Minibumping this because I think more fangames is a good idea.
My idea for a theme for the game is keys, holes, escape routes etc.
Also, please don't name it Hostage Diary, it sounds...off. Hostage or something like "Host.Age" is better.
Also, I believe most of the effects should be things to aid her escape, like a key, a bobby pin, C4 (lulz, for killing enemies! XD , do tell if you don't approve) and such.
Having both dream and real puzzles for the items (can be used on and off the dream, but only things like above items), back to back item puzzles, etc.
Or is this not the direction you're going?

EDIT: By the way, that (piece of) artwork is adorable.

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I was always thinking about changing the name. Hostage Diary is just like Yume 2kki, it's bound to change in name. In fact the reason I named it Hostage Diary is because... That's what it is. A Hostage writing a diary about being a hostage and her dreams as a hostage. (It's probly going to change to "The Diary of a Hostage")
Puzzles... I'll see if I can do that. I dunno if I'm that great at making puzzles though, lmao.
I might just have a key effect. But most of them kind of don't make sense, on what I have so far.
The only thing that Jade will be provided with as entertainment will be looking out the window she has(it has bars to prevent escape) and a picture book drawn by some mysterious people(will be explained at the end or it will unravel in the story of who drew it) Also, you could even read your own diary and see what Jade has written. This will let you get a look at her personality.

Thank you. The picture used to be bigger but I decided not to make it big.

Here, another picture in her "forest" dream world. Well maybe not forest but this IS going to be a main area. Maybe "noise" world.

The suggestions are always welcome. I'm gonna scrap some of them though. (Key may be the last effect.)

:D Hey cool. I feel special for being mentioned.

Do you have an idea of who she's being help captive by and the reason? Reasons are fun stuff, man.

Btw, Jade is amazingly cute. :'D

>>2987

I do. It's a secret though. And thank you. :D But appearences decive. She's really not that cute in personality...

AHHH. Secret enemies, I see. :3

Oh really? ;u;
I'm not even quite sure of Chiri's personality. :U I just keep drawing her with retarded kawaii expressions and with an axe. What a cute little axe murderer. I'm horrible.

What's Jade's weapon of choice, if any?

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I thought I mentioned it, but I guess not. Hm.

Jade uses a gun for her weapon. Chiri reminds me of a yandere type of person. You know, extremely cute, then it's like "Hold still while I chop you to pieces <3"

AHH COO.
When I was designing Chiri someone said that she should use a gun, but I was like "nahhhh" 'cause it didn't seem to be in the direct line of weapons that the previous girls had used, but obv Jade is different. :3

OTL
Oh Jesus, I think I did. I wasn't even intending on making her yandere... I guess it just sort of happened.

I wanted Jade to be different in that sense, because she's the type of person to prefer long range weapons. But I plan that in the game you have to be in front of something in order to shoot it.

It's alright. You could always change the personality later, lol. Jade used to be one of those kawaiidesu scared of everything girls. Now she's just sarcastic.

THAT I COULD. But who knows, derp. I'm attempting to leave things somewhat open-ended. OTL Not very successful about it, though, sob.

Ahh long-range would make a lot of sense. |D

So if I understand correctly, the real world consists of some type of cell, and most of the action takes place when you go to sleep. Getting effects while you sleep leads to some kind of plot thing happening in the real world and getting all of them wins the game. It sounds fairly interesting.

The diary or whatever you're drawing in seems to be extremely important. You could have it so every time you leave the dream world after getting an effect, the screen blanks out if you check on the diary, like a timeskip to after you've written in it, and then it could be updated with the picture/diary entry of what happened.

I dunno, it sounds like you have most of it planned out already so I'm hesitant to give suggestions. I am interested in it though.

>>3004

Yes, exactly. After you save, the screen fade to black for a moment, then it fades back. Yes, yes. Perfect...

Suggestions are always welcome. But I won't promise to not reject them, lol.

ANYWAY BETA ROOM TIME sort of kinda

EDIT: WHOOPS I FORGOT TO CHANGE HER SHOE COLOR DERPDERP

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derp derp dederp walking sprite sheet

it's surprisingly retarded

fffff

a chara that might or might not be in the Academy World (gasp I should talk about the worlds omg)

Look at me I'm updating The Room.

Also I have a tiny update: In early versions of the game, I'm going to use alot of Yume 2kki unused chipsets. I hope you don't mind, Uboachan.

Edit: Forgot the file derpderp

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Holy god bump

Anyway you guys It's time to talk about some of the effects (The ones I remember at the top of my head)

Pistol - your weapon. But it doesn't work at long ranges on NPCs and whatnot.
Wings - Wings you get from Cloud World. They kind of help you FLYYYY~ And...move faster cough cough
Mask - HE'S THERE, INSIDE YOUR MIND tee hee get it get it

And let's talk about Cloud World

Cloud World is connected to Academy World. Cloud world consists of fluffy clouds(OMGREALLY?) And the NPCs are just little round jewels with wings. You get the Wing effect by finding the odd one.

aaaaand that's it for now.

pic related it's Jade omg

Fucking clowns <3

SO I HAVE A NEW CONCEPT THINGY

Organ World y/n/other

Organ as in pipe organ or innards?

>>3582

Think Saya no Uta. So yes, innards. I also want to put an effect in that world, probly the gun. I don't know.

I like what I see.
Gawd I need to visit /fg/ more often, some good stuff here.
The premise/character/worlds all sound pretty cool - the Cloud World sounded unconventional to me at first, but then I realised that if I dreamed of fluffy white clouds and having wings and stuff, then woke up to my life as a hostage in a tiny grey cell, I'd baw pretty hard.
It's nice, the contrast.

I say, have an organ inside the organ world. XD
The gun should be one of those...you know, like, a Cork launcher or something. To justify only working from a short distance. (and for exra lulz)
Then again, I don't know the idea tolerance in here, so...Just throwing this to open air.

>>3587

JADE DOESN'T CRY. She doesn't give a fuck enough about crying. But yeah I would cry too. ; v;

>>3593

A cork launcher? :V Nah, I was actually thinking more of a real pistol because that can shoot a lock and open the door. : D I'm doing that "most effects link to the fact she's a hostage that wants to escape" thing. And I'm thinking of just calling effects Pieces. Because Effects is getting... old. :V

I will put an organ in the organ world! HOW DID YOU KNOW LMAO

Also right now I'm open to ideas and concepts. I'm basing this game on my dreams, but right now my mind seems fruitless for any of that... So you can throw any ideas you have to me and I'll see if it'll work....

So I fail at sprites... :V Someone wanna help out? Please?

Anyway uh Here's some Jade being all pissed or something. Soon I'll have some art of some enemies.

>>3658
That's a really good poster right there!

I may not be the best with sprites, but if you need something specific done, and you think I can help, I'll be happy to offer my services (if I get the time while working on my own project)

>>3658

I can help out, what do you need?

AWESOME THANKS GUYS

I'll see if there's something you can sprite...

How about some organs for organ world? Maybe a big brain, a tongue and intestines(Coiled up with a little part stretched out).

Thanks for your help in advance. o Uo;;;

>>3749

I didn't understand if it was all supposed to be in one, but here's a brain !

>>3759

Dude fuck yeah omg It's great

>>3760

Glad you liked! You might need to save it as a .gif, there's probably too many colors..

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Okay shit some updates for you all

NEW! Megaphone piece! "Even if you scream into this, its like nobody can hear you." Owch. Harsh!

Anyway, the pic: These are Coil People/Uzuningen. They're the toriningen/kaibutsu/etc of Hostage Diary. And they are fucking dickwads.

Note that the girl is MUCH smaller. Why? Spiral Guy(Uzuhito) is a fucking giant(like 9'5''). And the Swirl Girl(Uzumako) (lamest names ever fuck OTL) is the size of a 8 year old(like 4'7'').

Now Jade is 5'5'' and she doesn't like people obnoxiously taller than her and she hates kids. No wonder they're the enemies. It's funny, I originally planned that the dude was fine, and if you didn't kill the girl she was okay too. But if you tried to shot the girl she'd fuck you over. The dude would be fine, you couldn't shoot him.

The little girl is MUCH faster than the guy, the guy just kind of tends to block your way to certain areas if you don't have the megaphone piece to scare him off.

Er. I think that's it. :V I don't have screenshots yet because Jade doesn't like walking on grass (for forest world) So the early beta, I decided, isn't going to have many floors. It might just be the base rooms that you can get to from the nexus, that's all... Yeah.... cough.

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HOUSTON, DUDE, WE HAVE A PROBLEM

Okay so I used some unused Yume 2kki chipsets for The Room, where the game starts, and... Um.... I can't make Jade move. Or either she's trapped underneath the floor. What the hell is going on, dude?

Also pic not very related. I just decided to doodle some of the wip fangame characters. Also IDK why Jade is so tall. she must be stepping on a FG character I didn't draw orz And I forget JADE'S CHECKERS ON THE BOTTOM OF HER SHIRTDRESSTHINGCLOTHINGPIECE RAEG I hate drawing checkers

I'm about to give up on this being a game and I might just turn it into some sort of webcomic. But then I'd feel like a douchebag for getting you guys all excited like OMG ANOTHER FANGAME IM SO EXCITED IT LOOKS SO GOOD OMGOMGOMG orz I fail at life

>>4296
Be sure to check your tile-set passability.
An error in that can prevent your character from moving.

Remember, O means passable (barring using specific directional pass), X means NO, and Star means it appears over the character.
(Check both upper and lower layer, as upper layer tiles effect passability, too).
Also, if you have any events that are Auto-start, that will definately freeze the game.
(auto-start = Starts up automatically, and freezes everything else while it does what it does. If you don't have it terminate, it'll freeze the game up. If you do have auto-start stuff, either put in an "end event processing" or "erase event," or consider making it parallel process instead!)

Also, I do hope you don't give this up. The idea is good, but I understand it being a lot of hard work.

Edit:
Waitaminute,WaitaminuteWaitaminute!
... I-is that Zi down there in the corner?
e_e If so, it'll be his first fan-art!

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>>4297

Why yes. teehee. That is Zi. He's so cute I couldn't help it.

ANYWAY I'll keep tryinnng. Maybe I can actually get it to work. ;a;

>Coil People
>Spiral Guy
>Swirl Girl
>Uzuningen

>>4321

I am so fucking happy you got the reference.

So fucking happy.

bumping with fists

This project is on hold. I guess I should mention that.

I feel like I'm not being surreal enough with this game. So it's in a coma now until I learn the psychic move Mind Fuck (and stop playing too much pokemon)

I have decided however that this game is going to be very small. Yeah. But I want it to be short and sweet. A Yume Nikki Comfort game if you will. Which means lots of pretty music, pastels, and comforting locations. Every now and then there will be creepy places but all in all maybe only like about.... Ehhh, one for each main world. That would be almost 5 or 6.

Picture slightly related. I wanted a nice beach area but there are no tilesets that look natural to me so I have to make my own I suppose... Sigh.