Wow. This is different enough that it should get it's own thread. Even the tags are incorrect now.
Mark this one abandoned and make a new thread.
Mark this one abandoned and make a new thread.
Sigh...yeah, I may lurk a bit on this one still, but the rework does not give me comfort that this is going in the right direction.
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Nah it's good, give me like 20 days or something, I'm making futa and gay content + female protag, you'll be happy in the end.
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This is a new game entirely now and you should make another thread for it.
RIP Cave Party. Welcome...weird male protag discount bin game (absolutely the stupidest idea you could've had but whatever).
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A game being redone from the ground up even in the AAA industry leads to calamity and ending up as unfinished garbage with mixed Steam reviews.
That's a wrap, boys.
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Same game my man, I removed the mechanics you were disliking, the item handling, and focused more on eroge elements. Looks a bit different but I found it easier and more interesting to stop copying Captivity's artstyle and actually draw. Sorry for this version being kinda raw, I wanted to post something. I'll make couple improvements in the following weeks and release a more content version, +3 sex scenes (1 new enemy boy+girl variations and futa vamp), and a switchable female protag. It's all good.
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Will there be a futa protag option as well? Or maybe an option to make the male protag more of a femboy?
Also, if you don't mind me asking, last time you were on this thread you weren't exactly treated well, are you uh, okay? I'm just a bit curious as to what brought you back or gave you the drive to keep working on the game. I'm not complaining however, I still think the game looks great and am very excited to see the rest of it's development.
So you went from a life sim bartending game with a captivity style that aspired to be like DoL to a generic sidescrolling monster girl game with a zell999 style and less content? No idea what you were thinking.
really liking the concept so far, I love games like these.
is it really short rn or am I missing something?
is it really short rn or am I missing something?
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Trap protag is guaranteed. I want to make like 8-12 playable characters in the end, you'll be able to switch between them through sleeping in bed.
Haters gonna hate so it's fine. At the end of the day they're gonna be playing my game regardless of what they say now.
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Hey there, it's been a long while since I took at look at this project, and I'm honestly surprised to see the changes. I believe I don't feel as strongly about the changes as some people are, though I get where they're coming from, there was quite the charm with the original one, as well as huge expectations that were backed with a good start.
I have some imediate feedback regarding the current build, I know it's been rushed, so that's why it's quite rough around the edges.
1. I believe that to make the enemies hurt the PC on contact is a bad idea, this game has a stamina bar and the movement is not smooth digital like megaman or cuphead. Making them collide with the player as to make a physical barrier so he can't just run past them is fine, but to hurt on contact will require fine tuning with the size of the hit and hurtboxes that I believe are not worth it, and the game will be less fun overall like that. Some specific enemies that hurt on contact, that sinalize that with their design would be a good addition later.
2. Considering the point above, make some atacking animations with at least a slight wind up, and with that they may knock the player down, or stun him, or cause a specific effect, etc.
3. This one is not so much a suggestions as it is a commentary. I believe one of the strong points of the Captivity aesthetic style, was how easy it was to expand upon, modulate and use with skeletal animations, where you don't need to redraw the whole sprite. It looked a bit goofy while static, but on motion it looked good. The new look I believe don't work as well in that regard, though the dev may feel free to prove me wrong. I can expand a bit upon this if the dev or someone is interested on my take. I personally like big headed expressive characters, but if the characters themselves are not going make a variety of expressions, I believe there isn't much reason to make the head big.
4. Regarding the player attack animation, I don't know why, but very often while throwing the attack, and apparently hitting the enemy, the PC is still hurt and the enemy walks away scot free. I don't know how the dev made the collision system, this situation may be the case to shrink or take the players hurtbox a bit back on the attack animation.
Anyway, keep going strong dev, even if remakes like these don't show a clear vision for the project on the longterm, it does show quite the work ethic as doing stuff like this takes a ton of work, also shows versatility. And even so, I remember you saying you wanted to include combat on the game, so it's all that far from the original prototype. I believe the bartending mini-game would do just fine with groundwork that's there, I think the others aren't seeing that. Though if you're not interested in making it, it's also fine.
Edit: This stuff is just my opinion btw.
I have some imediate feedback regarding the current build, I know it's been rushed, so that's why it's quite rough around the edges.
1. I believe that to make the enemies hurt the PC on contact is a bad idea, this game has a stamina bar and the movement is not smooth digital like megaman or cuphead. Making them collide with the player as to make a physical barrier so he can't just run past them is fine, but to hurt on contact will require fine tuning with the size of the hit and hurtboxes that I believe are not worth it, and the game will be less fun overall like that. Some specific enemies that hurt on contact, that sinalize that with their design would be a good addition later.
2. Considering the point above, make some atacking animations with at least a slight wind up, and with that they may knock the player down, or stun him, or cause a specific effect, etc.
3. This one is not so much a suggestions as it is a commentary. I believe one of the strong points of the Captivity aesthetic style, was how easy it was to expand upon, modulate and use with skeletal animations, where you don't need to redraw the whole sprite. It looked a bit goofy while static, but on motion it looked good. The new look I believe don't work as well in that regard, though the dev may feel free to prove me wrong. I can expand a bit upon this if the dev or someone is interested on my take. I personally like big headed expressive characters, but if the characters themselves are not going make a variety of expressions, I believe there isn't much reason to make the head big.
4. Regarding the player attack animation, I don't know why, but very often while throwing the attack, and apparently hitting the enemy, the PC is still hurt and the enemy walks away scot free. I don't know how the dev made the collision system, this situation may be the case to shrink or take the players hurtbox a bit back on the attack animation.
Anyway, keep going strong dev, even if remakes like these don't show a clear vision for the project on the longterm, it does show quite the work ethic as doing stuff like this takes a ton of work, also shows versatility. And even so, I remember you saying you wanted to include combat on the game, so it's all that far from the original prototype. I believe the bartending mini-game would do just fine with groundwork that's there, I think the others aren't seeing that. Though if you're not interested in making it, it's also fine.
Edit: This stuff is just my opinion btw.
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Man wtf, I can't survive more than 5 minutes of gameplay, the fucking vampire girl grabs me and I can't leave, because stupid wooden sword have 5 seconds of delay for give another attack, even my grandmother hits more faster an broom than this protag.
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Majority of people when Cave Party gets "Reworked"
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Played the game, and it's aight I guess.
There's very very little content, but the content that is there, ranges from okayish to fine.
Combat seems kinda clunky for now. The sword having a cooldown is fine as I assume you'll be using multiple weapons later on. The swing animation does move you forward a bit so you can hit an enemy and get hit yourself at the same time. I do think that right now the cooldown shouldn't be as long as it is, maybe using less weapons decreases cooldowns or something like that. The AI is also pretty dumb, you could strike them from behind and when they get out of stun they won't turn around or anything like that, they'll just stare in the same direction the were staring before getting stunned. The movement is also not the best, it's not bad but considering enemies deal contact damage it should be better in my opinion. Once you get knocked out you have some time until the enemy forces you into a sex scene, and there doesn't seem to be a way to get out of them. I tried holding shift and mashing Z,X,C and W,A,S,D but it didn't really do anything. And after a sex scene it seems like you're softlocked, unless I missed something. The art is fine, I don't really have a problem with it. The story isn't anything special so far, but to be fair there's been like a few lines of it. Overall right now, it's okay, not really worth checking out right now as there's not much content. It has potential to be fun if the movement system and combat systems are tweaked and there would be a way to not get softlocked after sex scenes. And if there's a way to not get softlocked, please make it more intuitive.
There's very very little content, but the content that is there, ranges from okayish to fine.
Combat seems kinda clunky for now. The sword having a cooldown is fine as I assume you'll be using multiple weapons later on. The swing animation does move you forward a bit so you can hit an enemy and get hit yourself at the same time. I do think that right now the cooldown shouldn't be as long as it is, maybe using less weapons decreases cooldowns or something like that. The AI is also pretty dumb, you could strike them from behind and when they get out of stun they won't turn around or anything like that, they'll just stare in the same direction the were staring before getting stunned. The movement is also not the best, it's not bad but considering enemies deal contact damage it should be better in my opinion. Once you get knocked out you have some time until the enemy forces you into a sex scene, and there doesn't seem to be a way to get out of them. I tried holding shift and mashing Z,X,C and W,A,S,D but it didn't really do anything. And after a sex scene it seems like you're softlocked, unless I missed something. The art is fine, I don't really have a problem with it. The story isn't anything special so far, but to be fair there's been like a few lines of it. Overall right now, it's okay, not really worth checking out right now as there's not much content. It has potential to be fun if the movement system and combat systems are tweaked and there would be a way to not get softlocked after sex scenes. And if there's a way to not get softlocked, please make it more intuitive.