Yes, I've been working on Karen for a while. I'm still working on Karen. The new combat engine I'm devising is going to take time. Mostly to write all the dialogue for it. As a small sneak preview, it contains 12 actions you can take outside of grapples. That means 144 combinations need dialogue written. So yeah, it'll take time.
On to the topic at hand however, Karen is being given a personal overhaul, and a last name. She's now Karen Atkinson, and she's less bitchy and flip-floppy than before! Pretty much every single one of her scenes is being re-done, since the writing is so old I felt it didn't match the overall tone of the later versions of Shield High. That is being fixed up. And news on the programming front, should be a week or two before I can start making an engine. Hopefully I'll have the first combat written by then. I wouldn't bet on it.
Final point of news, I've migrated from the old IRC channel which I never used because it was so out of my way to a raidcall channel for Pudding Games. ID is 6068553. I'll update all the other info later.
And now for the short story I promised in the title. Here: http://www.mediafire.com/view/eaa5684e1gsieez/Karen_Short.docx
I know it's not my best work, and I apologize for that. I'll try and get things going better later.
Pudding Earl.
Wednesday 22 May 2013
Friday 10 May 2013
Shield High work resumes.
Ha! Gotcha! You were expecting me to announce I was actually making the game again weren't ya? Well, tough, I'm not. So, what AM I doing? Well, I'm writing. I realized "Hey, I don't have to wait until I've learnt to code to write all this shit." Yes. It took me that long. Shut up. So now I'm re-working...everything. Right now I'm giving Karen depth. Then I'm re-writing her. Entirely. She'll keep the same general traits, she'll just get more features. She'll be a person. A perverted, overly sexualized person. But still, a person.
But what good would it do for me to do this and wait until release to use it? Not very. Which is why I'm going to be releasing Shield High Stories. Every week I will give you a short story about the character I'm working on and her past. Or I will give you a short story about how Shield High got to be how it is. Probably not that one. That's another project. Which I should work on. Point is, more content is coming.
...And yes, it will always involve lesbians and fucking. In case you were worried I'd forgotten my roots. EDIT: Hehehe, roots.
Special thanks to /d/ for re-inspiring me to work.
Pudding Earl.
But what good would it do for me to do this and wait until release to use it? Not very. Which is why I'm going to be releasing Shield High Stories. Every week I will give you a short story about the character I'm working on and her past. Or I will give you a short story about how Shield High got to be how it is. Probably not that one. That's another project. Which I should work on. Point is, more content is coming.
...And yes, it will always involve lesbians and fucking. In case you were worried I'd forgotten my roots. EDIT: Hehehe, roots.
Special thanks to /d/ for re-inspiring me to work.
Pudding Earl.
Tuesday 7 May 2013
Hiatus Update
Okay, so it's been ages since I've posted here, and I figured everyone deserved to be in the know on what is going down for Shield High and Pudding Games in general. First off, my personal problems are resolving. They're not yet entirely stable, but I'm all around happier now than I was before, and I'm motivated again. Half of this motivation has been the fact I'm working on a new project for Pudding Games with a team of 8-ish people and I'm really pumped to see how that turns out. Unfortunately, that project is consuming all of my creative writing juices, which brings me to what everyone actually cares about, Shield High.
I managed to keep weekly updates going for a good part of a year because of momentum. When I started I was full of ideas and weekly releases were easy. By the end of the year every release was a struggle as keeping the content fresh and interesting was getting harder and harder. Once that momentum got lost by tricky events in my life, getting back on track proved really, really hard. By this stage anything resembling that momentum is gone. So, does this mean Shield High is cancelled?
Of course not. I've been planning to transition Shield High over to being actually coded for a while now, and since I'm just now regaining the functionality to resume studying, I'm going to be aiming to start doing that by the end of the month. If I'll succeed, no clue, but that's the goal. I figure building the engine up, and having to polish the content will get me back into a good swing of things, and allow me to continue making good updates. So basically, Shield High will remain on hiatus until 0.6 is ready, however expect the first part of another, completely different, project to be showing it's face in a month or two. I still have to pull together a lot more work on this new thing.
Anyway, sorry for the delays.
Pudding Earl
I managed to keep weekly updates going for a good part of a year because of momentum. When I started I was full of ideas and weekly releases were easy. By the end of the year every release was a struggle as keeping the content fresh and interesting was getting harder and harder. Once that momentum got lost by tricky events in my life, getting back on track proved really, really hard. By this stage anything resembling that momentum is gone. So, does this mean Shield High is cancelled?
Of course not. I've been planning to transition Shield High over to being actually coded for a while now, and since I'm just now regaining the functionality to resume studying, I'm going to be aiming to start doing that by the end of the month. If I'll succeed, no clue, but that's the goal. I figure building the engine up, and having to polish the content will get me back into a good swing of things, and allow me to continue making good updates. So basically, Shield High will remain on hiatus until 0.6 is ready, however expect the first part of another, completely different, project to be showing it's face in a month or two. I still have to pull together a lot more work on this new thing.
Anyway, sorry for the delays.
Pudding Earl
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