Reverend Speed

Hey folks! Project details here: https://ogmadigital.neocities.org/ As it says in the title, desperately looking for a concept artist! I have a sudden opportunity to pitch to a publisher coming up, and I'd love to be able to bring in a piece of art to sell my idea. I can pay upfront for the first pieces of art, but as it says on my Artist Recruitment page, I'd like to offer my services in work-exchange for the mid-term while I'm securing funding. If you're interested, or have any suggestions or advice, please let me know. Thank you for your time.

Had a great time in the Wizard Jaaaam, though I left it a bit late to enter. Ideally I'd be up for this, but Christmas is just going to be super busy...! Still, love the idea of regular Idle Thumbs jams... --Rev

There's a good (basic, but good) 2D roguelike tutorial for Unity, from Unity: https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/projects/2d-roguelike Obv. that's not a strategy game, but it's a nice little introduction to turn based methods. --Rev

You play a fanboy, outraged by the perfidious actions of publisher Soul Krusher Games, Inc! There is only one clear and just action remaining - to take a printout of your online petition to the desk of the Soul Krusher CEO and demand an immediate recall of their latest game, OVERBITE! Guide the fanboy through the offices of Soul Krusher, avoiding the patrolling marketing and financial executives until you can unleash your FANBOY FURY with an almighty drone! Eliminate the executives to advance to the next office! At the moment, gameplay alternates between kiteing enemies and propelling them into traps. 2/4 levels currently built to alpha level. Some polish, LOTS more polish and a little more content to come. Lots of fixes done, but absolutely looking for more feedback. Download Win/Mac/Lin builds here: http://reverend-speed.itch.io/the-fanboys-lament Version with proper credits and attribution to follow! 99% of funny text in game courtesy of https://twitter.com/jamesfbrophy ! Q: Wait, wait, what? The Jam's over, man - a fading dream of a perfect time, a golden age we may only now hope to capture in our fleeting dreams... A: Yes, true, but I figured I might as well do a little more - I had a fairly specific idea of how I wanted to see levels 3 and 4 , so why not continue for a week or two? Q: Dude. DUDE. The Fanboy's head is the very definition of jank. A: True that. I could probably find a way to retain the head bobble while removing the glitches, but I don't intend to spend too long on this project. Hopefully you'll see it as part of the game's charm (or suggest a perfect, fast solution to this head problem!) Hope you can find some entertainment here! --Rev PS: Still need to find a place to fit in a 'baboo'. Also, lazy request: does anybody know where I could quickly find a sample of Jake's '...ghooouuu...' utterance? His 'disgusted', goober noise. You know the one. I'll probably wander through the archives at some point, but it'd be handy if somebody happened to remember him making that noise on a particular Thumbs episode...

Can't test just yet, but was thinking you'd probably get more feedback in the Game Development forum. I'm gonna setup a thread there for TFL... seems to make sense. All the best, --Rev

Huzzah! Would it make sense to continue in the GameDev forum? You'll get more feedback that way, I think... --Rev

I could see this being a lotta fun, especially if there was a way to hide nodes in alleyways, etc - or if the means for doing so were a little more obvious. The question mark and associated feedback are awesome, though I fear you still need that tutorial. Took me a while to catch onto the response mechanic. Definitely into this. Love me some Syndicate/Ghost in the Shell sneakiness. --Rev PS: I'm continuing The Fanboy's Lament for a little bit, anyhow, and it was suggested to me that further dev should happen in the Game Dev forums, as we're more likely to get feedback there. Thought I'd pass that on.

"...right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the... worrrlldd. I've just got this itching between my shoulderblades and I can't... quite... reach it? Would you? Awwwhh, oh, thanks, bliss, right, back in the freezer with you." --Rev

Hi Fhnuzoag! Started playing the game again, impressions as I play: * Menu intro is amazing. Selected tutorial. * Not immediately clear that I should click on the dialogue bar to advance - clicking on the main screen causes arrows to emerge from a character(Jake, I think). * Narration and character dialogue is characterful and entertaining. * On the line, "First things first: select the members of the thumbs [capitalise Thumbs?] by LEFT CLICKING on them with the mouse", I immediately try clicking on the characters, only for arrows to emerge from Jake again. * Now I'm being told I can push E to select nearest to the mouse, or Q to select the nearest to the ball. On this screen, E seems to do nothing, but Q causes spikes to emerge from Nick Breckon (and in the game). * Chris tells me to try it now: "Left click, E, Q". I'm wondering if I really CAN try it now, or if this'll do nothing like before. Well, left-clicking causes arrows to emerge from Nick (who still has his spikes). Meanwhile Jake still has arrows extending from him to Chris. * Okay, the music's louder and all the controls seem to be working. That was frustrating, but now I'm feeling more optimistic! Woo, this seems like a decent control system! * Sean requests the ball, there it is... OHH, so the blue spike is to help me identify the player that was selected as being closest to the ball. That's not especially clear, to be honest - might be worth trying to make that indicator a little more obvious. Just give the selected player a particle system, maybe? * The control switch to the character closest to the ball is splendid! * Again, it's unclear when I should be trying to use spacebar to pause during the tutorial - it's three dialogue boxes encouraging me to do something that isn't available to try yet. Perhaps the dialogue boxes need a different style for instructions, plus slightly rewrites to the introductory boxes to make it clear to the player that the option isn't quite available yet. Pausing the game (with a big pause icon) during the tutorial sections would also help... * Got the bomb card and the game crashed. ___________________________________________ ############################################################################################ FATAL ERROR in action number 1 of Create Event for object CardObj: Push :: Execution Error - Variable Index [0,1] out of range [1,1] - -5.drawpile(100105,1) at gml_Script_DrawCard ############################################################################################ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- stack frame is gml_Script_DrawCard (line 0) gml_Object_CardObj_Create_0 Got back into the game, got the card, bombed the babies, getting excited, this looks like fun, I might have fun with a sports game-- crashed again. ___________________________________________ ############################################################################################ FATAL ERROR in action number 1 of Create Event for object CardObj: Push :: Execution Error - Variable Index [0,1] out of range [1,1] - -5.drawpile(100105,1) at gml_Script_DrawCard ############################################################################################ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- stack frame is gml_Script_DrawCard (line 0) gml_Object_CardObj_Create_0 Gahh. I'll try to use this again tonight, Fhnuzoag - but in the interim, my further compliments. I really like the control scheme and I'm definitely interested in playing this properly! --Rev

Hey, the update's fun. I dug the effort you put into the speeches - the cadence and diction is certainly in-character for the G-Man, though the audio mix was a bit off (found it very hard to make out the G-Man's words at times against the background). Nice to have an ending, though! Given the size of this assignment, I'm starting to get the feeling that the G-Man has begun to defrost Freeman for increasingly frivolous reasons... "Gordon, overthrow this regime." "Gordon, clear out this headcrab infestation." "Gordon, make me kippers on toast." ... =) Either way, nice work - see you on the forums! --Rev

Hey man, glad you guys got your work into the forums. =) I really did like the multiple-timeline gimmick...! --Rev

So I've added a few bits and pieces to the game, including a WHOLE SECOND LEVEL! Most of the content didn't take long (as I've eschewed UV mapping, which is fundamentally unwise but... what the hell), but I've been pulled hither and yon since I originally uploaded the game. Note, physics are... well, 'janky's the only word for it, but hopefully entertainingly so. Still need to find a place to fit in a 'baboo'. Also, lazy request: does anybody know where I could quickly find a sample of Jake's '...ghooouuu...' utterance? I'll probably wander through the archives at some point, but it'd be handy if somebody happened to remember him making that noise on a particular Thumbs episode... --Rev PS: Link to latest version of game in original post, above.

Sounds good! Anything interesting happening in Kilkenny? --Rev

HOLY SHIT A Dark Room starts really, really well. After a while it's... well, I made it out into the World, but I think my interest had waned by that point. That said, yeah, it makes a really good argument that you can do interesting things with the genre. And, man, uGUI. It's splendid. Worth waiting four years for? Yyyyyyiiiiaaeee... yess. Need to practice with it a bit more, myself - keep losing track of what parts govern adjustable placement across platforms, but it's immeasurably better than the old gui. --Rev And those goddamn radial image bars nearly made me weep when I saw 'em. So cool.

Primarily, anything that features a pitch and multiple units chasing a ball causes my eyes to glaze over, no matter what the execution. But! I shall give the game another go tomorrow and try to give useful feedback. --Rev