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The fight for masculinity has begun. Trey Love, an average convenience store worker with no ambition, specializing in inconvenience, sets out to figure out how to reverse the onslaught of metrosexuality that has taken over his town. His onyl clue was that everything "relies in the manhood". Go along with him on his journey to figure out what that means...and discover if he can save his town...or at least himself.



Features:
An invigorating storyline (pish posh)
Deaf mode (a general absense of sound...doesn't that sound fun? get it?)
sass and sarcasm! (even more so than the normal level!)
A delightful cast of characters! (assuming you find them delightful)
Large, expansive world (a little too large...you'll see in the full version)
Many buildings and rooms, as well as several linear quests that lead to possibly multiple endings. (still working this out)

progress:

Scripting: 40% maybe?
dialogue: not sure, but nowhere near 40 percent.
characters: 50%
storyline: set haphazardly about and will tie it all in soon.
environment: set up all the rooms i'll need for now. will get more if needed.



Due to file hosting not really working ATM i simply had to give some links to screenshots.





precursive demo available here: (mostly a backstory...not really playable)

http://www.filedropper.com/hetrovmetrodemo

   Previously, Earrings in males was thought as a sign of homosexuality. In 2010, 40% of males wore earrings. In 2020. 99.999999999% percent of males in the US wore earrings. One man stood alone, gathering stragglers, lesbians, and the few remaining heterosexuals to fight against the onslaught, armed with piercers and dangle hoops. Hetero Vs. Metro. The fight for Masculinity begins.







    I believe i will be releasing this game in installments, each consisting of short games that add to the adventure after each other. that way, i can focus on making on short, good game, instead of one long, half-assed one such as Super Drug Adventure 2011.

Intro available here:

http://www.filedropper.com/hetrovmetrodemo


Screenshots are from the intro. i think i'll make a completely separate part one, which actually has puzzles and stuff. if you want to get a feel for the story, and don't mind the majority of it being cutscenes, click the link.

i'm fully aware you're probably upset that i'm posting this, but i'm not exactly sure how to turn options off. can you insert them straight in the dialog script or does it have to go in some global script? the wording is not exactly crystal clear to me and i need an example to fully understand. with the game i'm planning to release, i'll make the question worth your while.

Finally, the wait is over!!!

SuperDrug Adventure 2011.zip - 4.37MB

how would i make the game into a zip folder where everyone can play and download it?

i can't seem to get the inventory packs i downloaded to get to work. is it just a format issue? PCX doesn't work. is there some other sort of inventory pack/sprite pack that are available?

how would i make multiple onscreen characters walk to a specific location at once? is this possible?

how would i create a cutscene where the wife of my main character will appear at the door after a message is displayed, go through a dialogue, and then disappear, with the hero following suit? i'm sure i can figure the rest out, i just don't know how to make NPC's appear in a room they didn't start in.

i figured it out. don't bother replying

not exactly sure how to make a "professional" ending. do things just end? or is there some sort of special way to ask the player if they'd like to quit or just try again?

well, i'm trying to get the well in my game to only respond to the use of the cheeseburger. (it's a drug game, so don't question it.) but everytime i use any inventory command on it, even just the plain old "UseInv()" function, it tells me :
"Error: prepare_script: error-18 (no such function in script) trying to run 'hHotspot3_UseInv' (room 6)"
i have tried rearranging the command to every possible thing i can think of, have searched the tutorials to no personal avail, and cannot seem to figure out a way to get it to work. would this have something to do with the inventory item itself or is it more a problem with the hotspot? i even tried writing " hHotspot3_iCheeseburger_Interact()" like a genius, since it compiled, but wound up falling flat on my face again. if anyone can provide hints, or even better, the bit of code i need, it would be much appreciated.

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I'm currently working on "Super Drug Adventure 2011" (since that's likely to be when i finish with it.) It's more of a parody game than anything else, as indicated by the character taking LSD and being eaten by an anime chick, traveling through the bowels, coming out the anus, and landing in a robot town filled with robots that give away ice cream, a well that demands cheeseburgers, and a racist robot who hates "White recycling" ("anyone with a sophisticated sense of humor should be laughing right now"). i only have backgrounds i managed to swipe from google images that looked remotely like a good background, but none of them are connected in any way, which is why we're calling it an "LSD trip". if there are any other ideas, comments, or general scripting things that you'd like to see/be credited with "I could use you as a character!!!" let me know and i'll be glad to incorporate you into the game. (which you just lost )

as far as the game is concerned, i'm not really sure on a set level of the game, since i'm not sure how to end it. but i will say i am, at most, 25% done. as far as graphics is concerned, like i said, the background are all ripped from google images.  and the sprites i have plenty of so far.

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i found the RON packets, downloaded sprites from that. i'm currently (as of 12-23-10) planning to work on multiple endings, (thought i'm not sure how to officially make it "end") currently, i've added an easter egg, the ability to get married to a bush that you engage in pleasant conversation with, all the while talking about "(Amaryllis Belladonna)" [anyone with a level of botany should be laughing.] and they loves the (Amaryllis Belladonna)'s (Felinus Domesticus). and possibly a robot in a wheelchair. the good part about finding the easter egg is indeed the bush, since our hero likes a trimmed bush, but a self-destructing robot, and i'm about to add in a court scene, (all of these things only happen once) with a large amount of dialogue and false accusations. what he's actually being accused of, i'm not sure. but this path will invariably lead to the character never wanting to get into drugs again, and Darth Vader telling him that's a good decision. the other path, while longer, won't have all of the fun stuff that the other, more obscure path will have. maybe it will, but regardless, the best path has to be found, right after you're swallowed by an anime chick and pooped out into a large robot town.

graphics: at least 75%, going to add more as i please
sound: none yet.
programming: bleh. going to fix typos such as "annoyjing text boxes" and make the character walk everywhere. i'm also giving people the chance to write in their own WTF moment to appear in the game, since it's going to be a one hit wonder, and everyone will love it and think i'm the best noob ever.

12-25-10...finished the court scene from judge rudy. (trying to figure out how to draw him behind a background and such.) such accusations include a unicorn engagin in overly excessive incestrous homosexual intercourse, which must have prevented him from being at the sex panther's house doing drugs. the ending will end at a police station, where they get turned in, have another excessively crazy dialogue, end up losing the bush that the player married (if you talked to him.) to slake the policeman's insatiable hunger for inanimate object action. [maybe i'll throw in some sort of shock ending. i'll have to delve into cutscenes, once again.] the other part of the story, always available, will travel through a market square, with a store that sells "everything you don't need" (cue optional crazy dialogue where you're almost being forced to buy "magical beer") and will end with the darth vader ending i mentioned. but i'll be sure to throw in some sort of epileptic seizure background. flashing light and such. thanks for gathering a nice little crowd. i'll post more screenshots of the crazy dialogue moments soon.

12-26-10...Before i head out with The Texas Tech Goin' Band From Raiderland for the bowl game, i'm taking care of some things. Today, i managed to create a rough ending to the alternate, "easter egg" game path, including the wife of the main character, a chicken, running off and marrying lola, (think of the song Lola.[LO LO LO LOLOLA!]). then, lola kicks the bush out of the house and the character is left with nothing. the worst part is, the drugs wore off, so the ending was "reality, bitch!!!". i'm about to work on the other ending, but taking a possibly weekend break till after i travel to the bowl game. maybe i'll lay the foundation and storyboard tomorrow.

12-27-10...managed to get close to the ending of the "regular" part. i think i'm just going to have the game end the same way for everyone, but how to get there is up to the player. one problem i have though, is i'm unsure how to upload the game to the server once i'm finished. other than that, this will be a soundless game, since it's a first. the stuff looks pretty good so far. i'm planning to have the "credit room" consist of the character being able to relive the dialogues from the game, though that may be a little out of my ability. i also have a brand new idea for a brand new game, but i'll post about that later.

12-28-10...Finished! i believe i have finished everything necessary for the game, i'm just unsure hows to go about posting the game.

I'm a Noob, sadly, and can't manage to figure out how to get DoOnceOnly to work. i have only a very rudimentary knowledge of Java, (i'm assuming that's the scripting language) and am not very technical with this stuff. i wanted to get to know THE ENTIRE SCRIPT for something of a message to display when you first enter the room. i've read the tutorials but run into problems with the "Game" variable already being defined. this is driving me crazy to no end and i would like a complete script so i can use it for future purposes. i'm unsure where to put the whole "static bool..." thing, since "static" only refers to"member variables" or something like that. help a N006 out and i'll make it worth your while!