/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

>>33185 When you talk about SEL, do you mean Serial Experiment Lain? Also I noticed than The Wired was something linked to Serial Experiment Lain, but could also be linked to The Wired West, another video game.

Anyway I will investigate a bit more Serial Experiment Lain. Do you recommend me the PSX game?

New screen-shot. My choice has been made on BabylonJS. I was a bit afraid to drop Unity3D, but BabylonJS is excellent handling browser interactions, nothing to do with Unity3D.

Hope having a version where you can soon post pictures on the wall of the 3D space.

>>33186

Regarding the game, you're probably better off reading the script. I believe it was only recently translated and even then it's probably only something hardcore fans would be interested in.

The anime is a classic, but it's not easy watching IMO. I agree that your project would probably most appeal to the cyberpunk subculture, and I would certainly get behind a Wired theme, but hey it's your game.

I'd say your best chance is Javascript because you can run it on pretty much anything. Cyberpunks love their Linux machines.

As for money, good luck with that. I think your best option would be taking donations or going freemium. The good thing about online games is that you can easily sell extras like fancy avatars and whatnot. Shit, you could even have a members-only room.

Hi Folk, OP here.

Thanks for your support, it’s always a pleasure to have some interested comments on my project. I have now a working and playable proof of concept running in the browser page. You can move in the level, using WASD (or ZQSD on french keyboards), post pictures using URL and paint on the walls. That’s all, but this start will allow me to start some level design.

The demo is right here, and feedbacks are welcome:

http://snuffchan.com/dungeon/

It’s not safe for work but don’t worry there is no gore on it.

To get back to the last discussion about the Serial Exp Lain’s video game, I’ve re-watched some episodes and definitively abandoned the idea. Seriously the PHANTOMa video game looks like a sub-plot and I am not even sure it appears more than two minutes in the whole serie. I don’t even talk about the terrible graphism and the zero idea of gameplay behind it.

I’ve and I will found (In my view) more inspiration from 90’s TV shows like X-files. My current inspiration currently look like these:

-They Live

-Deus Ex (the first one)

-80s Brooklyn NY with all the street arts

-X-Files (episodes First Person Shooter and Kill Switch)

-Black Ops 3 story mode, with Direct Neural Interface hacking, and the CIA conspiracy.

What are my next steps:

-Starting some level design, trying to figure out how I can make level work, with keys, doors, secret corridors and NPCs, treasure data and logic of the different posts on the map.

-Chat and interaction between user

>>33442 Let’s say than the whole thing is an imageboard, using video game as a medium. Think about the video game as some kind of abstraction for the posts and the boards, the game space, with items, traps discriminating the people that can post, upload, comment and how they can place their posts. It’s will be about deciding which wall you can post on and which wall you cannot. Which area need to be hidden. Which item give you secret interactions on other anon.

Also, people (Or anon) will be materialize in the 3D space with real anon avatar and will be able to interact with each other in many way, including lewd stuff.

Good to see other french people.

Also if other people are interested, I corrected a bug yesterday, including some proper game controller using WASD for QWERTY keyboards. I also added doors and ladders.

Here is some news of my project, now code name Protaguro$.

The image upload is coming, with the ability to draw on the previously posted images. These abilities will probably be restrained to the possession of some game items (to make a quick diggest the gameplay element play the role of an abstraction layer for this 3 dimensional imageboard).

I’ve made some small improvement on the UI. Talking about it, I use the HTML5 3D library BabylonJS. Even if there is no scene editor (I think so?), the engine is awesome, fluid, a powerful, UI system even deal with ASCII art. I recommend it to anyone having javascript knowledge.

I’ve also tested the mobile browser experience, and even if the game run, the mobile virtual joystick conflict with the pull to refresh gesture and the ability to switch the windows to portrait mode really prevent any descent game experience.

My next steps:

-Traveling thought levels

-Using items

-Interacting between different users (NPC and real users)

-May be using AI to classify the images

Graphism will come later. I need to make further game design experimentation to understand what is this game before deciding what kind of universe suit it the best.

Add me on twitter if you want to experiment the demo:

https://twitter.com/alexkrunch

I am stopping my 3D imageboard project. It's too much time for a very low probability of making money. Having a family life and a full time job, I cannot afford this quantity of time. And I just terrified about the moderation and the maintenance if I launch the board for real, with database, image upload, user accounts etc.

Here is the final version the concept. Have fun.

http://snuffchan.com/dungeon/

Hi folk,

I launched a functional version my 3D Imageboard 1 weeks ago. At first I want to thanks the people who have posted on the board, it’s looks really nice now.

I still not sure if I will continue the project, if I should add feature or pixel art or 3D graphics (I got any other stuff to do in life). My creation being formally a social media plateform, the only way to make this shit work would be to make it my full time job, or at least a part time job. I will set a stand alone blog to talk about the whole philosophy of the concept, which is close to the crypto anarchism, game elements being used like an abstraction layer, enabling secret that can only be reached by Hardcore users.

If I continue the project, my next move will probably be users interactions.

I will soon change the project's name, I will make an announcement when it will be the case.

The new version of my 3D imageboard has a lighter user interface. I also set Ethereum and Bitcoin donation address, that can be found in the button [info📚] at bottom right of the screen.

For your information, the url is still

http://snuffchan.com/dungeon/home

Hi,

Protaguros is now Radichan, and now works on mobile (with few flow but it's work). You can move using the virtual joystick. Come to shitpost ^^ -->

http://radichan.net/dungeon/

>>33589

>for this 3 dimensional imageboard

Where is proof?

>>33783

Thanks Anon,

User's interactions are on the pipeline, mostly gore and lewd stuff, but for the moment I am working on level design + creating items (you can see some on the current map), which will have obviously huge implication on the player interactions. Also be aware than the current item system allow you to erase post (the sponge item) or to upload images (upload the ring).

No problem for blank post, I can easily delete them, but it’s strange than drawing is not working. On what platform did you test it?

To have a better organization around Radichan.net a Discord is in preparation.

One last word, the level design have been constantly remade, there has been lot of post deletions. There will be one last post holocaust, but I can assure you than the next level design iteration will last.

To keep you waiting here are some new assets ideas:

-Dead anon represent all anon that did move for a certain period of time

-Weed bag stand for a torrent file of all post of the board

>>33777

http://radichan.net/dungeon

OP here.

A quick update on my project:

-I added the ability to “correct a drawing” without having to restart all.

-I am back on the Snuffchan’s domain name. It’s an infamous name but at least people who like the site remember it and it suits well for my love of horror movies.

-I reactivated the ability to draw on posted pictures but I am suspecting the new code cause some lags.

For the future, I am less and less sure about doing user interactions. It’s would cause bugs and performance issues that I would not be able to handle.

I am now thinking about making a different format where users would host their own dungeon on the client side, with their own level design and hosted files, and would share their creations via the Peer to Peer network. There’s already some lib enabling peer to peer in the browser page.

This system would be a bit different from an imageboard logic, but I think it would be more easier to handle (less server side code) and still relevant.

The Dungeon: http://snuffchan.com/dungeon

Hi people!

A new version of my 3D Anon Imageboard is online!

-The UI has been improved.

-You can now reply to other post.

-You can navigate/share chan using just the URL.

-The map is currently the same for each level. But don’t worry, there will be some variants

-I reactivated the communication between players.

My future development will be about graphic, design and stories. I really like the idea of NPC showing you the way to some secret levels.

Have fun and play to the game here!

http://snuffchan.com/dungeon/

And remember, your body can die, but every piece of art you leave in the cyberspace is here forever ^^

As every time, critics are welcome.

You can follow me on twitter for updates, or just to DM me:

https://twitter.com/alexkrunch