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[Shamrock High School: Graduation]

Shamrock High School: Graduation by VampireWombat

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A beautiful-looking cutscene from the larger story inside the maker's head. Intriguing, but just made me want to play more but there wasn't more. Please develop this story. It is something I would play.

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Thanks. I'll see what I can do to make an expanded version this month.

Hmm. Several possibilities. I need to choose carefully this time.

[Shamrock High School: Graduation]

Shamrock High School: Graduation by VampireWombat

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A dialogue-based game is a solid concept in itself, and I don't think this game would have required any adventure elements to be fun. I loved the idea (a girl's perfect double crawling out of the lake? That's super cool and super creepy, too!), but the dialogue itself didn't seem very relevant to the situation. I would rather ask my double exactly who she is, why is she here, what does she want and just what in actual f is going on than start telling her about my graduation. Overall a promising concept, and if you care for suggestions I'd say don't worry about the form of the gameplay, focus on the story because you have great ideas that are really worth expanding.

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Yeah. I really should have focused on the story more. Unfortunately I prioritized things wrong and ended up doing about 2/3 of the dialog last minute.
Thank you very much for the suggestions.

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Bill and Ted's Excellent Swap Meet?

OOC: I wasn't exactly supporting it. It was more that he had forced some kind of action. It's been long enough since playing that I'm a bit rusty and it felt like something needed to be decided.

I'm unsure about lynching Mandle or not. Normally he has some kind of plan. But this time his reasoning was a bit weak. Of course if it was Xenomorphs we were dealing with instead of shapeshifters, I'd say to use his as cannon fodder.

I see 3 possibilities at this point.

1. He's staying in character and rushing to judgement/being a jerk.
2. He is indeed a shapeshifter.
3. He simply dropped the ball this time.

I need at least a couple more hours to make a decision...

Game play is done completely through dialog. And there's nowhere near as much in the game as I hoped. But I present Shamrock High School: Graduation. Sequel to games I've yet to actually make.



https://vampirewombat.itch.io/shamrock-high-graduation

Would you prefer a Phillips or flathead screwdriver?

Assuming there isn't a thunderstorm that makes me lose power, I will have something by the deadline. I had new ideas when I woke up this morning, so there's no way I can get everything in that I'd want, but I will work up until close to the deadline.

If this is a prank, it's gone too far. Unless... Could we be on some kind of reality show?

So... 27 hours to go? Anyone finished or close to finished? I'm close enough that I can have a version finished by tomorrow. The only thing that's unclear is if I'll be able to include any animations and how much I will be able to show in the endings.

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OOC: Well, congratulations on creating a character with all of the negative aspects of a Space Marine without any likable aspects. If this were a horror movie, I'd cheer for his death and hope he was the first killed.

Personally I don't see any red flags in anything Kastchey said or did. But I fear that some action does need to be done and I guess this is as good as any at the moment...

At this point I'd say your audit findings fall under the "No, duh" category. The only way your audit will matter is if we somehow survive this. Otherwise the alien that chooses to wear your flesh like a Halloween costume will provide its own audit. Most likely with nice shiny approval of everything. If for no better reason than to screw with us once all that's left of us is a few brown spots they forget to clean up.

For some reason all I can remember any bit clearly at the moment is 99 Red Balloons. Or is it 99 Dead Baboons?
I can vaguely remember having been in a cryo pod before and not feeling like this after. I'm wondering if the aliens somehow took our memories or just roofied us.
I also can vaguely remember signing paperwork and there being money involved. But I'm not sure if I was being paid, if I was doing the paying, or if somehow I agreed to be sold...

Sounds interesting. I'm willing to develop an art style specifically for the game. Working on something without the month restriction of MAGs could be a nice change of things. I can also do GUIs and cursors if needed.

If things worked as they should, each of our cryo pods should have identification of some sort. But I didn't even see a name scribbled in crayon on mine.
My instincts tell me that the aliens are responsible and it won't be easy to find any identification. But the biggest question to me is, why did the aliens leave any of us alive? I can imagine a few possibilities.
1. They somehow need us alive.
2. Someone or something stopped them before they had a chance to finish us off.
3. They're simply screwing with us.

Tim the merc?

I'm... Smegging hell, I can't remember my name. John Doe would be appropriate at the moment, but I have a bad feeling that name may apply to more than me. How about Joe Doe until my memory returns or someone finds some kind of identification.

Well, if you're half as good at killing aliens as you are at killing analogies and catch phrases, then I will feel at least a little safe.

I'm guessing by his attitude that he's some kind of Mercenary. Probably had the cigar on him.
Anyone else's memory a bit fuzzy? I think it may be a side effect of the cryo pods, but not 100% sure since I only have vague memory of using one before...
Or maybe this is some kind of VR and the fuzziness is a side effect of that. Or maybe I was drugged.
Either way, there should be some kind of something to greet us. An android, robot, doctor, pixie, something...

Ugh my head. Why do I keep signing up for this?
And why does it smell like someone's burning trash? The recycled air is bad enough. Do we really need to add more pollution? Not all of us have had our lungs replaced.

The joint game I was working on fell through. But I am working on another using a sprite style based on what I was going to use. It's going to be mostly dialog based with at least 3 possible endings. So I'm still planning out the dialog tree. Which hopefully won't turn into a forest. I plan to finish up the graphics needed today and tomorrow and create the dialog tree(s) this weekend.