2016's Halloween Contest Proposal
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Fenrir-Lunaris
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Figure I'll post this here too - http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewgame.php?p=125226
Witch2 reminds me very VERY strongly of the Fox and 86.
Witch2 reminds me very VERY strongly of the Fox and 86.
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Nathan Karr
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I threw a game together in less than fifty minutes http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewgame.php?p=125232
Remeber: God made you special and he loves you very much. Bye!
Just beat this and, except for grinding for tier 4 gatcha monsters for 1-2 hours straight, thoroughly enjoyed it. The Vampire is hilariously OP and pretty much soloed the final bosses.Fenrir-Lunaris wrote:Figure I'll post this here too - http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewgame.php?p=125226
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Feenicks
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Alright, it's the 31st, which seems appropriate for some short writeups of the games.
Nathan's Halloween: You wander from one end of a blank screen to the other and fight a ghost who can potentially stunlock you. That's it.
Necromancer Cat-Eating: This is very much a traditional OHR game, not like that's a bad thing - you're given a silly reason to go on your adventure, besides the very beginning you can generally cruise through things, and it's not that long at all. It's got your halloween stuff in spades: ghosts, a graveyard, a dark forest, werewolves, and so on. You get three characters - a nerd who fits himself into a suit of armor, an older furry, and a ghost. The nerd's kinda useless after the point at which the second two get multitarget spells, beyond stealing attack items, but that isn't too big an issue in this type of game. This was fun, though!
Hallowoof: In this game you play as a furry who spends 90% of your time in a room indirectly traumatizing a younger furry. I guess there's also a neat gacha mechanic going on as well.
Said gacha mechanic has Fen's patented 'you get better random stuff as you level up' mechanics from some of his other games here, albeit in a more fun/meaningful way than just equipment. The monsters you summon all fall into 6 archetypes [physical attacker/magic attacker/healer/rogue/debuffer/buffer], which seem of varying utility [never really used the healers beyond the beginning, given that Hati's heal is almost always enough to tide me over], but I generally used them all at some point in the game, which is nice. Your enemies also fall into the same categories, although the lack of attack captions makes that a bit hard to say for sure.
Graphics are great, as to be expected of a fenrir game. A lot of the robed outfits seem to have an excessive amount of folds in them for whatever reason, which bugs me a bit. Music choices are also pretty good, but I'd have to question the choice of music that's used in all the scenes of a lewd bent.
Out of all the ones here, this is definitely the most well-polished of the lot, which is something I can expect from Fenrir at this point [s]even if 99% of the spells weren't affected by mute in the beginning, making the status effect pretty useless[/s]
Did you really have to have the final boss be almost the exact same as the boss you fought before it, though? That was kinda lame, even if the final boss gets the ability to get rid of all the debuffs you've put on it.
My one: I was originally going to go with a general expansion of witch.rpg [albeit one with Carmilla as the main character instead of Verdi/Wyrd], but I really, really wasn't feeling it, so I eventually switched over to something that was purely exploration/puzzle-based. I feel like I did a generally good job of communicating the hints, besides maybe one for the hidden rooms.
The candles are there mostly because I wanted to have a more overarching task than just collecting one-off outfits, and having one outfit that was a good bit more involved to get than the others seemed appropriate for this sorta game.
also it was an excuse to draw lots of silly/skimpy outfits
Not going to rate these just yet, though.
Nathan's Halloween: You wander from one end of a blank screen to the other and fight a ghost who can potentially stunlock you. That's it.
Necromancer Cat-Eating: This is very much a traditional OHR game, not like that's a bad thing - you're given a silly reason to go on your adventure, besides the very beginning you can generally cruise through things, and it's not that long at all. It's got your halloween stuff in spades: ghosts, a graveyard, a dark forest, werewolves, and so on. You get three characters - a nerd who fits himself into a suit of armor, an older furry, and a ghost. The nerd's kinda useless after the point at which the second two get multitarget spells, beyond stealing attack items, but that isn't too big an issue in this type of game. This was fun, though!
Hallowoof: In this game you play as a furry who spends 90% of your time in a room indirectly traumatizing a younger furry. I guess there's also a neat gacha mechanic going on as well.
Said gacha mechanic has Fen's patented 'you get better random stuff as you level up' mechanics from some of his other games here, albeit in a more fun/meaningful way than just equipment. The monsters you summon all fall into 6 archetypes [physical attacker/magic attacker/healer/rogue/debuffer/buffer], which seem of varying utility [never really used the healers beyond the beginning, given that Hati's heal is almost always enough to tide me over], but I generally used them all at some point in the game, which is nice. Your enemies also fall into the same categories, although the lack of attack captions makes that a bit hard to say for sure.
Graphics are great, as to be expected of a fenrir game. A lot of the robed outfits seem to have an excessive amount of folds in them for whatever reason, which bugs me a bit. Music choices are also pretty good, but I'd have to question the choice of music that's used in all the scenes of a lewd bent.
Out of all the ones here, this is definitely the most well-polished of the lot, which is something I can expect from Fenrir at this point [s]even if 99% of the spells weren't affected by mute in the beginning, making the status effect pretty useless[/s]
Did you really have to have the final boss be almost the exact same as the boss you fought before it, though? That was kinda lame, even if the final boss gets the ability to get rid of all the debuffs you've put on it.
My one: I was originally going to go with a general expansion of witch.rpg [albeit one with Carmilla as the main character instead of Verdi/Wyrd], but I really, really wasn't feeling it, so I eventually switched over to something that was purely exploration/puzzle-based. I feel like I did a generally good job of communicating the hints, besides maybe one for the hidden rooms.
The candles are there mostly because I wanted to have a more overarching task than just collecting one-off outfits, and having one outfit that was a good bit more involved to get than the others seemed appropriate for this sorta game.
also it was an excuse to draw lots of silly/skimpy outfits
Not going to rate these just yet, though.
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By the way, I seem to have discovered an engine bug while playing with Gatcha tickets.
It involves erasing Hati from existence via the Dismiss menu.
https://youtu.be/GXJbMb274gk
It involves erasing Hati from existence via the Dismiss menu.
https://youtu.be/GXJbMb274gk
Oh you card 
I had fun with S&S and Witch2.rpg, I'll probably write up some quick overviews tomorrow. Also, I'm glad people enjoyed my game.
I had fun with S&S and Witch2.rpg, I'll probably write up some quick overviews tomorrow. Also, I'm glad people enjoyed my game.
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Working as intended!
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Fenrir-Lunaris
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Oh my! That's most definitely a bug!Foxley wrote:By the way, I seem to have discovered an engine bug while playing with Gatcha tickets.
It involves erasing Hati from existence via the Dismiss menu.
https://youtu.be/GXJbMb274gk
It seems that once the number of summoned/recruited heroes hits the maximum of around 40-ish, any newly added heroes are added into slot 0 and everyone gets shifted one down further in the lineup. Since under normal circumstances, it's not possible to move Hati's position, the game won't let you delete her from the lineup, but WILL let you dismiss other heroes in other positions. Thus, forcing a locked hero OUT of position like this bypasses the hero checking I wrote in, and BAMF, no more teal-haired-Magical-Girls.
This gave me the idea to add a second layer of checking to the hero deletion script to force Hati back into Slot 0, and also to remove the selected hero's equipment before dropping them, mainly as a small quality-of-life touch.
Whoops, I didn't know the Dismiss item wasn't a built-in part of the engine. I thought it went hand in hand with Team. That sounds like a good way to make sure people who spammed Gatcha trying to get a perfect tier 4 team don't accidentally delete Hati though.
Also I just watched the latest Jontron episode and thought this seemed relevant:
Also I just watched the latest Jontron episode and thought this seemed relevant:
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Fenrir-Lunaris
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Since the contest's over now, and pretty much everyone who's going to play the games has already download them now, I went ahead and added TWO major changes to Spooks. First is captions for enemy and ally attacks - mainly to give the player more feedback for what's going on (which is never a bad idea). Second is adding ALL the summoning/dismissing gimmicks to the Grimoire (which is what should have been done in the first place), as well as a short "magical girl transformation/powerup sequence" whenever you summon a new ally. It's cheeky, but Sailor Moon's has been more explicit. Consider this fair warning?
Since the contest's over now, and pretty much everyone who's going to play the games has already download them now, I went ahead and added TWO major changes to Spooks. First is captions for enemy and ally attacks - mainly to give the player more feedback for what's going on (which is never a bad idea). Second is adding ALL the summoning/dismissing gimmicks to the Grimoire (which is what should have been done in the first place), as well as a short "magical girl transformation/powerup sequence" whenever you summon a new ally. It's cheeky, but Sailor Moon's has been more explicit. Consider this fair warning?