A Heart of Gold

[Prpl_Mage]

Alright, sent the game to Momeka.
Gonna play through it this weekend to experience the ending and the Cacti canyon.


Also completely different question, should we make a Wiki or something for the chain games? Like a walkthrough of all secrets and easter eggs or something?

[Fisherson]

Also completely different question, should we make a Wiki or something for the chain games? Like a walkthrough of all secrets and easter eggs or something?

I would be very pleased to curate such a wiki and see it be born. It would make a fun link for our Itch.io and honestly detailing the characters I've spent 10 years+ working on would be fun and neat way to show off to friends who don't code.

[Momeka]

Alright, sent the game to Momeka.

Cool. I don't think I will have time to get it uploaded this weekend. But I'll try to do it on monday-tuesday.

Also completely different question, should we make a Wiki or something for the chain games? Like a walkthrough of all secrets and easter eggs or something?

Could be fun. Not sure how many people would actually be interested in reading it. But never the less it could be fun for us, we could easily go back and look up stuff and be all nostalgic.


Also not to derail the thread, but I had two random ideas of what we could do for a future project if we want to.

1) Tv-Show style.
Instead of chapters in the game we have episodes. The episodes are stand alone story, as in they have a start and a conclusion. But like a season in a tv show there is a red thread running through the episodes, something that gets set up in the first episode and maybe concluded in the final two episode (a multipart episode with cliffhanger in between). And the episodes in between can deal more or less with the thread, it's up to the developer.
Then the "chapters"/episodes doesn't have to pick up right where the previous ended it can be a time skip. The cast could be changed up, like one episode maybe focus more on one or two characters etc.

2) World Map style
Instead of chapters we just start with an empty world map. Each developer just adds locations to the world map, maybe a town, dungeon, side quest dungeon. It could either be completely open ended with no "story" to complete. Or we could have a story and the world map is a more linear progression across it where the next town/dungeon adds to the overall storyline. Thinking an art style along the line of Final Fantasy 1 - 2 as well to just keep it simple and quickly to make stuff.

[Prpl_Mage]

I would be very pleased to curate such a wiki and see it be born. It would make a fun link for our Itch.io and honestly detailing the characters I've spent 10 years+ working on would be fun and neat way to show off to friends who don't code.

Well I had more in mind a walkthrough for the game for the poor souls who try them out and get stuck with puzzles and such. And maybe where to find certain cool hidden gems etc. But dedicated character pages could of course also work.

Also not to derail the thread, but I had two random ideas of what we could do for a future project if we want to.

Keep those thoughts for now, I also have some ideas in a document somwhere based on previous discussions we've had.
But we'll kick off a new thread in February/March where we can discuss things or something.


Edit: Playing through the game and made some minor adjustments. For some reason it seems like all the fences I placed at the ranch in my chapter have been removed...

[Moosetroop11]

Ah, when I had the game prpl I noticed that there were lots of bits of ground you couldn't walk on, but they all looked like normal ground. That might have been my bad sorry : ( Maybe I replaced the tileset without realising it would remove something you'd added, and then when I found the unwalkable patches of ground I assumed it was a mistake and I replaced it all with walkable empty space. Sorry about that

[Momeka]

Something I should look at or is someone else fixing it?

[Prpl_Mage]

I'm fixing it, I'll send you the update with the general fixes on Wednesday most likely.

Also, how many spirits are there for Kaia to find? Might just add one last thing in here.

[Fisherson]

Also not to derail the thread, but I had two random ideas of what we could do for a future project if we want to.

I have thought about making a thread for diiscussing chain game stuff we'd like to see in the future. Might do it here a second after I yell at my favorite site I use for dating making me take a picture...that requires both hands XD Assholes

I'm fixing it, I'll send you the update with the general fixes on Wednesday most likely.

Also, how many spirits are there for Kaia to find? Might just add one last thing in here.

Kaia's Spirits are as follows:

Dibe (Sheep spirit. Starting)
Ankti (Bird spirit. Starting)
Wakinyan (Thunder Bird)
Mishipeshu (Water Panther)
Borewatisi (Ice Moose. Also the only one not based in Native American mythology)
X'els     (Supreme Crow Spirit)
Woovoo (Hootie Owl aslo not from Native American mythos.)
T'akaya  (Wolf spirit)
Puckwudgie (Mischievous Nature Spirit. Powers up Living Cactus and heals him more than convential metods)
Coyotol   (Most hidden spirit in the game. Can only be found in a certain area when a sandstorm is Raging.)

The was also plans to put a Dark Spirit in the form of Wendigo through bonus mission hunting rumor of a 'werewolf' infestation. At the end of the quest you would have the choice of feeding it two of your spirits in exchange for it. I ran out of a time and then aslo chided myself that this wasn't Juno's Odyssey. There was no need to have a dark storyline tucked away in the game. You want to add more go right ahead!

[Moosetroop11]

During my stretch I fixed some of the spirits as they didn't actually all give the correct spirits : p The coyotol was one of those. One of the rewards for collecting all the birds is also a spirit.

[Prpl_Mage]

Cool, could you like just mention what map they are in or what switches/variables they use for their triggers?

Just gonna add some statues or something in Zialan village for each one you get.
Just finished my own chapter and started the final one. So final playtest is almost done.

edit: Found them all and fixed it. Now to finish playing the game.
edit2: I still love those cutscenes you do Moose. Great ending
edit3: Sent the game to Momeka. Should be ready for upload, now to try the Cacti stuff.

[Momeka]

Game is now out on itchio!!! 

So feel free to make a proper release thread about it

[Prpl_Mage]

Great work guys, real proud of you.

Made a thread on site news (so it's posted on the main site as well) and a completed game thread

Feel free to send me screenshots if you have any and I'll trickle them onto the Steam "artwork" page as well

[Fisherson]

During my stretch I fixed some of the spirits as they didn't actually all give the correct spirits : p The coyotol was one of those. One of the rewards for collecting all the birds is also a spirit.

FINALLY I can collect them all and get reward! Drove me made having to accept you didn't path to all the birds XD My OCD was itching so bad. "I wanna ****ing bird! I can see it! GIMMEE!!" basically is what I was by the end.

Great work guys, real proud of you.

Same. You all did a great job and I think other than 'the curse' we had at the start it came out even better than the draft stage. We can add another 'unique genre' to our chain game belt too as I've seen wild west RPG as a game but not a chain game. ^_^

[Moosetroop11]

Woooo! Well done everyone : )