Kamata's Forum Posts

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  • Have you looked into Ren'py? As much as I love C2, Ren'py is great for Visual Novels.

    Also, are any of the positions paid? I'm a coder and I'd love to tackle something like this.

    Hey! I have actually been recommended Ren'py before. I have never tried it but it does look intuitive.

    The reason I would rather use construct is the fact that it's not 'just' a visual novel. We're also including other features such as stats, puzzles and combat scenes to spice things up a little. This is where Construct makes it much more functional than Ren'py.

    Right now we're in the concepts and writing stage. For the code we will be looking to start early next year once we have finished artwork ready to go.

  • Hey! I'd love to help but infortunatly, if I'm kinda Okay with writing, I suck pretty much at english, I'm not good artist and I just begin with construct2. :p

    Altrough, since I'm there, I'd like to point out you have some game design issues with your games (do you have a dedicated member of the group for game design? You didn't talk about game designer in your presentation.), specially the first one, with the school, work sleep thing. I dont know really where I can comment on it, so I'll just leave it there, it's just advices so you might making it better:

    First, you have a feedback problem. It took me long to realize clicking on sleep and work where doing something to me (adding money and health), and even more long to realize studing could make my grade better (since you actually have to study for a long time for anything to happen). there should be a visual and audio effect when you have your cursor on the buttons and when you click (like in the first menu) and something that indicate you what it does (it can be an arrow the first time you click for exemple). For school, the first click could make you pass from "grade:none" to "grade:F", and there could be a progress bar to know if you're progressing.

    Oh and the health, when you have no health left, there's nothing to say it to you except "0/100", and you have to guess that it stop you from working, that's bad. there should be a visual feedback (the screen turning a bit red for exemple), and something that tells you what it does (for exemple, it could cross the money and the grade when you try to study or work.)

    Also you don't have a meaningful gameplay right now. the only rule you have is that when you dont have health, you cant work or study; and when you study, you work better.

    So actually, not having health means nothing but needing to click on 'sleep'. While in every other game it makes you die! (which btw make me thing you could rename it "energy" cause it'd be more appropriate.) I dont feel like there would be any consequences if I work too hard for exemple. My health will be equal to 0 but that's all.

    You could add something that makes you lose lvls when the player is out of energy for exemple.

    Also you could add more things than sleeping. Like, eating, drinking, or I dunno. (And it'd be interesting cause you can eat at work so you dont have to go home, but it makes you gain less energy, and you have to buy the food first.)

    Anyway: the game needs to be more alive, more interactive.

    Thirdly, You should have more events like the cat asking if the player wanna cheat, that's make the thing alive! (and the same event shouldn't happen twice or it should happen lot of time with a random issue (it'd make you earn 5lvl or lose 5lvl, I dont know if it's the case right now with your game)

    (Oh! And, more difficult to fix problem that is not a game design one: don't you have a composer either in your group? No music at all? ='( )

    Anyway, maybe it's an old project and you dont want to even touch it again, but it can gives you ideas for your visual novel anyway.

    If you need advices like these for your game I'd be happy to help btw.

    Have a nice day :')

    Hi, thank you for your input into this. I will try and structure my reply in order with your post:

    First please understand that this is actually the least developed game of the two on the website. It's actually in Alpha version where as the clickers game is in Beta.

    None of our team are currently working on those two games other than myself as we're making our main focus the visual novel! Therefore I have done the best I can with the limited resources I have.

    Health/Energy - It is in fact called Energy. I don't have any form of 'health' in the game. When energy is at 0 you need to go home to rest.

    With more time and development on the game and when it's out of beta there will be much more functionality (There's even a battle system in plans for it) it's just going to take some time with the Visual Novel being our primary focus.

    This will also include an opening scene for a tutorial to actually give players a good grasp on what to do.

    For a quick overview to the game.

    In the top left corner you have the name of the character, your current money and the current day (That's the small number in the circle) the day will change each time you sleep. You have 100 days to get into the guild or the game won't let you sleep again!

    (Cheat tip) If you focus all of your time into studying until you're Grade: A - You will be able to get plenty of money from work to buy all the gems in the shop and get into the guild hall.

    In this Alpha version, the game ends in the guild hall but that will eventually change.

    Thanks again for your input. I appreciate it

  • Hello ^__^ trying to earn some street cred. Haha I was wondering if you are still looking for artist. I believe some of my work may have some value to you.

    Hey! I'd love to see your work. Do you perhaps have any examples?

    Also do you have skype? If so please PM your username to me ^^

  • Just added you on Skype then

    I didn't get your request. Some people seem to have had trouble adding my skype. Perhaps PM me your Skype username?

  • Just curious if this job is still available

    It is indeed! ^^

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  • Hi

    I'm Mike (Known most places as Kamata) and I'm from the UK (England specifically).

    I've been using Conctruct 2 for a number of months now but only recently gotten more involved in the Community.

    Already I've begun to develop 2 games. Once still in Alpha and the other in Beta. They can both be found here: http://roleplaydreamworld.com/index.php/projects

    I'm always happy to help if you're stuck on a problem, however I may be unable to join any 'team' as my own team is currently working as much as we can on our own Visual Novel. (Search that link a little more to find out information!)

    I also do Website Design in Joomla CMS from time to time which has been a hobby of mine for a few years now.

    If you ever have any questions, feel free to give me a shout! ^^

  • Hello!

    A small group of like-minded individuals have come together in order to create a Visual Novel that will also include some puzzles to keep the audience entertained.

    We are a small team, currently of 6 members in each aspect of the team from writing, coding, art and Voice Acting. However we are looking for others to join in order to speed the process along.

    Artist(s)

    Our main road block is artists. We have gotten together a small collection of concept work

    (They can be found on our

    DA Page: http://roleplay-dream-world.deviantart.com/

    and Wiki: http://roleplaydreamworld.com/Wiki/inde ... Characters )

    Construct Coder(s)

    I am currently the only one working in this area. For the Visual Novel area itself, that's a simple structure. However creative minds for puzzles/Mini-games are always helpful! If you have any examples of your own then please do contact me: mail@roleplaydreamworld.com

    Community Administrators

    A good Community Administrator will be able to find new and creative ways to bring in community members and to keep them hyped and excited for current and future projects. Making use of on-site tools and blog posts/newsletters to communicate and keep the community engaged with information and events/competitions.

    The Visual Novel isn't our end all and be all. We are in fact hoping to develop many other games.

    Some examples of other games being made as side-projects can be found

    Here: http://www.scirra.com/arcade/example/18 ... orld-alpha

    and here: http://tda.pixel-virtuosa.com/game/html5

    If you wish to become part of our team, or have any questions. Please do contact me either here, email: mail@roleplaydreamworld.com or skype: its_justmike

    (Website: http://www.roleplaydreamworld.com )

  • Thank you for that.

    I actually decided to go down a different route. It seems to work for now but it takes a lot of time to code each item in.

    It's simply buttons that will essentially scroll everything in the side bar 50 pixels up/down

    http://tda.pixel-virtuosa.com/game/HTML5/

  • So I've been searching for this for the better part of 2 days and I'm still no closer to cracking it!

    So I'm trying to create a scroll bar or side bar that scrolls, even.

    Basically it should be a bar on the side of the game that acts as a menu. There will be 'power ups' and such in there but I have too many to fit on the screen at one time, so I want to be able to scroll through them.

    Is this possible in Construct 2?

    Thanks.

  • I have been looking into ways of reducing the amount of space needed for currency within my game as numbers begin to get very large, very fast!

    Here is what I currently have (Please excuse the graphics as they're the least of my priorities at the moment)

    http://tda.pixel-virtuosa.com/game/HTML5/

    I would like to try and format my currency to be more like Clicker Heroes. ( http://www.kongregate.com/games/Playsau ... lete=click )

    Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. This is my first attempt at a game and this problem is really holding me back!

  • Hello!

    So before I get into details about what we're working on next, I would first like to explain a little about the project and how it's progressing:

    We are working on a Multiplayer game that eventually will have a number of advanced features and will be working within a MySQLi database. At the moment we have been working to create a community and within the next month we will be looking to start a Kickstarter!

    The project itself is called 'Roleplay Dream World' ( ) You can see a demo and some basic details on the website.

    The Next Step:

    Next we wish to begin adding Multiplayer functionality. We already have a database set up with a small number of users (Who have signed up via our Joomla Site) Now it's time to add a login screen and allow for multiple users to roam the current screen and use the chat.

    Who We Need:

    We are looking for people who have experience in working with Multiplayer features within C2. Though I have been dabbling in it myself it's still a learning curve so I'll be learning while doing it.

    Artists are also something that will be very helpful! Avatars, Scenes, Layout, UI, badges/achievment art etc - All for the game itself, however web art is required too such as mascots.

    What You Get:

    As we're a small start up at the moment the work will all be volunteer for the beginning. However from that you get:

    • Full access within the game
    • Full Credit with links to website/Email for contact
    • Important Roles within the community (As available and dependant on your ability to fill them)

    Should the Kickstarter be a success:

    • Payment for previously done work (Dependent on available funding AFTER all essentials are paid for)
    • Future career opportunities (should our plans for memberships work out to achieve future funding of the project).

    You also get to be a part of a team, creating a game not for profit, but for the benefit of an age old community spread around to the far reaches of the internet. A new home for Roleplayers and Socializers.

    PLEASE NOTE:

    Not all functionality in the near future will be made with C2 as some of it will require custom work, knowledge of HTML/PHP/JQuery/Java will all be great additions!

    All members of the Development team will also be required to sign NDAs (Non-disclosure Agreements) to protect the project's property and the property submitted by other team members.

    If you have any questions, feel free to contact me here or via email: (Or Skype: Its_JustMike)

    Thank you and I look forward to interested parties!

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