/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

So last week I had some pretty big breakthrough, of had re-implemented the scene structure and class and getting back working state, just in time for the holiday, where I took a much deserved break a weekend of no computers and sex in a isolated cabin in the woods

I'm now gonna share some of the more technical aspects of this design, for whom may interest in /agdg/ or coming from the /hgg/ thread

first let me say that its more or less in the state where it was before the crash, where the first webm in this thread was taken, although it may look somewhat the same point it was big overhaul in design with insights which I did not have at that time

one of the biggest changes, was how data was handled, before you had world data in json files, from which code would load it, keep in a major dictionary of scenes, through which, when a scene was called, they went through that json data and created the scene on runtime,

that seemed fine but was turning into a lot of spaghetti code concentrated on a few godot scenes and to which was hard to maintain, didn't take advantage of godot's node and OOP paradigm design

from that time (and since I had to rewrite the code anyway since I've lost it), I've thought taking a different approach making every scene its own node, since a godot script is practically its own custom class by definition

the initial idea was to get rid of world data in the form of json files and populate them with handcraft scenes, using the more usual godot direct approach and taking advantage of its editor easiness

but that would a lot of manual work and maintenance to keep up, another idea would to just have the scenes with elements exported for the editor for ease of filling them (second pic related)

I tried this, but overall I didn't feel like it help a whole lot in the process, of either filling in the world data, nor the loading and automation that would take place in game

my answer to this was again to keep the data as json, and through a more detailed loading process, turn all the data into node objects ready for use on its own for the game

so having well defined node classes with their own behavior, which only they know what data they hold and what should be done with it,

so in terms of game design we have a base scene class from which SceneLocal inherits from, this class has a menu for other locations and possibly some dialog to go with, being flexible in how its attributes are given in json form (third pic related)

I envisioned for most of the game content being given in this scene form, for example:

> the player home

> the slave training scenes

> the possible sex scenes

> shops and even the shop items themselves

> slave buyers and sellers

> fork scenes for conditional checks and random events

on top of that, for extra stuff like checking slave or house stats to be shown on design layout b, yet to be planned out

Heya there folks, original developer here, bumping this up from beyond to ask some two serious questions.

The first is that I sort lost hope with this project on the sole reason that I may never be able to make a reasonable income with it, given stolen graphics, music and everything else, the only thing I could claim as my own would be the code.

This was a long time realization and reason why I never really devote much to it, while focusing on my normie life, studying finding a proper job for my wanted career, taking care of my health and relationship with a real woman.

The bad news is that much time has passed and everything went to shit, still failed to find a job, gf broke up my heart nearly myself with it, relapsed into bad habits over porn consumption and now am sitting on huge amounts of free time on my hands.

So naturally, while I'm still working on improving myself (while also trying nofap), I'm sitting on huge amounts of free time that in turn brings me more anxiety and lack of motivation, so I've considering taking back on the project, even if just to pass some time.

So what I'm really asking here is for some insight from you bros that have been developing steadily for longer, I usually go into this devoting too much for some weeks literally only this, only to burn out later and completely leave it behind, I've guess in the end is not really what I would to be focusing on life right now, but its still something I liked to do.

The only way I could see getting some income from this would be to open a patreon page solely for supporting development, not for releasing the game as I intend it be open/free and I wouldn't be able to sell the assets anyway. But even then to get even the smallest of support I need to devote a lot of time and work to show off and to get some decent demo going on.

So help me bros, and its even a contradiction here since I want to steer away from degenerate content, but I guess creating it is better than falling in consuming it.

Another point that I want to make as well, with the possibility of giving it up for good, is that I'm open to pass the torch on to someone with interest, I'd be willing to show them the ropes, concepts and ideas behind the design.

>>33182

>because I've been wanting to start my own project for some time

I'm just going to warn you right there, how it is to do a project of this type all by yourself, specially if don't know programming or doesn't have any idea of what you're doing.

>I'd honestly like to help you or work with you, the problem is I don't know any programming language or how to draw which are both extremely important. Writing is the only thing I could do with a modicum of skill and you can get away with text only, at least until you get Patreon neetbux to hire a decent artist for some scenes.

This would be the kind of help I would have liked some time ago, I would still do with this stolen art (check attached), since I think even comissioning my own would be a major task to undertake, with the dangers of bad quality, bad commitment on the other part, specially being the internet and all.

I also think that my idea is quite different than what you had in mind. For one, the original Jack did not have randomly generated girls, it had tons of custom tailed girl files with their own stats and images, this is just something that made managing in that game a sort of a nightmare. Another thing is that the detailed slave mechanics is what intrigued me the most, so I would want to mimic or at least improve on that. And finally, that while you work on your slave stats, I would change completely on how the H is delivered, in a sense that you can certain scenes when unlocking stats/selling slaves/specific jobs, where there would be actual VN style scene, much like other KISS games and HRPGs if you ever played one. So in turn it would have any side minigames either, like fighting or other stuff like that.

So what I wanted to show in these examples here was the positive point of the random/customized paperdoll style thing, I would slave would generated with randomized attributes and body, so you can have a proper representation of her in every specific scene, clothes, tattoos, and other appendages are additional attributes, and then when writing the scenes up you can check on each additional tag, like number of orcs, if inserting or cumming, that kinda stuff.

And btw, I've uploaded these CRF image sets to a new repository there on the project page. They have a quite big variety of scenes, the setting kind of fits in the sense its some sort of medieval fantasy, however the scenes would have to be tailored to what have available indeed, though I think there should be plenty regardless.

On the topic of me getting to work, I still don't feel like it would be a good choice, I'm trying to get my life straight and am in particular trying to steer away from degeneracy, which is obvious contradictory to developing an hentai game. I am however with lots of free time on my hand in which God hasn't showed me what to do with yet.