Housepets! Tails of Babylon! * Developer's Thread *

[Unusuallynamedperson]

that is definately a laserdisc, if my mother kept any of her old ones, I could upload a picture of them here which you can trace, unless it still bothers you.

[D-Rock]

Nah, that would be pretty easy to make on my own, and it wouldn't really fit the "vibe" of the Apparition.

[D-Rock]

Well, no one else is saying anything, but here's the top two contenders.

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[Saturn381]

I vote for VHS tape.

[D-Rock]

Alright, now it's 50/50.

[Unusuallynamedperson]

just flip a coin already and be done with it!

[Douglas Collier]

VHS

[FancyHat]

Flip a coin for it!

[tsMKG]

What if even the coin doesn't decide?

[Unusuallynamedperson]

then eat the coin and flip another, if that doesn't work and you have a tumor the answer is betamax, if you don't have a tumor and excrete the coin, VHS

[tsMKG]

then eat the coin and flip another, if that doesn't work and you have a tumor the answer is betamax, if you don't have a tumor and excrete the coin, VHS

...
I'm not doing that...

*breaks the window and run away*

[D-Rock]

then eat the coin and flip another, if that doesn't work and you have a tumor the answer is betamax, if you don't have a tumor and excrete the coin, VHS

WHAT

[D-Rock]

Regardless, I have this tentative list of stat items.

Heavenly Cookie-“Straight from Heaven’s bakeries!”
Hot Ambrosia-“Neither carnivorous or herbivorous. That’s convenient.”
Divine Nectar Slush-“Don’t drink it too fast. Brain freeze.”
Soma Pop-“Perks you up real good!”
Idun’s Apple Cider-“Crisp, refreshing, and the maker claims it helps with your looks!”
Amrita Bar-“Not too dry and pretty sweet.”
Toasted Mana-“Tastes like honey! So what is it?”
Doritas-“Even gods like junk food?”


Pretty much everything is subject to change, so I'd like to hear thoughts. Also, turns out that there's a brand of health bars called Amrita. Decided, "might as well."

[Dissension]

If I may say so, I prefer Betamax.

[SuperStar]

All those "modern" mythical foods sound great, but what is Dorita meant to be?

[Dissension]

Doritos, I believe

[SuperStar]

Well yeah, duh but I mean what is the mythical base?

[GameCobra]

Haven't touched the foods yet, but taking a quick peek at the food icons for the game, here's what i got:

Apple
Bread
Cheese
Grapes
Berries
Sausages
Broccoli
Tomato
carrot
garlic
fish
blueberries
potatoes
meat (note: very hard to tell what kind of meat. It's just meat)
mushroom
nuts
orange
chicken egg
large egg

don't see any junk food icons, but the paper bag can luckily be a substitute :3

The way i see it, if you want to use the foods DRock suggested, we can use the paper bag one. However, i would recommend~

Apple: HP
Blueberries: MP
Meat: Strength
Sausages: Defense
Fish: MATK
Garlic: MDEF
orange: Speed

Not sure about luck. Chicken Egg? We could, humorously use D-Rock's junk food idea for Luck.

[D-Rock]

All those "modern" mythical foods sound great, but what is Dorita meant to be?

Second panel.

Also, the Betamax/VHS deal is once again at a tie, even if we add in other unsaid votes. Chaoko was the one who suggested VHS to me when I told him my initial idea. I was only going to do the floppy to tie in with the Apparition better, but of these two, I'd go with Betamax. So yeah, once again tied.

Also, Cobra, I believe that Chaoko said that he would make individual icon sprites for the items when we're near completion. He's only done a Fun Ball sprite for practice, so far.

I would still like to include the foods that are in the engine, but there's still the issue of the whole "carnivore/herbivore" thing. Plus, do NOT use garlic. It's toxic to both dogs and cats and easily fatal.

So if there's no real objection, I'll eventually get to drawing the stat items.

[GameCobra]

Before you draw them, which ones?

[D-Rock]

The ones I submitted. Now, I do want to do the ones you found as well. If we can manage the "not everyone can use all items" idea, how about they have added effects in battle. Persona 3 had items that restored moderate health but had a good chance of a negative status effect. For this, we could add 8n short-term benefits.

[GameCobra]

Pretty sure that's why i added the dust earlier for in-game battles =P

I don't mind. If we can change it sometime in the future, that would be splendid, but i don't mind taking a different route for this one since we know Zach will be a bit tricky. :3

[D-Rock]

What makes these different is the fact that they heal a bit as well, while the powders simply provide a buff.

[GameCobra]

Works for me. I could make the dust sellable and these ones dungeon-only, like the potions from earlier.

[KingFan13]

Wow, I really need to start coming to this thread more often. I see a lot of work has been done on the game.

If I can throw in my opinion, I prefer VHS, but Betamax would be cool too.

And also, sorry if this has been asked before, but is there some kind of demo of this game made? The last one I saw used filler elements and sprites to show the basic start of the story. Nothing Housepets in it really.

[SuperStar]

It's still relatively old, but this demo does use actual Housepets assets and the like. https://www.housepetscomic.com/forums/v ... =13&t=3496

[D-Rock]

Here are what I whipped up.

That middle bottle will be used for both the Yggdrasil Root Beer and Idun's Apple Cider. I ended up dropping the Amrita Bar after I remembered the root beer. Frankly, I don't know why I forget the one that I mentioned earliest as one of the inspirations. I would've posted this sooner, but rains knocked out my internet for about three hours. Already made progress on the lining.

[D-Rock]

Look what I got!

[FancyHat]

..I like what I ses, but erm the bottle next to the Apple Cider looks a lot like a actual beer bottle not to be rude..

[D-Rock]

I've seen root beer bottles that looked like that (with a label, of course). Also,

[GameCobra]

They look neat. :3
I'm curious where the players will buy them x3

Alright, so what i did was started making the database for monsters to pass time and putting them into the database so we don't forget and included the custom characters we mentioned awhile back with their own custom moves. The game cap for monsters that can be created is set to 500 right now and i might move it up to 1000. It can get as big as you want. This just makes it easier to organize things. This may take some time, so I better start asking these questions:

How many monsters on average do you want in the game? I would think on average between either 450 or 900.
How many boss characters do you want? Guessing around 50-100.

[D-Rock]

Monsters? Well...carp. I don't think we truly set that at all.

As for bosses, I think we've gotten them all; for now...

Ancient Gargoyle
Blu-e
Jenny
Tybalt
Efran
Ophois
Lacert
Apparition
Reinhardt
Nevermore
Nue(solo)
Olde(solo)
Nue and Olde
Shadows
Musician 1-4

Okay, Nue and Olde got their own slots because I remember that when the party would first encounter him in a hopeless boss fight, they'll think it's only Nue, with Olde revealing himself afterwards to show that he was holding back. Olde was initially thought to have a standalone battle in a nightmare sequence, that I suggested be a modified version of the Halloween demo.

And I still haven't drawn up the images for the musicians, mainly because I don't think I have the skill to. I was able to whip up the apparition using an artists mannequin that I bought a long while ago. Maybe my next day off, I'll see about whipping up their designs, as there aren't enough usable people images in the comic for me to simply do a recolor. Also, still need direct input on one of their instruments. Keypad or Keytar? Still going for the latter, but what about everyone else?

Speaking of opinions, VHS is in the lead. I'll leave it open until Tuesday, so anyone else who hasn't said anything, last chance.

And by the way, Cobra, care to elaborate on those numbers you chose, because it looks like we would
DEFINITELY
need to outsource the enemy art for the game.

[GameCobra]

Well of course you have to outsource them. Just like how i outsourced those cat/dog dummies way back =P

It depends on the stages, but right now i made space for 500 monsters: 450 regular ones and 50 bosses. the monsters i made right now took up just 30 slots altogether reserved for the temple and the mall.

[Unusuallynamedperson]

It seems a little unfair that they make you have to ration your mobs/entities.

[D-Rock]

If I could, I'd submit actual images that could be used, because otherwise, it's ALL on Chaoko. It'll be a long while before my style is actually good, even longer if I want to submit something of someone else's style. The Apparition that I sent to Chaoko was a rough concept, at best.

I guess a lot of those boss slots would still get filled for bosses that are fought multiple times, such as for the boss rush, the various forms of Reinhardt, the different forms of Nue and Olde, and maybe at least two for Barghest.

[GameCobra]

Alright, so i did alot of thinking and made some changes.

To play it safe, i moved the monster slot up to 1000 and used 900 of them for regular monsters while the other 100 will have Boss battles and special encounters. You don't have to fill these ~ they are incase we end up making too many bosses and monsters =P

I'm going to get some time during the summer to create some clones of monsters we made already just like i mentioned about the raccoons a very long time ago, which include anything we might do in the future. A good example is like the bears and dire bears we have already, but now add a Great Dire Bear into the bunch who will look reddish.

[D-Rock]

I kind of like that for the Great Dire Bear, just remember not to go overboard again with the recolors. I would imagine that three would be the cap on recolors of each.

Oh, yeah, go ahead and add Teox, Bruno, and Bahamut to the boss list. Seriously, why do I also forget the canon characters?

And about the musicians, in order to make things easier on me, I'll see about doing just the busts.

[D-Rock]

Well, so much for making the images. I'm starting to see some truth in the "Furries are Easier to Draw" trope. Amaranth, Sherry, Peanut, Tarot, and Sudden were tedious, but doable. Making a human face was one big step on "the heck am I trying to do" territory. Maybe I'll try again. Got a basic info list on them. Mostly just random stuff.

Reggie Ferdinand-ambitious lead singer and guitarist
Alicia Smart-drummer and back-up vocalist, rather harsh demeanor
David Robinson-bassist and very quiet
Isaac Jonson-rambunctious keytar player, hardest to control.

[Unusuallynamedperson]

that might be because we all look at furry stuff more then we do normal stuff


theres a tutorial here.
https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-draw-a-human-face

[blowzyblue]

hi!! im new in this and i played the game already, its so cool! so, i have a question, how many characters will be in the game?, greetings!! :3