Content Creator Thread

>>29261444
I writefag and occasionally drawfag. Does that make me a content creator?

>>29261473
Well you make new things for the community in forms of stories and drawings so I would say yes.

>>29261473
I'd love to see some of these drawings.

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>>29261444
FUCK!
These digits!
I hoped I had until the end of January to finally get something done I could show forth...

>>29261444
Chronicles is still under way. University is a bitch though.

Also, nice digits

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>>29261444
Checked.

Looking for a video editor for a pony parody series I'm part of. Our planned editor had some stuff come up so he'll be too busy.

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>>29261528
I know premier pro
also pic is what I've been doing as of late

>>29261544
Hello! I am the director and writer of the parody >>29261528
Is working on if you are interested would you like to exchange discord usernames? Or whichever other contact I may use?

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>>29261488

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>>29261578
I'm not going to pretend like any of it is good.

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>>29261582
There's a whole folder but I don't want to eat up posts dumping it all.

>>29261596
You've got a very distinct style almost like semi comic book semi samurai jack

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>>29261444
>those digits.

>>29261605
I'll take that as a compliment.

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Used to drawfag not so much anymore since college hell I've lost most of my old drawings sans a few crappy sketches in my notebook.

>>29261647
I hope you didn't take it any other way friend.

Recommend me a new drawing program, /mlp/.

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>>29261653
Toon boom

>>29261653
Adobe Flash

>>29261571
my email is [email protected]
I forgot my discord info

>>29261653
I started with MyPaint. It was a very good program until the recent updates that ruined the user interface. Since then, I've been using Medibang. It's a smooth program that usually has the tool for anything you want to do. If you want to just draw regularly without any fancy tools, it is perfectly designed for that as well.

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>>29261659
An email has been sent friendo

Forgot the discord server kyke
https://discord.gg/QB2eB

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Working on horse game. Run around and shoot spoopy forest creatures. Looking for an animator to do walk cycles and shit.

>>29261921
>those trees and textures.

Reminds me of my days working with the Alice software back in collage

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Been making sprites for a Dwarf Fortress pony mod. >>29227971 Might be useful for a Nethack or Stone Soup mod, too, if 24x24 is supported. And, no, that's not Applejack, I made all the earth pony classes the same skin color so that they could be easily identified against each other race's skin color. I'll probably use Dash's blue for the pegasi and Twi's purple for the unicorns.

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>>29262135
Here's a zoomed in version you can actually see. Be gentle, /mlp/.

>>29262186
Are nuchangelings elf equivalents?

I wish to trap their caravans and train my militia on them.

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>>29261444
Another drawfag here.
Still shit.

Although it's been a few weeks or so since I last drew something. Fug.

>>29261921
With the sort of 3D enviorment that you seem to be working with I would assume that 3D ponies would be the best match for the game.

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I just make PMVs, month ago I made PMV which was 54 minutes long with an intend to tell a story through music and visuals. Also released new video week ago to get new stuff out for new year. Working on another PMV right now. It's taking a long time but I want it to be really good.

I base a lot of PMVs upon my real life feelings. For whatever's that's worth. It makes me feel better to get it out of my system.

Here's the crazy PMV story. More info in description.

https://youtu.be/8eO8A0xt4ek

And here's the newest PMV from me.

https://youtu.be/6NMoBz2PaKI


I am happy with what I do but I wish I had a time to learn how to animate or make music to express myself in more ways. Life's busy currently and these PMVs themselves take a lot of time to make I just hope that sorta shows. Always loved video editing. And I always try new means for my editing to suit the song´s atmosphere and speed.

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>>29261444
I've made progress on the animation that will finally get me the recognition I rightfully deserve.
But I can't do much without a Rainbow Dash voice actor. Anyone got any suggestions for good fan VAs?

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Learning C++ so I can attempt a worthwhile game some time in the distant future.

I can make an executable that tells the user to go fuck themselves regardless of input, so there's that.

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>>29261444
Trying to make living of cutsey cinemagraphs and thinking about making some longer animation again. I need good VAs, but I'm too lazy to look. Plus, money is tight.

>>29263240
kek

>>29262846
I've been working on this project a while. Finding a 3d animator became too difficult and time consuming. It was always either they didn't have time with school/work or their commission slots were full from brony cucks who just wanted their OC in Garry's mod.
What you see looks like shit I know, it's just filler. It will look similar to paper Mario once I have moar time to work

Which is why I need an animator for a 2d walkcycle

I took a 3d model from a pone game and tried making a walk cycle in Blender but holy shit this is hard.

Why don't horses just walk by sliding two legs at a time, then the other two? I'd like that.

>>29263926
Seconded. Horses should be more like camels.

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>>29263926

>>29261523
What is "Chronicles"?

http://www.dragon-mango.com/board/viewforum.php?f=1&sid=06df7d97f297d5361f115825d9ea1fe7

I haven't heard anything from this guy in ages.

>>29263997
https://twitter.com/EverFChronicles
Full length pony vidya. I'll probably end up finishing it two years from now or something like that.

>>29261866
Expired code. Set one up that lasts more than an hour.

>>29264713
>Full length pony vidya
>Python
Pls. Is it like a VN or a 2D scroller?

>>29264757
My inner autism came out. Here u go senpai

https://discord.gg/dRYQZrJ

>>29264775
Who said anything about python
It's an RPG my dude

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>>29264874
>Who said anything about python
Literally you?

>It's an RPG my dude
That's good to know, looking forward to it.

>>29264905
Lua ^:)
Thanks anon

10
wrong

10 safe

so little time =(

Bumperoni

>>29263240
Learn C# and use Unity, will save a ton of time.
Unless you intend to use Unreal, in which case C++ is indeed the way to go.

>>29265649
>>29266545
>>29267027
>>29267327
Page 10 again? wat da fug

>>29262554
pls draw something senpai

>>29268824
Sorry anon but I don't have it in me right now. Nothing's really coming out right. Though that's to be expected.

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I've not made anything. I made pic related for a funposting thread. My tablet broke and I can't find a job and I just want to spend my time painting pones and shitposting.
>>29263240
I bet it tells them to fuck themselves damn fast, too, if it's written in c++.
>>29269244
Post a derp'd drawing!

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>>29269746
Only gonna post this one.

Still, though, my main problem with art right now is that I really don't feel like doing studies and all that shit, as they're quite dull and tedious. And that's quite a big problem, as studying art is, if you're not already aware, a pretty fuckin' important thing to git gud.
Eventually even mindless doodling gets dull thanks to my lack of ideas.

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>>29269780
You can't force yourself to develop the want to create content anon, you have to want to make things and get better as an artist. Sure you need to practice different artstyles, but that's not to say you can't develop your own style, stick with it and refine it.

>>29269780
I sometimes fear I have the opposite problem, I love to do studies, but I don't really do anything proper.
You're problem is obviously not of not knowing what to do, but a problem of motivation. I don't think I can help, cause I have the same problem myself half the time.

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>>29269894
I know, anon, but deep inside of me there's still a desire to make content. If it was never there, I wouldn't have spent almost a year trying to get better.

But, >>29269897 pretty much got it. I know what to do and all, I just generally have issues with motivation and getting myself to do these things.

At the end of the day it's not just about want, anyways, but also whether one can pull through the whole thing and do it.

Longtime writer, switching to visual novel.
Don't wanna share much more cause I don't want hype going crazy.

>>29261921
Why are you mixing dimensions? You should either stick with 2d/2.5d or just go full on 3d. Can't see much but from the way the image looks, that looks like a vector puppet rig and the scenery/background is 3d models (although very very basic models)

page the tenth

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>>29261444
Time sure does fly.

>What have you all been up to? Drawings? Music? Animation?
Everything.

I think my favorite think I made last month was Ghostie Jack: https://youtu.be/iBU4Rr1WPgQ?t=4s
And this Pinkie Intro: https://youtu.be/Rhn1ovAEYIA?t=4s

They have some mistakes and aren't incredible, but I enjoy making intros like that. Other than that we are still working on some new series. We did finish the EQD commercial a couple weeks ago. But it still has yet to be posted. Pic related.

So my question this month for everyone is: Does anyone plan on having any panels at upcoming cons? What is it about? Where will it be? And who will be on it?

REMINDER: BABScon Panel Applications are due by the end of TODAY (Jan 15th).

https://registration.babscon.com/2017/apply/application.php?c=e

>>29270164
Sorry image is such shit. I'm leaning more and more 2.5D the more I work on it so it will probably end up like that. The horse is a 2d plane stood up in a 3D environment. Kinda like in the paper Mario series. I'm mostly trying things out to see how they look.
I want to do something new like this because almost every game in the "brony fandom" is either a parody or a resprite. I thought the fandom was about being new and unique, yet most of our games are things like mega mare not saying their bad games, just not new ideas

I'm very active on the /mlp/ content creators discord if anyone wants to chat game design.

>>29270988
>Any panels at upcoming cons
I was thinking about doing one at TrotCon about making a game for a fandom. Covering things like how to find people to work with and scope of projects. Probably mostly scope because I feel like a lot of people have no idea what that is. For example I may be wrong about this, correct me if I am fallout Equestria. They are trying to replicate a multi million dollar budget game with a few members of a horse fandom. They have been working for a few years and don't look like anywhere near completion.

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>>29271180
>For example ~ fallout Equestria.

You could name 99% of pony fan game projects, really.
Very few of those made in a team set forward realistic expectations.

You'd think the years of programmer jokes about people who learn how to write a criss-cross game and set out to make their own WoW MMORPG clone would sink in eventually but the opposite seems to be true.

>>29271217
Sad but true.

I'm trying my best to keep scope in my game. That is why the graphics arnt photo realistic and I'm using a paper Mario styled character model.
The game is about surviving waves of spoopy forest creatures, while also cutting down trees and building a base. Shoot enemy, cut down trees, build base, repeat. Simple well planned game machaics to make it fun and releasable within the next year. No "power ups" or "skill trees" just a simple well balanced game.

I'll post better screenshots when I get back from grabbing coffee

>>29271217
>You'd think the years of programmer jokes about people who learn how to write a criss-cross game and set out to make their own WoW MMORPG clone would sink in eventually but the opposite seems to be true.
The thing is even if you know it, the urge is hard to resist to start a large scale project, just because it's fun.

Last year I started doing a 3D thing in Unity, I had an animated pony model running around, and an open-ish world system without loading screens.

But then I realized I'd have to model one entire fucking universe in 3D, and just laying out the streets of ponyville was giving me a headache, so that project is still sitting in a folder on my hard drive.

And that's how it goes.

>>29271217
>but the opposite seems to be true.
Autism. Some people just can't tell what a joke is

>>29270988
Am I reading this right that you're doing Sinking Ships next?
I would kill to see that.

>>29271407
We are. It's been transcribed for months. There is one big problem with it right now. The harmony is fine. The lyrics are great. But the chorus melody is really monotone and repetitive that it has made a lot of people I've previewed it to say "wow this doesn't sound like the original at all and is super boring".

So I am working to construct other mechanisms to enhance it enough that it makes it sound better, but also stays true to Greg's creativity.

Any thoughts as to what you would expect from it?

>>29271421
Feel free to add some fluff to it.
I love Greg's version but please don't make it sound plain and boring out of a sense of sticking strictly to the original.

Some of the remixes of that song are great because while it's the same song, they contrast with the original and bring something new.

But, yknow, whatever you do is fine.

here is more on the game i'm working on. The 2d horse animation is NOT just going to be a side view. It will be like paper Mario with 2 separate animations, one 3 quarters facing away, and one to the camera.

for whatever reason I couldn't get it to upload as a webm video, so here is a link for a google drive upload: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B30c1zwN5FEuazhQc3hSRU83ZE0

feel free to shitpost your opinion.

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>>29271962
forgot image. fucking kill me.

>>29271969
Are you sure you don't want to change up the trees for 2D ones?
Lighting of those can still be done with a normal map.

>>29272057
I'm thinking about it. Like I said before, I'm trying out new styles to make something unique.

Another reason I really wanted to use 3d models with real time lighting is because I'm using GameMaker studio and that engine gets a lot of shit for its 3d functionality. Is it as good as unity? Fuck no, but I kinda wanted to show that it can come out nice if you know what your doing.

>inb4 why don't you switch to unity?
What are programming languages. Also because this is a hobby, not career for me. Not with my time nor effort

>>29271455
Alright. Well one of my guys just got done with an auxiliary melody we added to it. It's pretty nice.

I guess it's on schedule for Friday.

In the mean time I have to finish this Cruella Deville-esque SU song so people stop bothering me. Hopefully that will happen Tues.

But anyways thanks for the feedback. I really appreciate that. I'll mention "The mysterious hacker known as 4chan" in the credits just for you.

>>29272408
Thanks for doing this in the first place, anon. You're doing god's work.

>>29273116

Glad to see this thread up

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I'm not a drawfag, more like a colorfag. I can't draw worth shit but I can shade and color alright. Does that count?

>>29274409
That's borderline enough to not get my ass banned, roight?

>>29261648
I know that feel, currently college barely allows me to sleep

>>29274409
I believe its ok.

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Can someone help me to get less distracted and actually get shit done?

>>29275493
Use this in your favor, there's some documentary or article about hyperactive / autistic people that uses the distraction factor to be more creative somewhere, you should see it.

>>29275493
You can try meds. Zenzedi is currently the best med with the least bad side effects on the market. It was released 2 years ago.

But you need a psychiatrist or a neurologist to sign off on it.

But by no means are meds the sole solution. You need cognitive therapy and motivational factors to get your ass out of bed and get shit done. Get accountability partners. Get the juices flowing in the brain by eating well. Go lift weights or run. Join a creative team or chat. Listen to things that inspire you.

And this anon is right >>29275523

It was true for me and my brother.

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Any other animators on the thread? I'm working on a Diamond Tiara animation. It's a little out of my comfort zone.

>>29277417
a cute

>>29277417
Lookin' nice

>It's a little out of my comfort zone.
Is it porn?

>>29277417
Hey, that actually looks good so far

>>29272187
That walk cycle looks really strange, and the angle doesn't help it much, did you do it yourself?

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>>29278903
kek. Maybe in the future for a laugh or something. I'm just used to working with sprites as a base, so making everything from scratch is a little new for me.

>>29279378
>>29277952
Thanks, appreciate it.

Pro tip: Windows Movie Maker's annoying ass "Volume fades in and out instead of changing instantly" flaw? Fix it and go from full audio to muted instantly by making a one-frame buffer between the muted and unmuted clips.

I'm also working on some nonpone SSBB PM mods, but when I get REAL good, I'm modding pones into this game.

>>29280129
Oh well at least you are stepping out of your comfort zone and learning a bit. Props.

>>29280157
>Windows Movie Maker
Wait isn't this thing dead since like Windows XP?

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>>29280277
Nigger what

>>29280328
Oh neat, I didn't see it on my Windows 7 so I assumed it was dead like 3D Pinball.

>>29280338
Honestly 3D Pinball was GOAT

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>>29280129
>The couch and anon look extremely Shout-y.
>DT and the TV don't, as they're vectored.

Are you a fun heretic with a knack for Khorne or not?

Also, DT's hooves in >>29277417 could use a bit of work.
The hind leg looks kinda awkwardly bent and so does the hoof holding the remote. Maybe place her ass a bit higher so it doesn't look like the hind leg is separate from it?

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>>29275523
>>29276015
I'll look into it.
Thanks for the advice.

tfw no past sins game

>>29280366
That's actually what its supposed to be, it's directly inspired by his whole ponies breaking into anons house motif. Basically a parody. I'm still learning how to draw basic shit, so I thought I'd try out how other people do things.

Ya, you're right about the hooves. I need to rework those. I'll bump her ass up.

Do you think the vector styles clash too much?

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>>29281786
>Do you think the vector styles clash too much?

Not really, it's pretty apparent on the first of the two shots, but it's not case of it looking bad, imo.

>>29282554
this

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Do something.

>>29283345
Motivation is hard.

>>29283809
I believe in you

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My current harmony rig

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>>29284867

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>>29284871

>>29284873
looks great!

>>29262135
Ah shit, you sent me these, then I got sick the very next day and forgot to do anything with them. Sorry about that. I'll try to add them to the mod tonight, so I can at least post a screenshot of what they look like in-game.

>>29262356
I'm not sure what to do with nu-changelings yet, but old-changelings will be goblin equivalents. They're the [BABYSNATCHER] race that's perpetually in conflict with everyone else.

>>29284867
>>29284871
>>29284873
Are you by chance coming to BABScon?

I've always wanted to make a MLP animation, I just have no idea how to do it.

bempo

>>29285741
Pick a program and start learning.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0igv_BKikg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHtoFwHh38Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcBwDHx_oDk

>>29284867
>>29284871
>>29284873
Hey, you're alive. That's awesome
Now show us your penis and/or vagina. I need to know

>>29261444
I narrate ponyfics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRCXdhiGjoI&t=1s

And some non pony video game things on occasion

>>29286602
Tiara's a guy, man.

>>29286626
Oh man. I used to do that. You should really get rid of that static noise with a noise removal tool.

>>29286124

>>29284887
Thanks :D
>>29285715
Would like to but sadly can't due to being stuck in Canada for now
>>29286602
(ﾉ≧∇≦)ﾉ ﾐ ┸━┸

I've been trying to funnel my autistic waifu feels and frustrations towards writing music. I've never written lyrics before, and so far, I've just been writing whatever half-baked metaphors come to mind during the day. I have no idea if this'll get anywhere, but I hope to create an album, or at least one meaningful song, out of it. If it ever does get finished and I'm somehow proud of it, it'll probably be many years from now. I don't know how the fuck it'll happen. I just feel that I need to expell my feelings in some form that's any bit less pathetic than just rambling to my plushie while sobbing every god damn night.

>>29287993
>rambling to my plushie while sobbing every god damn night.
I want to believe that this isn't literally true, but there's that voice in my head whispering "this is fourchan"

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>>29288082
>I want to believe that this isn't literally true
You and I have this in common.

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>>29262135
Here's a screenshot with some ponies around town.

I wasn't quite sure what to do with each of the variants, so I guessed.
> 1) noble
> 2) administrator
> 3) doctor
> 4) engineer, also used for blacksmith/metalworker professions
> 5) farmer, also used for cooking and related professions
> 6) ???
> 7) miner, also used for stoneworking professions
> 8) ???, currently used for all other crafting, including jewelry crafting, weaving, clothesmaking, and pottery
> 9) ranger, also used for animal training and similar professions
> 10) soldier (all military professions)
> 11) ???
> 12) woodcutter, also used for all carpentry/woodworking professions

>>29271856

>>29288082
As an anon who prefers the company of waifu tulpas to 3d I take offence to your lack of faith. If I could ever get fit enough to kick evolution in the balls I would. I don't really know where I'm going with this rant, but anyway, fuck you.

boop

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9

10 is no place for this

>>29292800
agreed

bump for content

Between /fimfic/ and this thread, half the posts I read on /mlp/ are just creative ways to bump.
Also, bump.

>>29294931
There were less than three weeks between the end of the previous thread and the start of this one. Not surprising that there's not much new progress to talk about.

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Anyone making games in need of a non-committal but overall pretty good programmer?

Every so often I get the urge to build something. I even tend get shit done if the work is challenging or interesting.

Pic unrelated.

>>29295658
Want to work on Everfree Outpost?

Game is here: http://play.everfree-outpost.com
Code is here: https://github.com/everfree-outpost/everfree-outpost

Plenty of stuff you can work on if you know (or want to learn) Rust and/or Python. Let me know if you're interested. And if the thread dies, you can email me instead: [email protected]

>>29295902
The game sound pretty cool, is there a goal or is it more like a social 2D minecraft thing?

Also, it looks like there hasn't been any commits in the past 3 months, should I be worried?

>>29261444
I draw pone every once in a while.

I'm not good at it.

>>29296003
>The game sound pretty cool, is there a goal or is it more like a social 2D minecraft thing?
The goal is to be sort of like Minecraft/Terraria, with a mix of exploration and base-building. The idea is that you will start with access to only basic wood and stone for building your house or village, and to get the materials for more interesting equipment/furniture/etc., you'll need to explore and expand the "civilized" zone further out into the forest. I can go into more detail on this if you're interested.

>Also, it looks like there hasn't been any commits in the past 3 months, should I be worried?
I'm on a branch right now:
https://github.com/everfree-outpost/everfree-outpost/tree/v2-dev
I deleted/disabled a bunch of stuff while I work on overhauling a few of the major systems. Once it's back up to roughly feature parity, I'll merge it back into master.

>>29296125
>I can go into more detail on this if you're interested.
Sure, that's pretty interesting, but I'm wondering what it'll look like in terms of gameplay.

In Minecraft for example there's the constant threats of annoying monsters and surviving the night, and that's an incentive to get better equipment and build a better base, then exploring the different biomes, the nether, playing with redstone and all that.

I tried launching the game and running around, and so far it looks like there's some pretty cool crafting and interaction features, but I also went wandering into the woods and the world feels a little lifeless.
So I'm wondering what sort of features you're working on at the moment.

>I deleted/disabled a bunch of stuff while I work on overhauling a few of the major systems. Once it's back up to roughly feature parity, I'll merge it back into master.
Sounds good. I peeked into the src folder and the build system, it looks pretty good.
Is there an IDE you're using with all those different languages though, or just an editor?

>>29296178
It's a sandbox game so it's a bit open-ended, but the two major goals will be (1) explore as far as possible, and (2) gather wealth you can show off (build a fancy house / wear fancy clothes).

To achieve either goal, you need crafting materials of some kind. The main obstacle will be navigating the forest. It doesn't have monsters (I'm trying to avoid adding combat if I can), but the trees will shift behind you as you move, possibly cutting off your route home. Only if you navigate out of the forest successfully do you get to keep any loot you find there. Going longer distances into the forest will increase the risk, but it will also increase the quality of the loot you find.

Normal gameplay will look like this:
You start out at the center of the map, which is difficulty level 0/5, meaning the forest hardly ever messes with you, but also only basic resources are available. You set up a basic house with just wood and stone, then head into the forest looking for metal ore. Eventually you reach a level-1 area, where you find copper ore. You could continue to a level-2 region, where you might find iron, but that increases your chance of getting lost or trapped, so you take the copper ore and head back. Now you can upgrade your house a bit, and build some new equipment, such as a better compass, to help you navigate more safely into the level-2 areas. With enough copper, you could also set up a safe staging area in level-1 territory, and use that to launch your adventures into level-2 areas.

Higher-level areas give you the resources to continue exploring (goal #1), and once you've made enough progress, you can start farming them for higher-end materials for your fancy house/clothes (goal #2).

>>29296513
So if I can play doubles advocate here for a moment, if there's no fighting what stops me from just running straight into a level 5 area and getting myself lost in here until I've pillaged enough stuff to find my way out, or just build my base right on the inside where all the expensive stuff is.

If there's no real danger, why wouldn't I go live where all the loot is? Or even just play nomadic and take what's on the path until I find my way out, it's not like I'm risking anything since I can craft tools on the way.

>>29296178
>So I'm wondering what sort of features you're working on at the moment.
Some infrastructural stuff right now. I'm adding some update tracking to the core game-state structure, so that the logic for propagating updates to clients can be separated more cleanly from the main server code.
In terms of gameplay features, the next thing on my list is an improved version of the ward system, which lets players protect their buildings from other players, and in the future will also make the surrounding forest safer to navigate.

>I peeked into the src folder and the build system, it looks pretty good.
Well, I'm glad that didn't scare you off. The build system is kind of hairy, and there's what, 20 or so subdirectories under src/ ?

>Is there an IDE you're using with all those different languages though, or just an editor?
Nope, just a text editor (vim). Most of the code is in Rust anyway, which doesn't have any good IDEs yet as far as I know.

>>29296552
Hmm, good point, particularly about the purely-nomadic play style. I was planning to restrict crafting stations so they can't be moved once they're placed, so that crafting anything while you're in the forest requires sacrificing an anvil/workbench. But if you're willing to stay in the forest forever, I suppose you could find enough resources to rebuild the crafting station every time you use it.

There's a few things I could change to prevent this, but I'll have to think about how feasible the strategy actually is. If it's possible in theory but difficult enough that most players won't bother, I might leave it in as a sort of challenge option.

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This webm shows part of the new WASD+mouse control scheme for the next version of Everfree Outpost. You'll be able to click on structures to interact with them, instead of having to face them and press the "interact"/"use item" key.

>>29295902
In the control menu you have "A" working like the "Enter" key so I cant fix my interaction key back to "A"

>>29299107
Thanks for letting me know. It looks like it sets the hotkey when you press A, then goes back into "select hotkey" mode when you release A. So as a workaround, if you press A and hold it, then exit the menu with Space or Esc, and only then release A, it seems to set the hotkey properly.

As a last resort, you can fix most issues by resetting things in the config editor. Press F2, D, C in-game, or from the server list click More -> Settings -> Open Editor. Find the setting that's causing problems (in this case "keybindings") and click Reset.

>>29299960
Are we shadow-bumping now??

>>29299985
I'm such a monster and I regret nothing.

>>29299994
Get?

>>29299996
No.

>>29300006
Damn, didn't have time to start my script.

>>29261653
clip studio paint

>>29298965
NICE!!
Can you tell more about the project?

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