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My next project

January 1st 2010, 11:21 AM
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Erwin
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Friendship is magic 
Now that I've finished the demo for Day of the Carcass I'm taking a little break and will make a new version of DotC soon which hopefully fixes all the problems it has.

I've had quite a couple of projects going on in the past and not all of them are finished. I also have ideas for new projects. Which one of these projects would you like to see finished the most? (I'm basically using this thread to find out what I should do next.)

Dink Goes Hunting

I've improved my D-Modding skills a lot since I made this so I decided I would improve the demo version a lot and finish the whole D-Mod if I would ever start working on it again. I was also plannin to use Survival in this D-Mod so if it's ever going to be finished it's after Survival is finished.

Day of the Carcass

I just released a demo of this. Working on this again will simply mean that I finish it.

Survival

I've been working on this before but somehow started doing other things. It's coming along just fine and I haven't encountered any real problems yet so expect this one to be what I said it would be and more.

Magical Mayhem Online

I think Magical Mayhem is a good idea for a fun game but it doesn't work far too well on Dink. That's why I have decided to recreate it using Game Maker. While I'm at it why not just make sure that you can play it over the internet? I've already tested a very small version and it works fine. So don't expect this to be a failure

A Dink strategy

I've been experimenting with this and I think it's possible to make a strategy game with Dink. It'll probably be quite a bit like Heroes of Might and Magic.
January 1st 2010, 11:28 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
Definitely Dink Goes Hunting.
January 1st 2010, 11:29 AM
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iplaydink
Peasant He/Him Sweden
Hmm.. 
A turn based strategy game in dink like Heroes?! That's what I've been thinking about doing after 3am <.<

But three amulets will take some time.. so go on, I want to see that (and you are a better scripter, I love heroes (III) and would like the dink version to be as good as possible)
January 1st 2010, 11:31 AM
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Patrunjelu
Peasant He/Him Romania
Rawr! 
A dink strategy all the way
January 1st 2010, 04:33 PM
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PaladinEmet
Peasant He/Him United States
The Truth is out there 
darn... I was gonna make a dink strategy based on 40k

any 40k players out there?

TAU EMPIRE!!
January 2nd 2010, 07:44 AM
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Quiztis
Peasant He/Him Sweden bloop
Life? What's that? Can I download it?! 
Orkz is da best un'z!
January 2nd 2010, 09:10 AM
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Christiaan
Bard They/Them Netherlands
Lazy bum 
Why work on something else than Day of the Carcass? I mean, everybody's playing it now, so hurry up and finish it!

Although the Heroes 3 D-Mod sounds interesting, it sounds too hard to pull it off.
January 2nd 2010, 09:17 AM
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Erwin
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Friendship is magic 
Why work on something else than Day of the Carcass? I mean, everybody's playing it now, so hurry up and finish it!

That makes perfect sence but I still want to know people's opinions. It would be shamefull if I would just complete Day of the Carcass and have people respond with something like: "You could have made an online game but instead you chose to just make an ordinairy D-Mod?! What the hell is wrong with you?!". It just gives a lot more motivation to know that you're making something that a lot of people would really like to play. Also making Day of the Carcass is like jumping in a building with a low ceiling. You want to jump as high as you possibly can but the ceiling just keeps preventing you from doing that. Most of the new things have been added though and if I'm going to finish Day of the Carcass I was planning on focusing mostly on the normal things of a D-Mod like a good storyline instead of scripting new things which will eventually not work as well as you had liked.

Although the Heroes 3 D-Mod sounds interesting, it sounds too hard to pull it off.

Don't worry I can handle it . I think it will actually be easier to make than Day of the Carcass.
January 2nd 2010, 09:22 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
Seriously, it is not fun when you make a demo and then never finish it. You will end up not having finished a single project, but keep uploading demos and unfinished stuff.

And currently, you already have 2 demos. And you're planning to start a new project. It's not a good idea.
January 2nd 2010, 09:27 AM
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Erwin
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Friendship is magic 
Well just vote for Day of the Carcass then. That would make things a lot easier . Also the fact that I have several unfinished projects is probably because I constantly want to improve myself. All the things I've created so far have been a very good learning exercise and I kind of stopped at the point where I couldn't learn anything else from finishing the project. (This isn't the main reason though) I would love to finish all of my project but my urge to learn new things is kinda great . I think I'm reaching the limit of what you can make in Dink though so there's no point in learning much more. All the more reason to finish my projects actually.

So yeah... Just tell me I'm awesome and that you would love to see the full version of Day of the Carcass and I'll do it
January 2nd 2010, 09:39 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
You are awesome ( ) and I would like to see you finish Dink Goes Hunting, actually. I enjoyed it much more than Day of the Carcass. Besides, it's much more sensible to finish what you first started and then move onto the next project.
January 2nd 2010, 09:44 AM
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Erwin
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Friendship is magic 
Yeah that's true. I will finish Survival first if I'm going to work on Dink Goes Hunting again though. It'll also be easier to make than Day of the Carcass since I don't have be worried about bugs and other issues the new stuff in Day of the Carcass causes. It would also be nice to finish it because I have already made some nice improvements over the last version. ARGH I can't choose. Do you see now why I started asking your opinion?
January 2nd 2010, 09:45 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
Hmmm... I made some good points you gotta admit.
January 2nd 2010, 09:49 AM
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Erwin
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Friendship is magic 
Yep that's true. But that didn't exactly make the choise any easier. I wish I had the power to make a poll.

EDIT: If I can't figure out what to do I think I'll just be sensible and finish my old projects first just like you said I should do.
January 2nd 2010, 09:51 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
I just spoke with God one the phone. He really wants you to finish DGH.
January 2nd 2010, 04:27 PM
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ExDeathEvn
Peasant He/Him New Zealand rumble
"Skinny Legend" 
Finish your old projects, then. Sounds like a plan, it gives time for as many bugs as possible in DotC to be uncovered and announced to you before you fix a few and post an update only to receive more.