Pony Games General #3 - /pgg/

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Guess I'll kick things off with a couple screenshots of a DOS-inspired project I've been working on, which is, funny enough, the basis of this threads edition.

It sticks to using only the 16 colors from DOS games with EGA graphics like Space Quest and Maniac Mansion, but has a 16:9 ratio resolution. ("Shovel Knight-ing" is what'd I'd refer to using only some of the limitations of an emulation.)

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>>30359750
I'm planning on making it something like an RPG with turn-based combat, something iirc like Fire Emblem or Advance Wars. Stats that can be raised from battling affect how your units perform.
You may only play as a single pony, but your base Magic stat allows you to summon 1 clone familiar that you control on the board. As the Magic stat goes up, you can summon more clones to help. An idea to allow the player to tweak the stats of clones outside of battle (or perhaps create more summon types) would be ideal to prevent samey-boring gameplay with no variety or something along those lines.
At this point, combat has yet to be made.

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>>30359803
Movement is handled like an RTS in and out of battle: click and you'll pathfind over to that spot.

>>30359645
>If you could take any game from your childhood and give it a pony version/mod/spinoff, what game would that be?

fallout
which is what I'm developing
>>30359750
>>30359803
>>30359819
this is great!

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>>30359645
Oh fuck I love King's Quest
>>30359750
Kinda reminds me of Hydlide (not an insult)

>>30361462
I own Hydlide funny enough, still think it's a pretty terrible game.

>>30362362
I think Hydlide as a whole gets too much flack
Not that the NES version isn't shit, but the original games have their place in history

>>30359645
>If you could take any game from your childhood and give it a pony version/mod/spinoff, what game would that be?
Legend of Zelda. It's fucking perfect for ponies, and I don't understand why it hasn't been done yet

>>30359750
When you say 16 colors, do you mean that each sprite will have 16 colors or that there will never be more than 16 colors on the screen at any one time?

>>30364946
EGA graphics uses 16 (out of the 64 possible) colors for the entire screen. I think it's safe to assume that this would likely use a fixed palette as well.

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>>30364946
>>30365417
Correct, that game will only use these 16 colors, using dithering to make the illusion like there are more. This dithering can be seen on the grass, as the greenish-blue color is just dark cyan and dark green checkerboarded.

Bump because I believe in you guys.

>>30359819
Do you limit yourself because you suck at making video games or because someone is giving you 10,000$ to keep the fidelity of the genre?

>>30367105
Nah, I just like to harken back to simpler times, is all. I like to put limits like these on myself because it forces me out of my comfort zone. I'm used to utilizing rotation, scaling, millions of colors, high quality sound, etc. but these set older limits force me to try and be creative with how to approach things.

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>>30359645
I have a resolution problem.

It uses pixel art, but you can zoom in and out. in itself this isnt that big of a deal for me, but the problem is the menus. When you change the zoom level, the terrain and menus will have different sized pixels, which is a bit unpleasant to look at.

Possible solutions:
>Make menus high-res art and terrain pixel art
>Make menu pixel size fit terrain at default zoom level
>Disable ability to zoom
>Make menu pixel fit minimum terrain zoom level

>>30367524
What are you using to make the game?
If it's Game Maker Studio, then use the Draw GUI events due to the main view/camera size and GUI layer size being separate. The GUI layer (by default) always stays the size of the window.

>>30367764
im using monogame, so I can do whatever I want. I just dont know what will be best.

>>30367822
where did you learn mono? I can't find a good tutorial

>>30367105
There's nothing wrong with challenging yourself with limits. A lot of good things came out of working around or with limitations.

>>30368039
its almost identical to XNA, which has much better documentation. there ar some books about it you can pirate.

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>>30361462
>>30369528
>NES pones

>>30366727
Bumperooni

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It's time to make the dungeon and the path to the final boss. Ready to face the music?

>>30370778
Looks nice!

>>30370778
It's about fucking time

you guys remember when luna game happened

>>30371699
I don't think anyone could forget, honestly
iirc, EqD disallowed EXE files to be submitted after that

>>30371699
Possibly. Wasn't that a mediocre platformer that did some weird shit after you played it?

>>30371921
If memory serves, it showed a screamer after 30 seconds of gameplay, and changed your wallpaper to some creepy Applebloom picture.

>>30371921
>>30371928
yes and yes

>>30371928
Pretty much. Probably made some people shit themselves.

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>>30371699
I remember those days
shit I feel old now, I liked the drama

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updates!
...I'm having a hard time creating a "container" of items
now I'm doing things small, I have just an object that generate a random number of weapon and armor items and puts them inside his inventory
but it's all hard scripted inside of it, therefore I don't have the flexibility I want with unreal engine's blueprints
I need to dynamically import my probability data with a list of the game items I have but you can't do that in blueprint
I'll need to use c++ but for now is good enough

on the other side
I making progress with my combat system
now I can enter in combat and exit from it when there are no hostile enemies left

>>30359645
>If you could take any game from your childhood and give it a pony version/mod/spinoff, what game would that be?
MOTHERFUCKING THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND. With Insult Magic Dueling.

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>>30373513

>>30371928
I also worked as a worm virus and spammed a bunch of pony images on your desktop.

>>30374998
Well, that wasn't very nice of you.

>Update: No visuals addition
I wrapped all my file IO (textures, sounds, dialogs, templates, log files, configs, saves) in a class that completely decouples it from the rest of the game, I can now change the file format without having to hunt down the pieces that were sprinkled though the rest of my code, changing from XML to SQLite for character data for example can now be done by replacing only 1 method call, and maybe 1-2 parameters (plus I can easily load from memory for unit tests).

this thread isnt dying while theres still a chance of me getting a (you)

>>(you)30377463
:^)

>>30374108
Nice

>>30373091
I miss 2010...

>>30361462
>>30369528
I am intrigued.

>>30374108
Why is loner sad?

>>30380225
luna game was 2010? i thought it was 2011

>>30380860
I thought it would be a funny image to use as a test

http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=16651

I thought this was dead

>>30377463

>>30384090

>>30370114
>>30380235
Glad you like them. The Sunset's from a SMB1 hack that never really got off the ground, and I made AJ as part of a challenge. I want to create the others in the same style as AJ, but I'm kinda struggling to figure out what to do with Dash's mane.

>>30385662
Put Dash on the side for now then and focus on the others.

>>30382968
It was dead on arrival just like this fandom's attempt at being different from the others.

>>30382968
I'm looking forward to play it

>>30386679
other what?

>>30382968
It's dead to me

Everfree Chronicles dev reporting in. Yes it's still happening ^:)

I'll try to post some updates when I have them but that may not be for a while.

>>30300437
>>30302595

Sorry I missed you guys, I used to post much more frequently here a year ago, now I only occasionally lurk

>>30387843
Looking forward to them.

bumb fore vidya

>>(you)30377463
>>(you)30384090
>>(you)30385613
:^)

>>30359645
>If you could take any game from your childhood and give it a pony version/mod/spinoff, what game would that be?
Torn between Chrono Trigger and The Misadventures of Tron Bonne.


>If you could take any hentai game and give it a pony version/mod/spinoff, what game would that be?
Monster Girl Quest. Longtime dream.

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>>30389148
>monster girl quest

Update on the platformer-RPG mentioned in OP:
Catastrophic disk failure; had to format the drive.
gg no re
j/k. I make it a point to back up everything on this project to google drive, so I lost basically nothing except a few days of productivity while I tried to recover my hd.
Still happy to field questions.

>>30389317
damn
I should have backups too but my internet connection it's just awful
my 1.2 GB project would take 7 hours, if the connection doesn't fall...
I just can't do backups and it scares me

>>30389418
Buy a USB drive. I assure you, having backups is 10000% worth it.

>>30389418
Why are you unable to make a hard copy on your hard drive or external memory device?

>>30389429
>>30389483
I do have plenty of hard drives now that I think about it
let's hope they don't die before the main one

>>30389429
Kind of random but if there's a flood warning in your area be sure to put the drive in a place you know it will be 100% safe in
I learned that the hard way, unfortunately

>>30389513
Seconding this. Sealed containers are you friend (even outside of floods; it's a great way to keep dust out).

>>30389317
>>30389418
>>30389429
>>30389483
>>30389513
>>30389546
we /ml/g/ now

>>30389513
>>30389546
well my house is pretty safe
here in north italy we don't have problem with natural catastrophes
>>30389610
ponies and IT!
twilight would love our soon to be AI overlords

>>30389643
>here in north italy we don't have problem with natural catastrophes
That's good!
It's still a good idea to keep things sealed and elevated, just in case of more mundane drink spills.

>>30389643
It never flooded down here more than a few inches off the ground inside the house for decades
Last year it managed to go up to like five feet

>>30389211
MGQ and MLP really are natural fits; a porn game where every enemy is female, unique, and has a unique sex scene is an obvious model for porn game set in Equestria. Especially when it also involves the girls being incentivized to rape the men because ~magic~ (ie: absorbing a male's strength/soul/etc. through his dick).
I tried to get something like that off the ground awhile back; had to give it up due to not having enough team members for the scope. Sucks.

>>30389815
I hate those types of hentai games. I prefer playing an overpowered monster raping the girls and I'd enjoy it if it wasn't an overly challenging puzzle or a challenging arcade game like Angel, Demon, Shinobi girl, where you have that wall of death behind you.

>>30389815
>>30390042
Some people like it when women victimize men, some like it when men victimize women.
I'm one of the former, like >>30389815

Is Everfree Outpost still a thing?

>>30391237
It's still up, just empty as fuck at times.
Kind of a shame too because PonyTown stole the show even though it's shitty for never putting time in to adding actual gameplay aside from clicking dirt and talking.

>>30389317
>back up everything on this project to google drive
at least use something like git

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dear god if it looks awful
but at least it works
working with the UI isn't hard but is incredibly long and tedious

>>30391237
Is a demo of Everfree Chronicles still going to be released?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFfhnDmP2lg

>>30393944
God, I fucking hope so

>>30393565
Depending on what you use to create your game, GIT may not be the most adapted solution.

It's most of the time more useful to manage code tho.

>>30393944
>>30394344
me too, I'd really like to play that game

What engine+editor do you guys recommend for a 3D adventure platformer game? The kind which you used play on your Dreamcast, PS1, PS2 and Nintendo 64.

>>30396292
I'm using unreal engine and I find it really nice
I have only a week of unity3d and I had so many problems with it...
I heard it has been improved a lot since then though

>>30393944
>>30394344
>>30396088

This:
>>30387843

>demo
So good news and bad news. The bad is I highly doubt I'll release a demo. It complicates things and would slow down development. My time is sadly limited as is, I need all of the time I can get into making the full version. The good news is the game is absolutely going to be finished, that I can promise or my honor be damned. I just hope I can get it done in a reasonable time frame, which would be at least 1 year of dedicated work I imagine.

Regardless, thank you for the kind words and encouragement, believe it or not these kinds of messages give me a ton of energy when I'm not feeling up to par, and I'm amazed that with just a few images and a song from the soundtrack people already want to play the game. It'll be worth the wait, promise.

>>30398089
I understand. Even if there's no demo, would it be likely sometime down the road we get some footage?

>>30389096

>>30398089
We will wait anon, come when you're ready

>>30399830
Bump.

>>30398195
Yep. I've posted a few very short previews, the longest one being of the menu system. I'll show progress when possible

>>30400410
Thanks anon

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>>30401088
>I'll show progress when possible
Woohoo

Hey whatever happened to that marcusmaximus/Mark Sprague guy and his video game series? Especially his Minty Fresh Adventure 2

>>30402712
who's this guy?

>>30403202
www.dragon-mango.com

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>>30370778
>Uploaded earlier this month
You're still going?! I thought this game was abandoned!

>>30370778
yes

game bumps

>>30401088
Yaaay

im playing Day Dreaming Derpy right now

the faces are kind of shit.

>>30407664
It uses that woobly giant head on tiny bodies art style, supposedly to make it look cute.

I wish he'd make the game more open world because so far it's linear as shit.

>>30407683
I dont like the giant head thing, but I can tolerate it as a stylistic choice, but the faces just arnt good.

I only fought a few ghosts so far and lost interest.

>>30407794
Can you post some screenshots?

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>>30408413
since the game is only v0.3, hopefully its just temporary art.

>>30408625
all cute but the portraits, they're ugly as shit

>>30408625
Pretty much what >>30408665 said. Overall, I think that's a charming style

>>30408625
I cant not see pig snouts on them, in game and in portraits.

>>30408625
I like the overall style. However, some things could use a revamp, the portraits, for example.

>>30408625
Heh you guys should try and tell him about his art style. He'll either be a bitch about it and say "my style or no game" or actually give a fuck and try to make his art style a little more appealing.
He has a Deviantart, a Tumblr and a Tweeter.

https://rpgmaker.net/games/9424/

>>30410229
the overall art style is cute, the only things ugly are the portraits, but I'll do it
He might even read it

>>30408625
>>30410255
Another thing that makes it look bad is that the portraits are high res for some reason while literally everything else is pixel art.

and im I the only one seeing some Grinch in moondancer?

>>30408625
Holy fuck the banding on those doors top left is triggering my autism.

>>30403342

Abandoned?! Hardly. Why would I abandon a game that has:

Brought me friends.
Taught me the basics of programming and beyond.
Allowed me to get into the mindset of video game development.
Expressed my love of a show that's brought me joy over the past 5 years.

Why would I abandon it? You're silly!

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>>30408625
>those somewhat ugly portraits

>>30408625
I don't think the portraits look too bad, but they definitely need to be at the same res as the rest of the game and have coloring and shading like the sprites do.

>>30410959
I thought it was you who said they couldn't continue because of problems at home and therefore had to abandon the project.
I even have the mental image of one of your screencaps being alongside the post.
That said, it does look like I misremembered: I'm likely thinking of this post: https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/28994130/#29002682

>>30414120

>>30412450
>https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/28994130/#29002682

I didn't write that. I did write >>29010060 saying that school was a time sink and not helping me get it out faster, though. So, no. No problems, still working on it, just very quietly.

I wish i could programm or code Games :'-(

>>30414927
Trust me.
Install Unity Personal.
Take the tutorials from Unity learn page.
Start from there and work your way up.

It's never too late to start learning.

>>30414927
just... start
pick a programming book or any only free course in programming
pick an engine like unity/unreal/game maker and start

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it works!
I almost finished to rework the inventory and to make basic objects for weapons and armors
what next? I think that I'm going to start to develop the skill system, then... probably the enemy AI
after that... I don't know
a demo maybe? I still need to learn how to make decent 3d models so probably that but I'm unsure

>>30417740
Do the enemy AI first. Make the act of playing with them fun before you start adding skills that manipulate the gameplay.

Im starting to cry trying to refactor my spaghetti code.

I reduced 3 classes with combined 1500 lines of code to 1 class with 300 lines after a week of work. Holy shit I was shit at programming a couple of months ago. So whats the point in refactoring it now when I will just refactor it into 100 lines next month? (assuming linear trend).

Im thinking of starting over and just copying the parts that are good from my current game.

>>30417925
that's... a great improvement. a much needed improvement
what are you working on?

>>30418040
im this guy
>>30307517

It feels like I wrote a lot of code for nothing, seeing how I could have done it a lot simpler, and now im removing most of what I did.

These days I either see some shoddy ugly 3D modeling sex posing nonsense with wild crazy and obscure fetishes thrust into them without regard of interactivity.

What happened to the old days of MLP porn that had decent vanilla content? What happened to the passion and effort? What happened to... well everything. These days there are so few flash that are top notch swimming in a sea of shit.

>>30418077
That's just the way it goes. Pretty soon I'll be deleting Everfree Outpost's old data file compiler (5,000 LOC) and replacing it with a new one that's half the size. The time I spent writing the old one (probably 4+ weeks in total) wasn't a waste, though. The old data compiler might be kind of shitty, but it worked well enough that I could keep making progress on other parts of the project, and I couldn't have written the new one without the experience I gained from building and using the original version.

>>30417925
>Im thinking of starting over and just copying the parts that are good from my current game.
Not gonna say you should or shouldn't, but I will warn you. Rewriting (and then working out all the new bugs) will probably take a lot longer than you think. Also, having basically no visible progress for months on end can be kind of demoralizing. Before you go ahead with the rewrite, I'd suggest making a list of what you specifically hope to improve by doing it. It's probably only going to be worth it if you have several major improvements you want to make across multiple sections of the codebase.

>>30420884
I don't know... I guess we aged very badly
probably what used to be the main slice of the fandom was the most casual, normies that just found mlp cute and funny to talk about
I still do
but with the death of the fad, I guess most casual and normal people just left the train
I personally know like... 10 people between casual and toxic that just left. because they didn't find mlp interesting anymore
I still remember when we used to roleplay dnd with ponies from time to time, I still miss those good old days
who remain is the most dedicated slice of the fandom of mlp... the ones that are more invested in the show and fan content, and the more toxic part as well
the part that is so deep in the clop hole that their mind are just so addicted to mlp porn that must rely on more and more strange fetishes to keep the excitement
I think this is the problem
back in 2011, when I joined the ride, we just needed few pony image reactions, few arts to be happy and go like "aaaww ponies shouldn't be this cute"
greens weren't that common neither
not complaining, I love greens, art and meme faces
but as time goes... you need something fresh to keep your relationship interesting
the more invested part of the fandom needed more and more extreme content, not all artists are willing to make everything
I'm a writefag myself, and I'm not willing to write sex scenes for example
so... week after week, month after month, the more extreme content pushed away the casual and genuine slice of the fandom, both users and content creators
we were already isolated, and this created resonance bubble where the normies users that aren't comfortable with it just go away
the social confirmation did the rest, making more or less all users becoming more and more toxic
we used to "love and tolerance" unironically, welcome everyone in the herd and keep an open mind making friends like the show taught us
this is a trend I've seen with many fandoms
and if you want to see where this will end... furries

>>30421274
>we used to "love and tolerance" unironically
It was always bullshit, nobody but idiots believed that.
It always disturbs me nowadays when I still hear of people who think "love and tolerance'' is a real thing and not a forced meme.

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>>30416845
>>30417704

Are there any mostly complete pony games out that one can point to and say 'this is how a pony game should be'?

>>30424045
Ashes of equestria (previous fallout equestria) is playable and not bad, for the demos at least
And we'll see how legend of equestria turns out

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>>30424045
Out of all pony games I know, FoE game made by empalu is the one I like the most.
Cute pony, many weapons, swords, rifles, explosives.
It recently got an update, and a offline-version to download.
http://empalu.deviantart.com/art/FoE-game-version-0-5-684485867

>>30425403
damn, I forgot about this one
I'm going to play it now

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So I've been making a thing

>>30425625
Tell us more about this thing

>>30425403
>least
ill look into it, thanks

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>>30425625

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Coming close to releasing Within the Hinterland. Not super happy with how it came out, didn't really fit my vision when I first thought the concept up.
It's your basic survival strategy game. Collect resources during the day, defend during the night. At this point it's just a matter of giving it some play testing because I've played it so much I can't even tell if it's fun anymore.

>inb4 should have play tested earlier
No shit, I just feel into the "I'll add one more thing then I'll release an alpha" loop

>>30427376
great news. I was sondering when ill get to play it.

>>30427419
A lot of people do, which I'm very grateful for, I'm just afraid people with get hype then disappointed.

The only thing to do now is add "tutorial hints" for controls and what to do. The only reason it's taking so long is because A, I have no inspiration to make it anymore, and B, I needed to add keyboard controls. It's made for controller in mind, but a lot of people don't own a controller

>>30427479
make no mistake, I have absolutely no expectations for a pony game, so you definitely wont disappoint me.

>>30414879
Oh, I realise you wrote >>29010060 and not the other one; I just thought that's what I misremembered.
That said, I've just found a screencap that fits more the bill, of you talking about parental feedback, but that's back from 2013. Sorry, my memory seems to be mixing recent and old posts; also, it's not conducive to game-development, trudging this stuff up; I just thought you'd stopped, given what I'd remembered.

>>30427376
finishing the project is a big accomplishment on its own
>>30427521
this is so sad and true...

On a tangent, if anyone has the time, motivation and noodling capabilities, there's a (non-pony-related) game jam coming up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbDSEpIZat8
I'd take part myself but my last/best attempt at a game was a CLI battleship clone that never got past 130 lines.

>>30429036
Hey, I'm subbed to that guy. He's not bad

I watched some unity tutorials.
Reminds me a little bit of the old Unreal Editor from 1998. But I did only Maps

get ye pony flask

>>30429036
I'm not that expert to do it yet
24 hours seem too few for me, but I'm going to keep an eye on what other devs will do

>>30433239
>Ye cannot get ye Elements

And you'd just have to sit there and wonder WHY in EQUESTRIA ye cannot get ye Elements!

>>30434312
Those things are only realistic after you've built up a library of game related code to use