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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« on: July 14, 2020, 05:29:45 PM »
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Computer Game Development - The Indie Alley / Re: [Dev Log] Tourney: The medieval tournament sim
« on: July 14, 2020, 02:29:16 PM »
Update time! Here is a roundup of what’s happened over the last few weeks!
Souvenirs
Visitors using a shop type outlet will purchase an adorable little souvenir. Here's a screenshot where most of them have picked up a tiny novelty knight helm at the blacksmith (as voted for by the fine folks on Twitter)
Pretty historically inaccurate, I suppose, but I had to forego those reservations because I think it’s good fun
Cost Management
Before I had it so that you had to purchase certain outlets to unlock certain upgrades for your house knights. For example you had to place a blacksmith before you could buy them any armour, or the apothecary before buying potions.
However having tested it found this to not really add much fun and was just obstructive. So I moved all of those things to the knight menu to buy whenever you wish.
In place of that I added a couple of more standard management sim options. Chiefly cost management for outlets. Along with that I felt you’d need a way to observe what effect messing with the prices would have. So added some fun* finance menu graphs, and positive / negative thoughts relating to price from the visitors
Sounds
I added a shiny dynamic sound manager that works nicely. There are rain sounds, ripples of applause and lances snapping. As part of this I also wanted to make a dynamic crowd “babble”. At the moment all of the voices are my own which is a little disconcerting when I’m testing, hearing a crowd of people that all sound like me. I’ll need to get some other voices before the madness sets in.
Unless it already did? *jibber*
Testing
Was going to do more testing and balancing, maybe with a third party, however I realised that I really need all of the finished things that might affect the difficulty completed. This includes things that affect crowd happiness, crowd movement. Happily the above things pretty much cover that.
Next
- Balancing & at least 1 third party test session
- I'M GOING TO START LEVEL 2! SQUEEEE
* If you do not find financial graphs fun, then please replace this word with “dreary”
Souvenirs
Visitors using a shop type outlet will purchase an adorable little souvenir. Here's a screenshot where most of them have picked up a tiny novelty knight helm at the blacksmith (as voted for by the fine folks on Twitter)
Pretty historically inaccurate, I suppose, but I had to forego those reservations because I think it’s good fun
Cost Management
Before I had it so that you had to purchase certain outlets to unlock certain upgrades for your house knights. For example you had to place a blacksmith before you could buy them any armour, or the apothecary before buying potions.
However having tested it found this to not really add much fun and was just obstructive. So I moved all of those things to the knight menu to buy whenever you wish.
In place of that I added a couple of more standard management sim options. Chiefly cost management for outlets. Along with that I felt you’d need a way to observe what effect messing with the prices would have. So added some fun* finance menu graphs, and positive / negative thoughts relating to price from the visitors
Sounds
I added a shiny dynamic sound manager that works nicely. There are rain sounds, ripples of applause and lances snapping. As part of this I also wanted to make a dynamic crowd “babble”. At the moment all of the voices are my own which is a little disconcerting when I’m testing, hearing a crowd of people that all sound like me. I’ll need to get some other voices before the madness sets in.
Unless it already did? *jibber*
Testing
Was going to do more testing and balancing, maybe with a third party, however I realised that I really need all of the finished things that might affect the difficulty completed. This includes things that affect crowd happiness, crowd movement. Happily the above things pretty much cover that.
Next
- Balancing & at least 1 third party test session
- I'M GOING TO START LEVEL 2! SQUEEEE
* If you do not find financial graphs fun, then please replace this word with “dreary”
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Change a Letter III
« on: July 14, 2020, 06:53:09 AM »
Depends on if you consider yourself to be a risk taker
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Would you rather?
« on: July 14, 2020, 06:51:50 AM »
Divan for the storage
Bran or wheat?
Bran or wheat?
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Fortunately, Unfortunately
« on: July 14, 2020, 06:51:08 AM »
Fortunately the contestants decide to abandon their grizzly challenge, and instead start throwing the tomatoes back in a jovial manner. This escalates as more people join in with the throwing. It eventually becomes a tomato based conflict that engulfs the entire town (similar to La Tomatina in Spain), and everyone has a lot of fun.
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« on: July 14, 2020, 06:46:22 AM »
typography
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Food Discussion - The Jolly Boar Kitchen / Re: The Beer Thread
« on: July 14, 2020, 06:45:42 AM »
If I'm wanting to treat myself to a nice beer, then I am partial IPA and APA's that are quite easy to get in shops these days. If I had to pick on then I'll go with Neck Oil, which has the benefit of being tasty and session (<4.5%)
If I am in a pub I do like a nice nut brown ale from time to time as well.
If I am in a pub I do like a nice nut brown ale from time to time as well.
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General Gaming - The Arcade / Re: What should I play next?
« on: July 13, 2020, 01:05:29 PM »
I'm 100% voting Skyrim. It's a wonderful game in many many ways
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« on: July 13, 2020, 08:58:58 AM »
Family
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« on: July 13, 2020, 07:48:14 AM »
Banner
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« on: July 12, 2020, 03:40:37 PM »
Breaker
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« on: July 11, 2020, 12:38:03 PM »
Talking
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Announcements! The Town Crier! / Re: Newsletter Issue 38: Summer 2020
« on: July 10, 2020, 03:55:09 PM »
Nice updates edition, Leafly!
It's made me want a beer...
It's made me want a beer...