RIP, My little game

First of all, I am sorry for the lack of updates on my situation. It is a time of change in my life and there is a lot of uncertainty about my future at the moment. Although I would like to finish my game, recent events had made it clear that it won't be an option without hurting someone I care about a lot. Therefore, the game is pretty much dead unless some kind of a minor miracle occur in the future (including but not limited to: someone donates millions of dollars to me so I don't have to find a full time job or think about starving to death, winning the lotto, finding out I have months to live and I somehow decide to use the reminder of my life to leave a piece of myself behind, etc XD).

Back to being serious, I would like to use this chance to say thank you to the people who supported me in the past and to the people who donated to keep my fridge full. As for the fans who are disappointed about the death of my little game, I would like to encourage you all to try to make a game yourself. It was a fun experience for me and you never know what unexpected thing would happen to you along the way. I certainly found something precious during my short live gaming making career.

If some of you would like to pick up the project and continue the development, I am sorry that to tell you that I would like my story to stay mine, although...this is the internet, so I know I am totally powerless to stop you. However, if you want the ask me where I found the resources, you can always email me about it (I don't have any copy right claim on the resources used in my little non-profit project). If you like to learn about how to make RAGS game you can always check out my game since it doesn't have any password lock in the development kits. You could also email me about it, although I might not have the time to give you a detail explanation, nor remember how some of the stuff works.

Once again, I would like to apologize for the disappointing news, so.....here is an apology dance preformed by the world famous, Dr. Zoiberg!

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day everyone, or curse this soulless capitalist shopping day! Personally, I had a wonderful night with someone special and I wish it is the same for all of you.

I know what all of you wanna to ask (if anyone are still reading my blog); No, there is still no update on my little game and other than some planning, not much has been done on it. Relationship and school work have totally consumed all my free time...which is kind of a lie :P, they consumed MOST of my free time. However, I don't think I will be motivated till summer holiday, that's assuming if I don't find a job right away after school. All I can say for certain is that, I still want to finish the game someday, I am just not sure when. In the mean time, I will just keep paying 10 dollars each year for a RAGS license to remind myself I have a half finish game. XD

Hopefully, things will change sometime during summer. I will update the blog if there is any news regarding the game. :)

Gratitue

Thank you all for all the kind words and understanding. Although I really want to replay your continuous support by making games for you, it is time for me to take care of all the real life stuff first. What really sucks is that I have all the story line plan out already. However, an optimistic way to look at the situation is that it won't be difficult for me to come back to finish what I started. Hopefully, I will be back sometime during summer next year. As for the others who wants me to continue to blog about random things, I might do that, but it will definitely not in a regular basis. I think my audience won't enjoy me talking about mathematics or investment strategics. :P That said, if I come across any adult games that I enjoy, I will share with you guys about my findings.

Finally, I just want to say best of luck for all of you. Hopefully, I will see you guys soon and it is always possible that I might win the lotto, so I can hire people to work on my game! >:D Keep your fingers crossed and pray for my luck, even though statistically I will get into 3 car accidents on my way to buy lotto tickets before winning it! :P

If you are still upset, here is another apology dance. ^^

P.S. I like Autumn, screw the hot summer sun!

Delay or Good Bye?

A new school year is upon us, which means hundreds of reading every week, days with my beloved calculator =__=....Between work, school, and relationship, it really doesn't seem like I will have any free time to work on my game in the foreseeable future, so I guess this the development will take a back seat in my life...Yet, not all hope is lost, once I finish school and find a more stable job, hopefully I will return to work on RAGS in the future.

I just want to say thank for you everyone's continue support. Best of luck for all of you and hopefully we will see each other in cyberspace in the future. ^_^

If you are depressed because of this post, here is a dancing cat!

Annoying "Holiday"

Some relatives decided to use my tiny home as a hotel. Their close monitor of my each move had make it impossible to work on an adult game. >.> Hopefully, this will soon change once they finally go back where them came from. For now, I will just have to enjoy my so called "holidays" with them.

As for now, please enjoy this relaxing dance.

Quite Week

Progress update! 

Not much has been code into the game yet, we are still working on editing some of our other works into the VR stories. Once all the text is done, I will move on to coding everything in and add mini games into RAGS to make it the gameplay more interesting. Well...as interesting as a text adventure game could be. :P

Poll and random stuff!

About last week's poll, I can't believe there are so few of you that share my psychotic passion of choking everyone out and put them in a room. XD Imagine what will happen when they wake up eventually! Just think of about the conversations they will have the next day.

"Oh shit, Jim! What happen last night!!!! Why am I on top of you!"

"Arrrr!!! Steve, you stupid fat ass! Wake the f*uk up! You are crushing me!"

Actually, a lot of strange thing can happen in a stealth game, so I present to you: Hitman Absolution Funny Moments! (Pay attention at 4:28 :P)

This week's poll!

Which season do you like the best?

1) Spring! I love the rainy days and stormy nights!

2) Summer! Wooohooo! BBQ and sunburn time!

3) Autumn! I love the random weathers! So unpredictable!

4) Winter! I love my world turning into a natural refrigerator!
5) I am from the equator, there are no seasons!

Wednesday Randomness!

Progress update! 
For the last 2 (ish...and besides getting consumed by steam sales) weeks, I was mainly working on general improvements to the police station (dialogues, random scenes to make the world make more sense) and setting up events that leads to the VR visor. Speaking of which, during Adeline's adventure, she sometimes will come across computer programs for the visor. Once she installs it, she could load up a program and play it like we play a video game. The programs are just random mini game type of stuff that I want to add to the game, but they don't really fit into the story. It can also be some random stuff my co-writer and I wrote for fun. The VR visor gives us a great opportunity to just add random things to the game. I hope you guys find it fun as well. By the way, some of the programs for the VR visor will add bonuses to Adeline's stat if you manage to "beat" them. For example, a duck shooting mini game might give Adeline a better critical hit chance. A sword fight mini game might give Adeline bonus stats when she use a knife.

Poll and random stuff!
Last time's winner for what makes a great lunch is pan fried crispy skin salmon! If you like to have fun and do some cooking, here is a easy guide for making your own crispy skin salmon! Hot (non-stick) pan, dry salmon with paper towel, and even cut will ensure your success! =D

This week's poll!
If you are a hitman, how would you approach your target and finish the job?
1) Hide in the shadow and kill my target, and only my target!
2) LEEROY JENKINS! Go in all guns blazing!
3) Sneak up on people and choke everyone out, one by one, and put all of their bodies in a big pile!
4) Be polite, be efficient, one shot, one kill!
5) Hitman!? I will never be a hitman! I will never hurt a soul!!!

Damn you steam sale!!!

See the title...(please don't throw eggs at me XD. More detail update coming up soon in mid week.)

Me during steam sale...and what I will be like when I try to catch up with development.

Where is the update!?

Oops...there is no update this week...maybe it's because I have to work more often than usual...maybe it's because summer is a good time for vacation...or maybe it's because...hmmm...Steam summer sale...and Don't Starve. XD

Normal schedule should be resume next week! 

Thursday Randomness!

So there some good news and bad news. Since I am the bad news first kind of gal (and I am writing this :P), here is the bad news:

I messed up my sleeping schedule last weekend, so for the last 4 or 5 days, I was incredibly tired all day long. In the morning when I was suppose to be working and coding, I was too sleepy to be productive, but at night, my stupid biological clock stopped me from sleeping and recharge. What I am saying is that...I only wrote 200 words in the last 4 days and only did some light coding......(No stop! Please don't throw eggs at me!)

On the hand, there is some good news:

With help, I managed to finish up all the pictures I needed for an event! And who knows, I might actually finish up a lot more during the weekend. Also, I did a lot of quest planning, now my idea note pat is getting thicker and thicker (so does my to do list >.>). Other than that, all the games I hope to buy and play during  the steam summer sale are still around the 30 dollars range. Unless you guys want to donate to the anti-Alako-working-on-RAGS fund, I guess I won't be playing any of them any time soon. XD

Do I look like a zombie to you?

P.S. What do you prefer for lunch? (vote on the right)
1) Bean burrito with melted cheese and red sauce, with extra sour cream and guacamole
2) Chicken, Spanish rice burrito in garlic yogurt sauce, and tomatillo sauce
3) Pan fried crispy skin salmon with honey mustard sauce and tartar sauce
4) Natural-cut fries with melted cheese topped with rich and meaty chili

Season 2 Week 2 Update

Everything is done and the new update should be ready in a week! =D Naaa...that's just a lie. =P So far, most of the quests has been planned:

3 new quests around the Central and the Slum,
4 quests in a new area,
and 1 big main quest

Other than planning, my week is consumed by find background pictures that I like (or procrastinating) and beta testing Tales of the Drunken Cowboy. Mdqp's new version uses an updated beta RAGS which is not compatible with the old 2.4.0.0 RAGS. As a result, unless I force everyone to update to a new beta RAGS, I have to stop all my development so that it rags won't mess up my game. So.........let's all blame mdqp for the delay! XD

My plan is to finish up 1 quest per week, which means.....it will take me around 2-3 months to finish the new update. Once that's done, the game will be 60%-70% finished! =D

New reception area for the police station. I need to add this because of.....reasons!

Season 2 Week 1 Update

Not much to show you guys this week cause I mostly work on some behind the scene stuff, mainly the combat system. I changed the codding around so that it is easier to manage and add new features in it if needed to in the future. Also, using first aid to heal yourself will use up a turn, letting Adeline to heal without enemy attacking her during battle is just too unrealistic.

Right click portrait to heal in the future!

Other than that, I spent most of my time remembering how much I hate picture hunting. @_@.....Seems like it will take a lot of effort to finish up version 0.6.

New portraits and donation button.

Seems like most people wants Adeline's portrait to be the correct dress version, but I am scrapping that idea cause InsaneBrain help me to create these instead. =D All hail InsaneBrain for the second time this week!

When danger is just around the corner

During combat?

 

Normal portrait

I also created a donation button on the site. You should be able to donate even without a paypal account. The money received will to used to keep me fed. ^^

Monday Randomness!

1) All hail InsaneBrain for making these lovely banners! Free feel to use them if you want. =D

Forum Signature

Instinct Program Banner

2) The portrait used in the current game annoys me because Adeline is wearing the wrong dress! So, which do you prefer? (vote on the right!)

Better graphic version:

Correct dress version:

3) Finally, I want to know more about my player demographic. Tell me, are you a guy or a girl? ^^ (vote on the right as well!)

Planning, planning and more planning

So.....I was brainstorming for the events before the event that is planned for that other event..........here is a glimpse of the new area......

The abandoned industrial area isn't quite like the slums from before. Though it shares some of the air of hopelessness, grunginess, and decay, there is something almost otherworldly about the place. If any place in the city felt like a wilderness, the abandoned industrial park would be it. The alien feeling of the place is accentuated by the strangeness of it's inhabitants, if they are not in fact the direct source of that feeling, with their often addled, drug afflicted minds causing them to act quite unlike anyone in the "normal" world might. The place barely has any distinguishable landmarks. It is one grey cube after another, with rusty smoke stacks lining the sky like the teeth of a long dried out skeleton. Ramshackle buildings dot the area, crammed up against the side of the factories, in-between alleyways, and in open areas, like a festival of filth. Cobbled together with battered and rusty tin-foil, metal scraps, discarded iron beams, and old car parts, with the occasional urine and dirt stained mattress being a break from the hard, sharp look of seemingly every object around. But the most unsettling part of it all, is the quiet energy that seems to fill the air like a thick, invisible fog. The place lies dormant and quiet, yet there is an indescribable feeling that at any moment, it could burst to life. An occasional screech of moving metal, a wheezing cough, or a shrill scream begging for mercy, pierce through the quiet with an intensity enough to send shivers up those unused to it. The same sounds would not warrant a glance from the citizens of the place. The sounds are often completely unaccompanied, and they subside within a moment, the park returning to it's quiet energy, as it waits to burst forward into motion once more, like a predator stalking it's prey in the dark.

Game release!........not mine. =P

Just want to mention that a few new Neverwinter Night mods are released during my absence. If you enjoy sexy adventure games with a female protagonist, you might want to try them out.

Gladiatrix III - The Hand of Destiny

http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Modules.Detail&id=6396

Demonheart - Chapter 1 BETA

http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Modules.Detail&id=6392

Demonheart - Prelude
http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Modules.Detail&id=6378

What...wait...WHAT!? An update!??!?

Contrary to popular believe, Alako didn't die tragically in her college finals. Just one more week of busy work, I will be back to the old days of rolling on my bed for as long as I want! Hooray!!! God forbid I should find a full time job that sucks up all my free time. =P

However, after leaving my little Rags project alone in the corner of my pc for so long, it's hard to get my momentum back. So, I guess, I will start slow and work on the city exploration a bit more before I go ahead work on the main story (which I believe most of you guys won't care much for =P). 

Things that I will (maybe? hopefully......?) includes:

1) More random encounters, mainly small things that make the city feel more alive.
2) Side quests that actually pays! No longer will Adeline need to rely on gambling to make a living! =D
3) Let her fix the VR visor and setup a shop that sells "questionable" programs for the visor. 
4) Rework the combat system, which will make things so much easier for Adeline to beat something up other than zombies. Also, violence is always a solution in Tartarus!
5) Add the area which you can access after you open the gate! (probably nothing in there........)
6) Brainstorming for the events before the event that is planned for that other event.......>_>..........

Busy Busy Busy~

Stupid real life stuff is still keeping me busy at the moment and I spent most of my free time sleeping instead of working on the game! XD If you guys want something to play meanwhile, I recommend Neverwinter Nights mod, the Gladiatrix serious. It's about a runaway princess to follow her dreams. Her skill is quickly noticed by the world and was recruited a mysterious organization. Mixing some world threatening problems, some romance, and sexiness....you usually get a pretty good game! :D

The beta of III (the last part) is just released today. After some bug fixing, the full version should be released in a week or two. I think the best way to experience the game is to play I and II as well, however, I is the first module the author ever made, so its design and writing isn't the best. However, you can definitely tell there are lots improvement in II and hopefully, even better in III. =]

Final Solution...

Seems like a lot of people has trouble with rapigator and for some unknown reason the bayfiles page is not loading anymore. Therefore, I decided to conquer my fear and use mega for future uploads. Links are updated in the download page.

For firefox user, you probably need to download a small plugin to download the file. If you are a chrome user, you can download the game as normal.

(US government.....please don't raid my house......plzzzzzz)

Silly Me and Silly Mix Up

For the 100 or so people who downloaded the game from rapidgator last week, I have some bad news for you. The version you downloaded is an UNPLAYABLE testing version that I am using for the new build. I have already uploaded the correct version to rapidgator! Please go to the Instinct Program page to get the correct version! I AM SOOO SORRY FOR THE MIX UP!!

(silly me found out my mistake and feel sad about my dumbness...)