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Re: Innkeep! - Serve Ale. Collect Rumors. Make Coin.
« Reply #30 on: January 28, 2016, 01:58:54 PM »
My only tiny critique is that mead is usually a deeper colour, I'd make it a bit darker and more orangey.  :P

In all seriousness, really nice work, just watched through the update vid. :)
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« Reply #31 on: January 30, 2016, 03:33:25 AM »
Thank!


Yes on the mead. We have a meadery near my house and I do drink it sometimes, but I was finding that the originally a darker color felt a bit too hard to make out on the screen. I'll have to tweak it. A bit of orange to it sounds like a good idea.
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« Reply #32 on: February 05, 2016, 02:47:50 PM »
The current yellow would work better for cider perhaps if you're planning on including that?
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« Reply #33 on: February 07, 2016, 03:33:31 PM »
If I add another drink cider would be it. I wouldn't rule it out.


I'll get round to toning down that yellow some time.
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« Reply #34 on: August 01, 2017, 01:17:07 PM »
Hi all. I realized I haven't posted here in quite a while. I've continued developing innkeep over the last year and a half, carrying out a big refresh of the graphics, and along the way figuring out what the core of the game is going to be. I'm looking forward to having a lot of the core game mechanics implemented by the end of the year.


There are a few development videos and posts on my page if you are interested. Most recently I made a working cellar. ;-)



http://www.innkeepgame.com/


I'll be sure to return to this thread when I have some new material to share.


Cheers,


Daniel
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« Reply #35 on: August 01, 2017, 02:59:54 PM »
Welcome, great to have you back! :) Definitely post some new material soon, would be good to see more of how things are going & more things to put in the newsletter is always nice.

I like the "dolls' house" style, as you put it, for things like the cellar; it works very well indeed. The games I've been making for a while haven't needed any of those sorts of spatial elements, but it was great to read how they were achieved and good food for thought!
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« Reply #36 on: August 02, 2017, 07:47:13 AM »
Thanks. ;-)


It can be challenging sometimes working with the perspective, but it's let me do some interesting things. I think it's well suited to the kind of game I am making. If it was more of a general management/construction style sim I would want to go with isometric. But with the play area fixed, and the focus on the core game loop with narrative, this seemed like a more interesting way to go.



What I'm working towards at the moment is just getting the play space properly knocked into shape. That's all I've been doing for a few months now actually! Still a few more months to go. Once the foundation is good to go I will begin to introduce actual gameplay elements.
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« Reply #37 on: August 02, 2017, 11:01:41 PM »
Yeah - I've always felt that building core mechanical stuff then gameplay is probably a better way to go. I never seem to manage to make myself do that, when I'm designing I always want to get to something I can playtest quickly, but I think building things like play space first is probably more efficient.
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« Reply #38 on: August 14, 2017, 05:41:01 PM »
Hi all.


It's time for dev diary #12. ;-)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQLCg64TAGw
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« Reply #39 on: August 15, 2017, 11:34:25 AM »
Nice, finally got round to having a watch - really interesting to see how you've put the whole thing together!

Also, remember you can embed videos here if that's ever helpful, there's a YouTube button somewhere in the options menu when you write a new post with the full interface.
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« Reply #40 on: August 20, 2017, 05:38:01 PM »
Thanks! Roger about the embed option.
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« Reply #41 on: August 20, 2017, 10:57:48 PM »
We're planning on opening an articles section sometime soon, btw - if you think of anything more generalised you might want to write on any techniques/ideas you use (though of course plugging innkeep as your example ;) ), give me a shout, you're good at doing the explaining stuff (though of course you may well be too busy & understandable if so!) :)
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« Reply #42 on: August 21, 2017, 03:18:35 AM »
That sounds like fun. I have learnt a few things about drawing game art side during the course of this project, since I started with practically zero experience. I could write about that if you like. Alternatively about the thinking that went into coming up with my game idea. There was a bit of a method involved that others might find helpful. If you have any suggestions let me know. ;-)
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« Reply #43 on: August 21, 2017, 11:34:03 PM »
Awesome, either of those ideas sound like they'd be great! :) I could drop you an email sometime to discuss it? Possibly later this week, I'm hoping to spend next weekend doing a lot of work on getting the articles section ready to run.
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« Reply #44 on: August 22, 2017, 03:02:27 AM »
Sure! Feel free.
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