Thermidor: Juicy Fruities - Tactical Guillotine and Thread Opening Simulator

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Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Yeah that's good stuff! I think the throwing improvements will be helpful, it's the one area that I don't seem able to reliably do what I want to.

e; sniped. Important Fructidor post near the bottom of the last page!

# ? Jan 22, 2017 21:57

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# ? May 14, 2024 06:30

JosephWongKS: Apr 4, 2009; by Nyc_Tattoo

FUNDS RAISED BY THERMIDOR ON INDIEGOGO

28 December 2016 - $802 USD raised by 22 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal

31 December 2016 - $802 USD raised by 22 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal

3 January 2017 - $802 USD raised by 22 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal

5 January 2017 - $802 USD raised by 22 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal

6 January 2017 - $802 USD raised by 22 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal

7 January 2017 - $802 USD raised by 22 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal

8 January 2017 - $1002 USD raised by 23 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal :siren:

9 January 2017 - $1002 USD raised by 23 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal

10 January 2017 - $1052 USD raised by 24 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal :siren:

11 January 2017 - $1052 USD raised by 24 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal

12 January 2017 - $1082 USD raised by 25 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal :siren:

13 January 2017 - $1082 USD raised by 25 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal

14 January 2017 - $1082 USD raised by 25 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal

15 January 2017 - $1082 USD raised by 25 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal

16 January 2017 - $1082 USD raised by 25 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal

17 January 2017 - $1112 USD raised by 26 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal :siren:

18 January 2017 - $1112 USD raised by 26 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal

19 January 2017 - $1227 USD raised by 28 backers / 0.51% of $240,000 fixed goal :siren:

20 January 2017 - $1257 USD raised by 29 backers / 0.52% of $240,000 fixed goal :siren:

21 January 2017 - $1257 USD raised by 29 backers / 0.52% of $240,000 fixed goal

22 January 2017 - $1312 USD raised by 31 backers / 0.55% of $240,000 fixed goal :siren:

_______________________________________________

Total increase in number of backers between 28 December 2016 to 22 January 2017 - 9

Total increase in amount raised between 28 December 2016 to 22 January 2017 - $510

Average amount raised per day in the 25 days between 28 December 2016 to 22 January 2017 - $20.40

_______________________________________________

Time left - A month [According to the Indiegogo page - it's not specified exactly how many days this means]

Shortfall between target and amount raised so far - $238,688.00

Average amount of new funds per month required to meet target - $238,688.00

# ? Jan 23, 2017 00:03

jizzy sillage: Aug 13, 2006

The only problem I felt needed to be addressed was the colouring of apples and oranges, they're a bit similar at the moment. If you make apples a brighter red it'd read easier.

# ? Jan 23, 2017 01:14

Slime: Jan 3, 2007

jizzy sillage posted:

The only problem I felt needed to be addressed was the colouring of apples and oranges, they're a bit similar at the moment. If you make apples a brighter red it'd read easier.

Make the apples into green ones.

# ? Jan 23, 2017 02:43

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Slime posted:

Make the apples into green ones.

Not even rebellious peasants deserve such a fate.

# ? Jan 23, 2017 03:51

sentimental snail: Nov 22, 2007; DID YOU SEE MY
PEYOTE QUEEN?

kukrunkarmaskin posted:

I think the game is perfect for a single player campaign with a bunch of different maps (Bastille, Versailles...) but I'll do a first round of polishing and fixing what's already there and making it more fun before I add anything major. I'm thinking a general tightening up of the controls and speeding up of the gameplay. So:

Here is v 1.0 of the FRUIT (FRUctidor Improvement Table)

Controls:
-Switch from mouse to gamepad controls (or make it an option). Left stick to move the guillotine, right stick to rotate the blade. Right trigger to slice fruit, Left trigger to throw fruit. Pressing harder/longer on the trigger increases the throwing power.

Camera:
-Remove the wobbly circular track camera
-Instead Two camera modes to switch between. 1: Fixed camera at an isometric angle for slicing fruit. 2: Catapult-style camera for throwing things. Will need to test this out to find something good.

Slicing:
-Speed up the guillotine a bit at the start, right now it feels like you need powerups to control well, which might not be a good design decision.

Throwing:
-Make it easiser to control how hard you throw and to make accurate throws. It's a bit too unpredictable now. You should be able to pinpoint throw a bomb to the head of a peasant half the map away if you're good, which you currently can't.
-Make the throwing mechanism visible and sort of logical. I'm thinking like a big spoon-catapult-like thing that rotates and scoops away fruit
-Throwing gizmo, like the slicer gizmo, to give you some sort of reference to what's going on.

Cake Making:
-More direct feedback on if you slice the right kind of fruit or not. Right now you have to wait until the sliced fruit reaches the end of the belt, which can take a while, before you know you hosed up.
-Fruit should fall directly through the conveyor belt when sliced and into some kind of secondary chute that leads to the cake. This should improve visual clarity greatly.
-Add a button for opening a hole in the cake chute, before the fruit reaches the cake. This will give you the option of clearing a portion of the chute and avoid the wrong kind of fruit getting on your cake.

Fruit:
-Add a few more fruits. Not too many at this point but something green would be nice. The four kinds in the game were all the not-godawful models I could find by googling "FREE APPLE 3D MODEL DOWNLOAD".

Bugs/General:
-Fix wave 25 bug and make the game finishable.
-Game tries to start in VR headset, oops. (Comedy option: add VR support)
-Improve physics and AI performance (I had to cut back on the number of on-screen fruit because of this. I'd ideally like the game to be a clusterfuck of fruit, cake and peasants everywhere)

I hope I can iterate this into something a bit more snappy and easy to pick up. I'll also try to get some help with sound, music and art.

Progress will probably not be super fast since I have a lot of non-Fructidor-related things going on at the moment, but I'll keep you posted and hopefully you can eventually get at least one finished game out of this thread!

quoting important Fructidor info for the new page

# ? Jan 23, 2017 03:59

Hal_2005: Feb 23, 2007

Stumpus posted:

I need a response from Ron on the state of this thread. What will he say? What will he do? Is he real?

Has this game failed yet?

# ? Jan 23, 2017 04:44

Sole.Sushi: Feb 19, 2008; Seaweed!? Get the fuck out!

Mister Adequate posted:

Not even rebellious peasants deserve such a fate.

I strongly disagree with your opinions on apples.

On the topic of green fruits: limes, pears and (because France) green grapes are lovely options.

# ? Jan 23, 2017 05:01

randombattle: Oct 16, 2008; This hand of mine shines and roars! It's bright cry tells me to grasp victory!

Hal_2005 posted:

Has this game failed yet?

If they keep extending the deadline then they will reach their goal in a quick 11700 days! That's only 32.5 years until they get to make this awesome game!

# ? Jan 23, 2017 05:17

JosephWongKS: Apr 4, 2009; by Nyc_Tattoo

randombattle posted:

If they keep extending the deadline then they will reach their goal in a quick 11700 days! That's only 32.5 years until they get to make this awesome game!

That's only 32.5 years till they raise the funds to make this awesome game. They then still need to actually make the game itself.

This is a company of 3 or 4 full-time staff which needed to stop working on the game for 3 months in order to prepare the indiegogo campaign. Think about how long these people will take in order to actually make the game.

# ? Jan 23, 2017 05:42

GRINDCORE MEGGIDO: Feb 28, 1985

kukrunkarmaskin, be interesting to see how Fructidor did on indigogo? Just for a side by side comparison.

# ? Jan 23, 2017 08:18

Fur20: Nov 14, 2007; すご▞い！
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね！

GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:

kukrunkarmaskin, be interesting to see how Fructidor did on indigogo? Just for a side by side comparison.

obviously it did far worse, i hear they made negative money

# ? Jan 23, 2017 10:17

JosephWongKS: Apr 4, 2009; by Nyc_Tattoo

9 January 2017 - $1002 USD raised by 23 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal

10 January 2017 - $1052 USD raised by 24 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal :siren:

11 January 2017 - $1052 USD raised by 24 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal

12 January 2017 - $1082 USD raised by 25 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal :siren:

18 January 2017 - $1112 USD raised by 26 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal

19 January 2017 - $1227 USD raised by 28 backers / 0.51% of $240,000 fixed goal :siren:

20 January 2017 - $1257 USD raised by 29 backers / 0.52% of $240,000 fixed goal :siren:

21 January 2017 - $1257 USD raised by 29 backers / 0.52% of $240,000 fixed goal

22 January 2017 - $1312 USD raised by 31 backers / 0.55% of $240,000 fixed goal :siren:

23 January 2017 - $1317 USD raised by 32 backers / 0.55% of $240,000 fixed goal :siren:

_______________________________________________

Total increase in number of backers between 28 December 2016 to 23 January 2017 - 10

Total increase in amount raised between 28 December 2016 to 23 January 2017 - $515

Average amount raised per day in the 26 days between 28 December 2016 to 23 January 2017 - $19.81

_______________________________________________

Time left - 25 days

Shortfall between target and amount raised so far - $238,683.00

Average amount of new funds per day required to meet target - $9,547.32

# ? Jan 24, 2017 00:10

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

@ the dude who gave five american dollars today

# ? Jan 24, 2017 00:53

Jeb Bush 2012: Apr 4, 2007; A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

Mister Adequate posted:

@ the dude who gave five american dollars today

hey, if everyone who posted in this thread gave only five dollars...

well this game still wouldn't have a hope in hell of being funded but at least the number of backers would be less embarassing

# ? Jan 24, 2017 02:37

Prokhor Zakharov: Dec 31, 2008; This is me as I make another great post

Good luck with your depression!

Mister Adequate posted:

@ the dude who gave five american dollars today

I mean you laugh now but if this keeps up it'll only be 47,737 more days before the game's fully funded. 130 years goes by a lot faster than you might think.

# ? Jan 24, 2017 03:13

Snow Cone Capone: Jul 31, 2003

seriously though who the gently caress is still donating to that crater in the ground

# ? Jan 24, 2017 05:14

Vermain: Sep 5, 2006

Kelp Me! posted:

seriously though who the gently caress is still donating to that crater in the ground

It's not uncommon for developers to repeatedly donate small amounts to themselves on Kickstarters/IndieGogo/whatever in order to give the impression of interest in a product.

# ? Jan 24, 2017 06:40

Kurtofan: Feb 16, 2011; hon hon hon

Hope this get funded by the 18th of Brumaire

# ? Jan 24, 2017 10:17

Snow Cone Capone: Jul 31, 2003

Vermain posted:

It's not uncommon for developers to repeatedly donate small amounts to themselves on Kickstarters/IndieGogo/whatever in order to give the impression of interest in a product.

I'm honestly not sure which is more sad

# ? Jan 24, 2017 15:50

nerdz: Oct 12, 2004; Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.; Grimey Drawer

It's just like buskers always drop a few dollars on their hats before starting their performances.

# ? Jan 24, 2017 15:54

Sole.Sushi: Feb 19, 2008; Seaweed!? Get the fuck out!

nerdz posted:

It's just like buskers always drop a few dollars on their hats before starting their performances.

Except buskers can demonstrate that they can provide entertainment. :haw:

# ? Jan 24, 2017 16:13

JosephWongKS: Apr 4, 2009; by Nyc_Tattoo

Sole.Sushi posted:

Except buskers can demonstrate that they can provide entertainment.

I can only speak for myself, but I've been greatly entertained by Hyperdevbox's antics so far.

# ? Jan 24, 2017 17:41

Sole.Sushi: Feb 19, 2008; Seaweed!? Get the fuck out!

That is an accurate statement. I should have been more clear: buskers can earn money by providing entertainment, whereas HyperDevBox seemingly cannot.

# ? Jan 24, 2017 18:33

JosephWongKS: Apr 4, 2009; by Nyc_Tattoo

9 January 2017 - $1002 USD raised by 23 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal

10 January 2017 - $1052 USD raised by 24 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal :siren:

11 January 2017 - $1052 USD raised by 24 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal

12 January 2017 - $1082 USD raised by 25 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal :siren:

18 January 2017 - $1112 USD raised by 26 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal

19 January 2017 - $1227 USD raised by 28 backers / 0.51% of $240,000 fixed goal :siren:

20 January 2017 - $1257 USD raised by 29 backers / 0.52% of $240,000 fixed goal :siren:

21 January 2017 - $1257 USD raised by 29 backers / 0.52% of $240,000 fixed goal

22 January 2017 - $1312 USD raised by 31 backers / 0.55% of $240,000 fixed goal :siren:

23 January 2017 - $1317 USD raised by 32 backers / 0.55% of $240,000 fixed goal :siren:

24 January 2017 - $1367 USD raised by 33 backers / 0.57% of $240,000 fixed goal :siren:

_______________________________________________

Total increase in number of backers between 28 December 2016 to 24 January 2017 - 11

Total increase in amount raised between 28 December 2016 to 24 January 2017 - $565

Average amount raised per day in the 27 days between 28 December 2016 to 24 January 2017 - $20.93

_______________________________________________

Time left - 24 days

Shortfall between target and amount raised so far - $238,633.00

Average amount of new funds per day required to meet target - $9,943.04

# ? Jan 25, 2017 00:14

Stexils: Jun 5, 2008

best history thread in games imo

# ? Jan 25, 2017 00:33

Scruffyhawk: Jun 30, 2005; FHNNNNNNN; Ramrod XTreme

Sorry for the off topic post (this being the Fructidor thread and all) but Boxed Clams Development has rolled out a game changing referral program that will surely mark the beginning of a massive influx of IGG cash:

http://hyperdevbox.com/?page_id=5630

# ? Jan 25, 2017 02:45

Sole.Sushi: Feb 19, 2008; Seaweed!? Get the fuck out!

I wonder how many people are referring this game and saying "DO NOT INVEST IN THIS HOT GARBAGE."

# ? Jan 25, 2017 02:59

Kraven Moorhed: Jan 5, 2006; So wrong, yet so right.; Soiled Meat

I love how you could refer far past the top reward and wage a single-handed war to get pledges for this game, netting tens of thousands in revenue, but:

awful indiegogo poo poo posted:

*to be delivered within 30 days after the campaign�s successful end

In the end, you won't get poo poo.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 04:19

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

I think a mistake was made because apparently the OP closed this thread but I'm sure it was just an accident as the crowdfunding campaign is still going strong. I'm opening it again for further discussion.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 10:19

Golden Goat: Aug 2, 2012

Sole.Sushi posted:

I wonder how many people are referring this game and saying "DO NOT INVEST IN THIS HOT GARBAGE."

Just refer them to this thread instead.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 10:19

Sole.Sushi: Feb 19, 2008; Seaweed!? Get the fuck out!

Palpek posted:

I think a mistake was made because apparently the OP closed this thread but I'm sure it was just an accident as the crowdfunding campaign is still going strong. I'm opening it again for further discussion.

Oh, Ron: can't answer legitimate criticisms and questions, close the thread when people realize you're so far up your rear end that you can't hear us anyways. That's two for two now!

# ? Jan 25, 2017 11:24

super sweet best pal: Nov 18, 2009

If Therm's indiegogo continued indefinitely, how long would it take to finish assuming it kept getting money at roughly the same pace?

Scruffyhawk posted:

Sorry for the off topic post (this being the Fructidor thread and all) but Boxed Clams Development has rolled out a game changing referral program that will surely mark the beginning of a massive influx of IGG cash:

http://hyperdevbox.com/?page_id=5630

At that rate, why not just have kids at a school sell candy or wrapping paper?

# ? Jan 25, 2017 11:34

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

super sweet best pal posted:

If Therm's indiegogo continued indefinitely, how long would it take to finish assuming it kept getting money at roughly the same pace?

They could potentially reach $1,500 roughly a month since the campaign started which means they'd need another 159 months to reach $240,000. This is equal to 13 more years which is 3 years more than how long the French Revolultion lasted.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 12:05

Golden Goat: Aug 2, 2012

I think somebody's hacked HDB and is trying to shut down their campaign thread.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 13:32

GRINDCORE MEGGIDO: Feb 28, 1985

Maybe the latest Ron got fired, and Ron the Third wants to open a new thread?

# ? Jan 25, 2017 15:06

Schurik: Sep 13, 2008

At this point, maybe selling the referral rewards on eBay and investing the revenue might make more sense? Just thinking out loud here Ron.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 15:23

Snow Cone Capone: Jul 31, 2003

I love that the referral rewards are totally random gadgets, and also that the first 2 tiers are Alibaba-grade junk

# ? Jan 25, 2017 15:46

Stumpus: Dec 25, 2009

Palpek posted:

I think a mistake was made because apparently the OP closed this thread but I'm sure it was just an accident as the crowdfunding campaign is still going strong. I'm opening it again for further discussion.

Lol

# ? Jan 25, 2017 20:43

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# ? May 14, 2024 06:30

sentimental snail: Nov 22, 2007; DID YOU SEE MY
PEYOTE QUEEN?

Scruffyhawk posted:

Sorry for the off topic post (this being the Fructidor thread and all) but Boxed Clams Development has rolled out a game changing referral program that will surely mark the beginning of a massive influx of IGG cash:

http://hyperdevbox.com/?page_id=5630

I was worried they'd get discouraged by such a blatant attempt to sabotage this thread, so I sent them some encouraging fan mail with the form on this page

Thermidor_Fan1999 posted:

Hello, i/m very a fan! Let me preface this letter by say i am a master degree in psychology and i am always diagnosed with any psychotic disorder. i am write to you because i am hole up in my apartment for two day and night watching thermidor indie go go promotion video. i am in love it all. after done i watch an interview. right now i am fantasizing about having a sex with a guillotine and for Ron to watching. i not sure what you're role would be Ron but i think i wnat you there. come on it would be good time. i have donated $50 instead of buy food. please make a guillotine girl for mating.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 20:48

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