NEPETAQUEST 2011 Thread 4.33: If you're waiting for us to fire up thread 5...

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NEPETAQUEST 2011

Back in early December, Hussie posted the following snippet to his formspring:

"There are major characters, and there are minor ones. If you're waiting for me to fire up NEPETAQUEST 2011, don't hold your breath."

Long story short: we're making this hapen. What started as a joke has somehow graduated into a full-fledged plan for an indie RPG game, with around a dozen active contributors. Below you'll find a rough overview of the project; if you want to get involved, reading through the OP should give you just enough context to jump right in. To save derailing the thread, feel free to PM me with any small questions you might have.

One thing that I think needs to be made clear: this project isn't a hopeless pipe dream. We've designed it from the ground up to be achievable by a relatively small and disorganised team. Don't worry about the things you contribute going to waste.

While the information in the OP here more or less informs you well enough to help with the project, we strongly encourage use of Our Wiki page for the sake of organization; we'll try and keep the OP up to date as well. If you post something in the thread please post it in the wiki as well, but unless it's been finalized don't delete any previous versions.

While we're waiting for 8oy Skylark to airdrop in the all-new thread OP, this thread may serve as an interim discussion zone.

Here's a big deal: Basically everybody left. Everybody had a more important thing to do, and we've got bottlenecks sticking out of places bottlenecks have no place being. Solutions?

[KittyMaster]

Solutions?

Well, if you need someone else on your team, I can help out every Thursday and Saturday. I got a college schedule with a lot of free time.

I'm a Programmer in training, done some at my job. I know how to program in several languages, and I'm always looking for practice.

[amymist]

Oh whoops I didn't even see this thread.
im still here

[Mythee]

Ohnooo. D8 I hope you can find peeps to fill in the blanks! ;^; If I had more time, I would offer to help. Good luck, this project is AWESOME

[ThePlotHole]

Wish I could help develop this, but alas, I have no experience in making a game whatsoever.

Keep at it, guys!

[VeritasUnae]

It would've helped to link this in the actual thread, SC.
I'll go do that now.

[amymist]

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Wilderness trees are the right colors now, also a little bit shaded. I'll add a few more trees further back later.

[Logman1]

I want to help! But I really can't do anything all that useful. I am sort of an amiture programmer, and I'm working on arting, but I'm not really that good at it.

[mapleBacon]

I'll help if you want. I'm not all that great with sprites, but I could draw some of the portrait graphics or fetch sound effects. I can also try my hand at BGM, but I'm not sure how great that'll turn out.

[kgy121]

There's no Nepeta death sprite, or Karkat death sprite; here's a try at Nepetas.

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Still can't shade the coat.
Update* New before fall frame.

I don't know how sprites work either.

[amymist]

That's awesome. I feel kind of like there should be another frame in between where she's about to fall and where she's actually on the ground, but I dunno how sprites work.

Also! If you want to help, the best thing to do is to jump in and try stuff! It's always good to see work put in.

[Mythee]

Do you have a tasklist somewhere for this? o-o It seems like a LOT of epic spriting has been done so far.

[kgy121]

Earth human jegus this took forever.



Someone else can rotate it for Gamzee's Miracle attack.

[amymist]

Do you have a tasklist somewhere for this? o-o It seems like a LOT of epic spriting has been done so far.

I think the OP from thread 4 is still mostly relevant, and I know we're focused on the Wilderness level, I think attack sprites are also a big Thing currently.

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[Blaucat]

Hey everybody. I've been following the project for kind of a while and I only recently got an account on the forums so now I can post and say I'm willing to help. I can't really do spriting, but I can sketch out some concepts and portraits. The battle backgrounds are being painted right? I can do that. Basically, any artsy type thing that doesn't involve turning it into a sprite I can do. And I can help with the writing.

[amymist]

I'm kind of worried about the op. Any word on that? If not, perhaps we should write a new one? This is kind of a big deal, lots of information made easier to find.

[kgy121]

Now to work on that idea I had for a Nepeta RP w/ Gamzee...



*edit* Yep, still suck at drawing.

I'm gonna try to draw something else instead.

[Dudemaster47]

Welp. No progress has been made, huh.

Damn, guys. We gotta get back on top of this.

[Logman1]

Welp. No progress has been made, huh.

Damn, guys. We gotta get back on top of this.

Yes you do!

*prod*

This is one of the best fan projects here! You cannot let it die!

[kgy121]

Erm, well here's what I was working on anyway.

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:33 gamzee, what should i roleplay as?
HoW aBoUt A pAwBeAsT?
:33 but i'm always a pawbeast
WaIt, AlSo YoU cAn FlY. aNd YoU lEaVe RaInBoWs BeHiNd YoU.
:33 sounds like fu-
aNd AlSo A pOpTaRt.
:33 ...
I'm MoThErFuCkIn HuNgRy.
:33 oh, and its supposed to be an attack.
WeLl, ThEn YoU fLy OvEr To ThEm AnD eXpLoDe InTo A rAiNbOw!

[OrangeAipom]

Erm, well here's what I was working on anyway.

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:33 gamzee, what should i roleplay as?
HoW aBoUt A pAwBeAsT?
:33 but i'm always a pawbeast
WaIt, AlSo YoU cAn FlY. aNd YoU lEaVe RaInBoWs BeHiNd YoU.
:33 sounds like fu-
aNd AlSo A pOpTaRt.
:33 ...
I'm MoThErFuCkIn HuNgRy.
:33 oh, and its supposed to be an attack.
WeLl, ThEn YoU fLy OvEr To ThEm AnD eXpLoDe InTo A rAiNbOw!

You need sprites of Nepeta transforming, right?

[amymist]

Eeeeeh... I'm thinking we need a new op. Is anyone willing to try that? If not, I could give it a shot.
Also, does anyone know where we could find an active programmer? In the past there have been huge productivity spikes after each demo.

[VeritasUnae]

Fudge I swore I was subbed to this.
well, I /was/ working on a new OP, but then was told it was covered. If nothing happens, I'm starting a new thread with a basic OP because this is seriously getting out of hand.
We have enough music assets at the moment.
Current needs are definitely spriters, followed by artists for backdrops. Sprites are in MUCH MUCH MORE demand.
but yeah, i might get on that momentarily.

[kgy121]

Yeah, I'm using the first few frames of her attack animation as a placeholder for now.

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These ones, to be exact.

[Dxpenguinman]

Im not really that experienced with programming, but if you need some short tunes, I can try my hand at it.