Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Does posting on my own blog count as a zombie bump?

I used to wonder what it would be like to be a vampire.  You go to bed, and instead of sleeping for a day, you accidentally sleep for 50 years.  It happens, ya didn't set your alarm that night.  To you, it seems like a good night's sleep, but everything you remembered seems to have aged, and everywhere you go folks are commenting that they thought you were dead.

I haven't been asleep for 50 years, but I do get "you're not dead?" a whole lot.

Nope, not dead, but I haven't really touched the game either.  There is a correlation at some level between how much I work on the game and how much I post.  So, when I don't write much, it's probably because there's not much to write.

Over the last year, I've made the same mistake 3 times, and every time I walk away frustrated, come back a few months later, and try again.  It's not even a huge mistake, just enough to set me off.  I've been working on the Naga double team animation.  I wanted to include their tails as a functional piece of the animations.  When I do that though, they are much, much bigger than the hero.  When I went to actually play the game, I couldn't see half of the Naga.  I hadn't accounted for the game's actual screen size.  Typically the Naga's heads & upper torso were off-screen.  I wish I had saved an image, because it really did look silly.

Regardless, I've finally added some training wheels to the workspace so that I stop making that mistake (I drew a box around the area - very technical).


One plus of repeatedly scraping animations, is I'm actually pretty happy with what's finally getting generated. It's a shame that having to re-do work rubs me so wrong.




Around the interwebs

I've stumbled across several decent porn games over the last year.  Not sure which ones I should bump.  If you haven't seen it, there's a great listing of Patreon games over on ULMF.  Gives just a quick picture and a link to each.  There is much to be excited about.





I am going to take a second to bump two that stood out to me.  Ariadne and Magica (NOT Magicka), both by the same studio.  Pretty standard RPG maker games, with the new-to-me mechanic that keeping your clothing repaired is an actual expense.  There's plenty of monsters that want to rape you, but can only do so if you let your clothing be destroyed.  You can continually repair it, but then you have no money for upgrades.  So either spend too much time grinding levels, or you fall behind on the power curve.  Not so great that I'd play them over & over, but they stood out as being just different enough to hold my interest.

That's all for now.  Hopefully I'll see ya sooner this time around.
-DirtyC101


37 comments:

  1. IN YOUR FACE AGAIN, NAYSAYERS.
    First of all, let me welcome you back and tell you that the double naga anim. seems really good ^_^.

    But, DirtyC, as much as I am happy to see you again after your longest hiatus yet, that's exactly my point.

    I mean, everybody has their reasons to stop working in something they're doing, and at this point, I don't really care about the release date, the next demo, etc... at all (Beware, that doesn't mean I stopped caring about the game. Not at all!).

    Just the fact you are actually attemping to make progress is enogh for me, especially since you do have a job, and your only source of "Good Work, DirtyC!"'s come in the form of comments, and a pretty unmentioned donate button.

    My point is, would it kill you to just make a post after some time with no news? Something like "Hey there fellas, sorry I haven't made a lot of progress, but I'm working on it! See ya!"
    Cuz each time you dissapear like you do for months, you drive away more and more followers of this project.

    Anyways, sorry for the wall of text.
    Thank you for everything you've done so far, and keep up the good work, DirtyC! :)

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  2. Really Happy to see you again DirtyC. One thing that you can try, is to use Patreon(which probably will show people your current progress and give you additional stimuli to work on the game). Happy to see you anyway :D

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  3. HOLY SHIT IT'S ALI- Err, sorry about poking your eye with that stick. I mean, you _were_ kinda lying there not really breathing or doing much.

    On a more serious note, glad to see you haven't completely given up. I have no experience or knowledge making games, but I hope you're able to push past this block and continue your work. I've seen so many people try to make a game, only to give up halfway through, or even when it's almost done, because they got too frustrated. ;-;

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  4. Hey ! It's me, mikaLtubeyou from Reddit, i'm very happy to see you are still working on the game, stay well and keep being awesome.

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  5. Something! I will shoot that the next update will be out in 2020 or 2030. And the game will be finished around ... 2100.

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  6. Rawr, I see you only post every few months, which is better than nothing. I'm a huge fan of the original, and am hoping to see more creations by you in the future. I was trying to contact you about something, but it seems your email button only opens a link to google home page. You should fix that so I can contact you, nerd.

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    1. Ok, that has me curious. Where exactly do you see my e-mail listed? I have it semi-hidden, so that no crawlers will find it automatically & start spamming, but if you click on my name it should bring you to a Google "about me" page, where you can then e-mail me. That seems to work fine as of right now. Were you trying something else?

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  7. Can we at least get a monthly "Not dead" in the comments?

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  8. Wow, he is alive or undead? Whatever...was almost about to delete the memory pin of the site ^^"

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  9. Hey Dirtyc you should focus more on humanoids based h scenes, the naga seems to be dull. More like the male elf, that double team titfuck h grapple was awesome! Plz more titfuck grapes with/wthout clothes. Love your work

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  10. Dirtyc I demand a Female Drider now

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    1. Noted. The "now" part is of course laughable, but one vote for female Drider acknowledged.

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  11. Yay not dead! Seriously we need monthly not dead comments though man

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  12. Dammit Dirty, you are starting to remind me of Valve, with you being unable to speak more than once in a third of a year... :(

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  13. Dude, do you need an artist or a coder? I'll gladly work with ya.

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    1. Would certainly consider teaming with an artist. Probably not for this particular project, but would be open to starting something new. If you're serious, try shooting me an e-mail.

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    2. Are you talking about abandoning LotTo and starting something new or pick up another project beside it?
      The first one would suck, but honestly by now I doubt anybody believes there'll be another content update, so go ahead.
      As for the latter... Picking up another project when you haven't made any progress worth mentioning on the first one in years may not be a smart move.

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  15. well since dirty is on hiatus why not a game here in the comments section lets see if you can guess that nsfw comix charactor the rules if you play are give three fair hints to your char and the awnser must be a hyperlink to that char in a comic ill start off with an easy one
    1 he has a semen collection
    2 he is responsible for bukkae girl
    3 a charactor with a dick has a crush on him

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  16. Joined on here just to say i'm extremely glad you're not dead! been lurking here for far too long.

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  17. Hadn't checked my own site in a while. Shame on me. Deleted some comments that look like spam, replied to some others. I'm well, wishing the same to you. *waves & smiles*.

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  19. Well, good to see you're still around! Even better to hear you're still going at it in making the game! If it helps at all, I'm right there with you. Wound up corrupting 6 months of work, twice.

    Hope this helps!

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  20. I would say not dead but given the time of year you are on Holiday!

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    1. Check on his kyrstel forums account and you can see when he last visited there which was december so not dead just.......busy?

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