VN/TEXT [Pykrete Blue] Survive or Succumb - A post-apocalyptic text RPG.

[Pykrete Blue]

Hey, y'all wanna see a 3 and a half year necro?

I'll spare the long story -- that can be found on the old

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, freshly updated! -- but after a lot of Stuff ™ I've settled down, got financially secure, and last week I put the (99%) finishing touches on the Framework I'd been making in Quest for just over a year, on and off. Again, details on the blog.

I've begun active development on a game again -- less ambitious than SoS in some ways, infinitely more in others -- but I'm going to hold off on making a topic for it until I've more to show. But, for now, have a screenshot of what I hope is a vastly improved UI.

 

[Cyln]

Those are great news! I loved SoS and came back to it from time to time only to cry myself to sleep, because it will never be finished.
I'm stoked to see you back!

 

[Pykrete Blue]

Woo, fuzzy feelings!

I'm trying something a little different this time around, going with a lightly customizable but mostly set character. A problem I had with SoS was the same issue I ran into years ago when I attempted submissions to TiTS, that being that I find it difficult to write scenes for a Created Character because I don't want to make assumptions about their personality. Practice scenes I've written with developed characters, on the other hand, easily hit between 2000-5000 words.

Oh, but on the subject of length, I don't need to segment scenes any more. A little modification in my framework removes the 'scroll to end' behaviour present in Quest, so now if I drop more than a page of text it doesn't autoscroll down, ruining the ending!

I have 3 games planned in a shared universe, though I'm going to be trying very hard to focus on one at a time.

 

[Maggie]

loved the enemies in SoS, hope to see similar themes/fetishes in your new game

 

[Pykrete Blue]

My tastes haven't changed much, and where they have it's probably for the better! For one thing, where SoS was a fem-only world, the new setting is mixed gender, though I'll be sticking to female protagonists. I lifted some elements from SoS that I liked, particularly with regards to races -- expect the return of the Gremlins and Cultists for sure, a different take on the Clones, a rework of Puddins and a general amalgamation of the rest into the catch-all race, Varia -- Varied Life.

 

[Pykrete Blue]

Nothing major to report, just refining my framework as I start on my new game. In the spirit of procrastinating from writing, I tweaked the status bars I had... and many little tweaks later, now they're fully animated! Link's on the >

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[Pykrete Blue]

Bumping with a proper preview image of my main project,

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! I don't have anything playable yet, so I'll hold off on making a new topic for now. Release date for demo; Uhh...

EDIT: Wow! It's been a while!

I'm not gunna necro this one, but I will edit this final post.

tldr: Sunshunned was pushed back as I ported my entire framework into Twine. I made a test game on that framework and things spiralled from there. Please enjoy

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, a free text game available to play online or via download here! The thread for it can be found here!