[Lachesis]

These are two screenshots from an untitled game i've been doodling around with:

Allows up to 60 characters. Pointless but mind-numbingly fun!


This is mainly to show off the status bar. yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay status bar.


Updated name editor.

This post has been edited by Kuroneko: 28 October 2006 - 07:44 PM

[Dr Lancer-X]

do you know why console games have that letter select feature? because they don't have a keyboard to type out names with.

hint hint.

[Lachesis]

Yes, and this was much easier to program than an input box, imo.

[CJA]

maybe he was going for a console feel

hint hinti hitnit ggnihnt

[hob nado]

Maybe when you move the cursor around, it turns into Hobo Dan and then an inky black portal (actually a slime blob) pours out of the letter "O" and envelops everything.

[Lachesis]

if you werent on irc i said i cancelled everything. everything i had was shit anyway, i doubt anyone actually cared about my projects. i can sure tell nobody cared about this one.

[steel_dragoon]

Well, get used to everybody undermining everything you do because they think everything sucks. That's pretty much what has become of this forum.

[Goshi]

No one exactly said his projects sucked. Your just indirectly attacking us all because we say your stuff need work, huh?

[Dr Lancer-X]

we tease because we love?

I dunno. Usually I end up canceling projects because I can't do them, not because other people didn't like them.

[VinceP]

steel_dragoon, on Oct 31 2006, 08:09 PM, said:

Well, get used to everybody undermining everything you do because they think everything sucks. That's pretty much what has become of this forum.

lol who the hell are you!

All you really showed us was a plain looking status bar and naming system... So, obviously, this game could've used some more work.

[Lachesis]

new ninja game idea. might salvage pieces of other projects, like sh2's original (and unoriginal ) music, hippiegame's health bar, and this... thing's ...sword and naming engine. it will probably fail too.

edit: and maybe hippiegame's zzt bomb

This post has been edited by Kuroneko: 01 November 2006 - 02:27 AM

[Dr Lancer-X]

I got the impression from the other thread that people were actually looking forward to SH2. Do you have evidence to the contrary, or are you abandoning that project for other reasons?

[Lachesis]

abandoned mainly because i ran out of ideas, and support on irc had disappeared (the main thing that kept the project going for so long), mainly because the two biggest supporters hate me now.

[Spectere]

Kuro, don't get all emo and such just because you don't get replies on your journal. Besides, if you work on these things with the intention of pleasing others than you're doing it for all the wrong reasons, methinks.

Have fun with MegaZeux; make these cool little things for you, not anyone else. The engines and stuff that I released weren't extraordinary in any way, but I had a lot of fun making them.

CHEER UP AND BE JOLLY. Oh, and make a new episode of LRA, damnit.

steel_dragoon, on Oct 31 2006, 07:09 PM, said:

That's pretty much what has become of this forum.

Yet you seem to have no qualms about posting here. Though you don't really have a lot of room to talk given that you have a whopping 31 posts. Like VinceP said, who the hell are you?

This post has been edited by Spectere: 01 November 2006 - 03:50 AM

[Lachesis]

i dont give a flying fuck about how many replies i get to my journal, and i seem to do worse when my intent is to please myself

oh, and face it: LRA is pretty much dead, for good.

This post has been edited by Kuroneko: 01 November 2006 - 03:54 AM

[Spectere]

Kuroneko, on Oct 31 2006, 10:53 PM, said:

i dont give a flying fuck about how many replies i get to my journal

It sure seems like it, given this alone:

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i doubt anyone actually cared about my projects. i can sure tell nobody cared about this one.

What I'm trying to say basically is have fun with MZX and everything else that you do (and I know full well that you do quite a bit of fun tinker-type stuff). If it's not fun or you're just getting frustrated over it, why continue? If you're hurting because you can't get along with members of the community, stuff 'em.

Kuroneko, on Oct 31 2006, 10:53 PM, said:

oh, and face it: LRA is pretty much dead, for good.

NEVER. D:

[T-Bone]

I've actually never fully canceled a project because I thought nobody liked it. I almost did once a couple years back when i felt people had lost interest in my project and at the same time I felt the community didn't like me as a person. But that's when i was much younger and emo and cared too much about what others thought.

I haven't actually completed many games but that's mostly because of one thing, ME, not everyone else. Either I get bored of the idea or just felt that it was no longer an important task in my schedule.

Now that I've become more mature, I've been focusing on completing my games with not too much care for what others think my main priorities should be but for what I think they are. I do this while at the same time taking in any relevant criticism that community has to offer that I think is constructive criticism. I ignore all the insults (though in my past i used to take them all in and react upon them getting myself into a hairy pickle each time.)

So basically... don't abandon a project if you think its lacking the interest of the community. MegaZeux is an outlet to express your creativity. Sometimes taking in some of the constructive criticism doesn't hurt though -- but sometimes it does. Its up to you to take from it what you think you could apply or subtract from your game.


EDIT:
I personally thought the letter system you created was very Retro EVEN though Lancer made a very good point (which mind you, is constructive criticism) about it being a system generally only used on hardware systems absent of a keyboard.

I'll be looking forward to your Ninja game! For I am created one of my own called Eight Shades of Evil which should be coming out sometime in 2050 since no big project of mine ever gets completed BUT there's still hope for you! Wish you all the best!

This post has been edited by T-bone6: 01 November 2006 - 02:58 PM

[Lachesis]

Spectere, on Oct 31 2006, 09:51 PM, said:

Kuroneko, on Oct 31 2006, 10:53 PM, said:

i dont give a flying fuck about how many replies i get to my journal

It sure seems like it, given this alone:

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i doubt anyone actually cared about my projects. i can sure tell nobody cared about this one.

but i dont care about replies to my journal. what i care about is generally how much negative attention i get on irc... and recently, i've been getting a lot.

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Kuroneko, on Oct 31 2006, 10:53 PM, said:

oh, and face it: LRA is pretty much dead, for good.

NEVER. D:

lol jk, its just got a case of infinite... sitting-around-on-my-desktop-itis

tbone: thanks

[Koji]

The only game I've cancelled was Randomland, others just went on backburners and were forgotten Chronostodian is... comatose.

[hob nado]

If I ever canceled a project because I thought no one cared about it, you wouldn't be getting Stupid Tournament. =)

[steel_dragoon]

I'm personally getting tired of coming on here just to see a bunch of people who obviously have way too much time on their hands undermining everybody. We don't all put out the same kind of games, we don't all like the same things, we don't all have the same skill level, so how about just giving some useful critisism, or better yet, encourage somebody and tell them how they can make it better, not why it sucks? And I'm not saying that everybody said he sucks, but there is alot of un-needed critisism going around lately.

[Dr Lancer-X]

I'm personally getting tired of coming on here just to see one particular user only showing up every god knows when to complain about the community without actively participating in said community. Hell, his last three posts (which took place over a month) were complaints! I know who's doing the undermining here, and it's definitely not us!

And, quite frankly, if you pick a recent journal or new game release at random, you'll see that it's exactly the opposite of what you think--the community LOVES heaping unnecessary, unwarranted praise upon people.

[Koji]

Yeah stfu noob.

[Lachesis]

hi i'm the idiot who forgot his own password, and the email linked to his account was an old address that was dead and had to be reactivated! ^_^

Anyway, progress in the engines of ninjabitchgame, and started a roguelike that hasnt gone far but will soon. Pictures? Maybe later... I have to check SmartFTP and see if it lets me into my webspace

[Spectere]

Yeah, FTP seems to be up on s.net now. Thank goodness.

[Lachesis]

A hill and a guy during a fade in.


Czar Dragon giving his monologue, but this time, the outcome will be different. He comes accompanied with his own music.

These are pictures from the intro. The dragon took forever because I didn't want some cruddy tool doing the dragon for me, so I hand made it >

[Micah]

Well, the dragon looks awesome.

[Zagooky]

Dragon = w00tness

[Lachesis]

the dragon isn't mine; its from ff6


This is what the menu looks like.


Here you can see more symbols, plus the earlier versions of the symbols.

The zodiac symbols are pointless at first, but you can equip people with zodiac based skill crystals as you obtain the people and crystals (the first complete pairs you get are Aries and Taurus). The gorey climax of the game is also related to these crystals and their dangerous properties- gathering all twelve in a single place causes very bad things

[T-Bone]

You got some crazy ASCII art skills; that dragon looks amazing! Keep up the good work!

Even if the dragon isn't "yours" you still did a great job with converting it and color coordinating it. I know what a daunting task that can be.

This post has been edited by T-bone6: 22 December 2006 - 04:58 AM