[HTML5]LEWD (Alpha1 release up!)

[BlueLight]

Is there a way you could maybe put some basic code in to warn the play that there might be a problem.
Basically a exception error, i guess.

I don't have a firm grasp of what is happening completely, and i don't do web programming so i don't know what basic solutions there are.

[Sadako]

That's the other thing.
There is code in there that tries one connection method, and if that fails it tries another, and another. But the way those programs interrupt the connection, it tends to appear like it connected fine and their net just dropped or something. There isn't a way to discern them from something else, since it's not like they add in an error or anything.
I could probably figure out some what to add an indication of that, though, but the other problem is emulating that behavior so I can test it on my end. Hopefully I'll at least get that in, if I get another go at this.

Anyway, I forgot to mention that you could try connecting to it through a proxy.

[Sadako]

Well, less than 36 hours left. I'm going to keep working on it.

I put a lot more detail in a reddit post. Instead of copying that whole long thing here, here's a link: http://www.reddit.com/r/hentai/comments ... _for_lewd/
It basically says that I have forums set up that I'm going to direct the people who tried to support it to.

A number of people were asking about direct donations and such, but this isn't a case where I'm going to be homeless or something without that being funded. It's a matter of taking time off my usual work(freelance) to focus on this.
So, I'm comfortable and I don't need donations. I need that actual budget to work with instead of spending more of my money instead of just my time. I wouldn't be comfortable taking people's money without that goal hit first to just add on top of it, since without that whole amount I can't promise its completion. After I launch a new kickstarter later, which will hopefully hit the 15k, I will have a way for people to contribute with dwolla/paypal/bitcoin.

[4access69]

Perhaps I am dumb, but I can't even figure out how to start playing. I get the flare image, and the "solar" system which can be zoomed in and out and a small box in upper left corner showing a moving graph and FPS and nothing else. Tried latest Firefox and IE10. Also at the bottom of the page is text:

Code: Select All Code

Starting Area<Start HereWilderness Research StationRESTRICTEDSpace StationRESTRICTED


Which is not visible unless you highlight it due to poor choice of colors.

Finally, when I scroll the page up/down using mouse wheel when I get over the solar system thing it interferes with page scrolling and zooms in/out as I scroll (I can't do one or the other, both happen). That is a very, very bad design.

I see in the HTML that there should be some character creation and some dialog and stuff but it does not display for me.

[abslom]

Have you considered Offbeatr? It's Kickstarter for adult projects.

[crmsn7]

It's an HTML5 game, not a flash game, but it seemed more appropriate to post it here since it's not something you need to download.

http://www.playlewd.com/demo.html

It's short on content right now, but you can see my ability and ambition to make the biggest erotica game there ever was,I hope~

this is amazingly awesome please continue can anyone link me to other games like this thanks in advance

[[Brand_Name]]

Was this on offbeater a while back?

Also sorry for not reading anything previous if you're already discussing this

[Azurite]

Very interesting project mate, I enjoyed a lot your pre alpha version and I think that having a map to know where we are at all time is a good idea.
I'm using Chrome and I had to disable Ad block to launch the game, with Ad block I couldn't go past the character creation screen.

[jerkface]

I don't know how often you check these forums, but I found a few bugs and don't feel like registering on your forum:
Your quest arrow suffers from Gimbal Lock. I would link you to the Wikipedia article, but it's so confusing as to be useless. Basically, when interpolating between a rotation of 359 degrees and 1 degree the arrow will take the long way around.
A number of quests check to see if the player has a penis, but expects it as some sort of inventory item and claims the condition fails even if the player does have one.
Convincing the Space Ace that you're a space captain requires 6 charisma but it is currently impossible to get more than 5.
The quest to get supplies (when you first land in the wilderness preserve) directs you to an unreachable location.

That's it for bugs. And I will say that the censoring effect for the logs on the space station is a really cool touch.

[DemonKnightRaziel]

So is the demo server for this down? I keep getting this:
Building lewd world...Done
Connecting to lewd game-server...Error!
Could not load game-server resources. The game-server is most likely down.

Just ran across this today, seemed interesting, too bad i didnt find it earlier before the kickstarter expired.

[Blood0men0]

Ya, a shame it didnt reach its funding goals; so whats your plans now??

Gonna try again on Kickstarter?

[Sinsun1]

The main problem I have with this game is the ability for it to function properly. "Polished" by your definition or mine, or not. Without functionality you can put beautiful rainbows and flowers into the game and it will not matter.

A game of any standard to be a game that gathers support like CoC has two main elements that are must haves. Story-line and game-play with the ability to access both of these with ease. Without these two elements you might as well create a porn video among the countless other random porn videos out on the web. You are in a way too early of a stage for me to judge on a story-line, but the game-play is severely cut off due to the inability for many to play the game. 0.5% is still a fair amount, that 0.5% could be the 0.5% that donate you enough money to continue the game.

Knowing all this you compare yourself with CoC, a very popular game. This game is popular because it functions and when it does not Fenoxo goes out of his way to fix it for those that cannot access it. It's game-play is simple but fun. It may take 5 minutes to understand everything is done with the buttons on the bottom but once that is figured out it works nicely. Yes, the hot-keys are a pain, but that is why you do not rush through the game with hot-keys, you check to see if you've come upon a new event, if not, continue with your mouse. The story-line is steady, he does not go off and make a new story for each gender but instead just provides players with different actions and scenes.

He has functionality, play-ability and a story. So far from what I've seen of your game when it was up and running was that it lacked functionality most of all for enough users to become a problem. You want it to work, that is what you want if you wish to gather the support you need to make the money that you want for this project.

All that aside, we know it has a lot of work needed before comparing it to others. But just keep in mind. Story-line, game-play and functionality. Once you have those three the graphics and "polish" can come.

I am working on my own game at a much slower pace than you are as due of it being a hobby and time I get to work on it varies. But you want an intro that portrays you as just another human in a world? That can be done easily, stop thinking about what you don't want, let it come natural. After all, aren't you just another human in this world? Isn't it easy to relate?

Try something like this:

Ouch, my head aches. What happened? I ask myself, before looking around and seeing my wrecked space ship. Slowly the memories return. I was assigned to scout out this planet when the engines gave out...

The pain in your head is nerve racking. What even happened? Looking around you spot your wrecked space ship. The memories flood into your mind as you remember being assigned to scout this planet before your engines failed...

The pain must be great in (username)'s head. After that crash it will take a while to get back onto (his/her) feet. (username) was assigned to scout the planet before (his/her) ship's engines failed...

Very short examples of the same situation, I gave all three because you might not be sure which one you want specifically. Personally I like 2nd person because it really puts the player in the shoes of the characters instead of reading a book type of feeling. 1st and 3rd persons fit a book/specific main character story-line. But 2nd person fits RPG's and MMO's much better as far as getting the player really involved.

Use the examples as you wish or don't use them at all but do not worry yourself with details, because truly you are writing and interactive story. Only the mirage of a game exists when you are done. Stories require rough drafts upon rough drafts before the "polished" good draft comes out. So just write it out and let it sound like shit alone, keep writing opening examples until a few catch your mind, then try editing those. The ones you cannot refine into better work, put them aside just in case. Before you know it you will have a beginning that you like and hopefully the people playing your game will like as well.

My apologies for the page you had to read for all this, but to get anywhere I suspect many more paragraphs you will have to read to get things just perfect.

[Gizmo1206]

when i click play it says "are you trying to cheat" does anyone know what that means?

[lok987]

when i click play it says "are you trying to cheat" does anyone know what that means?

It's the same for me (with FF). Also, when using the IE 10 I can only see the solar system from the background but nothing else (text).

[Duplicity]

Ouch, my head aches. What happened? I ask myself, before looking around and seeing my wrecked space ship. Slowly the memories return. I was assigned to scout out this planet when the engines gave out...

The pain in your head is nerve racking. What even happened? Looking around you spot your wrecked space ship. The memories flood into your mind as you remember being assigned to scout this planet before your engines failed...

The pain must be great in (username)'s head. After that crash it will take a while to get back onto (his/her) feet. (username) was assigned to scout the planet before (his/her) ship's engines failed...

Don't use 3rd person I reckon. It is barely used because it takes you out of the world and into the persona of a narrater. 2nd person is the most common type of POV in popular writing, people are used to it. While 1st person can get restrictive when you want to show things the character isn't aware of for suspense.
I would concentrate on writing a flow chart of events. If you haven't all ready
ChoiseA-etc
Choice 1 - ChoiceB-etc
So= Start- Choice 2 - ChoiceC- Choice-etc
Choice 3 - ChoiceD-etc
ChoiceE-etc
Start off with basic dot points on what happens and you will be able to look at your story as a whole and get a better idea if you like the direction. You don't want to write yourself into a corner. Especially when you are releasing the updates and suddenly want to change every thing.
I hope you are still working on this and I think it will have great potential. Just keep at it and you will grow a fan base.

[Sinsun1]

The only reason I didn't tell him not to use something Duplicity is because I want to see what he is thinking for his story. My guess is he will want 2nd person because of the game play style and the story style. However I still wish to see how he officially wants the end product to look before going further into the POVs as restricting it right away will limit thought process as your brain expands on the story.

But I guess further clarification wouldn't hurt with what you typed already.

1st person is good if you want it to be suspenseful to the reader, leave them in the dark and surprised as to events. 1st person limits the players knowledge to that of their character (although you can accomplish this with 2nd person easily!)

2nd person kind of gives you leeway. As you can branch off to the ignorant 1st person or the all knowledgeable 3rd person. Letting you leave players in the dark or make paths very obvious.

3rd person is widely unused because knowing everything and referring to the character only by their name detaches the player from the character completely. 3rd person is best used if you are controlling multiple characters (as it can swiftly move from body to body without any thinking on the writer's part).

[Sadako]

Was this on offbeater a while back?
Also sorry for not reading anything previous if you're already discussing this

Yeah. I had it on offbeatr just because I didn't think Kickstarter allowed adult projects. Since Kickstarter takes 1/3rd as much as a fee, I closed the offbeatr and moved it to Kickstarter instead.

I don't know how often you check these forums, but I found a few bugs and don't feel like registering on your forum:

A lot of those bugs are because I'm reworking a lot of code. The other part is that there's just going to be bugs because it's an alpha. The quest arrow sometimes twisting the wrong way around is the sort of polish I wouldn't worry about until much later on.

So is the demo server for this down? I keep getting this:
Building lewd world...Done
Connecting to lewd game-server...Error!
Could not load game-server resources. The game-server is most likely down.

Just ran across this today, seemed interesting, too bad i didnt find it earlier before the kickstarter expired.

Yes, it's down from time to time if I'm not doing anything with it.

Ya, a shame it didnt reach its funding goals; so whats your plans now?? Gonna try again on Kickstarter?

Yes. I will try kickstarter again. I'd like to add a few more features and get some more content in first. You can follow the game at http://www.playlewd.com and see updates, including when I launch a new kickstarter.

I took a month break, as I was extremely exhausted after a month of working 16 hour days. I've been working on it some more now, though.
I'll email the registered members to let them all know.

when i click play it says "are you trying to cheat" does anyone know what that means?

There is no "test server". The main server is the test server right now, as it's early development. The client and server were out of sync for a day or two, thus that would happen.
It's in development so new bugs pop up and down.

The main problem I have with this game is the ability for it to function properly. "Polished" by your definition or mine, or not. Without functionality you can put beautiful rainbows and flowers into the game and it will not matter.

Erm. It's all second person right now. It's second person limited. "1st person is good if you want it to be suspenseful to the reader, leave them in the dark and surprised as to events. 1st person limits the players knowledge to that of their character (although you can accomplish this with 2nd person easily!)" isn't really a correct statement. Third person limited is also possible. I do think I've kept it consistent at being second person limited.
I chose second person because it's traditional for games for it to be a "you are the character" type thing. Third person can be confusing with same sex pronouns.

I don't know what to say about the 0.5% being unable to play the game thing. What about the 0.5% of people who don't have flash and can't play CoC? They can't play it on mobile devices or tablets either. Perhaps it's something I can fix, but it'll take a lot of investigating and work to see. It's most likely fixable, but I don't want to let people don't and have them toss money at the project when they can't even play it.
Your mentioning it not working for a lot of people is because this is the "test server". This isn't a finished game like CoC.

I've played CoC obviously. It is an inspiration in that I wanted a game that's more like a novel, than eroge. But I'm not trying to do really anything like CoC does besides having large amount of text at once instead of a few sentences at a time like eroge does.
It's also not a single player game. You're one person in a big world. You're right that lots of people don't like that. Some people want an end goal to reach, but I don't like that. I like getting to create ones own story.
But I've played a few of these games, and it seems about half of the sci-fi text adventures game start out with you having crash landed, or you're in the middle of crash landing. :p

I'm trying to make a big world here, with its own species, its own rules, and so on. The player will be exposed by it bit by bit, with lots of different stories here and there.
I'm not exactly sure where to go with those stories, no. I'm a much better programmer than a writer. I find it odd that that bothers some people, when the majority of content in CoC, and the best content in my opinion, isn't written by Fenoxo but instead is by other contributors. I just need to make something nice to attract writers to it, and to help them earn from it, I think!
I do know the universe I want to create to house them, I just can't explain it all in one small section.

[Blood0men0]

Thanks for the Update, Sadako
ill keep an eye on your site for future updates on your current project, hope we get it off the ground this time

[Duplicity]

You can play any flash game in browser, that was the whole point of swf files. Well I think so. They started out as more of advertising than anything. Once again this is dredged up from my memory. So don't hold me to it. When you start getting into things like Inform then you have to have special programs to play the things.

Anyway glad to see you are still at it. And I can understand the whole needing a rest thing. I imagine having to write events and code at the same time is exhausting.
Maybe you should concentrate on one thing at a time? Code to a certain point, then write?

Also do what Fen does and create a guide for writers. That way anyone can write and you can code in. Best to have a wanted list. So people know what you need or if they want to create a new scene. Of course this is just me saying stuff. You are the dev, so you are god basically. At this stage I wouldn't pay anyone for writing. After all how are you going to make the money back to pay for more writers/art?
I considered writing stuff for CoC, but that whole code in the text really put me off. You know the code(parser? is it called?) to make sure if someone has multiple dicks/breasts or whatever they currently haven't/have is properly put in once inside the game? Made my brain hurt. Really I am just being lazy, and also don't want to write when there is a big chance it won't be used.
I do that enough with my real world writing....

Keep at it and I hope you go well. You have knowledge of code, so don't worry about the quality of writing for now. I mean it needs to be erotic, but the game elements help to suck the player into the game and make up for some shortcomings. Not saying your writing is bad, just saying game elements help out.

[Blood0men0]

I just tried to play the demo, Made my character and once I was able to choose my Planet I wasnt able to do anything else.
the planets still move around the sun, but nothing loads, no words or comments come up.
Am I doing something wrong? Should I be looking or clicking on something?
thanks