I’ve just got done adding some more stuff to the backer build page. Expect some tweaking to happen over the next day or so once we figure out everything on our end, but the Save Editor should now be available on there for Offbeatr backers that previously had access to it.
We’re also trying out something a little extra too. We’ve been using a build server to better reproduce game builds and do all the packaging and such automatically. As a benefit of that, we get a build every time we make changes… so we’ve decided to make those available too. Only pretty high-tier Offbeatr backers will have access to it now whilst we figure out how to dish out access to it, as well as make a few other changes so that the builds properly identify themselves for sake of bug reporting clarity.
Also I finished writing and coding a subby, chubby bearman for the bar in Uveto. I’ve been told it’s rather gayyyy~
Also, if you like things that are cool and good you should go check out this other thing I’ve been working on; NewRetroArcade: Neon. Peep dis vidja :V
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Is the save editor up to date?
Yeah it should have been updated as part of movin it over. Fen said he’s been using it all the while for testing content.
How is the editor compared to minerva online? Can you create arrays/add flags to body parts and all that?
Not in the same way; the basic idea was to actually structure it using the same data we use in the game directly (which is why, specifically, it’s in Flash rather than C#). If we add new body type flags to the game, then they’re also in the save editor the next time we update it etc.
The “quick” version I whipped up was when I needed to test a bunch of different body types/parts, so that’s pretty much all it handles right now- configuring the players appearance. It can also load up CoC saves and jam them into an effective starting TiTS character but it’s not perfect; it can only convert CoC things into what analogues we have available in TiTS, so some things get dropped or change in the process.
It doesn’t touch flags or status effects but it should do, eventually. Though this is one of the things I need to talk to Fen about re new stuff on the site. Going forward it might be a better idea to build it as a special page on this here site, if for no other reason than it’d be easier to build all the UI elements and interactions needed to handle the likes of flags etc than doing it in flash with dogshit UI components that take 7 years off my life every time I need to figure out just how the shit to reskin the next special snowflake :V
PS: That game looks awesome.
Can some of you please give money to help fund Flexible Survival because they get 75 dollars a month, while this game gets 20,000… Check it out at blog.flexiblesurvival.com
Last time I checked on Flexible Survival they had in-game transactions in their MUSH that were letting them fully fund themselves.
And of course, Carnal Souls is apparently running out of money without anything more than a character creator and mockup screenshots to show for it. Fuck I hate when I’m right. Someday someone will actually make another successful game in this genre. (Inb4 it’s Savin!)
Honestly I think you’re a little harsh on carnal souls, although you might have every right, I think they will deliver its just gonna take a while. however with that said they could stand to update whats going on more often, even if its tiny things. 🙂
I’d feel a lot better if I could see some of the actual writing…
Yeah I know man, but whats there right now..the foundation looks really good. Its a shame if CS dies because of fucking Brexit ruining everything. I hope they get the funds they need.
Seriously, blaming the failure of Carnal Souls on Brexit? It may be terrible (and that remains to be seen via history), but you can’t blame it for EVERYTHING. At that point it just becomes a boogeyman.
The Brexit did have a large affect on it because it severely effected the exchange rate of USD and GBP. Read the July Update on carnalsouls.com for a better explanation than I can give in a comment.
Nonsense.
https://fenoxo.com/forum/index.php?/topic/4115-breeding-season-is-dead/&do=findComment&comment=61872
“The British Pound is off a staggering .19% from its record high last December.
I’m sorry, but if someone is using the excuse that getting .19 percentage points less in exchange is hurting their business, they they weren’t managing their business properly.
For comparison, the USD was down 4.39 % against the British pound when Obama took office, and we never made that back.
If you open up the windows a little farther than 6 months, you will see the Pound is still up 3.9% against the USD from 8 years ago, even at this current ‘desperate’ level… “
A few things don’t add up about the Brexit thing. For one, a British team leaving all its money in USD is begging for this to happen. It’s just a plain bad decision. That said, it has been many months. They’ve clearly blown through most of the money already, thus Brexit is only effecting a percentage of a percentage of the original money.
Is the amount they lost from Brexit significant? Sure, but it shouldn’t cause sirens to be going off in HQ unless they’re already scraping the bottom of the money barrel.
And if that’s the case, they have really mismanaged their project. They have no product to show or tease to generate Patreon money yet. They’re drawing hundreds of map tiles instead of making any proof of concept prototypes of how the actual game systems work. They haven’t had a sex-scene (or scene of any kind) to share with us in full. They’re not giving their supporters any reason to support them, and to someone who has worked in this field for years, it looks to me like they’re biting off way more than they can chew (and the clock is running out).
Blog posts are rare and slow to come. They only post maybe once a month. BNG is a fantastically awesome artist. He could probably float their Patreon numbers up high enough to keep things going if he’d churn out a picture or two every month as a reward for Patreon (and teased it on his blog/twitter). Just talking about what’s going in the studio on a more regular basis would go a long way, I’m sure.
TL;DR: If they wanted a game with such massive scope, they either should’ve asked for more money, found a way to monetize pieces of their game while slowly filling in the less essential parts, or given people a reason to pledge on Patreon.
You know,I completely forgot about that game. Been wondering what was up with that… a shame not much was done with since last I looked in on it.
Fen, I think those guys over at carnal souls really respect you and what you have done up to now… I know things are looking bleak for them but can you please not put the project down anymore than you already have. After reading the post of what happened to breading season I need to believe that they will remain determined and pull through. I’ve been a supporter of yours since before Tarkus was a fleshed out planet, which I know isn’t really all that long but TiTS has still come a long way since then. You have the funding necessary to keep it going so smoothly and that because you and others have worked hard to get it this far, thats what Benji and Crimson are doing right now, they are working hard to try and create something like what you have created here. I know this sound very naive and and you probably don’t even care enough to read this but please, go easy on them… they are doing their best.
Sincerely: A dedicated fan.
After they stiffed Gedan out of her pay, he really has no reason to be nice.
I thought that she did get payed for the work she did while she was on the project? If not then that is very uncool but I don’t know the specifics of what happened with all that. All i know is that Fen was pissed when Gedan was removed from the project, rightfully so, and that Benji “intended” to pay Gedan.
AFAIK they wanted Gedan to work full-time on their project.
So far as I am aware, Gedan has not been paid. Nor has she been reimbursed for commissions from BNG she had ordered.
Look at the bright side. At least their game isn’t coded in flash.
That fact alone gives them much better prospects of finishing their game unlike Breeding Season.
Funny for you to say that here 😛
I still have faith in Alder too! It’s amazing that you have foe under your mighty wings, I think benji’s patreon would look way different with gedan on the boat and your support still.
Man, if BNG had approached me with some example scenes/art, lined up Geddy (or a working demo), I would’ve been happy to help more and even host if they wanted.
I’m kind of sad we didn’t have a more harmonious relationship, but I’m still hoping they’ll surprise me and turn out something awesome before they run out of dough.
Doesn’t need the extra help, and I say this as someone who once wrote for Nuku’s MUCKs and the Singleplayer. He gets plenty of dough.
You must not check on it much.
https://www.patreon.com/FS
Nuku has multiple revenue streams. He has at least 2 MUCKs ongoing, the singleplayer (which is by now pretty much abandoned), ponyfinder, and probably some more which I don’t know about. FS multiplayer, last time I checked, rakes in about 5-6K a month for him alone.
So yes, he’s not going to starve.
Singleplayer is mostly hiatused at the moment as they work on the flash project, but they poke back at it with some content each month. I would not call it abandoned. Unless something different was said on the forums, which I don’t frequent much.
Didn’t know Nuku was over much else aside form FS and FSMulti. Pretty cool.
Wait, is this a FenTeam save editor, or the one that the nice bloke on the forums put together?
Ours. I’m probably gonna swing through it and clean it up a bunch over this week maybe.
Awesome. Additional Question: Awhile back, I used patreon to donate the 15 (I think I ended up donating 25) bucks to unlock the backer stuff, and it seemed permanent. Is that still the case, or do I now NEED to set up an ongoing pledge?
Not that it really matters I guess. I love you guys so I set up an ongoing anyway :p
It compiles/works for you even with the _storedCharacter functions for gender? I’ve never had that work properly.
TBH, I find it easier/faster to just use a creation_custom_PC char or code attached to (e.g.) BBQ to go than to use the editor, especially when perks are involved.
Well, so long as you’re working on the site, might as well remove that “Quicksand” font. It’s really hard to see on a 1080p screen. I can’t imagine what 4K people are having to do to read the labels on the buttons.
Serves all you HD Snobs right :p
jk, I use 1080p screen and I see it all just fine. You sure your resolution is the problem?
4K, looks fine. Though 12px font with 12 px padding would be better (now 10px font 15px padding).
Hey, my memory isn’t that great, but I thought I had pledged enough on Offbeatr to get access to the save editor ($20). Am I wrong or is it an access issue? Thanks in advance~
Pretty sure the save editor was something like $45.
Ah, no worries then. Thanks for the reply
What happened to FoE?
It’s dead, Jim.
Pretty much.
🙁
I guess Alder burned out? Maybe he’ll get interested in it again down the line :/
Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!??
Oh gods, the tacky arcade flooring, the dark rooms with those wall textures, the random stuff sitting on the pool table… *sniffs* This brings me back to when I’d play CyberSled at Putt Putt Golf in Texas…
Having some weirdness w/ the save editor it is accessing the saves from the wrong browser and I see no way to change that. Is there a way to do this?
Open it using the same browser?
Yes I am opening the editor in Firefox and it is opening my games from IE not firefox
how is the save editor compared to the remde CoCEd, aka TiTsEd? and how would a patreon get access to it?
now I’m sure there’s someplace better to put this etc. but have you seen this madness? http://breedingseasongame.blogspot.de/2016/07/breeding-season-is-over-s-purple-has.html#comment-form I just found the game 5 days ago and was baffled by the 32k a month they got on patreon, now they’re shutting down entirely. What’s your take on this fenfen and others?
If you read the long excuse it mostly stems from the guy who started it gave a stupid contract terms to the artist who jumped to another project and took most of the money. Why he allowed the artist to have 100% control over the assets is beyond me.
https://fenoxo.com/forum/index.php?/topic/4115-breeding-season-is-dead/&page=1
thanks mate
Don’t kill it!
How much as a backer did you need to give to get the save editor? I am not complaining, just curious.
Offbeatr folks had to pledge $45.
Ah alright