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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Daisy game idea, more thoughts.

So a lot of people liked the idea of the Daisy game, and gave me comments on it. There's a lot of ideas going around about the game now and i myself gave it some thought. There so many ideas that I'm sure I'll forget some.

I think it's surprising because it's just an idea, i don't have the means to make such a game by myself. And yet, people like to make suggestions for it.

The first surprise i had when when Jon showed a lot of interest in the game, asked a lot of questions, and made a lot of suggestions. But what was neat is that he made a concept for the main villain, the evil queen/princess:

I have to b honest and i don't always like the girls Jon doodles, they often seem too tall and skinny, which is not what i'm into, but this design, i liked it a LOT! look at those curves!

Game references

Also since then, I've come to see that the concept of the game (female heroine losing her clothing) has been done before:
  • Snk's Athena game did this, except she started out in her bikini/underwear, and could get items such as weapons, shields and armors, when hit, she'd lose those.
  • The fanmade Tifa tan X2 hentai game (NSFW) is pretty close to the concept i elaborated for the Daisy game, it's not a platformer though. Tifa tries to get through the levels and defeat bosses (often female) as all the enemies try to grope her, in the final stages she may even lose her top and fight topless (i think she gets "damaged" faster in that state though). When she defeats a female boss, the boss becomes exposed. this game also features the most fun combat system ever and has like 30 special moves available to Tifa.
I believe there was another game that was similar, but i can't remember it for the life of me.

Main Princesses

A LOT of suggestions were made towards the Princesses and some possible bosses for the game, it was also implied that the pageant would allow anyone that was called a Princess of something, regardless if they're actual royalty of not. the suggestions were:
  • Jon suggested that Syrup would be a "fake Princess", trying to pass as a real one, and her attire would b stolen from another Princess.
  • Wendy O Koopa, as daughter of King Koopa, is technically a Princess. I imagine she'd help Daisy out of spite for the villain. Probably would give a Chomp related item/dress.
  • Peach, to my dismay, should probably appear in the game, her dress would probably give Daisy the ability to float in midair for a short time.
  • I'm unsure if Rosalina is actually a Princess, but since the pageant is loose about it, she would probably be in the game, her ability would possibly let Daisy shoot starbits.
  • Technically, it's a Princess, but i admit it'll b hard to write in the Princess shroob. If she provided an ability, it'd b to throw poison mushrooms at enemies or something.
There were suggestions to add Princesses such as Zelda, but i quickly refused the idea because if they're not from the mushroom kingdom, we have a crossover situation, and those never make sense.

Custom Princesses

I am interested in adding custom Princesses though, non-main character ones. Princesses that represent a race in the Mario universe, some of those would be:
  • A Jellyfish Princess, because the jellyfishes have a rather nice and interesting design.
  • A Thwomp Princess, yes, that's right, a Thwomp one. And no, not an anthro one (sorry to who suggested it). I imagine her being very similar to the male counterpart, with over the top eyelashes, lipstick, and a huge rock rack. I dunno if it's even doable, but it'd b funny.
  • A Magikoopa one, but please, nothing like the one in Mario galaxy. actually took me a while that one was even female.
  • A Birdo Princess, Cause, u just have to have a Birdo in a game with a pageant involved.
  • Although i hate anthro Apes, cause they're still just apes, a Kong Princess could b doable. but to use an existing one or make a new one, i have no idea. But Candy Kong is a good candidate.
  • A Piranha Plant Princess would b cool for the lulz, especially a potted one.
Some of these custom Princesses, if rejected, could become bosses instead.

There was a suggestion to make daisy's undergarments give her certain properties, as she could possibly get various sets. At this point, it seems too minor of a detail to bother. IF the game turns into a platformer RPG like game, then perhaps this will b considered.

I know i talk like I'm actually going to develop this, and actually am not, but i have fun planning this like i would actually do it.

Dresses

Other suggestions Jon made were towards dresses/outfits Daisy could use:
  • A Russian fur coat (and maybe hat) for ice based ability.
  • Leather Catsuit, Possibly inspired on her bike suit from Mario Kart Wii, Ability wise nothing was suggested, but i think a wall jump could work, maybe ability to slide too.
  • Hula girl outfit, but that might b Jon's penis talking.
  • a Short Yukata (Summer cotton kimono), it'd looks sort of like a kimono, but short like this. Ability? i have no idea.
Anyway, Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions and ideas. Any concept art would b welcome as well. Who knows maybe a programmer might someday stumble on this and decide to make a game engine for it.
Saturday, January 31, 2009

This guy has everything ever made!

This is the blog of a Portuguese guy on Blogger.

click on pic to get to his blog

The dude seems to collect video games, consoles and accessories. The amount of stuff he has is impressive to say the least.

Have a look at his collection, it's MAD!
Friday, January 30, 2009

Tight leather ≠ good game.

Am i the only one that is tired of games where the main character is so god damned awesome and overpowered in the intro that he or she can kill hordes of enemies in the game's intro without even trying and say stupid lines while doing it?

Maybe i am, but this game takes the cake...

Click pic for trailer

This game is called Bayonetta, but could b easily called "Mary Sue: the game", and it is one of those games. A very obvious Devil may cry rip off, and the intro fucking made my brain hurt. At a few points she jumps into the air in, as best as i can describe it, a "weeeeee!" manner, all her limbs stretched out, and somehow firing all 4 of her guns (how are those on her feet even shooting?) while just looking straight forward, and somehow every shot hits her enemies.

When did everyone just became Goku? What are eyes for? no one seems to need eyes anymore. and please, don't ever miss a shot, that would ruin the character's credibility.

The story seems to be a minor aspect, gameplay seems stolen from so many other games. But what pisses me off about the game is they're trying to entirely sell it on sex appeal.

During the intro, you can see the camera dancing around her ass and doing crotch close ups. Some her her moves make her become exposed by remaining into a V swimsuit, and looks like some special moves rend her completely naked as her suit attacks.

I'm sorry, but, I've seen hentai games which were way more credible. This thing is trying to b an hentai game so bad, except it can't. It reminds me of "DOA: extreme volleyball". The volleyball was like, a minigame, what the game was is a censored hentai game. Nothing more! but ninja team were trying to be subtle about it.

This is like a BAD hentai game, because they're a lot less subtle about it, but it seems u can't really get a good look at the whore cause of the type of game it is. I wouldn't b surprised if there was a model viewer unlockable in this though, or alternative sluttier costumes.

At least in an hentai game, you'd b give the choice to:
  • Compliment her hairstyle.
  • Throw a stick have have her costume fetch it.
  • Give her a spanking.
  • Reap!
I'm all for adult games on consoles, there's like nothing out there, and just some jap stuff for PC. But this game, it's just a cheap cocktease ripoff with a fucking Mary Sue as main character.
Thursday, January 29, 2009

I should do this

Once in a while you browse on the web and stumble upon something you completely were not looking for. And for once I am not talking about porn, instead it is sprites. More specifically, sprite sculptures. Hell anyone can do this, but I just never pieced it together! I could have my own tentacle bard game wall in my room right now, and it would be dirt cheap to make.

http://www.justinbevans.com/senior-thesis.php
Monday, January 26, 2009

Happy Bday Tephra.



Tephy was my 3rd character ever, and the first female one i made. She's the one me and a lot of people like to mess with the most, but she's still often ignored somehow.

I've forgotten all of her previous bdays, shame on me.

Zach made this doodle for her anniversary, hope everyone likes it.
Friday, January 23, 2009

Only winning matters? or how you play?

So this morning i wasn't feeling well, so i stayed home, i got work later on though.

Lil bored, i decided to browse Youtube, and ran into a video of some gaming event:


The description reads as follows:

The famous perfect by Demon Hyo on Dark Prince at evolution 2007 in Las Vegas. This was an amazing victory that was broad casted world wide over the net and is still talked about today. Dark Prince got OWNED after placing 2nd at evo west and talking trash about east coast.

It sorta sounded OK, but not too good as capcom makes broken game because of air juggle. See the pic i posted? you'll b seeing a lot of that in the video, u can kill characters by doing only that, just by holding down and pressing a button.

Professional players do not tend to b "skilled" as much as they are just incredibly cheap players that usually spam the shit out of 1 or 2 moves, whichever is broken in the game really.

I think it's funny how the guy at the end of the video is bragging after such a sad and pathetic display, honestly, the game itself is crap, it's broken. If i recall correctly there are multiple infinite combos, and a lot are not that hard to pull, and he picked one of the easiest.

Not all pro players are "just cheap", there's the famous footage of daigo with absolutely no life parrying an entire super move from chunli and following through with his and winning. That video happens to b one of my all time favs:



Sure it's not impossible to perform, i know people who have, although i personally can't, but to perform that, in such a big event, with no life, that by itself is impressive, and then he combo'd it into his super, and won, that's just amazing.

You can find the whole battle on Youtube, it's probably in the related videos, during the whole fight, his opponent kept his distance, hit and run, being cheap, incredibly annoying. Daigo's victory was incredibly satisfying for the people watching because it was a display of skill over cheap tactics.

You can argue that Daigo also uses cheap moves, but i think that since he does take a lot of risks and actually is on the offense really makes up for it.

This sorts of remind me of a situation in TF2, people who like to hide and/or stand a kilometer away from battle where it's perfectly safe and 1hit enemies. These tend to of course have more kills than deaths, and think they're any good or contributing to their team when in reality they aren't doing shit.

I'm of course talking of the people who use snipers.


As u can see, anytime you're killed by a sniper, he's in a perfectly safe spot, strolling around gently not doing shit until some enemy shows up. This is the main reason i can't get mad at snipers: they're not having any fun at all. I don't care in how much denial they are, they're just not. Also they're not actually helping their team most of the time.

Snipers are like TF2's cancer: they don't have fun, and don't let others have fun. the difference is that on top of it they're useless. why u ask? it's simple, there's no objective in TF2 maps, except for arena, that requires you to stand AWAY from battle. Each sniper your team has is 1 less person to help push the cart, or help capture a point, and a sniper will never ever steal the enemy's intel.


I could go on and on why playing as a sniper is lame, doesn't require skill, nor helps the team, believe me, i just deleted 4 paragraphs i wrote about them. The point is, when a sniper 1hit pwns u, it's so incredibly cheap it's accepted as natural (part of why people don't care anymore).

Killing an enemy with most other classes, is much harder, but much more satisfying, a lot of the other classes such as heavy, soldier, demoman and pyro when played well have the potential to mow down an entire team, owning people with a scout requires tons of skill and feels very satisfying as well, etc.

One could say that i talk like that because i never play as a sniper, that's not correct.


I have tried out sniping, I'm not awesome at it but i do OK. i have less than 3 total hours on the sniper. i just feel very empty and bored when i do use him, and i don't contribute shit for the team not matter how much i try.

That's another thing about snipers, they're meant to cancel each other. there's games where all that snipers do is kill the other snipers and have NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON AROUND THEM! u could b capturing a point right next to them and they wouldn't look away from the sniper from the other team.

It's also hard to brag when all u do is hide and shot people from afar.

Kids these days only wanna win and all pick what's cheaper, and win. I the Footmen Frenzy forums it's sometimes said that if noobs could just mash 1 button to win, they would. Somehow, just winning is fun for them. Personally, i rather play well and take risks, but lose, than win and just be so cheap it's boring to watch and to play.

Winning isn't fun by itself.
Sunday, January 18, 2009

Twilight

So I was forced to watch twilight with my girlfriend and I learned that Stephenie Meyer cannot write a decent novel about vampires.

What's different about this Vampire as compared to others like Konomi's Dracula or even Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise? For one this vampire, Edward Cullen, does not sport a sexy goatee. How are people going to know you mean business without an ostentatious goatee? You simply cannot do it. Second, he doesn't explode in the sun like those vampires in in Blade, instead he sparkles like diamonds. Yes you read that correctly. HE SPARKLES LIKE DIAMONDS. Lastly, Edward and his "family" only drinks animal blood, though Edward seemed to have taken a likening to the main character Bella.

Where was I going? Oh yes, the author. I do not know about what women really think but I would assume that Meyer writes for those who are just seeking a reason to set unrealistic standards for men. However, I gave her stuff a chance in real life and this is what I found out:

In Meyer's world anyone who watches you sleep in the privacy of your home without your authorization is doing it out of love! Really!

However, in real life doing such a thing brands you as a "peeping tom" and can lead to some jail time in which others will probably watch and then rape you in your sleep.


Edward has been living for a long time. Hundreds of years. Bella is a minor. In one scene Bella confronts about Edward's secret. And we find out that she's in love with him despite their age differences. Aww love...

But as you can see, when someone's secret is discovered and age is taken into consideration it is not as romantic as Meyer makes it out to be. There's also a nice title for people like Edward and that's sexual predator.


No thanks you sparkling diamond freak. I rather stick with my teenwolf.