Others Completed Future Fragments [v1.0.6] [HentaiWriter]

[benificent]

'Ello HentaiWriter.

Just wanted to say how proud I am of everything you have accomplished w/ this game.
I know when your head is in something for so long, all you can see is its imperfections.

But you can always tell when something is a passion project, because the parts that work leave an indelible impression your mind.

Every Demo I have played from your team gets my mind flowing, and it inspires me to keep working on my own stuff.

From an aesthetic standpoint, I love how crisp/fluid your animations are. I am starting to get a handle on asepaint, and I love your level design. (Especially w/ the Electric Level in particular). I am really excited to get my hands on your level editor.

I just have 3 questions:

(1) Would your team ever consider marketing/creating a full price standalone level editor/ Future Fragments' Game Engine?
( I know that alot of this is contingent on sales & as a Pre-Law student I understand the importance of protecting your proprietary assets)

(2) What Coding Language do you recommend for these types of Metroidvania style games? I have been trying to learn Java atm. But I keep hearing about other languages as well.

(3) How big are your "grids" pixel wise? Have been trying to find that golden ratio for a while.

I know you are busy, but I just wanted to say how grateful I am for all the work you have been doing. If the product is good, they will come.

 

[HentaiWriter]

'Ello HentaiWriter.

Just wanted to say how proud I am of everything you have accomplished w/ this game...
...But you can always tell when something is a passion project, because the parts that work leave an indelible impression your mind.

Thanks a lot man, seriously

(1) Would your team ever consider marketing/creating a full price standalone level editor/ Future Fragments' Game Engine?
( I know that alot of this is contingent on sales & as a Pre-Law student I understand the importance of protecting your proprietary assets)

We'd want to, but yeah, there's a lot of legal complications with it; the editor that'll be bundled with the game though WILL allow you to make any of your own cutscenes/text/levels, you just can't swap your own art or your own audio in, that's all.

(2) What Coding Language do you recommend for these types of Metroidvania style games? I have been trying to learn Java atm. But I keep hearing about other languages as well.

Personally, I think anything works as long as you're comfortable with it, but I'm not a programmer beyond the very basics, so it's not like I'd be able to give great advice on that.

(3) How big are your "grids" pixel wise? Have been trying to find that golden ratio for a while.

They're 80 x 80

I know you are busy, but I just wanted to say how grateful I am for all the work you have been doing. If the product is good, they will come.

Yeah, we're doing our best, and it's getting compliments and well wishes about the game like this that keep us motivated!

 

[HardcoreCuddler]

(2) What Coding Language do you recommend for these types of Metroidvania style games? I have been trying to learn Java atm. But I keep hearing about other languages as well.

Afaik you can even combine languages that can work together, Java and C++ comes to mind for mobile applications for example? Might also be the case for PC games, I don't know for certain.
But, as a rule of thumb, languages that run in a VM that runs on top of the operating system like C# and Java are much easier to work with, but slow as fuck when running.
Languages that run just on top of the operating system like C (do not write a game in C tho), C++ (you can write it in this, it's the fastest), even Rust (I think) run very fast in comparison so you'll have less of a headache optimising your game.
It's down to you really.
If you want to make something rather simple, like a sidescroller, pretty much any language will do so may as well go for the easier ones.
If you want to make a resource-intensive game, C++ is just king and there's no beating it right now as far as I know.

 

[g659039]

you just can't swap your own art or your own audio in, that's all.

So what's the point then? The main driving force behind the Hentai game is eroticism. There will be little point in going through the extra levels without new H content.
I understand that adding an opponent generator would be very difficult, but oh well...

 

[HentaiWriter]

So what's the point then? The main driving force behind the Hentai game is eroticism. There will be little point in going through the extra levels without new H content.
I understand that adding an opponent generator would be very difficult, but oh well...

To be clear, the editor is the same thing we built to make the game ourselves with; you can write in any dialogue you want, have the characters perform any movement/action they do in-game, move the camera, trigger visual effects, play sounds, play music, and of course build maps/levels to the same degree of thorough-ness we did for the game itself.

Jason Bill, one of our backers, has done some really impressive stuff with it; while you can't put in *new* h-animations and such, you can be pretty creative with the existing assets due to the degree of freedom you have with how the animations play, when they play, where they play, what they play, what frames do or don't show, what order it plays in, the accompanying sound effects and text, etc.

Also, there are a lot of people who play the game for the story, not just the eroticism; many people would argue that a good story helps the erotic content as well (myself included).

Just the map maker itself offers a significant degree of freedom beyond even that of say, Mario Maker, let alone how much you can do with the cutscene creator.

But that all said, the editor is considered a bonus feature for free with the game; it's not the main draw or main gameplay.

 

[g659039]

But why don't you even consider it? At least the ability to run your own sprite animation instead of in game one, from own gif file?

 

[HentaiWriter]

But why don't you even consider it? At least the ability to run your own sprite animation instead of in game one, from own gif file?

The reason why is a combination of both legal and logistics reasons;

- For legal things, we open ourselves up to a host of lawsuits and other legal issues if we officially allow people to just put in say, copyrighted characters or etc. as you'll be able to trade these map packs on our website soon after launch.

- For logistics reasons, every animation in the game has a set framerate, hitboxes, collision rules, and in some cases, AI that interacts with it, sound effects that automatically play, etc. So if people imported their own art and animations, we'd need to make the editor somehow allow for people to link up proper hitboxes, collision, etc. which would make things much, much more bug-prone and difficult to setup.

 

[doregreat]

We've stopped putting out demos to the public and backers both as we've been focusing on finishing the game.

Can you give us an older version of level editor ( maybe something with limited features ) so that we can play around with it while we wait for the full release ?

 

[HentaiWriter]

Can you give us an older version of level editor ( maybe something with limited features ) so that we can play around with it while we wait for the full release ?

The editor is built into the game, so there's no way to separate them; that said, I'd like to avoid putting any more versions "out into the wild" as it were, because there's already a lot of confusion going around as to which build is the latest, which one has the most content, etc.

Someone went to review our game recently and ended up getting a demo/backer build that was the first one for a new level (a 2+ year old build), and thanks to it, they assumed we'd done almost no work on the game in years, so it's those kinds of misunderstandings I'd like to not make worse by introducing even more builds out there.

 

[itzbob]

Should post a build timeline somewhere might help. With June almost over and aug coming up summer months are almost up. Hows the Release time still looking?

 

[HentaiWriter]

Should post a build timeline somewhere might help. With June almost over and aug coming up summer months are almost up. Hows the Release time still looking?

I think a build timeline might look like a pretzel or something, lol

But the release time's still looking good, end of Summer at latest (September 22nd), but we're gonna try to get it out before then potentially. Whatever we got though by the September 22nd, it's getting submitted to Steam, period.

 

[HentaiWriter]

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Oh congrats on nearly finishing the visuals!

 

[fua93]

Where i can download any version like frozen stage?

 

[HentaiWriter]

Where i can download any version like frozen stage?

The Patreon has the latest demo for each of the 5 levels.

However, you're probably better off waiting to buy the full game, as Patreon access would be $5, and you'd only get access to fairly outdated demos, versus paying just $15 more to get the full, completed game.

Oh congrats on nearly finishing the visuals!

Thanks a lot and speaking of those visuals;



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[abletothink]

The Patreon has the latest demo for each of the 5 levels.

However, you're probably better off waiting to buy the full game, as Patreon access would be $5, and you'd only get access to fairly outdated demos, versus paying just $15 more to get the full, completed game.



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Looks like you're in the final stretch! Been following this game for years and it's nice to see it finally about to come out. Still debating on whether I'm going to buy it or not. I backed you $5 a month for five or six months on Patreon so you should be sending me a code but you guys are super talented and I want the game to make enough profit for you to create more stuff since you poured all the money you had into it. Anyway, here's hoping it comes out in the next couple of months.

 

[HentaiWriter]

Looks like you're in the final stretch! Been following this game for years and it's nice to see it finally about to come out. Still debating on whether I'm going to buy it or not. I backed you $5 a month for five or six months on Patreon so you should be sending me a code but you guys are super talented and I want the game to make enough profit for you to create more stuff since you poured all the money you had into it. Anyway, here's hoping it comes out in the next couple of months.

Yep, you'll absolutely get a copy of the game! If you still want to buy a copy solely to support us, it'd be appreciated for sure, but only do it if you're financially ok; we don't want anyone spending more than 1% of their monthly income on us (so if you back us for $20 for instance, you should be clearing at least $2,000 after taxes/other life essentials having been paid etc.)

We'll definitely be making more stuff, but you're right, the more profit FF makes, the easier it'll be for us to get stuff made for it/pay for stuff!

I can barely believe this is actually coming out - I remember seeing it in Newgrounds, just the magma/fire level demo, in 2015 or something? Even finding it again is nothing short of a miracle, but the fact it's actually going to finish development is even more so. Congratulations and hope nothing goes wrong in the next two months!

It's been a very, very long road, but yeah, we're finally at the end of it!
Here's hoping nothing goes wrong before September 22nd for sure, but everything's looking good as of now; worst case, anything we don't get done (which would be only things like polish/voicework), we should be able to finish off within a month after release at latest in the absolute worst case scenario.

 

[dragonsix6969]

The game is on way to release? or still not

 

[HentaiWriter]

The game is on way to release? or still not

Yep, it's still on its way to release; aiming to submit by September 22nd to Steam!

 

[dragonsix6969]

Yep, it's still on its way to release; aiming to submit by September 22nd to Steam!

i hope it's really release date.