wanted is "term", which of course is too lowbrow for such a magnificent script as this one. Also it's really loving jarring how PB and Phidget look like they're roughly the same age (does the game say they're twins? I can't loving remember), but one acts like an adult running a business and the other acts like a child with a learning disorder.
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GeneX posted:Righty looks reasonably normal, in that the design could exist in a fantasy game as a fantasy bear race barbarian dude, which makes up in no way whatsover for the blue dolphin horse woman and the exceedingly creepy raver twink rabbits He looks normal and in-place compared to the others in the tavern, which makes him all the more different. The stars aligned on that one.
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Phidget dreams of being the best waiter in a tavern with only two waiters. That's even more depressing than the dead mom.
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Robindaybird posted:I think that character's suppose to be a pony. In the eternal words of Mr. Plinkett: "WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOUR FAAAACCEEE?!" ![]() I wonder if myxomatosis is an STI or not. Or next chapter: "Play myxy for me". I've got nothing... Three-Phase fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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Three-Phase posted:I wonder if myxomatosis is an STI or not. Or next chapter: "Play myxy for me". That won't happen. Only beautiful furries are allowed in this game.
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Also, are the two idiots full-time royal assassins and right-hand men of the king, or are they freelancers paid by the job and only work for him sometimes? Make up your drat mind, game. Also also, every character in this game is the loving worst at their profession. Even when multiple characters have the same job, they somehow all manage to be the worst at it. This further bolsters my "furry Idiocracy" interpretation.
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GeneX posted:Righty looks reasonably normal, in that the design could exist in a fantasy game as a fantasy bear race barbarian dude I know, right? If you gave me that portrait absent of any context, I'd have no problem using it in an Ironclaw or D&D game. Wonder if the person behind it is equally 'normal' (for a given value of 'normal', of course).
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Maybe Rabbit Mom was summoned to Earth and she's playing arcade games in Akihabara right now.
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Mechanical Ape posted:Maybe Rabbit Mom was summoned to Earth and she's playing arcade games in Akihabara right now. If that were the case, that would actually be a good twist. Because of that, it won't happen in this game.
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My brain is starting to hurt trying to come to terms with how every single thing is being done wrong. And he keeps loving it up! Now it explicitly spells out "these characters have interactions with each other" like I'm an idiot or something!? And it brings in three whole characters for a bar scene when it has nothing for two of them to do but pad out the word count. And it has to establish the strained relationship between PB and the assassins twice, once with each assassin, because why not!? And why does it have to establish the assassins are just not assassinating much because of a bear instead of having a spare line like "we'd just make Pliar a heroic martyr"or something? Why even bring it up? Why?
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Mechanical Ape posted:Phidget dreams of being the best waiter in a tavern with only two waiters. That's even more depressing than the dead mom. Only if he takes apprenticeship under the best waiter sensei in the land, and has great personal discipline and studies the works of the masters for ten to fifteen years. Only then will he gain access to the arcane secrets of waitering and make mom proud.
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CommissarMega posted:I know, right? If you gave me that portrait absent of any context, I'd have no problem using it in an Ironclaw or D&D game. Wonder if the person behind it is equally 'normal' (for a given value of 'normal', of course). The best part is that while Righty's design is fine in a vacuum, because everyone else in this drat game looks like they're at a rave or gay club, Righty now looks like a BDSM themed stripper due to context
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inthesto posted:The best part is that while Righty's design is fine in a vacuum, because everyone else in this drat game looks like they're at a rave or gay club, Righty now looks like a BDSM themed stripper due to context Hell, even the characters being originally fursonas doesn't explain the weird club theming going on everywhere. There are plenty of examples of fursonas that have general everyday look to them, with clothing that looks in place on both human or anthropomorphized creature alike. I seriously wonder whether it would be better to enforce the self-insert backers to make up their own character exclusive to the game, perhaps calling dibs on predefined roles, or just reducing the number of self-inserts so that it's easier to work them into the game.
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"Phidget". gently caress you for reminding me of better, more enjoyable furry games that are more worth my money, M\M. If anyone needs me I think I need to go replay Dust again.
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quote:The other rabbit -- or Phidget -- shuffles nervously. I mean, well, okay
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Waaaaait a minute.![]() ![]() Did Klace really reuse the same uninspired title between visual novels? I don't know what to say, I could have spent 10 seconds and come up with a better title. In fact, even "Two Dogs Walk Into A Bar" would be a better title. Get off your high horse and stop making meaningless meaningful phrases! Curus Keel fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Mar 1, 2017 |
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Yes I pointed that out BUT IT'S SUCH A PERFECT EVOCATIVE PHRASE AND NOT CLICHE AT ALL
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Spoiler: there are no "winds" in this "chapter" that would even make it work as a metaphorical reference Nor is there any meaningful "change" that I recall E: This is some "Crossroads of Twilight" poo poo right here Data Graham fucked around with this message at 06:18 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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Data Graham posted:Yes I pointed that out Sad thing is, I actually read your post and was rather confused at what you were getting at, until I looked at the chapter screen again. gently caress me, is Klace trying to make that his favorite phrase? It doesn't appear to apply to his new VN and it definitely doesn't apply here.
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Soon to come: "The Calm Before the Storm"
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I want to say that Igor or somebody is always harping about the WINDS OF CHANGE in one of the Persona games, but it's been a while since I played through any of them so I can't be sure. Meh.
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Data Graham posted:Soon to come: "The Calm Before the Storm" I could swear that he used that title somewhere, but I can't remember where for the life of me. Guess we'll have to find out.
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Curus Keel posted:Hell, even the characters being originally fursonas doesn't explain the weird club theming going on everywhere. There are plenty of examples of fursonas that have general everyday look to them, with clothing that looks in place on both human or anthropomorphized creature alike. I seriously wonder whether it would be better to enforce the self-insert backers to make up their own character exclusive to the game, perhaps calling dibs on predefined roles, or just reducing the number of self-inserts so that it's easier to work them into the game. I think it says something about the type of people who are willing to pay money to have their fursona's stuck into a game they know nothing about.
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Data Graham posted:Spoiler: there are no "winds" in this "chapter" that would even make it work as a metaphorical reference Well I mean if you want to get super technical, a fart is a kind of wind. And this game is one long, drawn-out fart.
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the sort of fart you really shouldn't have trusted.
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Mechanical Ape posted:Also, are the two idiots full-time royal assassins and right-hand men of the king, or are they freelancers paid by the job and only work for him sometimes? Make up your drat mind, game. Sindai fucked around with this message at 08:20 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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