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May 3rd 2013, 11:54 PM
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leprochaun
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I've abandoned this. I am working on something else at the moment though and will probably utilize many things I made for this, but the overall project is dead.

I'll leave the screenshot up, even though I'm not currently using that town design.
Click here!(If you like screenshots)
May 4th 2013, 11:46 AM
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Sounds veeeery interesting! And ambitious!
August 14th 2013, 02:51 AM
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leprochaun
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I updated this. Now you know what I've been doing lately.
August 14th 2013, 01:16 PM
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DackFight
Peasant He/Him United States
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I hope to play it, and maybe if you describe the story to us a little we can come up with a name.
August 14th 2013, 01:20 PM
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ThePunisher
Peasant He/Him Australia
(Tag Line) How long is this line. 
My D-mod going to be alot better not quite as good as Sabre or Skull but still going tbe pretty good.
August 14th 2013, 01:24 PM
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DackFight
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Then why aren't you working on it now? A good dmoder like Sabre and Skull always use Free Time to work on Dmods. Or eat bananas.
August 14th 2013, 01:35 PM
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ThePunisher
Peasant He/Him Australia
(Tag Line) How long is this line. 
Not not Sabre not anymore though.
August 14th 2013, 01:37 PM
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DackFight
Peasant He/Him United States
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Ok when he made Dmods.
August 14th 2013, 02:09 PM
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leprochaun
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My D-mod going to be alot better

Well then I can't wait to play it.
August 14th 2013, 03:47 PM
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KrisKnox
Peasant He/Him United States
The site's resident Therian (Dire Wolf, Dragon) 
Sounds like an awesome game. Though, I hope if you're going to implement a day-night thing that it won't actually take half a real-time day to get to night, that if there are quests utilizing this day/night thing that it won't take too long to do them and that they're fun and awesome.
August 14th 2013, 04:03 PM
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DackFight
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Ya if there are special quests involved with the night day thing the time limit for it would have to not take forever, or maybe an item to change time. I wonder if it works will stores be closed minus bars. Also any hints at the spells.
August 14th 2013, 04:07 PM
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leprochaun
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I think right now it's like 8 minutes of night and 14 of day. Or something like that. There is one enemy that will only appear at night, also shops close down. But that's kind of all there is to it right now.
August 14th 2013, 04:56 PM
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DackFight
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That should be fun, is it going to have some radiant quests, also can you add a leprochaun or two.
August 14th 2013, 05:31 PM
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leprochaun
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Errr, wasn't planning to. It *might* end up having an endless mode though.
August 14th 2013, 07:22 PM
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DackFight
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ok, looking forward to it then.
August 14th 2013, 10:26 PM
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shevek
Peasant They/Them Netherlands
Never be afraid to ask, but don't demand an answer 
I think right now it's like 8 minutes of night and 14 of day.

Sounds cool!

But I'd certainly suggest using wall-clock time at least as an option. If you have to save your game and come back when it's day or night, that adds a great suspense to the game, and forces players to:
1. Wait until they can finally continue.
2. Do other stuff, like eat.

Both are good things.

However, I don't think DinkC is capable of reading wall-clock time, or is it?
August 14th 2013, 10:41 PM
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leprochaun
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It's really only meant to be there for environmental purposes. At least that was my original use for it. It'd be easy enough to create situations that only occurred during night, but I have yet to make them.
August 14th 2013, 10:44 PM
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magicman
Peasant They/Them Netherlands duck
Mmmm, pizza. 
However, I don't think DinkC is capable of reading wall-clock time, or is it?

As of 1.08: get_time_real()

returns the number of minutes in the day. If it was 3 pm, or 15:00, it would return 900.

Definitely doable. Not sure if it's worth it to force people to wait until real-life midnight in order to defeat the horde of zombies, though
August 14th 2013, 10:44 PM
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DackFight
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ooh I got an idea, have Dink needs to eat to live. Like in Survival.
August 14th 2013, 10:50 PM
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leprochaun
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Not sure if it's worth it to force people to wait until real-life midnight in order to defeat the horde of zombies, though

I could easily edit my script to support that. I could even check to see if it's midnight, and if it is force night, create the zombie horde, and make it so all the zombies have to be dead before day starts. It actually wouldn't be too complicated.
August 14th 2013, 10:51 PM
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leprochaun
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ooh I got an idea, have Dink need to eat to live. Like in Survival.

I really don't want to add in *too* many elements. There's already plenty in there.

Edit:

Plus, I really don't like games that aren't about survival incorporating survival elements.
August 14th 2013, 10:53 PM
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DackFight
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Darn and if you make Zombies that come out in the night, make them have loud noises as to annoy the people sleeping when we play, also how are you gonna get it to tell if it's real time, and in the specific area.

Edit: What about enemy health bars, at least make it optional for people that want to reduce difficultly.
August 14th 2013, 11:04 PM
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leprochaun
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I actually would like to include zombies. And I have this weird attempt at one where I just gave a sprite a script that makes it move in stutters. It doesn't quite resemble a zombie though, but it might be the best I can do.

I put in health bars earlier today. It was the only thing I did because I've had a migraine all day and just couldn't focus on much more than simple tasks.

The difficulty is going to progress from incredibly easy to insanely hard. It should be a pretty smooth progression though. It shouldn't be too much of a problem.
August 15th 2013, 05:52 PM
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DackFight
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So we can't choose a difficulty? I guess if the difficulty progresses the farther you go then it feels like a fair match. Also please make no speed puzzles like in one dmod, I can't remember the name, Return of the goblins I think.
August 15th 2013, 05:54 PM
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leprochaun
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Sort of like the cameras on mystery island?

I had no plans for speed puzzles. But now that you mention it I might make one or two.
August 15th 2013, 07:57 PM
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I had no plans for speed puzzles. But now that you mention it I might make one or two.

Now that's just mean.

Also I like things to get easier over time. Can you let us sort the difficulty according to our preference? Maybe you could have a screen where we draw a graph of our desired difficulty distribution in ducks.
August 15th 2013, 09:08 PM
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Leprochaun
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Maybe you could have a screen where we draw a graph of our desired difficulty distribution in ducks.

Obviously I've already made this. I even let the player choose if it's going to be a pie or a bar graph.
August 16th 2013, 12:36 AM
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leprochaun
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Added a screenshot for those who are interested.
August 16th 2013, 01:46 AM
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Very slick map design there Leprochaun. =)
August 16th 2013, 02:05 AM
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Leprochaun
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Usually I go for the 100 sprites a screen because I can always find a place to put something, but I decided they were pretty enough as is.
August 17th 2013, 10:37 PM
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DackFight
Peasant He/Him United States
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Why are you still on here and not working on the Dmod!?
August 17th 2013, 10:51 PM
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Leprochaun
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Dack. You wanna know the progress I've made today?

mapped out eight dungeons- they still need to be scripted and detailed, but still- that's a lot.
scripted the first phase of the final boss.
added a few new weapons.
and modified a whole heap of graphics for the sake of a single part of the final dungeon. (which puts the dungeons mapped out count up to 9).

August 17th 2013, 11:11 PM
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shevek
Peasant They/Them Netherlands
Never be afraid to ask, but don't demand an answer 
Dack. You wanna know the progress I've made today?

You make it sound like you did it just because he was teasing you. Don't encourage him like that.

But aside from that: impressive progress!
August 18th 2013, 03:07 AM
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Yeah, very nice!
August 20th 2013, 04:19 PM
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DackFight
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Still if you didn't post here, maybe you could have an extra dungeon or have some scripted. Just think of the possibility. If you stopped looking at porn. For about an hour
August 20th 2013, 06:23 PM
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Leprochaun
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Porn is life, Dack. Let me break it down for you.
Porn == sex.
sex == babies.
babies == life.
Therefor, porn == life.
August 20th 2013, 08:28 PM
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DackFight
Peasant He/Him United States
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you raise a valid, point now go show Pred it, and see if it goes thru his thick skull, tell him how he came, unless he is an alien.