d09832 No.29098
Hey there /ebola/, we're back.
Quick confession: the VN project was just too ambitious for a first project. So we've reformed the studio, and we're scaling back into a smaller project for now: Virus Pop! It'll be an eroge 'dating sim' game in the vein of Hunie Pop, complete with lewds. We're hoping to have an inexpensive release, but intend to provide you with a free demo as soon as it's ready. Once this sees sales, we'll consider picking up the VN project again, for anyone interested in something a bit meatier.
We hope to keep you posted here on the dev progress.
With love,
-Linder
P.S.: We're looking to pick up another Unity (C#) programmer. We currently have one, but he's trained in C++. Interested parties, please contact me via discord: linderball#2045
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0e9692 No.29099
Bumping already so that this thread won't get overlooked.
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0e9692 No.29102
>>29098
I felt I should point out my own error in the image: the lower left box is 544 wide, not 576 – and I got the dimensions switched in both boxes. This is why you shouldn't make spec sheets after midnight.
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0e9692 No.29103
Here's the corrected layout guide, since I didn't want the one with blatantly wrong dimensions to be "it" (as far as /ebola/ knows).
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0cceca No.29105
<Virus Pop
That's just a working title, right? I mean, it'd be okay to make a puzzle sim date game, but copying Huniepop/Bejeweled exactly in terms of gameplay would be pretty lame.
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231212 No.29106
>>29105
Yes, just a working title. And the gameplay won't be the same either. but it's the same *general* idea.
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0e9692 No.29107
>>29105
I actually don't want to use the Candy Crush/Bejeweled setting at all, except possibly as a special "tribute". Also, the use of a chess board for a sample layout is just because that is all my art skills were up to at the moment. It is not an indication that chess will be part of the program.
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932f72 No.29108
Do you guys plan on having a dev account for this somewhere? I think it'd be interesting to see the progress as you guys go along.
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d33d19 No.29109
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
Hmmm… not really a fan of HuniePop. It becomes repetitive and after the intros to characters, there's no substance, character development or even consideration toward the (static and non-developing) characters to it what so ever.
If something smaller than RPG-VN-strategy_game-crossover is wanted (yeah, you attempted something too big there), maybe something more like a kinetic novel. Obviously it would be difficult to get people to pay for the full version, unless it was written as something emotionally engaging and/or intellectually challenging. As a homage to Ebola-chan and her viral friends, a single path narrative story could even be preferential. It would require very little programming, but good literary and story telling skills. (Also, all the lines for side paths can be written to the main story, hence make it appear longer and more cohesive.)
A good example of a topic could be to portray the last Ebola epidemic from the beginning to it's end as a kinetic novel, in an alternative world setting, leading to Ebola-chan going to hiatus at the end. Should it be nakige or utsuge, I'm not sure (as long as it's not pure nukige).
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0e9692 No.29110
>>29109
The problem is that you have three conflicting goals in choosing game objectives: (1) Make lots of girls available. (2) Make them deep and show lots of detail. (3) Keep the mechanics simple and the pace up.
You can have any two, but not all three. In this case we're favoring (1) and (3) at the expense of (2). The depth still exists, but only as our background canon, which will mostly go unspoken in this game. There's just no time to deal with it. You would favor (2) and (3) at the expense of (1) and that's a valid design decision, but it doesn't meet the needs of what we see as our target niche.
We intend to make a game that is less repetitive and less grindy than HP, which is why many of its mechanics are being tossed overboard. The basic philosophy – promoting breadth over depth – still remains.
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0e9692 No.29111
Speaking of game objectives, here's one you'll have to do to 100% the game.
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89bc1b No.29119
>>29111
A pregnant waifu is a happy waifu!
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0e9692 No.29120
Some data to drop:
1. One mini-game has been written and is in the process of being converted to Unity (because I wrote it in qb64, I don't know C# to do Unity).
2. Cure-chan is your opponent.
3. One of the game mechanics is to call her "cowtits" and get her on tilt.
4. There are also Hypnotoads involved.
5. This started as a clone of the dice game Yacht, but it has mutated into something much more interesting, because both you and Cure-chan can cheat.
Have a guide graphic I am providing to our actual programmer. How much this resembles the end result is yet to be determined.
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0e9692 No.29121
I prettied it up myself in qb64. The Unity version (whenever it gets done) may drift away from this slightly, but the game mechanics should remain unchanged.
https://app.box.com/s/h8lawyugz2f6465yzm5acz52vw2rcgjj
Fire back with your impressions!
Captcha: botcaw
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3c1f53 No.29122
>Unity
Too bad, I was hoping it wouldn't be a piece of shit this time. You should jump off a cliff for even considering it.
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0e9692 No.29123
>>29122
If you're going to shit on the project sight unseen just because of the framework used to build it, then kindly go fuck your hat. You dislike it so much, propose a reasonable alternative that would suit you better and not require a bunch of training on our part. Otherwise, you're just farting into the breeze.
Attachment: the planning screen for the "you've succeeded, now claim your prize" mini-game. Gotta push the right buttons to get her purring.
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0e9692 No.29126
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0e9692 No.29128
>>29126
The problem of stereo sound being downmixed to mono has been remedied in both demos. This was due to an error in the qb64 libraries for handling stereo sound, but has been corrected by the developers – and the Cure-chan Yacht project is where the bug was first documented, leading to it being patched.
The files remain at the same locations as before, but if you grabbed them before, you may want to grab them again. Also the Cure-chan Yacht has moved to a config file setup, rather than asking you to input parameters on game start.
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9d6b19 No.29139
Yay! Looking forward to this!
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0e9692 No.29145
>>29139
Thank you. The encouragement helps. We were starting to think nobody cared anymore.
Here's a teaser for the next mini-game.
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32e56b No.29147
The Black Box mini-game is ready to play! https://app.box.com/s/wrl8jkhk5wxm01d72iub9l45qbz8m7je
This is about as good as it's going to get if I have to do the release programming myself.
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32e56b No.29153
Cure-chan Yacht has been heavily overhauled. The link remains at https://app.box.com/s/h8lawyugz2f6465yzm5acz52vw2rcgjj
• Revamped Help system
• Much larger scorecard
• Larger dice, which more clearly indicate when they are held
• "Cowtits" mechanic now superimposes a speech bubble with Cure-chan's opinion of the player.
• The girl "talks" to you.
• The turn summaries have been reduced to one line each to make room for the girl to talk to you.
• Hypnotoads are all displayed now, instead of "x2" or "x3" next to a single toad.
Black Box has also been improved. A much cleaner version of the Marburg sprite has been swapped in, and she speaks Russian at you (not all the time, don't worry). The help system is much, much improved and explains the game much more clearly than before.
The link for Black Box remains the same as posted above.
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32e56b No.29159
>>29153
Updates continue on all three mini-games. I decided to hone my programming skills (such as they are) by polishing what I've already written, in the hopes that this will improve the quality of future efforts because I will have already figured out how to implement my ideas.
Black Box has had its music and host city changed, as the previous song and city are much more appropriate for the next project.
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32e56b No.29160
All three mini-games to date, and any that I will add in the future, will be rolled up in a single archive, not as three separate games.
https://app.box.com/s/sxuhnhl29mo2sphxst1w37r86os4faop
Nothing new on gameplay, except that you can change the character by editing a config file. I'm sure you can figure it out.
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32e56b No.29169
>>29160
I am pleased to announce the addition of another mini-game: Fourplay. It is the Tetris knockoff it appears to be.
Since the games are all rolled up together now, you can get all of them at https://app.box.com/s/sxuhnhl29mo2sphxst1w37r86os4faop just as before.
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32e56b No.29189
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4add53 No.29211
We at LSS Studio now have our interface to the world: https://lssstudio.tumblr.com/
Even if you're a poorfriend, help us out with Likes and Reblogs!
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4add53 No.29214
For /ebola/ and its denizens, you have been blessed with a two day head start on everyone else – you can have the VirusPop demo NOW.
https://lssstudio.tumblr.com/vpop-demo
We'll repeat the announcement when everyone else gets theirs, but why wait?
Hail Ebola-chan, full of love!
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4add53 No.29219
>>29214
The lack of interest in a project that originated here is highly disappointing. Not totally unexpected given the lack of traffic, but disappointing nonetheless.
So rather than spending my time writing a post specific to this board that nobody will care about, I'll just copypaste from our tumblr like I do with other boards.
What kind of vidyo game is this?
Hybrid VN, puzzle game, and dating sim, with a heavy eroge element. More plot than HuniePop, and a wider variety of date games, but also with less grindy mechanics.
What’s gonna be in the game?
All kinds of lighter fetishes. Here’s a few tags that may or may not fit our final content: watersports, cumming into eye, female on male rape, bondage, tentacle-on-male action, monster-girl, ghost blowjobs, impregnation, age-bending, and drug-fueled sex. Heavier content (up to and including guro) may be reached by very specific routes, so that it won’t be hard to avoid.
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4ed48d No.29220
I'll post some critique, and try not to be an asshole. Try to take it in stride. Also, this is just my one response so keep that in mind. Pandering is generally a bad idea, wait and see what other people have to say, then discuss it internally. People tend to not know what they want until they get it.
Bad shit
1. I don't appreciate the western character names. It takes away from who they are supposed to be too much. It'd be one thing if you met them as their nicknames, then later got properly introduced with their full virus name, but that's not what's happening here. If you do change this, there is a fine line between generic OELVN and 100% weeaboo. Try not to go full weeaboo.
2. The memes are fun, and when I started they were subtle enough that they made me smile. But the more farther in I got the more they made me cringe. I hope that some of those are only for the demo. Just cut back on some of the memes.
3. The script itself so far is fairly disappointing. The tour and meeting all the girls one by one in short bursts in particular. I'll try to help: remove the tour by making it a shorter quick tour with a focus on getting to know Ebola-chan and the world we are being introduced to. Some more interesting details than this is where we live and also we're having a team-based competition, maybe some lore, history, rumors, etc. Then space out new areas and characters as the story progresses, between scenes that are more plot-heavy or perhaps reliant on being in the right place at the right time (i.e. going to a certain location on a certain day or an automatic scene triggered at a specific time as part of a specific route). Give the player an IV drip of plot and lore so they don't get bored and eager to press the skip button or just close the game.
4. The UI, transitions, and text are fuck-ugly. They are placeholders, I hope.
5. The load times(?) are awful for such a simple game, every time there is a sprite change, bgm change, or transition.
4 & 5. I appreciate the work that went in, and I'm glad you are making progress, but I'm tempted to drop out of school just to team up with the programmer to make this thing better. If it's written in BASIC, I encourage the programmer to have a look at POnscripter in their spare time, as it's open source, cross platform, easy to write scripts for, and has decent enough documentation. Downloading free Onscripter-en games and reading their script files can also be good if the documented command isn't clear enough. It also has the benefit of being extremely easy to write translation (or fan game) patches for, or simply opening the original script file and making bug fixes long after the game developer has abandoned it. The simplicity makes it easier than renpy in my opinion. But this recommendation also depends on what other minigames you plan on adding, as the more complex the game, the greater the skill required to program it, no matter what language is used.
6. One of the music tracks in the demo just wasn't that good. Does Mal have any better tracks for this? It was pretty bland and unmemorable compared to other VN soundtracks. I'll have another go soon and see if there is a specific scene that has this track so you can identify it. Sorry for being so vague.
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4ed48d No.29221
Good shit
The game is actually getting somewhere. I didn't have high hopes after the last iteration of Virus Shoujo failed. Virus Pop has a greater potential for a fun game anyway, since it has elements of dating sims and mini games, rather than being a plain visual novel.
The sprites are good, even though I liked the ones the ask-ebola-chan guy was working on. The script isn't all bad - not at all. The tour is just too long and drawn out and there are a little bit too many memes. The mini games are fun enough, which ones I've played so far.
And some final unrelated bad shit
Sorry to say, I don't think anyone is going to donate again after already being burned once, especially since this got showed up by Dread with that awesome Filosisters RPG. This may change as more progress is made though, showing that the project may actually get finished.
Alienating /pol/ users on your tumblr page is unlikely to garner any sympathy, considering they are essentially Ebola-chan's father. Just saying. /leftypol/ really isn't a large demographic on h8chan, and despite our spreading Ebola-chan's love to other websites, it didn't, ahem, fly so good. SJWs hate Ebola-chan regardless. Normalfriends don't care about that virtue signaling shit, and can plainly see that the existence of Ebola-chan and Ebolism in itself doesn't rely on racism despite her origins and a decent percentage of her memes and followers. Just look at how many normies on deviantart, tumblr, and youtube thought Ebola-chan was cute (rightly so) and made tributes to her without any apparent connections to imageboards.
With all that said, do keep it up. I'd love to see this project finished once all the kinks are worked out.
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4add53 No.29223
>>29221
I'll agree that people got burned before on funding a project. I will also add that as far as I know, they all got their money back. Still, this is why we went this far before trying to pass the hat. If it is true that the negative sentiment is overwhelming, then this just won't get made. We're not doing any more purely "for love", we're all professionals with other work to tend to.
As for "alienating /pol/", I'm not at all sure what you mean. All I ever said was that we were using Hatreon because of their lack of content restrictions, not to indicate support for any other Hatreon project. This is irrelevant anyhow, as we are abandoning Hatreon for the simple reason that it doesn't work. People have been reporting that they cannot complete their contributions, and the site is even inaccessible to us at times, so that is being cancelled and replaced. This should be completed tonight.
The western character names are here to stay, though the characters themselves may drop a -kun or -chan or -sama into their speech. Their actual names do get revealed as part of the plot, but they'll be scientific nomenclature. The setting is not Japan, so they're not going to use Japanese honorifics as a general rule.
The cramming of memes, scenes, and songs is because I had to squeeze them all in there somehow without writing the entire fucking game first. There is one particular character (Chikun) who memes constantly, but she's supposed to be moderately annoying.
The UI, transitions, and text are as good as it's going to get so long as I am the programmer, and we're not likely to find another, better qualified programmer without funding first. The load times (aside from the startup) are mostly related to the song changes, as those are by far the largest assets being loaded.
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14e952 No.29230
>>29219
/hgg/ vol here. Ebola is my waifu, but from what I can tell this is one of those strip tease tetris games, which are simply of no interest to me beyond ripping data from them when the mood strikes me. I hope you enjoy working on the project, but sorry that I don't show more interest.
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9edcfe No.29236
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