(S)LAY THE DRAGON

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Game dev is really difficult, I agree. It's not too hard to make a bunch of separate systems, but putting them all together in a way where they work along or with each other is the most difficult part.

I've slowly been working on something new for the past month or two as time allows and with any luck there could be something new here before the year ends. 

I haven't decided yet if I want to release something unfinished, akin to an early demo or a vertical slice or if I should finish the entire project before I put it out here. 

Guess we'll see.

I think I've got the code and assets lying around somewhere still, so technically I could. Though, the game's written in an older version of Godot so I would probably have to update a bunch of the code as well.

Maybe I'll look into it.

See if I can update the controls to be less asinine as well along the way and touch on some smaller issues nobody has probably even noticed, but which bother myself.

I've been trying to hone my half-assed modelling skills over the summer in the hopes of making more PS1 style smut. 

It's a pain. 

Been trying to be a lot more authentic to the games of its era, with proper polygon limits and what not. Though I'm granting myself certain liberties for finer details. 

The models in this game are way way way over budget in complexity, hovering around 2,5k polygons which would be more suitable for a PS2 game really. Though, the complexity is in all the wrong places and doesn't show much so I suppose end justifies the means.

Low poly designs to me are about five times more difficult than any normal 3D modeling, especially since so much of the appeal would regularly be in texturing, which I absolutely blow ass at.

The next game, if I ever get any of the prototypes I've got into a playable state, will have better controls. Smoother with support for game pads as well.

Fully agree with you and the rest of the people about how painfully awful the controls are, even if by design. 

I keep firing up the game from time to time and they are pretty horrible to deal with. I'm actually a little bit surprised the controls even work properly since the code for the game is a mess.

Yes. "I've got BOSS WEAPONS!"

Will do. 

If I ever get off my lazy ass and manage to churn out a sequel, prequel or something of the similar sort worth the effort. There will be checkpoints and more regular controls.

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Haha. Thanks.

Yeah, it's not for everyone. I gave my game a go after several months and damn it feels awful to play all of a sudden. But it's nowhere as horrible as Shadow Tower or King's Field is... well, at least in some regards.

This is such a late reply, but you need to stab her in the nose till she goes down and then circle behind her and hit the butt. Aim underneath the tail.

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I tried to make the animations (even if they are very simplistic loops) squishy and wiggly enough. Would have made them more interactive and such if I hadn't been already struggling for time and figuring out how to "make stuff happen" on the go.

Partly feels like I used up and put all the creative energy I had into the project though. Been trying to refine what I learned and finding it difficult to get the same spark in.

Thank you.

Yeah, the game would require a complete re-write code wise and a lot of under the hood stuff that I wasn't really aware of when I put the game together. 

At this point it would probably just be easier making a completely new game along the same style instead of trying to parse any enhancements or larger fixes into this one. Haha.

on second playthrough i first try'd the dragon, so definetly wouldn't need sprint backwards for anything. it would destroy the game fight design. choosing the drake color in extras wouldve been cool.

Hah, thanks. Good to hear you had fun with the game. 

I had plenty of ideas to put into the game, but the time limit was only some 30 days after the Game Jam started, so I had to cut a lot of the things I wanted to include, especially since I was basically learning to code, apply and use the 3D models and use Godot as the game engine at the same time. Most of the gripes I had from that went into the commentary orbs.

The last boss is all about patience really. Her attacks are very easy to avoid if you know what you're doing. Even the ranged fire ball thingies are mainly just there to make the player block or spend stamina needlessly. They can all be avoided by simply strafing left or right. 

I could have paced the fight differently in the end, since she originally had way more attacks planned, but I kind of just ran out of time to include it all in a way where everything blended together in a satisfactory manner.

Any adult themed games I'll be working on in the future will most likely have stuff like galleries etc. if it makes sense to have one. They're not difficult to implement at all.

What really is more difficult to me beyond anything coding related is coming up with ideas that can be made into a game that would be fun to play.

I've prototyped a few ideas ranging from more dungeon dwelling for dragon pussy to survival stuff in the midst of post apocalyptic monsters, but figuring out an engaging game loop is the really difficult part.

I'm probably not going to update the game any further, but any new projects will keep the data saved so people don't have to keep replaying the game to access any extras/unlockables etc.

Thanks! I'm working on something new, but the progress is kind of slow for now. With any luck I could have something to show sooner than later.

NVM got it.

Thanks. Glad you're enjoying the game even if it is quite amateurish.

I don't know if it'll work for you too, but i converted .7Z file to WinRAR and there was .EXE of the game inside that worked perfectly, hope that helps.

Should just be able to unpack the .exe file and run it normally. I can't say why it wouldn't run. Could be your antivirus software is preventing the file from running, could be I've messed up something while compiling the game into an executable. It should run normally on Windows 10 and 11 as far as I'm aware.

It's straight stuff only. No male drakes in the dungeon, no option to pick the player's gender either. Mostly due to the time limit while building the game for the Jam.

Maybe I'll put more options in the next game.

The spheres are just lore objects pretty much. The rooms don't really have any specific function to themselves beyond hitting the enemies in the face. 

It's not explained anywhere, but you must activate the defeated enemies to open the gate in the second room, if the closed portcullis is the thing you're referring to. A bit of an oversight on my part.

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I'll try to make the next game a little bit less awful mechanically. Having no time constraints should do wonders in that department.

Sadly no, keyboard only. I didn't code in any controller inputs. 

Something I'll make sure to include in any future games I might put together, especially since a controller would work very well for this type of games.

It could be the antivirus software on your system doesn't like the executable and wont allow it to run. That is my best guess anyway. 

I had butt stuff planned out for the boss dragon, but ran out of time to animate and set it up. 

But now that you mention it, yeah. It is kind of odd I completely disregarded anal for the Drake enemies. Something that I've got to rectify in the future projects for sure!

The controls are like that on purpose. 

I was trying to emulate playing on older consoles, back when you would have to look up and down by pressing buttons on a controller. Such as R1 and L1 on a PS1. Back when analog sticks didn't exist yet or weren't used prominently.

I just didn't include input mappings for a controller which in hind sight was a bit of a dumb-dumb decision. But personally I think the game plays better on the keyboard anyway.

Thank you.

We'll see what the future has in store as far as making silly little games go. I've some ideas and with any luck some of them might be up here in a playable state sooner or later. 

One thing is at least for sure: I'd like to continue making small horny games for others to enjoy.

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Love myself some girl dragons as well!

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Slutty dragons have a soft spot in my heart as well. Thought it would make a neat fit for a simple dungeon crawling game. 

This was my first 3D game and I wanted to do it "right," so I put a lot of effort into it, though the quality is what it is. Like I've mentioned previously it was a learning project more than anything.

That being said I did learn a lot and any future games I might put up here will most certainly be better, if not gameplay wise, then technically at least.

I do want to make a sequel game at some point though. Refine the whole dungeon crawling system a little bit, more combat options with different enemies and small puzzles.

Yeah, the one month period for the Game Jam limited what I could do a lot. I could have probably made the dungeon a lot more polished and thought all the underlying mechanics through a bit better, but I think I did pretty good all things considering. Didn't really help this was my second game project ever and I know almost next to nothing about coding anything. Haha.

The future projects will be more refined now that I know a little bit of what I'm doing. Well, they should anyway. Remains to be seen.