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Yep.
All in all, the game has quite a few references to cult RPGs and, well, more. Although, I tried to weave them into the narrative not vomitously, so, probably, not everyone will catch them.
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All in all, the game has quite a few references to cult RPGs and, well, more. Although, I tried to weave them into the narrative not vomitously, so, probably, not everyone will catch them.
Honestly, i'm glad if they're not obvious. Personal pet peeve, but few things get my hackles up like pointless "cultural references" to things which have nothing to do with the game and only take me out of it.
An Easter Egg that can be caught by everyone stops being an Easter egg really.
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Oh, I shouldn't have done that... Devs should be above this, but holy molly, that's one of the most hilarious reviews I've read at all, really:
Usually, deliberate underestimation of a work for some extraneous purpose is called “review bombing”. But it is not usually written about that openly. So that's some form of clown review beep-bop or I don't know xD
Usually, deliberate underestimation of a work for some extraneous purpose is called “review bombing”. But it is not usually written about that openly. So that's some form of clown review beep-bop or I don't know xD
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Well, I find your project to be delightfully thoughtful and well worth support. I enjoy your writing, world building, the npc's and, of course, the sexy bits. I grateful for the content and look forward to your vision taking further shape.
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Curiously, all this discussion about bows has led to a few lines in the draft that show Selene's unfamiliarity with weapons (no Origin suggests this), as well as a small lore insert about... Ah, well, you'll see for yourself. If you find that part.
There's also a small scene planned to clarify what kind of bow Yuturna has after all. Because for Selene it's just "that thing he shoots with".
There's also a small scene planned to clarify what kind of bow Yuturna has after all. Because for Selene it's just "that thing he shoots with".
Was the trade post origin Selene in a rural frontier? and if so what did people use to hunt game there?
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That's an interesting question. Selene's family in this Origin was hardly hunting, they had a herd. Otherwise, her family made their money through trade. The trading posts look more like a row of houses with warehouses and shops next to the road than a regular village with farms and fields.
So it was probably unlikely that there were any specialized hunters in such a place. But someone may well have hunted more for leisure than for subsistence. For small animals and birds, ordinary, simple bows or even slings would have sufficed. For large animals, a spear, but it is unlikely that anyone in such a place would actually go after a large animal or predator. That's a bit more dangerous than a mere pastime.
The trading post was on the border between Yardanari city-state Liruda and the Valatean Republic, not on a frontier with some wilderness. So also likely in the vicinity of major road if not right next to it.
Somewhere around the blue/yellow line here where the three roads meet:
and not that far from Amarath by the looks of it.
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Well, except that I will add that the map is not an accurate type, satellite or topographic, but a stylization, through which, however, one can understand what and where approximately located. On those “empty” places there are tons of all sorts of small settlements, villages, trading posts, etc.
I would also add that the main republican trade route is along the river through the towns of Nemeda - Amarath - Medosa - Valatea. Foreign trade is from Yardanar to Nemeda from the west, branching from Amarath north to the Alliance of Seven, then from Medosa northeast to the Dominion, and lastly from Valatea south to the ocean coast to Thesea (Dominion again).
These routes are usually bustling with life. Trade wagons and even entire caravans, along the rivers, merchant ships, and light “river” patrol galleys. The road “straight” from Amarath to Valatea is more of a remote wilderness, where few people live and few people travel. This is why there were only a couple of encounters noted cursorily in the descriptions, and otherwise Selene and the troupe now see only bushes, trees, lakes, hills... trees, well, yeah, there's a lot of trees. And anything else, um, not so much.
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It's okay to be one of those guys. The next update will be in November. At least that's my assessment today.
Ayt, hopefully that's enough to get my brain to stop checking this thread for updates everyday.
(Spoiler alert: It probably won't work)
(Spoiler alert: It probably won't work)
Hi. This is one of the best games, best interactive fictions that I've ever played. I'm still progressing through the story, while enjoying myself and all the characters, can't help but feel so scared and anxious that it's gonna end. Amazing amazing work.
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Strictly speaking, all of the current content is the beginning part of the story. It's just that this story is, well, big. Perhaps even too big, for a first attempt at game-making. Nevertheless, unless something bad happens to me, I intend to keep working on it just like I did a year ago. And as I did two years ago. And like... well, you get it. So even when you meet the end of the current build, the story will still be a long way from being finished. Which means that every couple or three months you'll be able to return to this world and these characters, with each new update. Is that a bad thing? I don't think so. I think it's much worse when there's nothing interesting to you that's worth the wait.
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Oh, I have a better question. Does magic really exist in this world?
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hello! apologies for being gone so long, i felt pretty stuck. i think i figured out the issue i was having, i don't like the original valatean image i drew so i will be redoing that one! anyway, here is my ranalian selene.
What kind of development tools are used for the making of this game? It's twine right? I'm pretty experienced with React and web-dev in general but it really was boring to read all those Twine docs. What do you think would be the best way to make a game like this, using React or Twine?
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The engine is Twine. Story format - Sugarcube. As for how much studying it took, well... I learned the basic stuff in 20 minutes in one of the tutorial videos on YouTube. The rest I looked up in the documentation of Motoslave, the author (?) of Sugarcube, I guess. It's... took a lot longer, yeah. But I'm a pure-blooded humanitarian who hadn't written a line of code before, so it was to be expected.
And for that reason I'm a shitty advisor on this subject, because I have no idea what React is and I can't compare it to Twine.