[4.5.6] Rad Rabbit's Bad Hare Day - (WIP)

Jonny

Jonny

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Hi everyone, just a very small update for my game. Mostly I've been working on monster graphics while 4.5 gets ironed out.

Inspired by Joe's new tutorials, I thought I'd try to figure out what exactly I wanted my game to do and drew a game flow of sorts... (Crude I know).

I'm really interested in what you other nesmakers are doing regards game design off NesMaker. Are you planning things out first to the most precise detail or just making things up as you go? Or a bit of both?

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mouse spirit

mouse spirit

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That looks like a flowchart or something. Very nice. Personally i am a willy nillier by nature and choice if given one.
I love unwritten things that only happen once.Buuuuut i want my current game to be a better but reminiscent game in some ways,
so i am cookie cutting some stuff too, meaning that stuffs been done.(Meaning better than Athena on NES and remeninscent
of maybe a Faxanadu esque level/map setup) My project wont be the games that it may be"like"...
all that being said, i'd rather go with the flow.But i work well scattered and multitasking for some reason.
Structure has its pros fersure. Take this text block for example, i think we are both lucky that i even punctualize and capitalize
as i don't care much about either. But who wants to read something that is so sloppy open ended and you cant get the feeling of
it let alone a form to understand? Like that previous sentence! I do type things down when i think of them,
which may be my compromise to the chaos.

So in the end, balance is what may be key(ki) here, as with most things.
A little of both, or maybe neither. I hope i haven't answered your question at all, by possibly answering it.
 
Jonny

Jonny

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mouse spirit said:
A little of both, or maybe neither. I hope i haven't answered your question at all, by possibly answering it.
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I'm starting to realise the willy nilly aproach is more productive for me than trying to plan out every detail. I've seen a few game design documents on here and just wondered if that was a common thing for homebrewers. I think probably not but its interesting to hear how different people are with their approach to designing/making their game.
 
Jonny

Jonny

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latetera said:
looks amazing <3
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Thank you. I haven't done an update for a while. I've done loads more work on graphics / cutscenes.

I'm going to post an update video next week sometime.
 
Jonny

Jonny

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Logana said:
im still willing to make music for this game if your intrested
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Appreciate that a lot.

I've almost finished the graphics and music/sfx was my next thing to look into. It's taken a while because I've rehashed a lot of the backgrounds for all 7 levels and done screen specific tiles for bosses plus the monsters themselves, and cutscene stuff. I really keep meaning to put something together to share as a lot has been impoved.

JollyShadow also kindly offered to do some music. Ideally I'd like to have a different composer for each level, credited at the level intro... for example,
"Level 2 - The Dark Woods"
"Music By: M Jackson"

That's if enough people want to do it and don't mind other musicians being on the game... and if i ever get my sht together and finish it. Feels like I'm a long way off at the moment but things are coming together. My aspirations might have been a little high for my first game :?
 
Logana

Logana

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Igght id be willing to do anything right now give me a level any level I will send you the famitracker text trough the forums when I’m done
 
Logana

Logana

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Also I can do some sound effects and add in all the other songs together when all the other people get done if you can get people to, also I will trough in a boss theme just for fun :3
 
Jonny

Jonny

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Logana said:
Igght id be willing to do anything right now give me a level any level I will send you the famitracker text trough the forums when I’m done
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Nice one thanks. I don't even know how instruments etc work at the moment. Whether I would have to use the same instruments to reduce memory needed.

I don't really have any particular style of music in mind, I was just going to pick what I thought worked best for each level. Maybe something between abient and funky lol. I'm not a musician as you can tell by the terms I'm using lol.
 
Logana

Logana

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Yeah I think I sorta understand what you mean, sorta like hill too Zone from sonic mixed with the game corner theme from Pokémon gold, I’ll get working on that :3 I’ll try and use only 4-5 instruments but I have a specific style of drumbs I use a lot
 
Logana

Logana

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Also im pretty’s sure you can have 4 rows of instruments max witch is a versatile set of instruments and I will make a few sound effects like jump, shoot ,coin ext..
 
Logana

Logana

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ima work on a cutscene theme and boss theme, idk if you could give descriptions on sorta how you want thoughs songs to be like just tell me, also im fine with others working on the same soundtrack although it would be a little messy trying to get it all in one ftm file
 
Jonny

Jonny

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A very small update on my game. Not really much to show as I've not had chance lately to spend time on it. Mostly I've been working on cutscenes, story text and starting work on sprite HUD. This isn't the full intro sequence by a long shot but there's quite a few things I'm yet to figure out.

If anyone is interested in how anything is done here, everything is based on the CutterCross tutorial for cutscenes available on his YouTube. I'll try to help if anyone has any questions, although I don't know a great deal myself which is why this isn't finished lol.

It will be better with sound effects but here you go....

View: https://youtu.be/hRwqLCGfEAQ
 
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