Pokemon Hentai Game update (Jan 31, 2016)

[humbird0]

Let's do another poll.
Which version of Abra do you prefer?

[coyoteredmoon]

Salutations: Welcome back.

[dragonmaster121989]

oh this voting is close best of luck to you both

[Wonderful Hawk]

oh this voting is close best of luck to you both

No kidding, they're both really good. I had a hard time choosing who to toss my vote to, and I've got no clue who'll win in the end. It'll be interesting to see, though!

[humbird0]

I don't update my projects often so people have trouble knowing what I'm working on or doing.
So I created a Twitter account for that.
The plan is that I'll post an update about what I do on my days off, even if it's nothing. Which actually happens pretty often for various no-good reasons. But now you'll know why.

[humbird0]

On that note, let me ask for some advice on the game.
Besides Metal Gear Acid, did any other Metal Gear games have patrol bots?
I'd like to compare the different designs and see which one would look best in 2D.
I don't remember whether or not Ghost Babel or any of the MSX versions of metal Gear had patrol bots.

At the moment, I'm just using a default RPG Maker wagon as a placeholder graphic.

The floating guard is a spawn point for one of the guards that'll arrive if a camera sees you.
And the missiles in the walls belong to each of the patrolling bots.

[Digital Ninja]

Good to see you're back Humbird I haven't done anything for a while so I decided to sketch up a Luxray since it's the coolest pokemon ever (in my opinion). Anyways I know this is a first gen game, I just like Luxray and wanted to draw one so I think this is a good place to leave it lying around, even if it doesn't get used. In the mean time I'll finish Vaporeon and since everyone seems to like the tattoos I think I'll try adding more in. Sorry I can't offer much on the level planning in terms of Metal Gear though.

Luxray:

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[dragonmaster121989]

cool looking pokemon the face almost screams leave me alone or i really dont care lol really good though

[humbird0]

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She has a pretty badass expression.
By the way, I just had an interesting idea about your Vaporeon:
What if her tattoos moved around and animated? Since Vaporeon can turn to water, maybe she's able to do that.
It might be neat if the tattoos moved just before she attacks.

By the way, I don't know if anybody knows this, but pokemon attacks are going to use SWF animations.
At the moment, attacks are hard-coded in the game to use specific movieClips,
(and the movieClip I currently use is a placeholder that uses some Actionscript to make the external image blink)
but I should add something in the database editor to allow you to choose a SWF file for each attack.
Keep in mind that attacks can be used by more than one pokemon.
The pokemon themselves are already able to be SWF's. I've just been using image files because they take less work to create, but the game is already able to load SWF animations as pokemon images. Heck any image that's externally loaded can be a SWF. Battle backgrounds, character faces... the world map. That's just the way Flash works.
The only thing in the game that isn't able to use SWF files are map chipsets, because the tiles are copied and pasted onto a new image to create the maps in the game.

[Digital Ninja]

By the way, I just had an interesting idea about your Vaporeon:
What if her tattoos moved around and animated? Since Vaporeon can turn to water, maybe she's able to do that.
It might be neat if the tattoos moved just before she attacks.

That would be pretty cool, though I can't do anything in flash. Should I just draw out a couple of different tattoo formations so you can trace them in flash and animate between them?

[humbird0]

That could probably work.

[RedUnit10]

Heck yeah, voting is open again! Got to say I really like Red Moon's version, she really projects the shyness of an Abra.

[Digital Ninja]

Okay I sketched a few more tribal tattoos onto Vaporeon and added some water movement in them just to see what it would look like. I'm not sure if you can embed movie files into the game or if this was the approach you had intended but either way I could get opinions on the design of the tattoos.

Vaporeon with tattoos

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[bubba91]

Okay I sketched a few more tribal tattoos onto Vaporeon and added some water movement in them just to see what it would look like. I'm not sure if you can embed movie files into the game or if this was the approach you had intended but either way I could get opinions on the design of the tattoos.

Vaporeon with tattoos

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Vaporeon.mov

Jesus!!

[humbird0]

First of all, I had no idea this forum could handle any kind of video.

I'd prefer not to use video files for a number of reasons.
Many people have trouble playing embedded FLV files which complicates things. As far as I know, most Mac users can't get past the game's intro video.
In an animation like this, the vaporeon doesn't change, so it'd be more efficient to store her as an image or vectors.
I still need alpha channels, and most people don't know how to encode video with alpha channels.
I might be able to create an effect like this more efficiently with a mask and scrolling some images inside it with an "add" blending mode.
All I'd need for something like this is a mask for the shape of the tattoos themselves. The masked effect could overlay the vaporeon.

This is a case where it might be wise not to over-use the feature, just because we can animate virtually everything doesn't mean we should, since it would increase the workload to make things for the game. The way the game is currently designed, the attacks are not tied to any particular pokemon, so most attack animations should work for any pokemon.
...But it's still kind of a neat idea.

[humbird0]

By the way, I had another idea for attack animations in general.
We could use things like music visualizers, or some other animated effect generator to create decent effects, capture a video, and use it in the game. (an additive blend-mode can filter out black backgrounds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBV14-3LT-g

Do you guys have any recommendations for things I could use to generate good effects?

Generally, video in flash has some trade-offs.
- It seems to crash the game for some people, but I doubt that it's caused by the video itself since Flash has been doing online video since before AS3 was out.
- Playing video uses a lot of processing power, but the videos themselves are MUCH smaller than image sequences.
- Easier to create/record videos then to create vector effects.

[bubba91]

Moltres

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/wk6pr6ga8bxvlrz/moltres.jpg

[dragonmaster121989]

ok that is a mix of cool/sexy

[Ghondar]

Moltres

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/wk6pr6ga8bxvlrz/moltres.jpg

Well, on the first look: Wow! Great!
On the subsequent looks: Wow! Great!

I really like her looks, proud and sexy. She´s simply awesome

[bubba91]

zapdos

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/bhzblrgykz0hdnw/zapdos.jpg