Others Legend of Krystal: Rebirth Continued [Development Thread]

[Humalien]

The biggest problem with your project might be that the older generation no longer believes in the success of this brand. Over the lifespan of Flash games, a dozen LoK projects have been released, and none were even halfway completed. Meanwhile, the younger generation has no idea this even exists...

 

[tekunikaru]

The biggest problem with your project might be that the older generation no longer believes in the success of this brand. Over the lifespan of Flash games, a dozen LoK projects have been released, and none were even halfway completed. Meanwhile, the younger generation has no idea this even exists...

This specific thought appeared in my head a few weeks ago with the launch of Azure Tales.

You're right, past projects haven't reached their full potential, and evolving generations is a valid concern. But I have plans to address this.

This revival is a passion project for me, but it's also part of a larger vision for the community. Think beyond just this one project. Imagine a space where we can revive and build upon past efforts of other abandoned projects. As things develop, I'll be sure to share more details about the future roadmap and how the community can get involved. That said, I don't plan on committing to it until I either get LOKRC to the original v0.8 state or there's enough community engagement to justify it. (We do, however, already have a modest but very nice server infrastructure, tho)

I'm basically alone in this; the rest of the founding maintainers aren't engaged in the same way. I don't blame them—everyone has different priorities, and I understand that they can't be as involved as they once were.

Nonetheless, in the meantime, I'll keep developing LOKRC.

 

[Shirafune]

Good luck, always preferred the original project rather than the new one
Perhaps if you made a discord as someone already suggested, there'd be more engagement

 

[Humalien]

Good luck, always preferred the original project rather than the new one
Perhaps if you made a discord as someone already suggested, there'd be more engagement

Meh, maybe if 95% of the 'LoK' projects weren’t scams, then... and only then would there be a chance that someone would actually deliver. But as it stands, it feels like a pipe dream with so many letdowns and false promises. Even if someone had the best intentions, it would probably end up like Duke Nukem Forever.

 

[Shirafune]

Meh, maybe if 95% of the 'LoK' projects weren’t scams, then... and only then would there be a chance that someone would actually deliver. But as it stands, it feels like a pipe dream with so many letdowns and false promises. Even if someone had the best intentions, it would probably end up like Duke Nukem Forever.

Yeah, that's true
I just enjoyed this game way better than whatever the devs from the tribe are coming up with

 

[GH057ts]

No, what I meant it's actually made by the original team, it was in the first release of the original game, I think they were supposed to be some kind of demon tribe or something similar. View attachment 3299270
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I've already checked everything. I give up. Where did these photos come from?

 

[tekunikaru]

I've already checked everything. I give up. Where did these photos come from?

I think maybe

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[Qamar]

I've already checked everything. I give up. Where did these photos come from?

From this version

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[M1IigYbSpoWPZWVKgMpy]

I just found out about this, did something happen to the repo in the end?

 

[tekunikaru]

I just found out about this, did something happen to the repo in the end?

It is, at this exact moment, being overhauled along with other services and infrastructure equipment. It should return to normal operation in a few hours.

As for the game, as the time allows, I'm currently working on NPC pathfinding and animation pairing.

 

[M1IigYbSpoWPZWVKgMpy]

Nice, I wish you the best of luck. I just considered it too unlikely for an infra migration going on exactly at the moment I was looking at it, no ill intent behind my question

 

[Josefo4]

So....how its going?

 

[TitleA_A]

So....how its going?

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[tekunikaru]

So....how its going?

Truthfully, quite good now. I have a lot of time to tackle loads of things I wanted. I've switched the project stage from indev to alpha, which focuses on actual tangible game events rather than backend stuff.
I already bought Spine ESS with the money donated, but I need a bit more for the Pro version, which is what we need to have proper sex scenes. For now, I'm exporting PNG sequences.

In short, I expect to reach a good reproduction of v0.8 by Christmas. After that I'll only work forwards if I have minimum monthly donation amount (which I also will lock with a minimum expected releases per month, to not waste people's money on weeks of "backend development")

I have a lot of plans for OpenLOK as a whole, not limited to Krystal stuff. But for now the focus is solely on lokrc, I'll let the community decide on what to work next after I finally release v0.8 later this year.

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[bsdt]

Awesome! Was always hoping someone would keep going with this game, it's the best one. Thanks for working on this.

 

[MinosTaurian]

Is there an updated link for the download of the game? I can't find it as the one I tried went to Bad Gateway Stating Host Error. I tried it on two different browsers no less (and I really want to try it to see how far you've come).

I also tried the manual install process but the third option (which allows you to copy the game files) also had bad gateway (Host Error).

 

[DenseFool]

In short, I expect to reach a good reproduction of v0.8 by Christmas.

Pretty ambitious goal, since it's nearing Christmas now, How has development been going?

 

[tekunikaru]

Pretty ambitious goal, since it's nearing Christmas now, How has development been going?

A quite nice person compiled the Spine skeletons for us, which means no more PNG sequences!
I didn't ask for disclosure to reveal who this person is, so I won't be sharing the identity yet.

I've written that post just after I made an entire pipeline in working with PNG sequences. This planned v0.8 was going to be quite big and resource intensive due to how I was packing the animations without Spine.

About a month later, I got my hands into the compiled Spine skeletons, but the sad part is that I needed to rework the animation process to properly account for Spine now, which means more time spent on framework development instead of world events.

Although I consider that this rework was well worth the effort, it also means I won't be able to deliver the previously mentioned "close to v0.8"

Is there an updated link for the download of the game? I can't find it as the one I tried went to Bad Gateway Stating Host Error. I tried it on two different browsers no less (and I really want to try it to see how far you've come).

I also tried the manual install process but the third option (which allows you to copy the game files) also had bad gateway (Host Error).

There's no official compiled executables for the game. You aren't missing much from players perspective anyway besides a walk, talk, shower, interact, and masturbate simulator. I'll explain how you can get your hands in a compiled binary later on.

Openlok infra is partially fucked up due to me not migrating its services to our newer systems, it is a trivial task that takes a bit of time. The only thing receiving some kind of maintenance is the repo so that I can keep on with development.

 

[tekunikaru]

I once again, come here to request help.

Specifically, I need help with screenwriting the events from the game.

Since the Spine animation system has been implemented, development turned extremely straightforward, the only thing that is taking my time now is writing and programming the events from the original game to lokrc.

Due to long dialogues, potential branches, event flags, and a few assets requirements this proved to be tricky and time consuming. So I decided to spend a day in writing a wiki page explaining a standard way of doing this.

No development knowledge is necessary, only basic understanding of screenwriting and a bit of markdown.

If anyone is interested in helping out, please reach out in this

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. There I will provide more directions in how you can get started.

The screenwriting process is an method that allows me and other people to contribute to the project more easily and removes the burden of having the original game side by side when developing event cutscenes. It also allows people to see where the events are going towards before they hit development.

 

[Landon123!]

Is there a playable version yet?