Yarrun's Inarticulate Workshop

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• Yarrun XIX

  2017-05-09 04:41:19

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  Newest Version of When They Fall. Wasn't able to get it to the goal (mostly because I'm stuck on some dialogue rather than technical issues) but did manage to get it to where I intended it to be last Friday morning, so, progress.
• Yarrun XIX

  2017-05-09 04:41:56 edited 2017-05-12 01:41:05

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  Game Projects:

  1. School Theatre (Hiatus)

  2. Izzet Theatre (Cancelled)

  3. METAMORPHOSIS (Hiatus)

  4. Spy Theatre/Goodneighbor (Hiatus)

  5. Corpse Theatre/Where They Fall (In Development)

  
  

  Writing Projects: 

  N/A

  
  

  EPs

  Odds With Us

  Kanji

  
  

  LPs

  Khz Cetacea

  Please Help Amy: The Sad and Wet LP

  
  

  Albums

  The Fair Fairwell

  The Year of the Gadfly

  Unnatur
• Aliroz

  2017-05-12 01:35:32

  ...And even when your hope is gone

  move along, move along, just to make it through

  (2015 self)

  I, for one, would absolutely love to see School Theatre continue.

  
  
• Yarrun XIX

  2017-05-12 02:22:30

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  Significant changes have been made since the last demo. Draws a lot less from OFF than it used to, and a bit more from Undertale and OneShot. 

  
  

  The world's been fleshed out a bit, I'll be getting some portrait art done sooner than later, and I'm finally satisfied with how the main character talks. I'd have a demo out by now, but, well, I haven't figured out how to make the gameplay actually fun. Which is sort of the problem I have with Corpse Theater too, but Corpse Theater's supposed to be bleak so the SO:TL reasoning works for it.
• Yarrun XIX

  2017-05-18 17:35:17

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  Where They Fall v0.6

  
  

  Changelog:

  -Trial of Cliffs (I'm so sorry) and Rest Zone 2 implemented

  -Dialogue reworked

  -Squid-Thing has a name now
  
• Yarrun XIX

  2017-05-26 03:37:24

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  Bad things about RPG Maker: there's no easy way to search through all of your code for stuff.

  
  

  I changed the name of a character once or twice and now I'm paranoid because I'm sure I messed up on changing it at some point.
• Yarrun XIX

  2017-05-26 03:44:59

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  It may actually be the worst format for writing narrative possible.

  
  

  Lesson learned: Next theatre, we write all the major dialogue in a google doc and copy it over.
• Princess Alice

  2017-05-26 03:48:36

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  What format are the files? If it's just, like, plain text, you could do a find-and-replace in any text editor...
• Yarrun XIX

  2017-05-26 03:56:42 edited 2017-05-26 03:59:21

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  Okay, so

  
  

  Each interaction in RPG Maker that isn't covered by basic movement and each object that isn't part of the set dressing is an 'event'. NPC, wandering monsters, all dialogue, chests, doors, and a bunch of other stuff is covered by that. Each event is a separate object, and can only be edited by opening the event using the event editor and changing around the dialogue (along with any animations you may want to do, health regeneration, monster spawning, et al). I don't know how RPG Maker saves events, but I think they're saved as a part of the data for that particular map, and I'm pretty sure the only ways you're allowed to edit that data is with RPG Maker itself.
• DYRE

  2017-05-26 03:58:28 edited 2017-05-26 03:58:53

  The scripts (as in code for game mechanics stuff) are text files and have find-in-all-files, but the events (the thing you do all the dialogue, npcs, treasure chests, etc. with) are stored as binary files iirc and there's no find/replace in the editor.
  
  EDIT: Oh Yarrun already replied, and better than me.
  
• Yarrun XIX

  2017-05-26 04:45:22

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  I am starting to feel like base RPG Maker can't manage the emotional scene I'm trying to write.

  
  

  It's difficult when you're limited to dialogue and very limited animation options.
• Yarrun XIX

  2017-06-20 02:10:06

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  Two things about Metamorphosis, which will probably be my next project after I finish/get tired of Corpse Theatre:

  
  

  I'm probably making it in Ren'py, a visual novel engine that should be more than flexible enough to suit my needs.

  
  

  Adam Sheridan, the client/patient for the demo, will not have pseudo-Thing powers but instead have powers based on metal absorption and manipulation. I have my reasons
• Yarrun XIX

  2017-07-25 03:30:28 edited 2017-07-25 03:30:34

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  https://mega.nz/#!0OB2kSaY!bjhLAzbcNaWk5NanYz6T7-uzzmeu3PrYG7-nME0VVNU
  
  Last Rites/When They Fall/Corpse Theater
  
  Final Version
  
  Y'alls get in here.
  
• Yarrun XIX

  2017-07-25 03:31:55

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  And a metric ton of thanks to Counterclock for literally hours of professional-level bugtesting. She's the best, you guys.
• Yarrun XIX

  2017-07-26 01:34:20

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  https://mega.nz/#!RDwTSKiJ!Tzfe4haXdwy1_kAx3EEz2eEcSTDn567MmSE2faZ0vy4 ;

  
  

  Changelog:

  Proper attribution of bugtesting

  Gameplay is no longer limited to 90% of the game.
• Aliroz

  2017-07-26 02:13:44

  ...And even when your hope is gone

  move along, move along, just to make it through

  (2015 self)

  When I tried to play it the first time, it started me in the room with Johann and all I could really do was have a conversation with the wizard.

  
  

  Now, the game starts (what I assume is) properly, with Vola in her house.

  
  

  Having played for about 20 minutes, poor, poor Marvin.
• Yarrun XIX

  2017-07-26 02:43:37

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  I'm actually thinking that, in 5 years when I remaster this, I'm gonna start the game with the first few bits of the ending conversation before going to the actual beginning. It's apparently a really strong scene??